Jonathan Baumgarten

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Gender Male
Industry Arts
Occupation Flutist
Location Arlington, Virginia, United States
Introduction Jonathan Baumgarten is Artist-in-Residence at American University in Washington, DC and teaches flute at Episcopal High School in Alexandria, VA. He performs with the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra and other ensembles in the Washington DC area. Mr. Baumgarten lives in Arlington with his wife, cellist Amy Frost Baumgarten, and daughter Sarah. He maintaines an active private teaching studio at his home. He has been principal flutist of the Mexico City Philharmonic, and has made recordings for NPR and the Discovery Channel. An active chamber musician and soloist, he has been featured at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC; as soloist with the New American Chamber orchestra, and at the Old Isleworth Festival in London, England. He holds a MM from Juilliard where he was a scholarship student of Samuel Baron. He studied with Thomas Nyfenger on a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and in Paris with Michel Debost.