Las Vegas, 2012. Fortieth anniversary of the NFA (National Flute Association). I attend a concert by Jasmine Choi for the first time… What a surprise! Huge success: the audience is on their feet! Later, David Straubinger, our mutual flute maker, brings us together for a memorable dinner with many of his friends. It was, for each of us, a first invitation to the American convention. Since then, our paths have kept crossing…

Jasmine Choi’s activity is wide-ranging and seemingly limitless. Her enthusiasm for championing our instrument, expanding its audience and repertoire, takes paths that previous generations could never have imagined! It is not up to us to decide whether this or that video has a legitimate place here or there. What I retain is that each, in its own way, demonstrates Jasmine Choi’s incredible instrumental and musical mastery, as well as her insatiable curiosity for all musical styles: classical, jazz, pop, or even beatbox!

The portrait of Jasmine Choi that we offer you is nourished by countless concerts, recordings, tours, and publications – it would have been easy to simply list them and fill entire pages! But we chose to go further back in her story, to better understand how her past, her training, her teachers, her dual Korean and American culture, not to mention her gifts, her passion, and her fierce determination, have all contributed to developing such a rich and varied exceptional artistic personality!

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