Jessica Ringston

Flute

Jessica Ringston is a flutist based in New York, representing Miyazawa Flutes as an Emerging Artist. She has been featured in venues including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, National Sawdust, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Centre Universitaire Méditeranéen in Nice, France. Ringston is co-founder of chamber music ensemble Astra Collective, where she has performed at venues including The Frick Collection and Mercury Lounge. She is a three-time winner of the Molnar-Harris Chamber Music Competition and is recipient of a grant from the Presser Foundation. As a soloist, she has been featured in Martin’s Ballade with the Purchase Symphony Orchestra and in Boulez’s Memoriale with MACE. Ringston performed in the New York premiere of En Masse by Leonard Bernstein and Christopher Rountree in the centennial celebration of the Martha Graham Dance Company. Ringston holds a bachelor of music from Purchase Conservatory of Music and a master of music from the Mannes School of Music. Her principal teachers include Tara Helen O’Connor and Judith Mendenhall. Upcoming summer appearances for Ringston include Steve Reich’s Drumming with GRAMMY Award winning ensemble Sandbox Percussion, chamber performances in Switzerland and England, as well as performances with the Esker Festival Orchestra in Ireland.