Gabriella Joew, a 12-year-old 7th grader at Whitney M. Young Magnet High School Academic Center, began playing the flute at age 7. She is currently a member of the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra and a fellow of the Chicago Music Pathway Initiative. She studies with Hideko Amano. In 2023, Gabriella was invited to perform a solo at the Chicago Cultural Center during the Chicago Public Schools REVERBERATE festival. That summer, she also performed as a youth artist in the opening act at the Grant Park Music Festival at Jay Pritzker Pavilion.
She earned First Place in the Junior Category of the 2024 American Protégé International Woodwinds & Brass Competition and First Prize in the 2024 International Music Competition ‘Oxford’ Grand Prize Virtuoso. As a result, she was invited to perform at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and the Sheldonian Theatre at the University of Oxford. Additionally, she won first place in the elementary division of the Chicago Flute Club competition in 2023.
She has participated in a master class with Jennifer Gunn of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She has also had the privilege of learning from Mary Stolper, principal flutist of the Grant Park Orchestra, Aleksandr Haskin, principal flutist of the Qatar Philharmonic, and Dr. Jonathan Keeble, Chair of Woodwinds, Brass, and Percussion at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
You can find Gabriella’s 2024 Romantic Music Competition flute performance here.