Charina Quintana
Charina Quintana was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. She began her musical studies with Pedro Madina and continued with Pedro de Armas. She recieved a study grant from the Fundación Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria and she finished her flute studies at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid with Vicente Martínez, with excellent marks. She has also studied with Juana Guillén and has attended numerous courses at advanced level with Benot Fromager, Ricardo Ghiani, Trevor Wye, Will Offerman, and has studied in the Music Academy of Stuttgart.
In 1989 she obtained a flute teaching post at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and from 2005 she has been teaching flute at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Canarias also in the department of flute-pedagogy.
In the same year she formed the "Grupo de Cámara Profesores de Gran Canaria" which has been in existance for over 25 years with the oboist and Composer Francisco Crespo.They have performed original repertoire for this instrument and different arrangements for chamber orchestras. In 2003 Duo Flauta y Piano was formed .In June 2013 they recorded a CD with Red Berd Records.
She has played as Principal Flute in the Orquesta Diego Durón and colaborated with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, Orquesta Sinfónica de Las Palmas.
She has also played as principal flute with the Orquesta Sinfónica del Atlántico under the Direction of Isabel Costes, and recently colaborated with the Orquesta Filarmónica Giuseppe Verdi, de Salerno (Italy)
She has performed in different music festivals such as: Música Antigua (Lanzarote), Clasicos en el Parque (Almeria) and FalautCampus(International Summer Campus) in theUniversitá degli Studi di Salerno, Italy.
She has given numerous recitals around the Spain, Portugal and Italy (Salerno, Bellizi, Cesena,etc)
She regularly gives masterclasses and workshops in Circular Breathing for the Flute, recently in the Conservatory di Musica "Giusseppe Matrucci" di Salerno and Conservatorio de Música "Bruno Maderna" and in the near future at the Conservatorio "Agostino Steffani" di Castelfranco, Veneto(Italia).
