Jessica Ringston

Jessica Ringston is a flutist based in New York City, representing Miyazawa Flutes as an
Emerging Artist. A dynamic soloist and chamber musician, she has been a featured performer in
some of New York’s finest venues, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, National Sawdust,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Bohemian National Hall. Ringston made her international
debut as a soloist at Centre Universitaire Méditerranéen in Nice, France, with additional
performances as a chamber musician in Valdeblore, France. As a soloist, Ringston has performed
in Frank Martin’s Ballade for Flute and Orchestra with the Purchase Symphony Orchestra and
Pierre Boulez’s Memoriale with the Mannes American Composers Ensemble.
Ringston has participated in the Fellowship Program at the Imani Winds Chamber Music
Festival as well as the Zodiac Music Festival in the south of France. She is a three-time winner
of the Molnar-Harris Chamber Music Competition and winner of the 2023 Purchase Concerto
Competition. She was named an Undergraduate Scholar and earned a grant from the prestigious
Presser Foundation. She currently performs as Resident Guest Artist with the Hunter Symphony
Orchestra.

As a chamber musician, Ringston has been a featured performer in the Necessary Noise
Festival, NYSoundCircuit, The Village Trip, and the RiverArts Music Festival. Ringston is a
co-founder of the Astra Collective, a New York City based flute, violin, viola, and double bass
quartet that is sought out for their innovative and engaging programming. The ensemble is
actively commissioning new works that feature the unique and infrequently heard
instrumentation. The Astra Collective has given several performances at The Frick Collection,
and a performance of two world premieres this past January at New York City’s iconic Mercury
Lounge.

An advocate for new music, Ringston has performed in world premieres for solo flute,
chamber ensembles, and orchestra in New York and France. She performed in the world
premiere of Cyan Lyricism by Tyson Gholston-Davis and the New York premiere of Hide and
Seek by Allison-Loggins Hull at the New York Flute Club’s Massed Flutes Concert. This April,
Ringston will perform in the New York premiere of En Masse by Leonard Bernstein/Christopher
Rountree in the centennial celebration of the Martha Graham Dance Company.
In addition to her experience as a performer, Ringston is on the faculty at Nassau-Suffolk
Academy of Music and serves as Mastery Class Coordinator for the New York Flute Club.
Ringston presented her research on flute repertoire at the American Musicological Society-Mid
Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology joint conference at New York University.
Ringston holds a Bachelor of Music from Purchase Conservatory of Music, where she
graduated summa cum laude as a student of Dr. Tara Helen O’Connor. She is currently pursuing
a Master’s degree at the Mannes School of Music in the studio of Judith Mendenhall.

Visit Jessica’s website here!