Ginevra Petrucci is an Italian flutist whose work encompasses solo, chamber and orchestral performance, contemporary music, recording, teaching, and artistic production.
She has performed at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Radio City Music Hall, the Kennedy Center, and National Sawdust; internationally, at Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Salle Cortot in Paris, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Tokyo’s Ohji Hall, and Teatro de la Ciudad in Monterrey, Mexico. Festival and series appearances include Opera Festival of Chicago, the Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series, Lake George Music Festival, GatherNYC, New Music Gathering, the Hamptons Festival of Music, and Rites of Spring Music Festival, as well as Ravello Festival and Festival Villa Solomei Cucinelli in Italy, and the Kuhlau Festival in Tokyo.
She has served as Principal Flute of the Chamber Orchestra of New York since 2011, appearing with the orchestra also as a soloist, and is Principal Flute of Fort Greene Orchestra. She also performs regularly with the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, New Haven Symphony Orchestra, Parlando, and other ensembles in the Northeast. Her collaborations with I Musici di Roma and I Virtuosi Italiani have included projects dedicated to Vivaldi, with the latter encompassing a longstanding series of performances of his flute concertos in Venice at Santa Maria della Pietà Other chamber collaborations include the Dorian Wind Quintet and Sylvan Winds.
With harpist Chelsea Lane and violist Colin Brookes, Ginevra founded Rule of Three, a trio built around imaginative programming that pairs the flute-viola-harp repertoire with new commissions, rediscoveries, and programs shaped by a strong narrative thread. Its appearances include Music in Midtown, Vassar College, the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, and a three-concert residency with Metropolis Ensemble.
She also performs with Pano Hora Ensemble, where she is Co-Director of Artistic Planning. Devoted to the music of Charles Calomiris, the ensemble explores eclectic works of unusual instrumentation and wide-ranging inspiration, including Old World, New World, Evlogía, Philía, and the opera Gethsemane.
She has worked directly with George Crumb on Vox Balaenae, Kaija Saariaho on Terrestre, Betsy Jolas on Episode I, Steve Reich on New York Counterpoint, Paola Prestini on Sensorium X, Timo Andres, and Ellis Ludwig-Leone. Her close collaboration with French composer Jean-Michel Damase resulted in two works dedicated to her: Duet for Two Flutes and 15 Rubayyat de Omar Khayyam for voice, flute, and harp. She is a two-time recipient of the New York Women Composers Seed Money Grant.
Her premieres include Marcin Stańczyk’s Attorno at the Venice Biennale’s International Festival of Contemporary Music, Daniel Schlosberg’s strange ancestors at Carnegie Hall, Giovanni Bietti’s La città degli echi at Rome’s Nuova Consonanza Festival, alongside projects such asDavid Fontanesi’s Concerto for flute, flauto d’amore and orchestra, Julia Wolfe’s Breathe with the New York Flute Club, and Marco Buongiorno Nardelli’s L’Indifferenza dell’Amore Cosmico, presented as an installation at the Santa Fe Institute and SITE Santa Fe.
At the Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival, she performed Valentyn Sylvestrov’s Mysterium with the Talujon percussion ensemble, gave the world premiere of Mykhailo Chedryk’s Sonare, and the U.S. premiere of Renata Sokachyk’s The Desert Breathes for solo flute.
In 2018, Ginevra founded the Flauto d’Amore Project to give an almost-forgotten instrument a contemporary repertoire. Since then, it has generated solo, chamber, electroacoustic, and interdisciplinary works by Ljova (Point to Point; Five Miniatures for flauto d’amore and fadolin), Gleb Kanasevich (don’t wake them up), Nirmali Fenn (I weigh my air), James Young (Brittle King), Howie Kenty (Futility), Clint Needham (action/inaction), Erin Rogers (Purple), Roger Zare (Apricity), Aida Shirazi (Night Landed), and Flannery Cunningham (as if my eyes were caught), among others. The project also encompasses research, education, instrument development, and Flauto d’Amore Editions. Further flauto d’amore premieres include works by Michael Frazier, Domenic Salerni, and Evan Henry at the Del Mar International Composers Symposium, and Anthony De Ritis at Northeastern University.
Ginevra has recorded more than twenty albums, including The World of Yesterday, a recital album with pianist Bruno Canino; Kuhlau’s four flute quintets with the Kodály Quartet; the complete chamber works for flute by Beethoven; Ferdinand Ries’s flute quartets; the chamber music of Robert Muczynski; and the rediscovered flute quartet and other chamber works of Wilhelm Kempff. Her discography also includes concertos by Dupuy and Büchner with I Pomeriggi Musicali, Haydn flute duets, and the first recording devoted to the flauto d’amore.
Teaching has taken Ginevra across Europe, Asia, and the United States, with guest appointments and residencies at the Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań, the Conservatorios Superiores of Vigo and La Coruña in Spain, Ionian University in Corfu, and the Royal Academy in Dublin; Zhejiang University in Hangzhou and Dolce Music Academy in Tokyo; and the Idyllwild Summer Chamber Music Intensive in California.
At France’s Académie Musicale de Villecroze, she served as flute collaborator for Huguette Dreyfus’s harpsichord masterclass, working on Bach’s sonatas for flute and harpsichord. She has presented lectures at the Eastman School of Music, Columbia University, and the National Flute Association Convention, and in 2016 presented a conference on Leonardo De Lorenzo at La Traversière’s International Flute Convention.
A major focus of her historical work is Giulio Briccialdi, the celebrated nineteenth-century flute virtuoso and composer born in Terni, where Ginevra grew up. She made the world-premiere recording of his four flute concertos with I Virtuosi Italiani and prepared their first modern critical editions for Ricordi/Hal Leonard.
Her editions of Beethoven, Mercadante, Monzani, Jommelli, Brescianello, Busoni, and De Lorenzo have been published by Universal Music Publishing, Ricordi, and Southern MusicCompany/Keiser. She is the author of The Flute: History and Literature, adopted as a reference text by several Italian conservatories and universities. Her scholarly work has appeared in The Flutist Quarterly, New Music USA, and national flute publications in Italy, France, Spain, and Japan, with a focus on nineteenth-century Italian repertoire, the American school of flute playing, and the history and development of the flauto d’amore.
At Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at New York University, Ginevra serves as Artistic Producer, developing Casa Afternoons, concerts, and special projects.
She also collaborates with Teatro Grattacielo as producer and performer on its innovative opera productions, and with the Leonard Bernstein Office in New York on consulting projects. In 2022, she served as Production Manager for the sold-out Carnegie Hall production Notes from Ukraine: A 100-Year Celebration of “Carol of the Bells” , commemorating the centenary of the North American premiere of Mykola Leontovych’s Shchedryk. Her production work extends to programming, commissioning, artist and composer relations, concert and opera production, recording, publishing, project development, and orchestral management.
Beyond her classical work, Ginevra appears on David Byrne’s album Who Is the Sky?, performed with Judy Collins under Tania León on the Wildflowers tour, and played at the 2023 Met Gala honoring Karl Lagerfeld. Her work has also included Broadway and the flute chair for the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, a film for the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo with the Chamber Orchestra of New York, and an appearance alongside songwriter Desmond Child at One Mind’s Apollo & Psyche at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Born and raised in Rome, Ginevra is a third-generation flutist. Her grandfather, Oro, taught her father, flutist Gian-Luca Petrucci, who in turn became her first teacher; her mother, Paola, is a pianist and vocal Korrepetitor.
Ginevra continued her studies with Pierre-Yves Artaud at the École Normale de Musique de Paris “Alfred Cortot,” Ransom Wilson at Yale University, where she earned her Master of Music and Artist Diploma, and Carol Wincenc at Stony Brook University, where she earned her Doctor of Musical Arts. Other important mentors include Julius Baker, András Adorján, and Christian Lardé. She also holds a degree in Philosophy from Sapienza University of Rome.
She performs on a 14kt gold Wm. S. Haynes flute and the Albert Cooper prototype-model flauto d’amore.
Based in New York City, Ginevra loves collecting art, curating eclectic interiors, and hosting intimate soirées with friends; she can often be found planning her next trip, absorbed in a book, or consulting The New Yorker on which play or exhibition to see next.