KIM PINEDA has performed on transverse flutes and recorder through out the U.S., Canada, in Israel, and on National Public Radio. Music director of Baroque Northwest, he plays regularly with leading early music ensembles in the U.S. He has performed at the Boston, Berkeley, Long Beach Bach, and Bloomington early music festivals, Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival, and has recorded for Focus, Centaur, and Origin Classical. He received the MM degree from Washington University, St. Louis, and the BM degree from California State University, Northridge. He has taught at Indiana University, the University of Southern California, at workshops sponsored by the San Francisco and San Diego early music societies, and the Seattle Recorder Society, and has a very active teaching studio. Kim has adjudicated at the NFA's Tri-annual Baroque Flute Artist competition, and has worked professionally with Janet See, Jed Wentz, Matthias Maute, Sandra Miller, Nicholas McGegan, Monica Huggett, Ellen Hargis, Suzi LeBlanc, Laurie Monahan, John Holloway, and Margriet Tindemans, among others. Other interests include the culinary, martial and healing arts, cycling, zymurgy, and the pursuit of the ultimate cadence. In his spare time he reads non-fiction.