An award-winning flutist and educator, Emily Nazario maintains a versatile career as a solo artist, pedagogue, and chamber musician. An ardent educator, Emily currently resides in Lancaster, South Carolina, where she teaches privately and as a sectional clinician for schools in the Charlotte Metro Area. She has previously been on the flute faculties of the International School of Music in Bethesda, MD and the University of Georgia’s Community Music School.

As a soloist, Emily has been named a prizewinner or finalist in numerous competitions nationwide, including the UGASO Concerto Competition, the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition, Flutissimo Solo Artist Competition, and competitions sponsored by the Oklahoma Flute Society, Montana Flute Association, and New Jersey Flute Society to name a few. Emily has been invited to compete and perform nationally and internationally, including as a quarterfinalist for NFA’s Young Artist Competition in August of 2023 in Phoenix, Arizona. An avid baroque flutist, Emily enjoys incorporating the traverso into her practice and performances. 

Emily has extensive experience as an orchestral and chamber musician, performing at the Brevard Music Center, Hot Springs Music Festival, Zodiac Music Festival, Marrowstone Music Festival, and Domaine Forget International Music and Dance Academy. She has performed in masterclasses with many notable flutists including Jim Walker, Jeanne Baxtresser, Trudy Kane, Jeanne Galway, Marina Piccinini, Susan Hoeppner, Amy Porter, Mark Sparks, and Claire Chase. 

Emily has engaged in a variety of chamber music collaborations, including performing with the UGA Contemporary Ensemble and premiering works by living composers. Emily has also found a new calling in musicians’ wellness and is dedicated to helping musicians sustain long and prosperous careers by incorporating injury prevention strategies such as Body Mapping into her teaching. 

Emily received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Georgia, Master of Music from the University of Wyoming and Bachelor of Music from Ithaca College, with additional flute and baroque flute study from Conservatorium van Amsterdam in The Netherlands. Her primary teachers include Wendy Mehne, Mary Kay Robinson, Harrie Starreveld, Marten Root, Nicole Riner, and Angela Jones-Reus. Emily plays on a 9K heavy wall Muramatsu flute and a Simon Polak baroque flute. 

When she’s not making music, Emily enjoys reading, traveling, birding, and cooking. Emily lives in Lancaster, South Carolina with her husband, pianist and music professor Connor Austell.