Blithe Duo performing Kuhlau:
Flutist Meerenai Shim is an active performer and teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area. She enjoys teaching many excellent private flute students at the Meerenai Shim Flute School in Sunnyvale and Mountain View.
Meerenai stays busy with many chamber music performances as a founding member of the Blithe Duo and the Ibert Trio. She also presents frequent recitals in the Bay Area. During the 2007-2008 season, Meerenai performed the Reinecke Flute Concerto with the Saratoga Symphony.
Meerenai's book, Scale Studies for Beginner and Intermediate Flutists, was originally written for her private flute students. Since it was published in 2007, it has received praise from flute pedagogues worldwide. The Flute Network described her book as "…well-thought-out and handsomely produced…" in its July/August 2008 issue. Due to the success of her first book, Meerenai has officially launched Meerenai Shim Publishing in order to continue to publish educational books for musicians.
Meerenai's flute teachers include Linda Lukas (San Francisco Symphony) and Mary Stolper (Grant Park Symphony). She has performed in master classes of Liisa Ruoho, Trevor Wye, Robert Stallman, Donald Peck and Michel Debost. She also studied orchestral conducting at the Aspen Music Festival and Eastern Music Festival. Her conducting teachers include Paul Vermel, Murry Sidlin, and Sheldon Morgenstern. Meerenai received a Bachelor of Music degree in Flute Performance from DePaul University in Chicago and a Master of Music degree in Flute Performance from San Francisco State University. She is training to become a certified Andover Educator in order to teach the Body Mapping course, What Every Musician Needs to Know About the Body.
ABOUT THE AUDIO TRACKS:
Sonata in C Major, K. 14, Allegro
by W.A. Mozart
Meerenai Shim, flute
Jiyun Chung, piano
Recorded March 2008
Sonata in G Major for flute and basso continuo
by CPE Bach
Meerenai Shim, flute
Stephen Damonte, harpsichord
Sara Spieth, cello
Recorded live, Knuth Hall, San Francisco State University, September 2004
Pacoca
by Celso Machado
Meerenai Shim, flute
Babak Falsafi, guitar
Recorded August 2007
Biera-Mar (Seashore)
by F. Aquino and R. Vasconcellos
Meerenai Shim, flute
Takashi Kawabata, piano
Recorded live at the Main Post Chapel, San Francisco, August 2006
Syrinx
by Debussy
Meerenai Shim, flute
Recorded March 2009
Sarabande from Partita in A minor
by J.S. Bach
Meerenai Shim, flute
Recorded March 2009