About Me
Photos by Emi Ostrom, Oliver Weston, & Robert paul kothe
Flutist Joseph Monticello’s playing has been praised by both the New York Times and Wall Street Journal as “graceful" and for being as “exciting as the singers.”
Equally at home on both modern and historical flutes, Joseph enjoys a multi-faceted career as principal flutist of Boston Baroque and assistant principal flutist with the Florida Grand Opera and Palm Beach Symphony orchestras, making his home in Miami.
A frequent performer with the genre-bending Nu Deco Ensemble, Joseph has been featured on three of their commercially-released albums and has shared the stage with genre-defining artists Wyclef Jean, Tank and the Bangas, Masego, Cory Wong, Cory Henry, Luke James, and Larkin Poe.
Joseph has also performed with Les Arts Florissants, Philharmonia Baroque, The Berlin Friday Academy, One Found Sound (SF), Kaleidoscope (LA), Bach Collegium San Diego, New York Baroque Incorporated, Philharmonie Austin, Seraphic Fire, IlluminArts, and as principal flute of the Teatro Nuovo festival orchestra, specializing in the historically informed presentation of Bel Canto opera on period-appropriate instruments.
A fierce proponent of Japanese traditional music, Joseph has studied Nagauta and Yamatogaku shamisen in the US and in Japan, having recently made his debut at the National Theatre in Tokyo under the given name Yamato Josho (大和晟笙). As a student of these under-represented musical styles, he has previously been awarded funding by Oberlin College’s Shansi In-Asia Grant and the New York-based Friends of Flutes Foundation.
In addition to his performing career, Joseph’s passion for musical curatorship is furthered by his role as part-time Archivist for the New World Symphony in Miami Beach. In his free time, Joe enjoys searching for the holy grail of iced coffees, wherever his travels take him.
Joseph is a graduate of The Juilliard School, Oberlin College and Conservatory, and Interlochen Arts Academy High School.
In addition to a number of original instruments dating from the 18th to 20th century, Joseph plays on Powell #1111 and a Dana Sheridan flute with additional headjoints by Salvatore Faulisi, J. R. Lafin, Yoshiteru Akiyama, and David Chu, a Bulgheroni wood flute, a Keefe piccolo, an Eva Kingma alto flute, and traversos by Boaz Berney, Rod Cameron, Simon Polak, Koichi Sugihara, Keigo Takesa, Giovanni Tardino, and Rudolf Tutz.
Phone
(973) 934-3709
josephmonticello1@gmail.com
