Erin Bouriakov
International Soloist, Orchestral Musician,
Faculty Member - UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
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Erin Bouriakov is an international soloist, chamber musician, lecturer and a teacher, and is on the flute faculty of the Herb Alpert School of Music at UCLA.
She has appeared as a soloist with the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Euro-Asian Philharmonic Orchestra, Musica Viva and others. Together with her husband, Denis Bouriakov, they frequently perform and record together worldwide. Erin has won a number of competitions both in the USA and abroad.
Mrs. Bouriakov was born in Seoul, Korea, and moved to the USA to study at the Interlochen Arts Academy, where she studied with Tyra Gilb. She then went on to studying at Oberlin Conservatory with Michel Debost, and later at the Royal Academy of Music in London with William Bennett.
Erin also studied with Bruno Cavallo, the former principal of the Orchestra of La Scala in Milan, Italy. She was appointed as the Principal Flute of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra in 2006 and as an orchestral musician Ms. Bouriakov has performed with many distinguished orchestras, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. While living in New York, she was also an assistant teacher at Juilliard pre-college.
Erin has been a Haynes Flutes Artist since 2016 and is playing an all-14K Haynes Custom Flute.