Adria Sternstein Foster

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About Adria

Praised by the Washington Post for her “molten phrasing” and tone of “sheer iridescence,” Adria Sternstein Foster enjoys a multi-faceted musical career.

Adria is the Principal Flutist of the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra (KCOHO), the resident orchestra of the Opera House of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC. It is the only orchestra in the country dedicated solely to the performance of three musical genres: opera, ballet and musical theater. In this role she performs for the Washington National Opera, Kennedy Center musical theater productions, and has played for virtually all major national and international ballet companies, including American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, Royal Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, Mariinsky Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet and many more.

For many years Adria performed chamber music for flute, harp and strings throughout the Washington, DC metropolitan area with the IBIS Chamber Music Society. With IBIS she has been heard on NPR’s Front Row Washington and appears in the 2017 documentary film Samuel Barber: Absolute Beauty. Adria has collaborated with the Chiarina Chamber Players and appears regularly in chamber performances at the Kennedy Center and other venues in the DC area. In 2022 Adria toured South Africa along with a quintet of orchestra colleagues giving masterclasses and performing music for flute, harp, and strings sponsored by the Classical Movements organization. Recordings include Vivaldi’s flute concerto “Il Gardellino” on the disc IBIS x 2, and Iridescence, a CD of works for flute and harp with Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra principal harpist Susan Robinson.

A native of New York City, Adria attended LaGuardia High School of Music and the Arts and studied with Bonnie Lichter at Juilliard’s Pre-College Division. She continued her education at Juilliard, where she received both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees as a student of Julius Baker and Jeanne Baxtresser.

Adria is honored to collaborate on Volume 2 of the indispensable publication for flutists, “Orchestral Excerpts for Flute with Piano Accompaniment,” with her mentor Jeanne Baxtresser, former Principal Flutist of the New York Philharmonic.

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Mozart Quartet for Flute and Strings in D Major with Ko Sugiyama, violin; Uri Wassertzug, viola; Steven Honigberg, cello.

Chiarina Chamber Players, Efi Hackmey, piano

Overture to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” arranged for four flutes

“The Elephant and the Fly” with Seth Cook, tuba and Sophia Kim Cook, piano

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