Jessica Ringston is a flutist based in New York City, representing Miyazawa Flutes as an Emerging Artist. A dynamic soloist and chamber musician, she has been a featured performer in some of New York’s finest venues, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, National Sawdust, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Bohemian National Hall. Ringston made her international debut as a soloist at Centre Universitaire Méditerranéen in Nice, France, with additional performances as a chamber musician in Valdeblore, France. As a soloist, Ringston has performed in Frank Martin’s Ballade for Flute and Orchestra with the Purchase Symphony Orchestra and Pierre Boulez’s Memoriale with the Mannes American Composers Ensemble.

Ringston has participated in the Fellowship Program at the Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival, as well as the Zodiac Music Festival in the south of France. She is a three-time winner of the Molnar-Harris Chamber Music Competition, winner of the 2023 Purchase Concerto Competition, and has earned merit awards from the Long Island Music Hall of Fame and the Long Island Arts Alliance. She was named an Undergraduate Scholar and earned a grant from the prestigious Presser Foundation. Additionally, Ringston performs as Resident Artist with the Hunter Symphony Orchestra.

As a chamber musician, Ringston has been a featured performer in the Necessary Noise Festival, NYSoundCircuit, The Village Trip, and the RiverArts Music Festival. Ringston is a co-founder of the Astra Collective, a New York City based chamber music ensemble that is sought out for their dynamic and engaging programming. The Astra Collective is actively commissioning new works by New York based composers that feature rarely heard instrumentations. The ensemble has given several performances at The Frick Collection, as well as a performance at New York City’s Fifth Avenue Blooms installation created by Van Cleef & Arpels. This past January, they performed in two world premieres at Mercury Lounge.

An advocate for new music, Ringston has performed in world premieres for solo flute, flute ensemble, wind quintet, and orchestra in New York and France. She performed in the world premiere of Cyan Lyricism by Tyson Gholston-Davis and the New York premiere of Hide and Seek by Allison-Loggins Hull at the New York Flute Club’s Massed Flutes Concert. Her work can be heard in compositions by Ken Turley on all streaming platforms including Winter and Laurie’s Suite, which she recorded and performed in. 

In addition to her experience as a performer, Ringston is on the faculty at Nassau-Suffolk Academy of Music and serves as Mastery Class Coordinator for the New York Flute Club. Ringston presented her research on twentieth-century flute repertoire at the American Musicological Society-Mid Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology joint conference at New York University. 

Ringston holds a Bachelor of Music from Purchase Conservatory of Music, where she graduated summa cum laude as a student of Dr. Tara Helen O’Connor. She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree at the Mannes School of Music in the studio of Judith Mendenhall.