Karin de Fleyt is an internationally-renowned flutist and soloist in the contemporary music scene, with many flute works dedicated to her.

She is flutist of the HERMESensemble since 2000 and performs as a soloist as well as with many different international ensembles and music theatre companies.

Karin plays the flute, alto flute, piccolo and bass flute, as well as shakuhachi and Carnatic flute.

Karin took her masters degree (MA) at the Royal Music Conservatoire in Gent, Belgium (1995), where she already specialized in contemporary flute solo and chamber music repertoire during her studies. QTS at the Royal Music Conservatoire in Gent (1996), Laureate (PGCE) at the Orpheus Institute in Gent (1997 – 2001) during which she taught contemporary music and live electronics at the Royal Music Conservatoire in Gent.  She is appointed as principal lecturer at Leeds College of Music in the classical pathway since September 2013. Karin is lecturer for the professional teachers program at the School of Arts/Royal Music Conservatoire in Gent since 2009.

In performing, Karin is constantly looking for new experiments, resulting in great collaborations with many well known composers and performers, one of the most memorable is a ten year long collaboration with Karlheinz Stockhausen. Festivals include Romaeuropa, Holland Festival, Operadagen Rotterdam, Ars Musica, MOFO Festival, Festival d’Automne, Costa Rica Music Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Festival van Vlaanderen, Klangspuren Schwaz, British flute society, Transit New Music Festival, CoMa, Southbank Festival amongst others.

In teaching, Karin’s prime objective is to work with young people, teaching them techniques and skills to interpret different music styles with confidence. To this end, she is regularly being asked to give masterclasses/workshops and lecture-recitals (Trinity Laban Conservatoire, RNCM, RCM, Maastricht conservatoire, Den Haag conservatoire, Costa Rica flute festival, …).

Karin de Fleyt performed as a soloist and with several ensembles and orchestras with conductors Marco Angius, Koen Kessels, Karlheinz Stockhausen, James Wood, Zsolt Nagy, Clark Rundel, Wolfgang Lischke, Peter Rundel, Mark Heron, Ed Spanjaard, etc.

She is co-founder of duo NewFLow, specializing in low flutes repertoire together with Carla Rees.

She plays an Eva Kingma quartertone alto flute.