Venezuelan flutist Ysmael Reyes enjoys a varied career as soloist, orchestral player, and teacher. He has been a prize winner in competitions such as the First Latin American Flute Competition in Venezuela, the Music Scholarship Award by the Dante Alighieri Society of Denver and the Bruce Ekstrand Memorial Competition at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Mr. Reyes has also been a semifinalist in the Frank Bowen Young Artist Competition in Albuquerque and the Texas Flute Society Myrna Brown Flute Competition. More recently, he was selected as a competitor for the Beijing Aurele Nicolet International Flute Competition in China and was chosen as a Scholar for the pilot program of the Powell Academy by Verne Q. Powell Flutes.

A resident of Boulder, CO Mr. Reyes holds the Principal Flute position with the Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra, and is on the faculty at Regis University and the Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts. Ysmael also performs regularly with the Boulder Philharmonic, Fort Collins Symphony and Greeley Philharmonic.

Mr. Reyes has appeared a concerto soloist with orchestras in Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago and Argentina. During 2000 he was the invited as a solo flutist by the Juventudes Andinas Symphony Orchestra for their South American Tour. As a member of the Center for New Music in Iowa, Mr. Reyes participated in chamber music recitals in United States and Russia and had a solo appearance in the Society of Electro-Acoustic Music (SEAMUS) National Conference in 2002.

Mr. Reyes received his BM from the Instituto Universitario de Estudios Musicales in Caracas, Venezuela with Luis Julio Toro and his MM from the University of Iowa with Robert Dick. Recently he received a DMA from the University of Colorado studying with Christina Jennings. Mr. Reyes wrote his DMA dissertation on the iconic Flute Sequenza (1958) by Luciano Berio, entitled Structural Properties of Luciano Berio's Sequenza I for Flute Solo: A Study of Melodic Density and Pitch Material Relationships. Former teachers have included Victor Rojas, Tadeu Coelho and Alexa Still.