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FLUTE/VOICE
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As flutist, David has appeared as soloist, chamber player, and with
orchestras throughout the United States, Europe, and Taiwan. He
currently plays with the Peninsula Symphony in the San Francisco
Bay Area and the Golden Gate Opera, and with harpist Michael Steadman www.classicalharp.com.
He has been a member of the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra, the AIMS
Festival Orchestra, the New Amsterdam Symphony, and has played
for the Tulsa and Cape Cod ballet orchestras. Chamber music highlights
include the Irish premieres of works for flute and percussion by
Lou Harrison and Andre Jolivet, and he recently performed George
Crumb's "An Idyll for the Misbegotten" in Dublin, Sligo,
and Brooklyn under the direction of former NY Philharmonic percussionist,
Morris Lang. A champion of contemporary music, David has premiered
works for flute by Allison Sniffin, Andre Hosza, Jose Halac, and
Michael Kinney, among others. He is artistic director of the Bretton
Woods Chamber Music Festival, which presents annual concerts at
the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. Until
his relocation to the Bay Area, he was on the faculty of the Conservatory
of Music of Brooklyn College, where he was also director of the
concert/outreach office. He credits Bernard Z. Goldberg, former
principal flutist of the Pittsburgh Symphony, as his mentor, and
includes Georgetta Maiolo, Mary Ellen Jacobs, and Bobbi Phillips
among his flute teachers.
David is available for solo and chamber engagements with flute, piccolo, alto flute, and bass flute.
Program
archives coming soon. Here are some recent performance highlights:
WNYC
radio “Sound Check”
- an interview with guest host, George Preston and performances of
Arthur Foote’s “At Dusk”, Debussy’s “The
Girl With The Flaxen Hair” and an excerpt from Arvo Pärt’s
“Spiegel im Spiegel” with harpist Joy Plaisted and cellist
Vincent Moncada (Foote).
- HEAR the whole program (approx 24 min.)
- HEAR Arthur Foote’s “At Dusk”
- HEAR Debussy’s “The Girl With The Flaxen Hair”
- HEAR Arvo Pärt’s “Spiegel im Spiegel” (excerpt), arranged for bass flute
and harp
(You
can hear some additional clips of David’s work as an announcer
at WNYC on the Voiceover/Radio link on
this site.)
Please
be aware that the following soundclips were taken from recordings
produced in various settings under greatly varying circumstances.
Fidelity may not be ideal!
Sample files of additional flute and harp music:
-
HEAR Vincent Persichetti’s “Serenade No. 10” (IV.
Andante cantabile) with harpist Joy Plaisted
- HEAR Gabriel Fauré’s “Pavane” (excerpt)
with harpist Michael Steadman
- HEAR Claude Debussy’s “Reverie” (excerpt) with
harpist Michael Steadman
- HEAR J. S. Bach’s “Adagio” (excerpt from flute
sonata) with harpist Susan Knapp
- HEAR the Bach/Gounod “Ave Maria” (excerpt) with harpist
Susan Knapp
- HEAR Gabriel Fauré’s “Berceuse” (excerpt)
with harpist Michael Steadman
- HEAR “Greensleeves Variations” (excerpt, as arranged
by Dewey Owens) with harpist Susan Knapp
George
Crumb “An Idyll for the Misbegotten” for flute and percussion
ensemble, performed in Brooklyn, New York in Walt Whitman Hall and
in Sligo and Dublin, Ireland, under the direction of former New York
Philharmonic percussionist, Morris Lang
- HEAR a brief excerpt
- HEAR the full work (approx. 12 min.)
Claude
Bolling’s “Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano” –
with pianist Jeffrey Biegel, bassist Daniel Pizzocolo, and drummer
Brian Willson, as recorded and performed for CUNY-TV
- HEAR an excerpt from the second movement, “Sentimentale”.
- OR, HEAR the entire movement
- HEAR an excerpt from the fourth movement, “Fugace”
- OR, HEAR the entire movement
Two
of my favorite chamber music collaborators – flutist Mindy Scheierman
and pianist Mitchell Vines - join me for this virtuosic work by Franz
Doppler, It’s called “Duettino” and was recorded
live in concert in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire.
- HEAR an excerpt
- HEAR an even longer excerpt!
You
can hear additional music samples of flute and strings at the CHAMBER
MUSIC link on this site.
VOICE
David is a trained baritone, and specializes in the hits of the Big
Band Era and Sinatra standards.
Coming
shortly: full repertoire list and audio clips from big band performances. |