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SCFS Fall Seminar Saturday, November 13, 2010
Festival Schedule -
USC Music Building Room 006 _______________________________________ Recital Program: _______________________________________
Duchamp enjoys an international career throughout Europe, and the Americas. He has been featured in numerous festivals, including the Belle Ile Festival, Radio-France Broadcast Festival, Sarlat Festival, Saint-Yrieix Festival in France, Switzerland’s Crans-Montana Festival, the American Music Festival, Italy's Festival du Vent & the Montreal Chamber Music Festival. At the age of 15, Nicolas Duchamp began studying in Paris with masters from the famous French school of flute playing, including Jean-Pierre Rampal and Michel Debost. His musical excellence was formally recognized by the French Senate in 2003 and he has been a prize winner in the Soreze Jacques Chambon Competition, the Markneuenkirchen International Music Competition in Germany, and the Vienna International Competition in Austria. In 2009, the family of Philippe Gaubert officially commissioned Mr. Duchamp to celebrate Gaubert's contribution to the French art of flute playing in a world wide tour. Duchamp created the homage, GAUBERT VIVANT! with pianist Barbara McKenzie. The US tour includes Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall in New York, and Spivey Hall in Atlanta where they will record an historic performance on the famous Gaubert flute : the Louis Lot N° 1986 from 1874. _______________________________________
Ms McKenzie resided in Germany and performed in Europe for a decade. Her career has taken her into the concert halls and music festivals of Great Britain, Western and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, the Middle East, and Africa. She performed for several years as a musical ambassador for the US State Department. Ms McKenzie has received many international awards and prizes as soloist and chamber player, among them: Conservatory prize winner, Peabody Conservatory (Baltimore); First prize, International Chamber Music Competition (Paris); Finalist, Young Concert Artists Guild Competition (New York); Third prize, International Brahms Competition (Hamburg). Her radio broadcasts and recordings include: West German Radio (Cologne), Hessian Radio (Frankfurt), French-Belgian Radio-Television (Brussels), Radio-France (Paris), BBC (London), and WGBH (Boston). Ms McKenzie's career-long devotion to chamber music has led to frequent concerts with leading soloists and chamber ensembles, including: the Alexander Quartet, Borromeo Quartet, Cassatt Quartet, Miami Quartet, and soloists Carol Wincenc, Nicolas Duchamp, Katie Lansdale, Amit Peled, and Ara Gregorian. _______________________________________
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Nicolas Duchamp is one of the most successful young flutists in France today, known for his warm tone, distinctive charm and creative poetic eloquence. Since 2004 he has served as principal flutist for the French National Opéra Comique under Gerard Daguerre. Mr. Duchamp has performed as soloist with many of France’s leading chamber music ensembles and orchestras, including Paris Opera Bastille, Nice Opéra,Strasbourg National Opéra, and the Bordeaux National Opera, with conductors such as Seiji Ozawa, Georges Prêtre, Myung-Whun Chung and Yutaka Sado.
Pianist Barbara McKenzie is an artist who displays "a sensitivity and intensity that one rarely finds, even from the most venerated performers" (Westfälische Rundschau). She studied at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University, receiving Bachelor and Master of Music degrees. At Peabody, her teachers were
renowned concert pianists Leon Fleisher and Walter Hautzig.
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