Klarinet Archive - Posting 001017.txt from 2000/12
From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Performance
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 16:48:17 -0500
--- Tony Wakefield <tony-wakefield@-----.net> wrote:
> For the benefit of those who do not live in America, could someone please
> inform the rest of us who Zoon is?
> Who Baker is? And could "gtgallant please also identify him/herself, before
> we have another war of words in here.
> TIA.
A friend of mine studied with him at Curtis and was chosen to be principal
flute of the Atlanta Symphony before she finished her junior year.
A short bio from his web site:
The renowned French flutist and pedagogue, Marcel Moyse, once said of him,
"Nobody in France plays like Julius Baker, no one!"
His level of virtuosity is second to none. This sentiment has been shared
by the great conductors of our time-Leonard Bernstein, Fritz Reiner, Bruno Walter
and Leopold Stokowski all selected Julius Baker to grace the solo chair of their
respective orchestras. Julius Baker was born in Cleveland, Ohio. After graduating
from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, he returned to Cleveland to
play in the cleveland Orchestra under Artur Rodzinski. Mr. Baker then went as a
solo flutist to the Pittsburgh Symphony under Fritz Reiner. He left Pittsburgh
to become solo flutist of the Columbia Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra in New
York City. During this time, he joined the famed Bach Aria Group with which
he was associated for eighteen years. When the CBS Orchestra was disbanded,
Mr. Baker went as solo flutist to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Later he
returned to New York to assume the Solo flute position with the New York
Philharmonic, where he remained until 1983.
Mr. Baker now concentrates on solo performances and chamber music in ad-
dition to teaching. He is on the faculties of the Julliard School and The
Curtis Institute of Music - his alma mater. Mr. Baker was a member of an in-
ternational woodwind quintet formed by the Yamaha Corporation to give concerts
in the major cities in Japan to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Company.
He has also given solo recitals in both Japan and Korea and taught at the Toho
University in Tokyo. In April, 1994 he performed in Munich, Germany in cele-
bration of the 200th birthday of Theobald Boehm, the developer of the modern
flute.
Mr. Baker gives Master classes throughout the U.S. and in Canada, and also
serves as a consultant for flutes to the Yamaha Corporation of America.
Mr. Baker has recorded for such labels as RCA Victor, Decca, Vanguard,
Westminster and Vox Cum Laude. His latest CD's are on the VAI and Oxford labels.
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