Klarinet Archive - Posting 001018.txt from 2000/12

From: "Tony Wakefield" <tony-wakefield@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Performance
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 16:48:18 -0500

He`s done a `bit` then hasn`t he Neil. Thanks for the bio.
T. W.

From: "Neil Leupold"

> --- 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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