Paul Dunkel, flute
 

Date & Time

Sunday, October 19, 2014 - 5:30pm

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Monthly Concerts: Paul Dunkel, flute
Peter Basquin, piano Tony Moreno, percussion Laura Conwesser, flute Rie Schmidt, flute Tanya Witek, flute Conway Kuo, violin Cyrus Berouhkin, viola Frederick Zlotkin, cello Program Cello Sonata arr. for flute and piano    Dunkel/Basquin Three Episodes for flute and percussion    Dunkel/Moreno   Cello...
Engelman Recital Hall Baruch Performing Arts Center 55 Lexington Avenue   (entrance on E. 25th Street) New York, New York
 

Location

Engelman Recital Hall
Baruch Performing Arts Center
55 Lexington Avenue
  (entrance on E. 25th Street)
New York, New York

Paul Dunkel, flute

Peter Basquin, piano
Tony Moreno, percussion
Laura Conwesser, flute
Rie Schmidt, flute
Tanya Witek, flute
Conway Kuo, violin
Cyrus Berouhkin, viola
Frederick Zlotkin, cello

Program

Cello Sonata arr. for flute and piano

   Dunkel/Basquin


Three Episodes for flute and percussion
   Dunkel/Moreno
 

Cello Sonata arr. for flute and piano
   Dunkel/Basquin

 
Quatre Visiones
   Conwesser/Schmidt/Witek/Dunkel
 

Quartet in C Major for flute, violin, viola and cello K.285b
   Kuo, Beroukhin, Zlotnik, Dunkel

Claude Debussy
(1862-1918)


Tony Moreno
(b. 1956)
 

Dmitri Shostakovich
(1906-1975)
 

Paul Lustig Dunkel
(b. 1943)


W.A. Mozart
(1756-1791)

 


Admission: Free to NYFC members, $25 for non-members, $15 for students and seniors (65+)
at the door.

Program subject to change.


Paul Lustig Dunkel was born in New York City in 1943, the son of Johanna Lustig, a Viennese pianist and Eugene Borisovich Dunkel, a Russian artist. He began studying the piano at the age of eight, and with the encouragement of Marianne Kuranda, his piano teacher, began studying the flute two years later. While attending the High School of Music and Art Dunkel performed actively on both instruments.

Dunkel continued his musical studies at Queens College (CUNY) and later matriculated in the Graduate Music Program at Columbia University.  At the same time beginning his career as a flutist in New York City. Over his career, he played with many free-lance orchestras, operas and ballet companies he appeared at some of the world's leading music festivals.

Dunkel's interest in contemporary music led him to conducting. He has since been Music Director of the Denver Chamber Orchestra, Principal Guest Conductor of the Vermont Mozart Festival and has appeared with the Denver, Baltimore, Buffalo, New Jersey, Oakland, Syracuse and Richmond Symphonies, as well with the Brooklyn Philharmonic, American Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke's and Musica Aeterna.

Dunkel has also taught at the New England Conservatory, the Eastman School of Music, Queens College, Vassar College, the University of Connecticut and the College at Purchase (SUNY). In 1978, Dunkel co-founded the American Composers Orchestra In 1989, he was appointed Resident Conductor. In 1983, Dunkel founded the New Orchestra of Westchester, an ensemble devoted to the performance of the classics as well as newly commissioned works. The orchestra's educational endeavors included a program that created a syllabus for elementary school children that was taught by Westchester's school music teachers in collaboration with members of the Philharmonic. In 1998, Dunkel and the orchestra commissioned the composer Melinda Wagner to write a flute concerto for the orchestra's 20th anniversary. The work won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Music.

Dunkel stepped down from the podium of the Westchester Philharmonic at the end of the 2007-2008 season. He is currently Principal Flutist with the New York City Ballet and a member of Music From Copland House, an ensemble he co-founded with the pianist Michael Boriskin, dedicated to the performance of American Chamber Music. Mr. Dunkel has recorded for Nonesuch, Columbia, Opus 1, RCA, CRI and Bridge. He continues to explore new music and give encouragement to young composers by actively performing their music.

Read Paul Dunkel's interview by Tanya Witek in the October 2014 NY Flute Club Newsletter.

 

 

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