Karl-Heinz Schütz Recital & Masterclass Series in NYC and Northern NJ

1. Solo Recital in Northern New Jersey

Thursday, February 26, 2015
7:30 pm
NV Factory
400 Sylvan Ave., Ste #100 Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632 (map)

The recital will be given in NV Factory at its recently upgraded location in Englewood Cliffs, NJ. The program will include works by Dutilleux, Frank, Haydn and Prokofiev assisted by Eliko Akahori on the piano.

Before the recital, Muramatsu America will exhibit their instruments from 5:30 until 7pm. Everyone is welcome to try the flutes!!

Tickets are $40 for Adults and $30 for Students with ID.

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2. Solo Salon Recital in NYC

Friday, February 27, 2015
4 pm
89th St. and Central Park West (map)

The Salon Recital will take place at a private apartment in Upper Westside overlooking the Central Park. 

The program for the Solo Salon Recital will include works by Andersen, Dutilleux, Frank and Prokofiev assisted by Eliko Akahori on the piano. 

There will be wine and cheese reception after the concert. 

As there are only limited seats available, please reserve your ticket(s) early. 

General Admission: $50 

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3. Salon Masterclass in NYC

Saturday, February 28, 2015
2 pm - 4 pm
245 West 107th St. (map)

The two hour long masterclass will feature young fluitsts nationwide. Currenly all the performer slots are filled and we are only accepting auditors.

This event will take place at a different location in Upper Westside. Again, as there are only limited seats available, please reserve your ticket(s) early.

Auditors: $35

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Karl-Heinz Schütz

(Principal Solo Flute of the Vienna State Opera Orchestra / Wiener Philharmoniker)

Karl-Heinz Schütz is Principal Solo Flute with the Vienna State Opera Orchestra and also plays  the Solo Flute at the Wiener Philharmoniker. From 2005 to 2011 he held this position at the Wiener Symphoniker. He is Flute-Professor at Konservatorium Wien-University.

Born in Innsbruck and grown up in Landeck/Tirol he has had his musical education in Austria, Swizzerland and France. He graduated both, in Austria with Prof. Eva Amsler at the Vorarlberg State Conservatory, and in France within the class of Prof. Philippe Bernold at theLyon CNSM (Conservatoire national supérieur de musique), where he also perfectioned himself in playing chamber music with Jean-Louis Cappezzali. In Swizzerland he had numerous and very impressing private lessons with Aurèle Nicolet.

Important international awards to him were the two first prices at the Carl Nielsen International Flute competition 1998 and the Krakov International Flute competition 1999.
Before he was nominated first Solo flute in Vienna, he held the same position for four years at the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker and taught at the Vorarlberg State Conservatory from 2000 to 2004.

He has been asked for the guest musician with rennomated orchestras such as Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, German Radio-orchestras NDR Hamburg, WDR Cologne and HR Frankfurt, Opéra de Lyon, Orchestra of the Bayreuther Festspiele and Super World Orchestra in Japan.
As a soloist he has been playing the important flute concertos with orchestras such as Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Symphoniker, Wiener Concertverein, Classical players Vienna, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, Symphony Orchestra of Barcelona, Odense Symphony, Sapporo Symphony, NHK Orchestra Tokyo, Camerata XXI Tarragona, Concertino Wien, Capella Cracoviensis and others. As a solo flute he had the opportunity and chance to make music with conductors such as Georges Pretre, Pierre Boulez, Ivan Fischer, Lorin Maazel, Kent Nagano, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Yakov Kreizberg, Raphael Frühbeck de Burgos, Yuri Simeonov, Vladimir Fedosejev, Fabio Luisi, Franz Welser-Möst and Wolfgang Sawallisch.

Both as a soloist and a chamber musician he travelled to numberous important festivals in several countries in Europe, Asia, North and South America and regularly invited as a guest Professor of international Music camps, Masterclasses etc., especially in Seoul-Korea, Academie de Nice, Liechtensteiner Meisterkurse, Bludenzer Meisterkurse, Akademie der Bregenzer Festspiele, Akademie Fiss and the PACIFIC MUSIC FESTIVAL in Sapporo Japan among others.

Permanent music making in diverse chamber formations allows him to grow his repertoire permanently, that reaches from Barock to Avantgarde. He is a member in the the Ensemble WIEN-BERLIN the WIENER RINGENSEMBLE and TRIO AURORA.

He recorded for many broadcasting associations and produced a couple of Cds: Flute recital from Debussy to Boulez, W.F.Bach Flute duets, 4th Brandenburg concerto, Taffanels Opera paraphrases, Prokofiev sonata, and Mozart Flute quartets.

Eliko Akahori (Collaborator)

Eliko Akahori has appeared as a recitalist, chamber musician, and collaborative pianist to great acclaim in the United States, Europe, and Asia.  Recent performances include a live broadcast of Brahms’ Clarinet Trio on WGBH radio in Boston, concerts with the Providence String Quartet, and recitals with violinist James Buswell and saxophonist Kenneth Radnofsky.
In 2003, Ms. Akahori received the first prize, Coleman-Barstow Award, in the 57th Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition.  Past collaborators in recitals, chamber music concerts, recordings, and radio and television broadcasts include members of the Berlin Philharmonic and the Chicago, Montreal, Boston and San Francisco Symphony Orchestras, among others.  She has performed in many festivals including the Banff Centre in Canada, IMAI in Maine, and the Pacific Music Festival in Japan.  
Ms. Akahori holds a Master’s degree in Music Theory from the New England Conservatory and a Bachelor’s degree in Composition from the Kunitachi College of Music in Japan, where she was the winner of both the Yamaha Young Artist’s Award and the Yomiuri Musician’s Award, graduating with Academic Honors and Highest Distinction in Performance. In 1996, she performed for the Japanese Emperor’s Family in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Ms. Akahori is currently on the faculty at Wellesley College.

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