Flutist Timothy Munro to Perform at NYC’s Elliott Carter Festival By Marci Janas ’91
			PHOTO COURTESY OF GEELONG ADVERTISER (MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA) Flutist Timothy Munro ’02, an artist diploma student of Michel Debost, professor of flute, can be forgiven if he doesn’t attend class this week. Munro is in New York City for a series of workshops (from April 20 through April 24) showcasing the music of contemporary music’s elder statesman Elliott Carter. Acclaimed conductor and composer Oliver Knussen is leading the workshops, which include ensemble rehearsals, discussion sessions with Carter and Knussen, and a performance conducted by Knussen of several small ensemble works by Carter in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, on Wednesday, April 24, at 7:00 p.m. Munro, who is from Brisbane, Australia, is an advocate of contemporary music. He is a member of the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, and he has given the U.S. and world premieres of several important solo flute works, including the Carl Vine Flute Sonata and Robert Simpson Flute Concerto, and he regularly takes part in ensemble premieres. He was selected to perform with the Carter workshop ensemble after submitting an audition compact disc recording. He will play piccolo and flute for Carter’s "Asko Concerto," a work that was commissioned by the Asko Ensemble and which premiered April 26, 2000, in Amsterdam, with Knussen conducting. The performance will be Munro’s first at Carnegie Hall. "I hope I will have a chance to workshop Carter’s solo flute piece with him," says Munro, "and also a Knussen solo flute piece." Munro, who is in the second and final year of his artist diploma course, earned a bachelor of music degree with first honors and a university medal at the University of Queensland (Australia) in 1999. He has won or placed highly in numerous competitions, including the Queensland Symphony Orchestra’s Young Instrumentalist of the Year, the Australian Young Performer Awards, the Geelong Advertiser Music Scholarship, and the Australian Flute Competition. He attended the Pacific Music Festival in Japan in summer 2000, and the Canberra Chamber Music Festival in 1998 and 1999. He has performed as soloist with such ensembles as the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, the Melbourne University Orchestra, and the Queensland Youth Orchestra. His orchestral experience includes regular substitute work with the main professional orchestras in his home state of Queensland — The Queensland Orchestra, Queensland Symphony, and Philharmonic Orchestra — and contract work with Opera Queensland and Opera Australia. For more information about the Oliver Knussen Workshop: Music of Elliott Carter, contact Tina Cox in Carnegie Hall’s education department at 212-903-9740.
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