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Michel
Debost,
professor of flute at the Oberlin Conservatory since 1989, has had a long
and distinguished career. Principal flute of the Orchestre de Paris from
its creation in 1967 until 1989, he succeeded Jean-Pierre Rampal as professor
of flute at the Paris Conservatory. He has won First prizes in the International
Competition, Geneva, the Prague Spring Festival and Moscow Festival competitions,
and second prize at the International Competition, Munich. Debost has
made annual tours of the U.S. as a soloist since 1962. His recording credits
Include over 50 solo and chamber music recordings, for which he has received
numerous awards, including the Premier Grand Prix-Académie du Disque
Français for Concertos and the Premier Grand Prix-Académie
Charles Cros for Chamber Music. His recording of the Telemann duets with
James Galway was nominated for a Grammy Award. His book The Simple Flute,
published in France in 1996, was released in English by Oxford University
Press in January 2002.
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Flutist
Kathleen Chastain, Clinical Assistant
Professor of Flute, Flute Pedagogy, Chamber Music with Winds and Professional
Development for Musicians. Studied with John Kiburz of the St. Louis
Symphony, Michel Debost and Jean Pierre Rampal. Graduated
from the Paris Conservatory in 1972. Frequent solo performances in Paris,
London and US. Extra solo and second flute with the Orchestre de Paris
under Daniel Barenboim; solo flute, Orchestre de L'ile de France and
Pasdeloup
Orchestra; founder of the baroque quartet Il Pastor Fido. Former faculty
member, Paris Conservatory, Paris 10th Arrondissement, University of
North
Texas, and Baldwin Wallace College. Master classes world-wide, France,
Italy, Korea, United States, Latin America, etc. Recorded CD with pianist
and composer Noel Lee. Most recent CD with pianist Laurent Boukobza.
Appointed 1993.
A
native of Tokyo, Japan, Mitsuko Morikawa began her piano studies at the age of five at the Toho School of Music,
Preparatory Division. She gave her first public performance at the age
of ten and continued studies at the Toho School of Music where she attended
the high school and college divisions. Ms. Morikawa received her Bachelor
of Music degree from the Toho School of Music and her Master of Music
degree from the Manhattan School of Music. She also completed the Professional
Studies Program at the Cleveland Institute of Music.
Her
former teachers include Sergei Babayan, Cheng-Zong Yin, Paul Schenly,
Sara Davis Buechner, Hisako Ueno and Ryoko Uchino. Ms. Morikawa made her
New York Recital Debut at the Weill Recital Hall in February 1997 as the result of being named a recipient of a Special Presentation Award from the
Artists International. In 1999, she performed with the CIM Orchestra with
Louis Lane as a result of being named a winner of Concerto Competition,
and the performance was broadcast on WCLV. She was one of six semifinalists
in the 2000 New Orleans International Piano Competition, a finalist in
the 1999 Hilton Head Island International Piano Competition and won first
prize in the Darius Milhaud Performance Prize Competition at CIM in 1998. Awards include
Arthur Loesser Memorial Prize in Piano, The Carmen Mihalache Dimulescu
Memorial Award, being a finalist in the 1988 Piano Teachers National Association
Young Pianists Competition in Japan, and the special Honors in the 1995
Mieczyslaw Munz Piano competition at the Manhattan School of Music. In
2002, she was selected as one of the participants for the Art Song Festival
at the Cleveland Institute of Music.
She
is an active accompanist and soloist with performances in Japan and the
United States, and collaborated with members of the Cleveland Orchestra, Rochester
Philharmonic Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony and Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.
She has served as a staff accompanist at ENCORE School of Strings in Hudson,
Ohio and the Oberlin Flute Institute. Currently, she works as a staff
accompanist at the Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory and the Oberlin
College Conservatory of Music, and teachers piano at Baldwin-Wallace for
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