Davis Flute Festival Master Class (University of California Davis, Music Building)

Robert Stallman and Isabelle Chapuis will teach a master class. All flutists are encouraged to bring their flutes to the master class for a group lesson on flute technique.

According to London’s Sunday Times, Robert Stallman “is no ordinary virtuoso of the flute, though virtuoso he empathically is. He dazzles because of his penetrating artistry.” This artistry distinguishes all facets of Stallman’s career as soloist, chamber musician, recording artist, editor/arranger, and impresario. His career has included appearances at New York’s Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, London’s Wigmore Hall, Vienna’s Konzerthaus, and Tokyo’s Suntory Hall. Stallman was invited in 2015 to be the first American soloist featured at the Norsk Flute Festival in Norway in their long history. As a student of James Pappoutsakis, Stallman graduated from the New England Conservatory with two degrees and the school’s distinguished Chadwick Medal, while garnering other national awards. As a Fulbright Scholar, he studied flute at the Paris Conservatoire, and also with Alain Marion and with Jean-Pierre Rampal, who called him “one of the most gifted musicians I have ever encountered.”

Born in Dijon, France, Isabelle Chapuis studied with several of France’s best-known flutists, including Jean-Pierre Rampal, Michel Debost, Gaston Crunelle, Christian Lardé, Alain Marion, and Marcel Moyse. She attended the Conservatoire National Supérieure de Musique in Paris, where she was awarded the Premier Prix de Flûte in 1970 and the Premier Prix de Musique de Chambre in 1971. Chapuis relocated to California, where she was appointed Lecturer-in-Flute in the School of Music and Dance at San Jose State University. There she taught both undergraduate and graduate flute students for 33 years, until her retirement as Senior Lecturer in Flute in 2008. She received two awards for “outstanding teaching” and for “notable professional attainment” from the president of the university. In 2014, after her flute student, Annie Wu, was named a Presidential Scholar in the Arts, Chapuis received a letter of commendation from U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, recognizing her as “one of the United States’ most influential teachers of music.” Chapuis is also in her 33rd season as Principal Flute of Opera San José.

Note: Class will take place in Room 115 of the UC Davis Music Department building.