Ensemble Haydn-Berlin will perform works from their recent EMI recording with
world-renowned flutist Emmanuel Pahud at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 14 in Memorial
Chapel. The concert opens the 29th season of the Union
College-Schenectady Museum Concert Series.
The program includes J. Haydn's Symphony No. 22, “Der Philosoph”;
Honegger's Concerta da Camera for Flute and English Horn; H. Holliger's
Two Pieces for Solo Flute; M. Haydn's Flute Concerto; and Mozart's
Symphony No. 28 in C, K. 200.
The Swiss-born Flutist Pahud delighted series regulars in his debut
performance at Union last season; his outstanding level of performance has
earned him the title “The new flute sensation” by the New York
Times. Beginning music lessons at the age of six in Rome, Pahud has quickly
gained international attention, winning eight out of the twelve available prizes
at the international music competitions of Geneva in 1992. At 22, he was
appointed to First Flute of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and is now
principal Flute.
His appearances worldwide include performances with the Berlin and Cologne
Philharmonics, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the NHK Symphony
Orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande,
the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre National de Belique, among
others. Pahud lives in Berlin with his wife and two sons.
The 2000-01 Union College-Schenectady Museum Concert Series is dedicated in
memory of Robert J. Lurtsema, host of “Morning Pro Musica,” the voice
of classical music in the Northeast for over a quarter of a century. Richard
Dyer of the Boston Globe said, “He was a maverick broadcaster who
believed in presenting all kinds of music, no matter its length, genre, style
and character; he didn't try to make music over in radio's image, but sought
to make radio a tool for expressing music's inexhaustible variety.”