Aero: Contemporary Works for Flute Dieter Flury

• John G. Bilotta (1948):
• 1 Capricci 05:05
• Mari Kotskyy:
• 2 Colors 05:15
• Carl Vollrath (b.1931):
• 3 The Glass of Absinthe 08:52
• Marvin J. Carlton:
• 4 Romance for Flute & Piano 06:49
• Andrew Lewinter:
• 5 Waltz for Flute & Cello 06:41
• Allen Brings (b. 1934):
• 6 3 Lais: No. 1, — 02:46
• 7 3 Lais: No. 2, — 01:25
• 8 3 Lais: No. 3, — 02:36
• Kenneth Eggert (b. 1969):
• 9 Ondine's Flute 04:56
• Charles Savage (b.1958):
• 10 Mad Rush to the End (Arr. for Flute Duet) 03:32
• Total Runtime 47:57

Info zu Aero: Contemporary Works for Flute

From Mozart’s concertos to Jethro Tull’s “Aqualung,” the flute has served as a versatile tool for conveying the spectrum of human emotion. On AERO, flutist Dieter Flury puts decades of study and a handmade golden flute by Yamaha to work to breathe life into works by contemporary composers and spark the imaginations of listeners.

John Bilotta’s Capricci gives the flute a virtuosic encore with three contrasting sections full of syncopation and off-beat gestures. Mari Kotskyy’s Colors offers a cheerful musical landscape filled with conversational harmonies between flute, piano, and clarinet. Three Lais by Allen Brings envisions a poet, alone in a world of sand and stone, reading texts in an ancient tongue. The flute’s delicate side is highlighted by Romance for Flute and Piano by Marvin J. Carlton, a gentle dance that pleases the ear. Ondine’s Flute by Kenneth Eggert depicts a mermaid atop a rock, waves crashing around her as she plays her song. Andrew Lewinter’s Waltz for Flute and Cello brings the two instruments together with a tonal, three-part structure, and Charles Savage’s Mad Rush to the End shows off the power of two flutes with a drive that creates a unified “super-flute.” Carl Vollrath’s The Glass of Absinthe showcases the instrument’s ability to illustrate by capturing the mood of Degas’ painting of the same name.

Over his storied career, Flury has served as Principal Flute of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, soloist with orchestras the world over, and recording artist for a slew of albums from Baroque to contemporary. Behind the scenes, he’s also served as Artistic Director and General Manager of Vienna Philharmonic and a professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz.

Dieter Flury, flute
Dijana Bistrović, flute
Ieva Oša, piano
Bruno Philipp, clarinet
Branimir Pustički, cello

Dieter Flury
was born and brought up in Zurich (Switzerland) and studied with Hans Meyer (Principal Flute of the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich), André Jaunet (at the Zurich Music Academy), and Aurèle Nicolet. In addition to his flute studies he graduated in mathematics at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. At age 25 he was appointed a member of the Vienna State Opera Orchestra and in 1981 he was named Principal Flute of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. 2005-14 he was also the Artistic Director and General Manager of Vienna Philharmonic. In 2017 he retired from the orchestra.

In demand as a teacher, Flury is a professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz (Austria) where he has been teaching since 1996. His numerous recordings have featured a wide range of composers from Baroque to contemporary.

Flury has performed as soloist with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphonic, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the New Japan Philharmonic, Beijing Symphony, Tokyo Symphony and others in collaboration with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Valery Gergiev, Zubin Mehta, Roger Norrington, Edmond de Stoutz, and Christian Thielemann. He worked with composers including Pierre Boulez, Beat Furrer, György Ligeti, René Staar, Salvatore Sciarrino, Herbert Willi, and Hans Zender. Flury plays a handmade 14k golden flute by Yamaha.

John G. Bilotta
was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, but has spent most his life in the San Francisco Bay Area having attended the University of California at Berkeley and, later, the San Francisco Music and Arts Institute where he studied composition with Frederick Saunders. His works have been performed by soloists and ensembles around the world including Rarescale, Earplay, the Talea Ensemble, the Washington Square Contemporary Music Society, Chamber Mix, North/South Consonance, Musica Nova, the Avenue Winds, the Presidio Ensemble, the Boston String Quartet, the Left Coast Ensemble, the 42nd Parallel Orchestra, the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra, the Kiev Philharmonic, the Oakland Civic Orchestra, and the Phinney Ridge Youth Orchestra.

He is the composer of four frequently performed operas. Aria da Capo, based on the play by Edna St. Vincent Millay, was a finalist in a competition sponsored by the New York City Opera. Quantum Mechanic won the 2007 Opera-in-a-Month competition and the 2010 AmericanaFestival Award and is frequently performed by small opera companies and universities. Trifles, based on the play by Susan Glaspell, was a semi-finalist for the 2015 American Prize in Opera. His neuroscience opera, Rosetta’s Stone, a joint US-Norwegian project, focused on the personal impact of Alzheimer’s disease and was a semi-finalist for the 2018 American Prize in Opera. His operas have been performed by the San Francisco Cabaret Opera, Bluegrass Opera, Boston Metro Opera, Thompson Street Opera, New Fangled Opera, Floating Opera, Opera Espresso and VocalWorks as well as by university music schools including Oklahoma State University, the University of Texas, the University of California, and the University of Florida.

His music is available on Capstone Records, New Music North, Beauport Classical Recordings, ERMMedia, Bouddi Music/Australia and Navona Records, and are distributed by Naxos. He serves on the Board of Directors of Goat Hall Productions; on the Executive Committee of the Society of Composers, Inc.; and is currently president of the San Francisco chapter of the National Association of Composers USA (NACUSA).

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