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The America flautist, Stephen Schultz, studied at University of California in San Diego (1969-1970); Blackheath Conservatory of Music in London (1971-1972); University of California in Los Angeles (1970-1973); Royal Conservatory of Music in Holland (1973-1979: Graduate Diploma in Performance and Teaching - With Specialization in Performance Practice of Early Music); California Institute of the Arts (1979-1980: Bachelor of Fine Arts); California State University in San Francisco (1988-1989: Master of Music).
Stephen Schultz, called “among the most flawless artists on the Baroque flute" by the San Jose Mercury News and “flute extraordinaire” by the New Jersey Star-Ledger, plays solo and Principal flute with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Musica Angelica and performs with other leading Early music groups such as Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Apollo's Fire (Director: Jeannette Sorrell), Portland Baroque Orchestra, American Bach Soloists (Director: Jeffrey Thomas), Wiener Akademie, and Chatham Baroque. He is also Principal Baroque Flute at Carmel Bach Festival (since May 2015). Concert tours have taken him throughout Europe and North and South America with featured appearances at the Musikverein in Vienna, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Royal Albert Hall in London, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Carnegie Hall, and the Library of Congress.
Stephen Schultz has taught at San Francisco Conservatory of Music (1982-1987: Instructor of Baroque Flute and Chamber Music, Director, Collegium Musicum: Ortega Ensemble, Coordinator of Chamber Music); University of Southern California (1987-1988: Lecturer, Baroque Flute); California State University in Sacramento (1989: Lecturer, Music History); University of California in Los Angeles (1990-1991: Lecturer, Baroque Flute and Chamber Music); University of California in Davis (1989-1994: Lecturer, Music History, Baroque Flute and Chamber Music); Holy Names University in Oakland, California (1995-2002: Assistant Professor, Music History); Julliard School of Music ijn New York City, New York (2008: Baroque Flute Faculty). Since September 2002, he is an Associate Teaching Professor in Music History and Flute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and director of the Carnegie Mellon Baroque Orchestra. He has also been a featured faculty member of the Jeanne Baxtresser International Flute Master Class at Carnegie Mellon University and has taught at the International Baroque Institute at Longy School of Music.
In 1986, Stephen Schultz founded the original instrument ensemble American Baroque. This unique group brings together some of America's most accomplished and exciting baroque instrumentalists, with the purpose of defining a new, modern genre for historical instruments. The group's adventurous programs combine 18th-century music with new works, composed for the group through collaborations and commissions from American composers.
As solo, chamber, and orchestral player, Stephen Schultz appears on over fifty recordings for such labels as Dorian, Naxos, Harmonia Mundi USA, Centaur, NCA, and New Albion. He has produced and edited forty CD's for his colleagues and has also performed and recorded with world music groups such as D'CuCKOO and Haunted By Waters, using his electronically processed Baroque flute to develop alternative sounds that are unique to his instrument. He has been very active in commissioning new music written for his instrument and in 1998, Carolyn Yarnell wrote 10/18 for solo, processed Baroque Flute and dedicated it to Stephen Schultz. The Pittsburgh composer Nancy Galbraith wrote Traverso Mistico, which is scored for electric Baroque flute, solo cello, and chamber orchestra. It was given its world premiere at Carnegie Mellon University in April 2006 and this highly successful collaboration was followed in 2008 with Galbraith's Night Train, Other Sun in 2009, and Effervescent Air in 2012. He is married to Tina Blaine, and currently lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. |
