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The American flutist and arranger, Robert Wooster Stallman, Jr., received his BMus degree in 1968 and his MMus dgree in 1971 from the New England Conservatory of Music. He won a Fulbright grant to study at the Paris Conservatoire in France (1968-1969).
Robert Stallman made his debut at Merkin Concert Hall in New York City in 1980. With his arrival on the New York scene, Show Business called him "a flawless joy to the ear and the spirit". Since then his solo recordings and his live performances in the Americas, Europe, China and Japan have established Stallman internationally as a most remarkable artist of many facets. His achievements include recitals and chamber music concerts in major venues around the world, such as Washington's Library of.Congress, New York’s Lincoln Center (Alice Tully Hall, Avery Fisher Hall) and Carnegie Recital Hall (Weill Hall), Boston's Symphony Hall, London’s Wigmore Hall and St John's, Smith Square, Paris' Salle Pleyel, Vienna’s Konzerthaus and Tokyo’s Suntory Hall. He has been invited to many international festivals such as Mostly Mozart (New York), Musique à Cimiez (France), Dubrovnik (Croatia) Cesky Krumlov (Czech Republic), Kuhmo (Finland), and other festivals in Canada, Yugoslavia, Holland, France, USA, and Japan. Solo performances include the American Symphony Orchestra, Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, Strings of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and other orchestras, Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, Philadelphia Chamber Soloists, Speculum Musicae and Aeolian Chamber Ensemble, as well as collaborations with such artists as Jean-Pierre Rampal, Richard Goode, John Williams, and Plácido Domingo. He has also been a guest of the Muir, Mendelssohn, and Orion quartets.
Robert Stallman taught at the New England Conservatory of Music (1978-1982), Queens College, City University of New York (from 1980), Academie Internationale d'Eté, Nice, France (1985), and Boston Conservatory (1986-1990), as well as Académie Internationale, Domaine Forget, and Montreal Conservatoire. He has given master-classes in the USA, Canada, Mexico, England, France. He is founder and artistic director of the Cambridge Chamber Players & the Marblehead Music Festival (from 1976), aired for years on PBS, founder, director and artistic director of the Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Music (from 1990), and member of Trio Bell'Arte.
Robert Stallman has recorded over dozen universally acclaimed solo discs on VAI Audio, ASV, Arco Diva, Biddulph, MHS, CBS Masterworks, Koch International, Northeastern, Bogner’s Café (2007) and other labels. He has participated in radio programs in Boston, New York, Nationwide USA, and Canada. He is widely considered to be the preeminent editor and arranger of flute music active today. His publications include over 70 editions, arrangements and transcriptions, published with International Music Co., Schott, and G. Schirmer (including J.S. Bach. Mozart, Fauré. Dvořák, Schubert, Berlioz).
His honors include the Chadwick Medal from New England Conservatory, a Fulbright grant to study at the Paris Conservatoire, a Koussevitsky Fellowship and the Jackson Prize at Tanglewood, a soloist grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and listings in the International Who’s Who in Music, Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Education. and others. Robert Stallman married Hannah Woods on September 26, 1981. |
