Our theme for this Festival centers on "Our Heritage and Our Promise." Events focusing on "Our Heritage" kick-off with a Lifetime Achievement Award Banquet on Friday, November 9, honoring the achievements and contributions of Walfrid Kujala and Donald Peck.

Tickets for the Banquet are $65 and must be purchased in advance by completing the Pre-Registration Form.

Scholars and former students of prominent teachers look forward to sharing the essence and teaching philosophy of these performers and teachers who have gone before us, influencing nearly all of us.

• Marcel Moyse (Nancy Andrew)
• Geoffrey Gilbert (Angeleita Floyd)
• George Barerre (Nancy Toff)
• William Kincaid (Donald Peck and Patricia George)
• Joseph Mariano (Walfrid Kujala, Gerald Carey
  and Patricia George)

Hone "Your Promise" through concerts, exhibitions, competitions, workshops, seminars and masterclasses. Our featured artist, world renowned flutist Emmanuel Pahud, will appear in recital and present a two hour masterclass. To apply to perform in this class, download the masterclass application. Application deadline is October 11, 2007.

Other artists scheduled to appear include Walfrid Kujala teaching from his excerpt book, Mary Stolper giving a seminar on practicing, Angeleita Floyd and Patricia George offering workshops on pedagogy, and a second Patricia George workshop for flutists of all ages entitled, "If you only have an hour."

Panel discussion topics:

• Auditioning – led by orchestra members who sit on audition committees
• College Auditions – led by college music instructors
• Gigging – led by some of Chicago's top gigging musicians
• Pedagogy, Studio Playing and more

Other exciting workshops include:

• Developing your Teaching Studio
• Pedagogy
• Aromatherapy for the Performing Musician
• Baroque Ornamentation for Dummies
• Stage Presence Coaching and Programming
• And much, much more!

The Flute Festival offers the finals of the Solo Artist Competition and Annual Student Competition. For more information and applications for these competitions, please visit the Competitions page.

The CFC is inviting area flute choirs to perform at the festival. If you are interested in this great opportunity, please contact Erin Murphy.

All attendees are invited to bring your flutes and participate in flute choir reading sessions.

Named "Instrumentalist of the Year 1997" at the prestigious Victoires de la Musique award ceremony in Paris, the Swiss-French flutist Emmanuel Pahud is one of today's most exciting and adventurous musicians. He was born in Geneva in January 1970 and started to study music at the age of six. He graduated in 1990 with the Premier Prix from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, after which he continued his studies with Aurele Nicolet. He has won first prize in many major international music competitions such as Kobe in 1989 and Duino in 1988. He also won eight out of the twelve special prizes at the Concours de Genève in 1992. At the age of 22, Emmanuel was appointed Principal Flute of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Claudio Abbado, a post to which he returned in 2002 after an 18-month sabbatical when he taught the Virtuosity Class at the Geneva Conservatoire.

Emmanuel Pahud appears regularly at leading festivals throughout Europe, the USA and the Far East. He has appeared as a soloist with many of the world's leading orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonic, Washington National Symphony, NHK Symphony, and Scottish Chamber orchestras. He has collaborated with conductors such as Abbado, Rattle, Zinman, Maazel, Gergiev, Gardiner, Harding, Järvi, Rostropovich and Perlman.

In 1996 he signed an exclusive contract with EMI Classics, a collaboration with is set to be one of the most significant contributions to recorded flute music. The releases have received unanimous critical acclaim and have been showered with awards. His most recent releases include the Franck, Widor and R. Strauss sonatas with Eric Le Sage, the Vivaldi concertos with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and the Brahms and Reinecke sonatas with Yefim Bronfman.

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