Suzanne Gilchrest has extensive experience teaching all levels of flute and Chamber music – from beginning adults to high school competition winners to university music majors.  She welcomes players returning to the flute after an extended break,  individuals looking to refine a specific aspect of their playing, and people interested in chamber music.

Ms. Gilchrest is noted for her highly artistic standards1, her beautiful sound,2 and her polished and brilliant playing,3 performs regularly as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Germany, Austria, Italy and Switzerland.  Ms. Gilchrest has appeared in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Florence Gould Hall and Symphony Space in New York City, and has performed and given master classes at universities and concert series from New York to Berlin and from Key West, Florida to Lubec. Maine.  Recent highlights include a performance at the Folger Library in Washington, D.C. with First Lady Mrs. Laura Bush and Mrs. Jolanta Kwasniewska now former First Lady of Poland, among the distinguished guests.  Ms. Gilchrest has appeared as a soloist with Galatea Ensemble and the Musica Bella Orchestra in New York, and the Kammerorchester Kloten in Switzerland.  She won the Artists International Chamber Music Award as a member of the Browning-Gilchrest Duo in 1996.  Her recordings with the Duo, Serenade for flute and guitar and Duo Chant (Prospect Classics label,) have received wide critical acclaim and are often heard on radio stations throughout the United States and Canada.  Live radio performances include several appearances on Around New York on WNYC-FM, Morning Pro Musica on WGBH-FM, and Live at 11 on Maine Public Radio.  In addition to performing with the Browning-Gilchrest Duo, Ms, Gilchrest, also, performs with the flute viola and cello trio, Eight Strings and a Whistle, a recent recipient of the Artists International Special Presentation.  Strongly committed to exposing young people to music, Ms, Gilchrest participates in many Arts-in-Education programs, performing concerts and giving workshops in elementary, middle and high schools throughout the Northeast.  Ms. Gilchrest is currently a member of the flute and chamber music faculty in the Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions at the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University, as well as the chamber music program at the New York Youth Symphony and SummerKeys in Lubec, Maine.  She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and holds a Master’s degree in Chamber Music Performance from New York University.

1. Vorarlberger Nachrichten, Bregenz, Austria 2.  Anzeiger der Stadt Kloten, Switzerland 3. Dolomiten Zeitung, Bolzano, Italy

Instruction Dates:

August 3-7; August 10-14

Andrea Maurer has a Master’s degree in Music Performance from Rice University. Her teachers include Jeffrey Khaner (Philadelphia Orchestra), Albert Tipton, and Ervin Monroe (Detroit Symphony Orchestra). She has played in the Pasadena Woodwind Quintet, Los Angeles Korean Philharmonic and the Birmingham-Bloomfield Symphony. Andrea was sponsored by the United States Information Service to perform as a soloist in Mumbai, India. While there she also studied Indian flute. She has performed in Master Classes of Julius Baker, Robert Dick, Bonita Boyd, Michel Debost, Louis Moyse, and Frances Blaisdell. She performs with the Bux-Mont Chamber Orchestra, Old York Road Symphony, Delaware Valley Wind Symphony and the Delaware Valley Winds Woodwind Quintet. Andrea is active as a chamber musician and frequently appears as a guest soloist, most recently at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. She teaches flute at George School and privately.

Instruction Dates:

August 17-21; August 24-28

Flutist Eve Friedman is actively involved in both contemporary and historical performance. In 2006 she became the first person ever awarded the Doctor of Music degree in Baroque Flute from Indiana University's renowned Early Music Institute, where she also won the 2001 Baroque Orchestra Concerto Competition. Dr. Friedman was invited to perform at the 2004 National Flute Association convention in Nashville, where she was a finalist in the Baroque Artist Competition. In 2008 she served as a judge for the National Flute Association Baroque Masterclass Competition. Recently, she has performed with American Bach Soloists, Tafelmusik, the Washington Bach Consort, and Tempesta di Mare.

An experienced chamber musician as well, she spent the summer of 2003 performing with her husband, pianist-composer Roberto Pace, in Italy at the festival Incontri di Canna, and each summer looks forward to performing and teaching in Maine at the SummerKeys festival. She has also been selected twice for a fellowship at the Hampden-Sydney Chamber Music Festival in Virginia.

Dr. Friedman received her Master of Music degree from Boston University, where she was a student of Doriot Anthony Dwyer, retired principal flutist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. At Ms. Dwyer’s invitation, she spent two summers at the Tanglewood Institute. Dr. Friedman has performed in master classes with James Galway, Julius Baker, and Bartold Kuijken, and studied historical flutes with Sandra Miller and Barbara Kallaur.

Instruction Dates:

July 13-17; July 20-24