Isabelle
Chapuis Starr, flutist
Biography - Page 2
In 1975 at the age of 25, Ms. Chapuis Starr relocated in California, where she was appointed Lecturer-in-Flute in the Department of Music (now the School of Music & Dance) at San Jose State University (SJSU). Here she continues to teach both undergraduate and graduate flute students. Also, she teaches a master class in flute chamber music, and a class in woodwind quintet. And she directs the SJSU Flute Choir.
In 1998, Prof. Chapuis Starr was honored
with two awards from SJSU—one for “excellence in teaching,” and the other
for “distinguished professional attainment.”
In
addition to teaching flute, Prof. Chapuis Starr pursues an active career as a flute
soloist on both sides of the Atlantic.
In Europe, she has appeared as soloist—performing flute concerti with
the Orchestre de chambre de Radio France
in Paris, the Orchestre de chambre
Jean-François Paillard in Valence, La Philharmonique de Dijon, l'Ensemble
instrumental de Paris, and L’Orchestre symphonique de la Jeunesse
Musicale de Belgique in Brussels.
She has performed chamber music with the Quatuor Ludwig II and with members of L’Orchestre de Paris. She has performed recitals at various major festivals in France—for example, the festivals of Valence and Grenôble. She gave recitals with the late pianist Sheldon Shkolnik on the Dame Myra Hess Concert Series in Chicago and at the Cleveland Museum of Art. She recorded several recitals for Radio-France in Paris, one with the American pianist Hélène Wickett, and another with the late French pianist Catherine Collard. She performed a recital in the historic Salle des Ducs de la Bourgogne in her native Dijon with the American pianist Jane Hesselgesser. And she performed several recitals with the pianist Ellen Silverman for the Concert Series of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.