Biography - Page 3
In the U. S., Ms. Chapuis Starr has appeared as soloist with many orchestras—performing flute concerti with the Greensboro Symphony (NC), the Stockton Symphony (CA), the LaCrosse Symphony (WI), the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, the California Bach Society, the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra (CA), the Montalvo Arts Center Chamber Orchestra in Saratoga (CA,) the Berkeley Symphony (CA), the Oakland/East Bay Symphony (CA), the San José Chamber Orchestra (CA) and the Livermore Symphony Orchestra (CA).
Among the conductors with whom she has performed (both as soloist and as Principal Flute) are Manuel Rosenthal, Paul Capolongo, Jean Martinon, Jean-François Paillard, Alexandre Myrat, Alain Durel, Claire Gibault, Peter Paul Fuchs, William McGlaughlin, Edgar Braun, Mark Starr, George Barati, Kyung-Soo Won, Charles Ansbacher, Barbara Day Turner, David Rorhbaugh, Arthur Barnes, Robert Sayres, George Cleve, Joyce Hamilton Johnson and Jun Nakabayashi.
In
l987, she was invited by the National Flute Association to perform a program of
French music before an audience of more than 1000 flutists at the association's
three-day national convention in St. Louis.
On that occasion, the critic of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch described Ms. Chapuis Starr's performance as “one of
the highlights of the convention."
Ms.
Chapuis Starr has given flute master classes at the University of British Columbia
in Vancouver, at Douglas College in Wellington (Canada,) at the Academie d'été in Valence (France), and
at the Northern California Flute Camp in Carmel.
For the past 20 years, Ms. Chapuis Starr has organized a flute festival at SJSU entitled Tutti Flutti--in which the SJSU Flute Choir is joined by guest flute soloists, professional flute ensembles, former SJSU flute students, guest conductors, and Bay Area high school flute choirs.