For 10 years (in the 1970s and 1980s), Isabelle Chapuis was a concert artist on the rosters of Young Audiences of the Bay Area, Inc. and Young Audiences of San Jose, Inc. During that time, she performed hundreds of concerts in elementary and middle schools throughout Northern California. She gave a program entitled: Isabelle and Her Family of Flutes. In it, she performed on a wide variety of flutes, including the flute in C, the alto flute, the bass flute, the piccolo, the shakahachi, the Chinese pipa, Native American flutes, ceramic flutes, bottles, jugs, ocarinas, African bamboo flutes, pan pipes and tin whistles.

Here is a photograph from one of her performances for kids in which she performed a duet for flute and violin with her daughter Jessica, then age 8.


(Note the stuffed swan at Jessica's feet. She could not bear to be without her swan, even for a few minutes while she played this duet.)

"You know how to whistle, don't you. You just pucker up your lips and blow."

"Did you hear that note? One day, he will grow up to be a world-famous flutist!"