Pahud to Open Chamber Series

Ensemble Haydn-Berlin will perform works from their recent EMI recording with world-renowned flutist Emmanuel Pahud at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 14 in Memorial Chapel. The concert opens the 29th season of the Union College-Schenectady Museum Concert Series.

The program includes J. Haydn's Symphony No. 22, "Der Philosoph"; Honegger's Concerta da Camera for Flute and English Horn; H. Holliger's Two Pieces for Solo Flute; M. Haydn's Flute Concerto; and Mozart's Symphony No. 28 in C, K. 200.

The Swiss-born Flutist Pahud delighted series regulars in his debut performance at Union last season; his outstanding level of performance has earned him the title "The new flute sensation" by the New York Times. Beginning music lessons at the age of six in Rome, Pahud has quickly gained international attention, winning eight out of the twelve available prizes at the international music competitions of Geneva in 1992. At 22, he was appointed to First Flute of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and is now principal Flute.

His appearances worldwide include performances with the Berlin and Cologne Philharmonics, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre National de Belique, among others. Pahud lives in Berlin with his wife and two sons.

The 2000-01 Union College-Schenectady Museum Concert Series is dedicated in memory of Robert J. Lurtsema, host of "Morning Pro Musica," the voice of classical music in the Northeast for over a quarter of a century. Richard Dyer of the Boston Globe said, "He was a maverick broadcaster who believed in presenting all kinds of music, no matter its length, genre, style and character; he didn't try to make music over in radio's image, but sought to make radio a tool for expressing music's inexhaustible variety."