FLUTE SONATAS FROM THE ITALIAN BAROQUE

Karl Kraber

After earning a B.A. in music from Harvard, flutist Karl Kraber was awarded a Fulbright Grant to Italy for two years of study with Severino Gazzelloni; he also studied extensively with Marcel Moyse and Jean-Pierre Rampal. Remaining in Rome for five years, Kraber appeared as a soloist, recitalist or chamber artist in every major Italian city and throughout western Europe. After returning to the U.S., he was a member of the Dorian Wind Quintet for 19 seasons and has performed on five continents and in 49 U.S. states. He has been a soloist with the Boston Pops, New Hampshire, Waterloo, Flathead and Sunriver Festivals, and the Austin Symphony, where he is Principal Flute. Before joining the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, he taught at Indiana, Yale, Oberlin, SUNY Stony Brook, and Mannes and Brooklyn Colleges in New York.

Karl Kraber is a co-founder of the Chamber Soloists of Austin, who have performed at the Kennedy Center and toured South America for the U.S. State Department. He has recorded a previous solo album, American Music for Flute, for Orion, and chamber works for Centaur, CRI, Desto, Koch, MHS, Vox Box, Vox Candide and Turnabout. He was awarded a Solo Recitalist Grant by the National Endowment for the Arts, which funded part of this recording.