Stephen Schlutz, Flute

Stephen Schlutz has been called "among the most flawless artists on the baroque flute" by the San Jose Mercury News, and “flute extraordinaire” by the New Jersey Star-Ledger, he is solo and Principal Flutist with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Musica Angelica and performs with other leading early music groups such as Tafelmusik and Chatham Baroque. Concert tours have taken him throughout Europe and North America with featured appearances at the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall in London, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Göttingen International Handel Festival, and the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. Schultz was a featured soloist in the Mark Morris Dance Group’s critically acclaimed production of Handel’s L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato. Currently an Associate Teaching Professor in Music History at Carnegie Mellon University, Schultz is also a featured faculty member of the Jeanne Baxtresser International Flute Master Class at Carnegie Mellon University and at the International Baroque Institute at Longy School of Music. In 1986, Schultz founded the original instrument ensemble, American Baroque. This unique group brings together some of America's most accomplished and exciting baroque instrumentalists, with the purpose of defining a new, modern genre for historical instruments. As solo, chamber, and orchestral player, Schultz appears on forty-six recordings for such labels as Dorian, Naxos, Harmonia Mundi USA, New Albion, Amon Ra, and Koch International Classics and has also performed and recorded with world music groups such as D'CuCKOO and Haunted By Waters, using his electronically processed Baroque flute to develop alternative sounds that are unique to his instrument. In 2006, composer Nancy Galbraith wrote Traverso Mistico for him, scored for electric Baroque flute, solo cello, and chamber orchestra and given its world premiere that year at Carnegie Mellon in Pittburgh.

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