Yamaha Flutist Jeffrey Khaner Accepts Position at Juilliard
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (February 25, 2005) Jeffrey Khaner, a Yamaha Artist for the past two decades and the principal flute of the Philadelphia Orchestra since 1990, has been named to the faculty of the Juilliard School of Music in New York as flute professor.
Khaner, a 1980 graduate of the school, studied under the late master Julius Baker, who passed away in August, 2003. The teaching position Khaner has occupied since the start of the autumn 2004 semester had been vacant since his mentor's death. His appointment will not curtail his ongoing schedule with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He also teaches flute at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and will continue to do so.
"It's an extremely important thing for me for many reasons, one of which is the fact that it's my own alma mater, and it's the position that was occupied by Julius Baker, which makes it so meaningful," Khaner says.
Khaner has been principal flute of the Philadelphia Orchestra since 1990, a post he previously held with the Cleveland Orchestra. As a soloist, he has performed concerti ranging from Bach and Mozart to Nielsen, Ibert, and Corigliano, as well as premieres of works by Hans Werner Henze and Ned Rorem.
He has three solo CDs on the Avie label: American Flute Music, British Flute Music and French Flute Music.
Khaner has collaborated with conductors including Riccardo Chailly, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, Claus-Peter Flor, Erich Leinsdorf, Kurt Masur, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Franz Welser-Möst and David Zinman. In addition to his work teaching at the Curtis Institute of Music, he has been a teacher and clinician at the Solti Orchestral Project at Carnegie Hall, the New World Symphony, the Hamamatsu Festival, the Grand Teton Festival, the Sarasota Music Festival and the Pacific Music Festival.
In the course of his performing and teaching duties, Khaner plays a personally customized Yamaha YFL-874 flute. "Yamaha has provided tremendous support to me," he says, "not just with instruments, but perhaps even more importantly by enabling me to go out and work with students in situations that I normally would not be able to. They've made it possible for me to do master classes around the world."
For more information, write Yamaha Corporation of America, Band & Orchestral Division, 39 West Jackson Place, Suite 150, Indianapolis, IN 46225; call (317) 524-6270; e-mail jwittmann@yamaha.com; or visit www.yamaha.com/band.
 Yamaha Artist Jeffrey Khaner |
"It's an extremely important thing for me for many reasons, one of which is the fact that it's my own alma mater, and it's the position that was occupied by Julius Baker, which makes it so meaningful," Khaner says.
Khaner has been principal flute of the Philadelphia Orchestra since 1990, a post he previously held with the Cleveland Orchestra. As a soloist, he has performed concerti ranging from Bach and Mozart to Nielsen, Ibert, and Corigliano, as well as premieres of works by Hans Werner Henze and Ned Rorem.
He has three solo CDs on the Avie label: American Flute Music, British Flute Music and French Flute Music.
Khaner has collaborated with conductors including Riccardo Chailly, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, Claus-Peter Flor, Erich Leinsdorf, Kurt Masur, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Franz Welser-Möst and David Zinman. In addition to his work teaching at the Curtis Institute of Music, he has been a teacher and clinician at the Solti Orchestral Project at Carnegie Hall, the New World Symphony, the Hamamatsu Festival, the Grand Teton Festival, the Sarasota Music Festival and the Pacific Music Festival.
In the course of his performing and teaching duties, Khaner plays a personally customized Yamaha YFL-874 flute. "Yamaha has provided tremendous support to me," he says, "not just with instruments, but perhaps even more importantly by enabling me to go out and work with students in situations that I normally would not be able to. They've made it possible for me to do master classes around the world."
For more information, write Yamaha Corporation of America, Band & Orchestral Division, 39 West Jackson Place, Suite 150, Indianapolis, IN 46225; call (317) 524-6270; e-mail jwittmann@yamaha.com; or visit www.yamaha.com/band.
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