The French flute teacher in the US  Nicolas DUCHAMP
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Nicolas Duchamp is an internationally acclaimed performer and  respected teacher, in the tradition of the Paris Conservatory French school of  flute playing, of which Philippe Gaubert was among the most famous. Born in Bordeaux France,  he received directly the tradition of the French flute playing  from his teachers in his native city.
Mr.  Duchamp has served for many years as principal flutist for the National  Opera Comique in Paris and toured extensively in his native France as well  as Europe, Japan, China, Vietnam and North America.

With his ‘’warm tone, distinctive charm  and creative poetic eloquence”, Mr. Duchamp has performed as soloist with many  of France’s leading chamber music ensembles and orchestras, including Paris  Opera Bastille, Nice Opera, Strasbourg National Opera, Lamoureux Orchestra, Metz  Orchestra and the Bordeaux National Opera, with conductors such as Seiji Ozawa, Georges Prêtre, Myung-Whun Chung, Philip Walsh, Brian Schembri,  Yutaka Sado, Laurent Petit Girard, and Philipp  Morehead.

Nicolas has performed internationally in solo recitals, chamber music  ensembles and as orchestra soloist in prestigious concert halls including Salle Pleyel, Cité des Arts, Salle Gaveau and Salle Cortot in  Paris, Claude Champagne Hall in Montreal, the Zitadelle Spandau in Berlin,  Olympia Hall in Munich, Spivey Hall in Atlanta and Weill Recital Hall  in New York.
Duchamp’s active international career takes him regularly throughout  Europe, North America and to Japan. He has been featured in numerous international festivals,  including the Belle Ile Festival, Radio France Broadcast Festival, Sarlat  Festival, Saint-Yriex , Festival in France, Switzerland’s Crans-Montana Festival,  the American Music Festival,Corsica` s Festival du Vent and the Montreal Chamber  Music Festival.

Mr Duchamp taught with Jean  Ferrandis as his assistant at the Ecole Normale  Superieure in Paris and regularly presents master classes in the US, Canada, Japan, China, Vietnam, France and at the Music Academy International in Italy during the summer. He has  conducted master classes in a number American universities, including: Mannes School of Music in New York,, UNC School of the Art, East Carolina University, NC, Governor`s Schools of the Arts, SC, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Wilmington NC, Richmond University VA,  Georgia States University at Atlanta GA, Baldwin-Wallace School of music at  Cleveland OH, Fine Arts Center at Greenville SC, University of South Carolina at Columbia, and Furman University  SC, Queens college NY, Fullerton University, CA, Hanano Masterclass, Tokyo Japan, Montreal Conservatory, Canada

For more than 20 years, Nicolas  Duchamp has been Professor of flute in France at the Creteil National  School, the Music Center in Neuilly, Gustav Charpentier Music  Conservatory, Nanterre Music School and Maison de culture du Vesinet.
In 2009, The family of  Philippe Gaubert (1874-1941) formally commissioned Mr. Duchamp to  celebrate Gaubert’s contribution to the French Art of Flute playing in a  worldwide tour. Duchamp created the concert and film homage, GAUBERT VIVANT!  which he presented in a US tour including Carnegie Hall in New York, and Spivey Hall in Atlanta where he recorded an historic  performance on the famous Gaubert flute Louis Lot N° 1986 for American public Radio's “Performance Today" for over 5 million listeners.
This personal connection makes Duchamp a unique representative of the French flute school in  the flute word. Several international flute magazines favorably reviewed Mr. Duchamp and his performances: Flute talk (USA), Traversiere  Magazine (France), Flute (UK), NY Flute Club News Letter ,(USA), France- Amerique  (USA), The flute view (USA).


Mr Duchamp performs on the Louis LOT Gaubert flute (1886) , and a 14K gold Muramatsu .


Duchamp documentary on Philippe GAUBERT :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5rQVTJYaVk
 




 




``La partition est une chose, le chant en est une autre. Ce qu'il faut, c'est avoir la musique en tête et la chanter avec le corps.`` 
``To play from a score is one thing,  but to sing it   is  another thing.   First you need  to hear the music in your head and  then be able to  sing it with your body.``L. Pavarotti