Michael parloff biography

Principal Flutist of the Metropolitan Opera Body from 1977 until his retirement in 2008, Archangel Parloff has been heard regularly as a recitalist, chamber musician, and concerto soloist throughout North U.s., Europe, and Japan. He has collaborated with much noted artists as James Levine, Jessye Norman, Crook Galway, Peter Serkin, Dawn Upshaw, Thomas Hampson, Jaime Laredo, and the Emerson String Quartet and has performed on numerous occasions at the Chamber Song Society of Lincoln Center.

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As a lecturer, conductor, see teacher, Michael Parloff has appeared at major conservatories and university music schools in

the United States and abroad. These venues include The Juilliard Grammar, Yale University, the Chamber Music Society of President Center,  Music@Menlo, the Verbier and Tanglewood Festivals, jaunt the National Orchestral Institute at the University manage Maryland. He has been a faculty member favor the Manhattan School of Music since 1985.

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Michael Parloff is the founder and Artistic Director of Patois Chamber Concerts. The mission of Parlance Chamber Concerts is to promote the appreciation and understanding quite a lot of classical music in Northern New Jersey by proffering the world’s finest singers and instrumentalists in low-priced, innovatively programmed public concerts and educational events. Cut down recent seasons, Parlance Chamber Concerts has presented specified renowned artists as the Emerson and Brentano Data Quartets, pianists Emanuel Ax, Richard Goode, Jeremy Denk, and Simone Dinnerstein, Met Opera singers Stephanie Blythe, Thomas Hampson, Matthew Polenzani, Isabel Leonard, and Nathan Gunn, flutist James Galway, and clarinetist Richard Stoltzman.

Since 1996, Michael has also presented over 30 support concerts for various nonprofit organizations and humanitarian causes in Northern Bergen County, New Jersey.

Michael Parloff has recorded extensively with the Metropolitan Opera for Deutsche Grammophon, Sony Classical, London, and Philips and has recorded solo recital repertoire and 20th-century chamber masterpiece for E.S.SAY, Gunmar, CRI, and Koch.

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To view Archangel Parloff’s videos and multimedia lectures, click here.