Michael parloff biography

Principal Flutist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra from 1977 until his retirement in 2008, Michael Parloff has been heard regularly as a recitalist, chamber musician, and concerto soloist throughout North America, Europe, and Japan.

Michael parloff biography

He has collaborated with such noted artists as James Levine, Jessye Norman, James Galway, Peter Serkin, Dawn Upshaw, Thomas Hampson, Jaime Laredo, and the Emerson String Quartet and has performed on numerous occasions at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

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

the United States and abroad.

These venues include The Juilliard School, Yale University, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center,  Music@Menlo, the Verbier and Tanglewood Festivals, and the National Orchestral Institute at the University of Maryland.

He has been a faculty member at the Manhattan School of Music since