Demarre McGill
Sergio A. Mims forwards this press release:
Dallas, Texas
(June 7, 2013) –- Music Director Jaap van Zweden and the Dallas Symphony
Orchestra (DSO) announce the appointment of Demarre McGill as new Principal
Flute in the Joy and Ronald Mankoff Chair. McGill joins the DSO having served
as Principal Flute of the Seattle Symphony for two seasons. He has held the
same position with the San Diego Symphony, Florida Orchestra and Santa Fe Opera
Orchestra. In 2003 McGill was recipient of a prestigious Avery Fisher Career
Grant.
With his
appointment to the Dallas Symphony, McGill succeeds Jean Larson Garver, who has
served as the DSO’s Principal Flute for 42 years and who will retire in July,
2013.
Originally
from Chicago, McGill began playing the flute at age seven. McGill’s family is
steeped in the performing arts: His mother is a theater actress in the Chicago
area, and his brother Anthony McGill serves as Principal Clarinet in the
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. In May, 2012 McGill and his brother performed the
world premiere of Joel Puckett’s Concerto Duo for Flute and Clarinet with the
Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra, the orchestra where they began their careers.
As a concerto
soloist, Demarre McGill has also performed with the with the Philadelphia
Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Seattle Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Baltimore
Symphony and Milwaukee Symphony, among others. An active chamber musician,
McGill is a member of the Jacksonville, Florida-based Ritz Chamber Players and
was a member of Chamber Music Society Two, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln
Center’s program for emerging young artists. He is a founding member of San
Diego-based The Myriad Trio and has participated in many national and
international chamber music festivals, including Music from Angel Fire, Santa
Fe Chamber Music Festival, Music@Menlo, Marlboro Music and the Stellenbosch
Chamber Music Festival in South Africa.
McGill has
performed on PBS “Live From Lincoln Center” with the Chamber Music Society
playing Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 2. He has recorded Bach’s Brandenburg
Concerto No. 5 on the album Play Bach with pianist Awadagin Pratt and the St.
Lawrence String Quartet (Angel Records), as well as a flute, viola & harp
album entitled The Eye of Night with The Myriad Trio. Other television
appearances include the A&E Network’s “The Gifted Ones,” NBC’s “Today” show
and “Nightly News,” and as a teenager, “Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood.”
McGill is the
co-founder and Artistic Director of Art of Élan, a chamber music organization
in San Diego dedicated to bringing new audiences to classical music.
McGill holds
a Bachelor's degree in Flute Performance from the Curtis Institute of Music,
where he studied with Julius Baker and Jeffrey Khaner, and earned a Master of
Music from The Juilliard School, where he continued his studies with Julius Baker.
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