These pages are dedicated to Claude Monteux, who was my teacher, mentor and friend.  A good teacher teaches you not only his main subject, but also about being a good person and giving something back to the world. He also doesn't just teach you "technique"... but the importance of playing with feeling, or, in his own words as he conducted:  "Play with Love!"   I visited Claude a few years ago in San Diego, and he is still as handsome, charming and talented as ever! I know he'd love to hear about where you are and what you are doing, so if you are a former student or peer, please leave him a message in his guestbook so he can read all about your progress in the music world or just life in general, and to say hello!

BIO_____________________

As a flutist, Claude Monteux, one of the last great flutists of the Golden Era,  has played under the batons of Toscanini, Walter, Beecham, Stokowski, Casals, Stravinsky, and his father Pierre Monteux.  Mr. Monteux studied flute with Georges Laurent, then principal flutist of the Boston Symphony and conducting with his father, both privately and at the Monteux School for conductors. He has appeared in concert and in recording with orchestras throughout the world, including the London Symphony, the Royal Philharmonic, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the NBC Symphony, and the Metropolitan Opera orchestra.

Claude Monteux has has recorded extensively on London, Phillips and other labels, including concerti by Mozart and Bach with the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields.

Flutist and teacher Mr. Monteux has served on the faculties of the New England Conservatory of Music, the Peabody Conservatory, Vassar College and Ohio State University.

CONDUCTOR
On the podium he served as Music Director of the Columbus Symphony (1953-56) and the Hudson Valley Philharmonic (1959-75).  He has guest-conducted orchestras in Berlin, Paris, Brussels, Norway and Holland

Now affiliated with the SDSU School of Music and Dance, he spends his summers in Maine, where he is Musical Advisor of the Pierre Monteux School, coaches chamber ensembles, and works privately with conductors in their score study.

Music Playing is from "The Best of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart"
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields/Neville Mariner
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