The FSU College of Music, FSU Flute Studio, and Flute Association at FSU are proud to present FSU Flute Day 2019 on Saturday, November 23, 2019!  Our guests are Karl-Heinz Schütz (principal flutist with the Vienna Philharmonic) and Elizabeth Goode (Professor of Flute at Valdosta State University).  This event, located at the FSU College of Music, is free and open to the public and will feature a number of hands-on opportunities such as a warmup session, intonation class, extended techniques class, and flute choir reading session.  It will have an exhibit hall featuring Emmanuel Flutes, Flutistry Boston, and Beethoven and Company.  The final concert will feature Karl-Heinz Schütz in a solo recital at 5:00pm in Dohnányi Recital Hall.  For more information and a detailed schedule, please visit: https://www.faatfsu.com/fluteday2019

Karl-Heinz Schütz is Solo Flute of Wiener Philharmoniker and Wiener Staatsoper, having held the same position with the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker for four years, and with the Wiener Symphoniker from 2005 to 2011. Born in Innsbruck and raised in Landeck, Tyrol, he received his musical education at the Landeskonservatorium in Vorarlberg with Eva Amsler, Conservatoire national supérieur de musique in Lyon with Philippe Bernold, and with Aurèle Nicolet in Switzerland.

He won first prizes at the Carl Nielsen International Music Competition in 1998 and the Kraków International Flute Competition in 1999. He has performed as soloist across Europe and Japan, with performances of the major flute concertos with Wiener Philharmonikerand Symphoniker as well as NHK Tokyo and Sapporo symphony orchestra, among others. Conductors Daniel Barenboim, Fabio Luisi, Yakov Kreizberg, Dmitrij Kitajenko, and Bertrand de Billy have invited him to be the soloist in their concerts.

A passionate chamber musician, Schütz is a member of various ensembles from baroque to contemporary. In 2013 he succeeded Wolfgang Schulz in the Ensemble Wien-Berlin and Wiener Ring Ensemble. He has appeared at international festivals in Salzburg, Bregenz, Graz, Montpellier, Rheingau, Sapporo, and Prague, among others.

Schütz is Professor of Flute at the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität Wien and has held several guest professorships. He gives master-classes throughout Europe and is also an active recording artist, especially for Camarata Tokyo, where his Mozart, Prokoffiev, and Brahms CDs were released. With the Academy of St Martin in the Fields under Sir Neville Marriner, an album was published at Chandos, with the title: The 20th-century Concerto grosso (2013). He is artistic director at Horizonte Landeck.