DAVID WHITESIDE
FLUTE
The Boston Globe called David Whiteside's playing "fiery and virtuosic" and the Washington Post described it as "dazzling" and "evocative...full, lustrous and imbued with an appropriately inquisitive spirit" (Tim Page). Principal flutist with the National Philharmonic, Mr. Whiteside has appeared in concert throughout the United States and Europe including Carnegie Hall, Symphony Hall, Boston, Weill Recital Hall, the Terrace Theater at the Kennedy Center, Harvard University, at the Edinburgh Festival with James Galway, at festivals in Burgos, Spain, St. Petersburg, Russia, Helsinki, Finland and New York. He has been soloist with the Boston Pops, the Manhattan Philharmonic, and the St. Cecilia Orchestra, broadcast nationally on NPR's Performance Today. An advocate of new music, Mr. Whiteside played for many years with the Aeolian Chamber Players in New York and at the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival, with Dinosaur Annex, a group for contemporary music, in Boston and with the Eastman Musica Nova. He is currently a member of the new music groups edgEnsemble and VERGE. He has worked with a number of important composers in performances of their work including George Crumb, Donald Martino, Joseph Schwantner, Virgil Thomson, and Ralph Shapey, and championed new music for flute including works by Melinda Wagner, Lowell Leiberman, Robert Beaser and George Rochberg and is currently working on two recordings of new music for flute. David Whiteside studied with Jean-Pierre Rampal, James Galway, Julius Baker and Walfrid Kujala and holds the Master's Degree and Performer's Certificate from the Eastman School of Music.
