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Robert Hugh Willoughby

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Name
  
Robert Willoughby


Robert Hugh Willoughby

Born
  
June 6, 1921 (age 102) Grundy Center, Iowa, United States (
1921-06-06
)

Occupation(s)
  
flute player and teacher

Instruments
  
modern flute, Baroque flute

Robert Hugh Willoughby (born June 6, 1921) is an American classical flute player and flute teacher. He plays both Baroque and modern flute. He has been described by Flute magazine as the "American grandmaster of the flute".

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Willoughby taught for many years at Oberlin College, where he was the first Robert Wheeler Professor of Performance. He taught for ten years at the Peabody Institute, and now teaches at the Longy School of Music of Bard College. In 1996 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Flute Association.

Students

Among his many students is the jazz flute player Paul Horn.

Selected discography

  • The Oberlin Woodwind Quintet, Robert Willoughby, flute James Caldwell, oboe Lawrence McDonald, clarinet Robert Fries, french horn Kenneth Moore, bassoon Saturday, January 14, 1984 8:00 p.m. in Hamman Hall, Rice University Digital Scholarship Archive http://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/76867
  • Personal life

    He married author Elaine Macmann Willoughby in 1957.

    Publications

  • "The Flute Practice Techniques", Conn-Selmer Keynotes, 1974.
  • References

    Robert Hugh Willoughby Wikipedia