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Hypnosis
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New York flutist Don Bailey has recorded for Summit, Genuin, Parnassus, Mark, International, and Albany Records. In its review of his debut Voyage CD, American Record Guide praised his “impeccably controlled sound… full of artful colors and nuances…exceptional attention to detail…unfailing precision”. Fanfare said his Tribute CD was “…a delight from beginning to end… Bailey boasts a brilliant technique and a bristling sense of excitement.” WXXI Classical Radio, Rochester, NY said his Hypnosis CD is a “…sparkling CD, filled with charming miniatures by Ibert, Godard, Rutter, Larson and more… The end result is an entrancing album that will stay with you long after the last note has died away.”
A native of Clarksdale, Mississippi, Don began his career in Dallas. He is a former university professor, board member of both the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra and the New York Flute Club, past president of the Texas Flute Society and the Louisiana Flute Society, and a former Director of Floot Fire. He has performed at festivals in Aspen, Colorado, Nice, France, and Spoleto, Italy, among others, and at several National Flute Association conventions.
He is Director and Flutist of Voyage Unlimited, Inc., a New York not-for-profit dedicated to the performance, recording, and publication of new and standard chamber music for flute and strings. As solo flutist with Classical Quintessence aboard the Cunard cruise ship Vistafjord, he performed with Polish pianist/composer Adam Manijak, who has become an integral part of the Voyage Unlimited mission. The Voyage Unlimited Series – First Edition by Don and Adam is published by Falls House Press and distributed by Theodore Presser. The Second Edition of works by Albeniz and Bartok will soon be released by Alry Publications.
Don performs with renowned collaborative pianists Donald Sulzen of the Munich Piano Trio and Dianne Frazer of the NFA, and with the Grammy-winning Attacca Quartet. His concert appearances include Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and Bruno Walter Halls at Lincoln Center; CAMI Hall; the New York Society for Ethical Culture; Munich’s Gasteig; and a live broadcast for WNYC radio at Symphony Space. He has performed in the American Landmark Festival series with pianist Leslie Jones, and reaching out to an even wider audience, he performed in a Manhattan “world music” showcase, blending Afro Cuban, Brazilian, Spanish, Italian and Columbian styles with composer and film-scorer Christopher Caliendo. Additional performances include appearances with the Aspen Festival Orchestra, the Dallas Chamber Orchestra, the Dallas Bach Orchestra, the Shreveport Symphony, and Voices of Change.
Don worked closely with composer Gian Carlo Menotti at his home in Scotland, compiling a chronology of the composer’s works. He later accompanied Menotti to the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, where he organized the Concerti di Mezzogiorno and Umbria Segreta chamber music series and performed alongside other artists such as the Attacca Quartet , pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, cellists Gautier Capuçon and Natalie Clein, violinist Jack Liebeck, among others. In February 2007, he collaborated with members of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Dallas Opera Orchestra on a recording of Menotti’s The Old Maid and the Thief, produced by Lone Spring Arts and released by Albany Records.
Don’s articles have appeared in national music journals including Flute Talk, Flute Forum, and The Flute View. He was featured in Windplayer Magazine’s bestselling collection Flute Stories – 101 Inspirational Stories by the World’s Best Flute Players, now considered essential reading for performance across the arts. Don was also interviewed for the Fall 2007 issue of The Flutist Quarterly in Helen Spielman’s article The Musical Road Less Traveled, appeared in a Flute 360 podcast, and was the cover feature of the September 2008 issue of Flute Talk.
Don pursued his master’s and doctoral studies in flute performance at the University of North Texas, and spent summers at the Aspen Music Festival and the Académie d’été in Nice, France. His teachers include the distinguished flutists Julius Baker, Michel Debost, Alain Marion, Judith Mendenhall, George Morey, Marcel Moyse, and Albert Tipton.
He performs on a handcrafted 14-carat gold Brannen-Cooper flute.
