Emily Hoppe and Cris Inguanti – Duos

Canadian, French, and American works for flute and clarinet from 1961-2007

PERFORMERS
Emily Hoppe – flute
Cris Inguanti – clarinet

TRACKS
1. Shabu Shabu – Matthew Van Brink
2.-4. Sonatine – André Jolivet
5.-10. Six Forays for Flute and Clarinet – Judith Cloud
11.-13. Duo For Flute and Clarinet – Morris Kates
14.-16. Trois Mouvements Pour Flûte et Clarinette en Si b – Eugène Bozza
17.-19. Three Short Duets – Graham Coles
20. Esprit Rude/Esprit Doux – Elliott Carter
21.-24. Games – Philip Parker

CREDITS
Recording engineer and editing – Victor Mangas
Recorded June 17 – 19, 2024 Kitt Recital Hall, Northern Arizona University

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Performer Bios
CRIS INGUANTI joined the woodwind faculty at Northern Arizona University in the fall of 2014 after serving as the assistant principal and bass clarinetist of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra for seventeen seasons. He has also been a member of the Pacific Northwest Ballet and Houston Ballet Orchestras, the New York City Opera National Company Orchestra, and the New Philharmonia of Portugal. He has appeared as a soloist with orchestras and in recital in Europe and North America, and has also performed with a wide variety of chamber ensembles. As a member of the Manhattan Wind Quintet, Mr. Inguanti has appeared in numerous chamber music series, and has commissioned and recorded a number of new works for the genre, resulting in the release on Albany Records of “When Angels Speak”. Other recording ventures include the Mozart “Sinfonia Concertante for Winds” with the New Philharmonia of Portugal, and two solo CD’s (one of which, “Vox Terra”, was nominated for best CD in the Western Canada Music Awards). He is also heard on many CBC recordings with members of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Since arriving in Arizona, Mr. Inguanti has been a frequent guest artist with the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra, the Arizona Ballet Orchestra, and the AZ Music Fest orchestra. At NAU, he performs regularly as a member of the Kokopelli and Flageolet ensembles, and is a frequent soloist on a myriad of faculty recitals. Prior to NAU, Mr. Inguanti taught at the University of British Columbia and the Vancouver Academy of Music.

DR. EMILY HOPPE (Associate Professor of Flute, Northern Arizona University) has performed and presented master classes across the United States as well as at secondary schools throughout Arizona, Nevada, and California. She performed as principal flutist of the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra for six seasons, performed and taught at the Shenyang Conservatory in Shenyang, and performed at annual conventions of the National Flute Association, International Double Reed Society, International Clarinet Association, National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors, International Alliance of
Women in Music, Society for Composers, and the Midwest Composer’s Symposium.

Previous to her appointment at NAU, Dr. Hoppe served as Associate Instructor of Flute and Chancellor’s Doctoral Fellow at Indiana University where she performed with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Columbus Indiana Symphony Orchestra, and the Indiana University Festival Orchestra. In addition, she served as Applied Faculty of Flute at Elizabethtown College and York College of Pennsylvania, and as Interim Faculty of Flute at West Chester University. She performed with the Harrisburg Opera Association, Lancaster Opera Company, Gettysburg Chamber Orchestra, Altoona Symphony, Penn’s Woods Festival Orchestra, and the American Wind Symphony Orchestra.

Dr. Hoppe is published in American Music Teacher, The Flutist Quarterly, and Flute Talk magazines, as well as serving as the Technical Review Editor for Flute for Dummies. Dr. Hoppe is a graduate of Penn State University (Eleanor Duncan Armstrong), Carnegie Mellon University (Jeanne Baxtresser), and Indiana University (Thomas Robertello).