Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival: Portrait of an Artist: Tracy Doyle, Flute

WWCMF welcomes back flutist Tracy Doyle for her third WWCMF appearance. It’s high time we got to know her better. She is both Professor of Flute and Director of the School of Music at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA. If you are doing the math as you go, you have just figured out that Tracy is therefore your author’s boss. It should make for an interesting conversation!

Tracy is an artist of tremendous curiosity and range. Her program summons the immortal strains of Pan (the OG flutist), winds through the Indian Subcontinent, finds time for a quintessentially American meditation on Summer, pauses in the British Isles and eventually finds its way (back) to the flutiest place on earth, France. There is music by Claude Debussy, Reena Esmail, Ian Clarke, William Grant Still, Georges Hüe and Jacques Ibert. And by the way, is it flutist or flautist? You can expect both clarity on the subject and a phenomenal concert.