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Friday March 15, 2024 9am – 11:30am

Westbeth Community Room
155 Bank Street
New York ny
enter through courtyard

A masterclass in orchestral and solo repertoire for the flute, hosted by Louna Dekker Vargas.

Westbeth Residents free

GENERAL PUBLIC:$10

PARTICIPANTS $150
To apply as a performer, contact Lounna Dekker Vargas at lounadekker@gmail.com

VINCENT LUCAS has been the principal flute soloist of the Orchestre de Paris since 1994.
As a featured soloist, he appears regularly with European and French orchestras and has collaborated extensively as a chamber musician and soloist. Lucas has recorded several albums of French flute repertoire, an acclaimed CD of solo flute works and participated in six complete works albums of Dutilleux, Saint-Saens, Debussy, Gaubert, Poulenc and
Jevtic which have won numerous awards.

In addition to his career as an orchestral musician, he is sought after as a master professor of French technique in France and abroad.He is Principal Professor at CRR of Paris and and honorary professor at the College of Music Toho Gakuen” in Tokyo.

Mr Lucas is appearing at Carnegie Hall with the Orchestra de Paris on March 16, 2024. Carnegie Hall Info

For a recent sample of Mr. Lucas’s work in Fall of 2023 in the Orchestre de Paris under the baton of
Klaus Makela, visit:
https://philharmoniedeparis.fr/fr/live/concert/1159521-orchestre-de-paris-klaus-makela
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LOUNA DEKKER VARGAS is a Franco-American flutist, daughter of Claudia Vargas painter and and Reinier Dekker, a Dutch craftsman.

An expressive flutist with a fondness for the stage, she is at home in several musical fields, from experimental jazz in New York (the group Atlantic Extraction, whose two albums produced by Out of Your Head Records were met by acclaim in the press in the U.S. and France), the theatrical world of Broadway (Wicked 2017- 2020), and, above all, chamber music with her various ensembles (Peabody Conservatory YADS Prize winners, guest artists at numerous festivals, including the Sitka Centennial Hall Chamber Music Festival, El Paso Pro Musica festival, Fox Fine Arts Hall, quarter-finalist at the Fischoff International Competition… ) She performs with Trio Azure, duo Lune d’Olive and Trio Soleil regularly in Paris through her chamber music non-profit La Chambre de Musique.
Interested in contemporary creations, she has worked with many living composers, including Georg Friedrich Haas, George E. Lewis, Tyshawn Sorey, Vijay Iyer, Daniel Sabzghabaei, Ledah Finck and Valerie Coleman, among others.

In 2022 and 2023 she was invited as a soloist to the Cité Internationale des Arts, the Grand Amphitéatre de la Sorbonne, the Grand Salon du Collège Néerlandais de la Cité Internationale, and Salle Cortot.
Louna has also recently been invited to collaborate with the New Jersey Festival Orchestra and the International Contemporary Ensemble. A graduate of the Peabody Conservatory and finishing her studies under the tutelage of Vincent Lucas, Louna has also worked with many renowned flutists in masterclasses: Emmanuel Pahud, Marina Piccinini, Sophie Cherrier, Philippe Bernold, Emily Skala…