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SATO MOUGHALIAN: Flutist Bio

Sato Moughalian, flutist, appears as a recitalist, soloist, and orchestral musician in New York City, and has performed hundreds of chamber music concerts under the auspices of Columbia Artists Management in six seasons of touring North America. Her festival performances as a chamber musician and soloist have included the Diaghilev Festival (Perm, Russia), Moussem Culturel d'Asilah (Morocco), Festival de Prades (France) - Pablo Casals, Skaneateles Festival, Brooklyn Academy's Next Wave Festival, Lincoln Center Festival, Cape May Music Festival, Adirondack Festival of American Music, Bar Harbor Festival, Music from Salem, Simar Festival, and Mohawk Trails Concerts, ABRAF Festival Internacional in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and the Costa Rica International Chamber Festival.

Ms. Moughalian performed Bach Sonatas with pianist Diane Walsh for Lincoln Center's Great Performers Bach Festival, as soloist with the National Symphony of Ecuador, the Naumberg Orchestra, Bachannalia, Long Island Philharmonic, Hudson Chamber Symphony, and the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, with which she recorded the Brazilian composer Osvaldo Lacerda's Piccolo Concerto and the Alec Wilder Suite for flute and strings for the Helicon label. In 2005 she served as guest Principal flute in the Orquestra Sinfonico do Estado São Paulo, Brazil, and had also participated in a five week, 28-concert tour of Brazil performing and recording 20th and 21st century chamber works of Brazilian composers for SESC.

Recently, she appeared in recital with soprano Barbara Hendricks at the 92nd St. Y in a program of Bach cantatas for soprano and flute solo. She recorded a solo CD, The Operatic Flute with pianist Mikael Eliasen for the MHS label. She has appeared as guest flutist with numerous groups including Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Richardson Chamber Players, New York Chamber Ensemble, L'Ensemble, Dorian Quintet, Essential Music, Amadeus Virtuosi. In 1999 she became a member of the Quintet of the Americas, a woodwind quintet founded in 1976 in Bogota, Colombia, which specializes in the performance of works by living composers of North and South America, and has recorded two discs with the group.

An active freelance player in the New York area, she serves as solo flute of Gotham Chamber Opera, L'Opera Francais de New York, New Philharmonic Orchestra of New Jersey, St. Patrick's Cathedral, appearing annually on their televised Christmas Eve celebration and on international television during the New York City visit of Pope John Paul II. She has been guest principal flute with groups including American Ballet Theatre, Long Island Philharmonic, Westfield Symphony, Stamford Symphony, Queens Symphony, Philharmonia Virtuosi, and numerous others. She performs for the concert programs of St. Ignatius, First Presbyterian, Trinity (Wall St.), and Redeemer Presbyterian churches. Ms. Moughalian was recently appointed principal flute of the Colonial Symphony.

Ms. Moughalian was the resident flute professor for three seasons for the Governor's School for the Arts in Virginia, and has presented classes based on her study of the bel canto vocal approach with Mikael Eliasen. She has presented flute classes during residencies in Cali, Colombia, at the National Conservatory in Tblisi, Georgia, at the Special Secondary Music School in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Beijing, China, and at numerous universities in the United States. The Quintet of the Americas is in residence at New York University, and presents a Woodwind Institute there annually in June. In addition, her major teachers were Keith Underwood and Philip Dunigan at the North Carolina School of the Arts.

 

Selected Review Excerpts:

"Played with passionate commitment"

-The Post Star, Glens Falls, N. Y.

"Sato Moughalian's technical virtuosity made it all the more intriguing"

-The Ellsworth American

"The instrumental solos sounded impressive, especially the flute playing of Sato Moughalian"

-Aufbau

"Sato Moughalian, the flutist, showed herself to be a musician who uses her intellect to emotional ends"

-The Star Ledger

"The solo star of the performance was flutist Sato Moughalian"

-Classical N. J.

"particularly fine playing”

-The New York Times

"The flute playing of Sato Moughalian in the Debussy Prelude was romantically beautiful. This music is almost a rhapsody for flute and the kind of flawless musicality that Moughalian brought to the piece was much appreciated."

-Classical N.J.

"Flutist Sato Moughalian provided a stunning performance of the most challenging central Scherzo"

- Syracuse Post Standard