Dr. Christopher Vaneman
Assistant Professor of Flute and Musicology
DMA, MMA, MM, Yale
BM Eastman School of Music
chris.vaneman@converse.edu
864-596-9038
Blackman Music Hall

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Christopher Vaneman completed his studies at Yale University, where he studied with Ransom Wilson and from which he received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree. Chris holds MM and MMA degrees from Yale as well as an Honors BM from the Eastman School; he has also attended the Salzburg Mozarteum and Belgium's Conservatoire Royal, where he studied under a grant from the Belgian American Educational Foundation. He studied at Eastman with Bonita Boyd, in Brussels with Jean-Michel Tanguy, and in Salzburg with Andras Adorjan. He has also studied contemporary flute techniques with Robert Dick in New York and Baroque performance practice and ornamentation with Barthold Kuijken in Belgium.

He is flutist of the Converse-based chamber group Ensemble Radieuse (whose first CD, Inbox, features three newly-commissioned works, and who were awarded Third Place in the National Flute Association's 2006 International Chamber Music Competition) and the New York-based Echo, and teaches during the summer at Pennsylvania's Performing Arts Institute. Chris has performed as a soloist with orchestras in Germany and Denmark as well as in the United States and served as principal flutist of the Reigate Festival Orchestra in England, among other ensembles. 2005-2006 performances took him to England, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Texas, as well as North and South Carolina.
Chris is also an engaging writer on musical subjects, and has supplied program notes for a number of compact discs and innumerable concerts; the Tokyo Quartet used his notes for its cycle of Beethoven performances at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center.