Description

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Drawing on five years of research and well over 100 interviews with students, colleagues, and family members of flutist Marcel Moyse, author McCutchan distills a truthful, vital portrait of this charismatic, complex, and sometimes puzzling man.

About the Author

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Writer/clarinetist Ann McCutchan is the author of Marcel Moyse: Voice of the Flute (Amadeus Press, 1994'), 'The Muse That Sings: Composers Speak About the Creative Process (Oxford University Press, 1999'), 'and a wide range of published work in newspapers, magazines, literary journals and other media. Formerly a columnist for the Austin American-Statesman and Gannett News Service, McCutchan has written hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles on the fine and literary arts and is the recipient of a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Educational Press Association of America. Her research and creative projects have been supported by grants, fellowships and residencies from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Mid-America Arts Alliance, the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, the National Park Service and Cornell University. McCutchan holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Houston and an MM in Clarinet from the University of Michigan. She has taught writing at Cornell University, the University of Texas and Antioch College, and clarinet and chamber music at Loyola University, the University of North Texas and Stephen F. Austin State University.