Artist Bio
Principal Flutist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra from 1977 until his retirement in 2008, Michael Parloff has been heard regularly as a recitalist, chamber musician, and concerto soloist throughout North America, Europe, and Japan. He has collaborated with such noted artists as James Levine, Jessye Norman, James Galway, Peter Serkin, Dawn Upshaw, Thomas Hampson, Jaime Laredo, and the Emerson String Quartet and has performed on numerous occasions at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Parloff has been a faculty member at the Manhattan School of Music since 1985. He is the founder and Artistic Director of Parlance Chamber Concerts in Northern New Jersey presenting the world’s finest singers and instrumentalists in affordable, innovatively programmed public concerts and educational events. Since 1996, Parloff has also presented over thirty benefit concerts for various nonprofit organizations and humanitarian causes in Northern Bergen County, New Jersey.
