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Fania Chapiro (1926–1993) was born on the island of Java in the former Dutch East Indies to a Russian father and Dutch mother, and grew up in a deeply musical household. A remarkable piano prodigy, she was performing publicly by the age of six. In 1934 her family moved to Paris so she could study with the legendary pianist Lazare Lévy. Her promising early career was profoundly disrupted by World War II. Robert Cart, flute https://www.robertcartflute.com/ ©Black Taffy Records 2026
Walter Benedict was an Austrian-Jewish composer, pianist, and flutist born in Vienna. Although a merchant by trade, he was a trained and active musician who studied flute with Wilhelm Sonnenberg of the Vienna Philharmonic and piano with Roderich Bass. In 2025, Benedict’s original manuscripts—seized during the Nazi era—were returned to his family in a formal restitution ceremony at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York. In August 2025, Robert Cart (flute) and Steven Ryan (piano) premiered Benedict's flute sonatas at the Austrian Cultural Forum to commemorate the return of these manuscripts.
David Pasbrig. Robert Cart, flute
David Pasbrig, piano/recording engineer
Gary Schocker’s November is a newly composed work for flute and piano, premiered by me on January 31, 2026, at the Florida Flute Convention. The piece moves between melancholy and quiet hope, unfolding in lush harmonic colors and a soaring, lyrical flute line that feels both reflective and forward-looking.
Claire Vazart’s Songes for flute, bass, and piano drifts through a world of jazzy shadows—smokey, dark, and quietly sensual.It unfolds like a late-night confession, its quiet bass line and languid piano licks give the flute space to sing, bend, and sigh. Songes is a reminder that truth often lives in the half-lit places: in desire, in memory, and in the hushed moments where we find the courage to speak, even softly.
Poem for flute and piano
(Charles Griffes)
Sonatine
(Henri Dutilleux)
Claude Bolling’s “Affectueuse” floats in a smoky, tender world—sweet, lyrical, and quietly seductive. Performed here as part of The Sound of Hope, my cabaret-style program celebrating resilience, love, and the intimate places where music and identity meet.
Live from the Kennedy Center
First Prayer
(Ned Rorem)
Prelude I
(Riobert Muczynski)
Regrets and Resolutions
(Gary Schocker)
Soliloquy
(Lowell Liebermann)
Flute Quartet in D major, K.285
(Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus)
Trio for flute, violin, and piano
(Nino Rota)
Quintet for flute and strings
(Sergi Casanellas)
Ti (China)
from Six Preludes
(Davied Loeb)
Ephemeropterae I
(Martin Amlin)