Biography

David Shostac's solo performances throughout the continent have included the Hollywood Bowl, Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival, the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, Aspen Music Festival, Stratford (Ontario) Festival, the Carmel Bach Festival, and many others.

In his many years as principal flutist with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Aspen Music Festival, St. Louis, Milwaukee, and New Orleans Symphony Orchestras, he has been a frequent soloist with the world's great musicians.

A former member of Leopold Stokowski's American Symphony Orchestra, Shostac has also performed with the Boston Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. In recital, he has collaborated with Jean Pierre Rampal, Roberta Peters, Victoria de los Angeles, Julius Baker,and many others.

Recipient of a masters degree from Juilliard, where he studied on scholarship, prize winner in major competitions, performer on hundreds of motion picture and television scores, and soloist on recordings for Angel, Columbia, Nonesuch, Sony Classics, Crystal, Excelsior, and Resort Classic, Shostac is presently on the faculties of California State University at Northridge and the Henry Mancini Institute.

His newest recording, Johann Sebastion Bach: the Six Flute Sonatas, with harpsichordist Igor Kipnis, has just been released by Resort Classic