MICHIGAN VICTORY MARCH C FLUTE PROFESSIONAL
During his time at the RNCM Kevin won a coveted position on the Halle Orchestra Professional Experience Programme, working with the flute section of the Halle Orchestra. He studied with Peter Lloyd, the former student of Jean Pierre Rampal, and as such was educated in the French school of flute playing. Peck, too, reflected fondly upon his beloved colleagues in the introduction to his autobiography.Kevin Carberry holds a Masters in Music Performance form the Royal Northern College of Music. “To have been a part of it, it’s just unbelievable.” But they can also be painful in the sense that to go back and watch and remember…” Hall pauses, briefly overcome. “Frankly, it’s difficult for me to watch videos (of the orchestra) now. Though not a CSO musician, Valerie Solti, Solti’s wife and devoted mama bear to the orchestra, died in March 2021. Former CSO assistant conductor Michael Morgan died last August, and Bernard Haitink - who, along with Pierre Boulez, led the CSO in four artistically rich seasons between 20 - died in October. Former principal horn Dale Clevenger died in January, with third horn Richard Oldberg following him just a few weeks later. Peck’s death is the latest in a heavy year for the CSO. I can’t tell you any negative things about Don, because I don’t remember any of them,” Phillips says. “It’s a great loss for the musical world. Since the early 1990s, the friends lived just two floors apart in a Gold Coast high-rise until last year, when Peck moved to Admiral at the Lake, a retirement complex in Edgewater. Phillips, however, remained in close contact with Peck until the end. Peck grappled with Alzheimer’s in his final decade, eventually all but forcing him to retreat from social life. He recorded run of live solo and chamber albums on Boston Records, most often with pianist Melody Lord Lundberg. In non-retirement, Peck continued teaching - while in the CSO, he maintained a private studio and served on the faculty at DePaul and, later, Roosevelt University - and playing solo and chamber repertoire.
Before Reiner’s invitation in 1957, he was principal flute of the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra, having also performed with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C., and in the U.S. 26, 1930, in Yakima, Washington, Peck played in the Seattle Youth Symphony and Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra as a young man before attending the Curtis Institute on a scholarship, where he studied with Philadelphia Orchestra principal flutist William Kincaid. He followed Peck into retirement in 2006.īorn Jan. When it comes time to retire, you’ll know.’ And that’s exactly what happened,” Hall says. Hall remembers consulting Peck when he, too, plotted his own exit from the orchestra in the mid-aughts.
He always said he ‘resigned,’” Phillips says. Not that Peck would have put it that way. He picked Carl Nielsen’s Flute Concerto, performing the work with Barenboim in December 1998 before retiring at the end of the season. As is traditional for retiring principal players, Peck got to select his own send-off for his final season. (TERRY HARRIS)īy Villella’s count, Peck was a featured soloist in more than 120 CSO concerts, including the premiere of a flute concerto written for him by Morton Gould in 1985. Flutist Donald Peck of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on the orchestra stage at Symphony Center between rehearsals in 1998, before his retirement.
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