Manhattan School of Music

222 Baird Hall
University at Buffalo
Buffalo NY, 14260

tel:  (716) 645-2765 x1257
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email: gabcheer@buffalo.edu

 The flute is not an instrument with a good moral effect. It is too exciting!
 - ARISTOTLE

A study of the flute shows that the wind necessary to play the instrument must have a velocity of more than 75 miles an hour.

"Cheryl Gobbetti Hoffman is a wonderful flutist, one with plenty of technique and grace enough to spare.,," writes the Buffalo News. "Cheryl Gobbetti Hoffman is a member of the University at Buffalo’s music department faculty and a former member of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. While these are distinguished credits on any resume, they don’t begin to suggest Gobbetti Hoffman’s originality, both as a music administrator and a programmer. As a champion of her chosen instrument she has organized a flute advocacy group with the whimsical name of Who-o-o-osh, and in her faculty position she’s founded a large ensemble that performs under the name Plosion…"

Cheryl Gobbetti Hoffman & Friends performances are noted for “...aplomb, sensitivity, exuberant performance, and wild and wooly playing...”.   Committed to presenting ‘new & used’ chamber music in high-profile, yet intimate, concert settings and exploiting the sonorous and interpretive possibilities of contemporary flute voice, their aim is fostering challenging musical collaborations in varying ensemble instrumentation and performer roster, leading educational masterclasses and workshops, and commissioning new works.  Gobbetti Hoffman’s performances in concert venues including New York’s Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Cooper Union, and Merkin Hall as well as Visiting Artist and Recital Series throughout the United States and Canada have been thusly characterized: "Superb soloist…played like a natural… characteristically colorful, huge and gorgeous tone along with incisive phrasing always lead to insightful and highly personal interpretations… In the most bravura performance of the evening, Gobbetti pushed flute technique to the limit …”

While a tenured musician and Board Director for the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Ms. Gobbetti-Hoffman was a member of its Artistic Advisory Committee; a co-founding artist of the Beaufluvian Players and co-founder for New & Used Music and the Niagara Frontier Flute Association.  She has also served as generous teaching artist for the Western New York Institute for the Arts-in-Education, Board Director for Young Audiences of Western New York, Inc., and popular, if eclectic, program host for Western New York and Southern Ontario's classical music radio station WNED-FM.

As a student, Ms. Gobbetti Hoffman won a scholarship to the Manhattan School of Music, followed by an invitation to join the world of professional orchestras from conductor Michael Tilson Thomas.  She credits advanced flute studies and international master classes with Julius Baker, James Galway, Thomas Nyfenger, Aurele Nicolet, Jean-Pierre Rampal, William Bennett,
and Peter Lloyd for further informing her concept of flute voice and performance, along with intensive chamber music study with Mischa Schneider, members of the original Cleveland Quartet, and pianist/composer Leo Smit.

Interview with UB Reporter:
http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/vol36/vol36n21/columns/qa.html