A 20-year resident of New York City, Don Bailey returned to Dallas in 2013, where his career began with Voices of Change and the Dallas Bach Orchestra and Dallas Chamber Orchestra. He has enjoyed a diverse career as a performer, professor, festival planner, and board member for several arts organizations, including the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra and his own Voyage Unlimited, Inc., which publishes and presents music for flute and strings.
Don was a solo flutist for Cunard Cruise Lines and has toured extensively with pianists Dianne Frazer, official pianist of the National Flute Association, and Donald Sulzen of the Munich Piano Trio, with whom he has recorded. He has appeared at festivals in Aspen, Colorado; Nice, France; Spoleto, Italy; Belfast, Northern Ireland, among others, as well as at numerous National Flute Association conventions. He has recorded for Summit, Genuin, Albany, and Parnassus labels, among others. His newest release, Hypnosis, features Good Shepherd’s own harpist, Laura Logan Brandenburg.
Don completed his graduate studies at the University of North Texas and continued advanced training at the Aspen Music Festival and the Académie d'été in Nice, France. His teachers include the distinguished flutists Julius Baker, Harold Bennett, Michel Debost, Charles Delaney, Geoffrey Gilbert, Alain Marion, Judith Mendenhall, George Morey, Marcel Moyse, and Albert Tipton. Don plays a handmade 14K gold Brannen-Cooper flute. (https://donbailey.net)
Donald Sulzen is one of the few pianists to achieve international recognition in two realms of classical music. He is not only a sought-after collaborator with some of the world’s most celebrated singers—including Anna Caterina Antonacci, Laura Aikin, Julie Kaufmann, Thomas E. Bauer, Thomas Cooley, and James Taylor—but also the pianist of the renowned Munich Piano Trio. His extensive concert career has taken him to many of the most prestigious recital halls across Europe, the United States, South America, China, and Japan. Numerous radio and television broadcasts, along with more than forty CD productions, attest to the high artistic level of his work.
He has served as a guest professor of music at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and as head of the Song Department at the University of Music and Theatre in Munich. Donald Sulzen’s passion for uniting the musicians of his trio with his vocal partners is reflected in distinctive CD recordings featuring works by Joseph Haydn, Alberto Ginastera, Ned Rorem, and Astor Piazzolla. Together with flutist Don Bailey, he recorded Tribute, a CD dedicated to 20th-century flute repertoire. A wide selection of his recordings can be heard on his website: www.donaldsulzen.com.