Kathryn Lukas (Professor )
klukas@indiana.edu
(812) 855-7206
Education
M.M., King's College, University of London, 1971
Biography
Kathryn Lukas, a Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music, London, is the former principal flute of the Santa Fe Opera Company. She has served as a guest principal flute with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London Symphony Orchestra, and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. She is currently a member of the Composers Ensemble and Music Theatre in Wales, and performs in summer festivals throughout Europe.
Professor Lukas has performed numerous broadcasts of solo and chamber music repertoire for the BBC, Radio France, and regional German radio stations. She has commissioned works through the Arts Council of Great Britain and recorded for Nimbus and Wergo.
Professor Lukas is a former faculty member of the Guildhall School of Music and the Royal Academy of London, and received a Fulbright Fellowship in 1968.
Thomas Robertello (Associate Professor )
troberte@indiana.edu
(812) 856-4195
Education
The Juilliard School
Biography
Thomas Robertello is a former member of the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the National Symphony. He has performed as guest principal flutist with the Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Houston Grand Opera.
He has toured with the San Francisco Symphony and was guest soloist with that orchestra in the recent release of Jerod Tate's "Iholba," for solo flute, chorus, and orchestra. Other recent recordings include the Telemann solo flute fantasies on the Delos label.
Former faculty positions include Carnegie Mellon University and the Cleveland Institute of Music. Professor Robertello has taught master classes and performed as a soloist throughout the United States, Japan, South Korea, China, and South America.
His many festival performances include the Pacific Music Festival, Sarasota, Grand Teton, Nara, Kirishima, Londrina, and Brevard Music Center.
Barbara Kallaur
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music (Traverso)
bkallaur@indiana.edu
Merrill Hall, MU349
Education
M.A., Master of Arts, American University, 1992
B.M., Bachelor of Music, University of British Columbia, 1979
M.S., Master of Science, Butler University, 2011
Biography
Barbara Kallaur is a founding member of Ensemble Voltaire and the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra (Indy Baroque Music Inc.) and as such has served as principal flute as well as personnel manager. Since its beginnings with IU alumnus Thomas Gerber, the organization has gained a reputation for artistic excellence as well as increasing its budget to over six figures. In addition, Kallaur has played with Apollo's Fire and frequently appears with Louisville's Bourbon Baroque and the Louisville Choral Society.
Kallaur has performed recitals throughout Canada and the United States, as well as in Russia, the Netherlands, and Great Britain and has taught master classes for the Moscow Conservatory of Music, the National Flute Association, the University of Victoria, the National Concert Band Association, and many others. She has participated in recordings for CBC and on the Dorian, Concordia, and Catalpa Classics and Sono Luminus labels, and makes frequent appearances on National Public Radio. Her performances also appear on the CD companion to Indiana University Press "Anthology of Music by Women Composers".
Kallaur is a recipient of a Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship, funded through the Lilly Endowment. She has received numerous British Columbia Cultural Fund awards, was a Massey Scholar at American University, and received a "Women in the Arts" award from the Indianapolis Association of Women Executives. She studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague as a pupil of Barthold Kuijken, and later at Indiana University.
Most recently she earned a graduate degree in counseling, and is particularly interested in treating musicians with problems with perfectionism and performance anxiety.
