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Dr. Alan Berquist is Adjunct Professor of Flute at California State University, Stanislaus and Diablo Valley College. He holds a Doctor of Music with specialized study in College Teaching and Baroque Flute from Florida State University, studying under Eva Amsler as a graduate teaching assistant. He was also a student of Dalcroze Eurhythmics at the Marta Sanchez Dalcroze Training Center at Carnegie Mellon University where he completed a Certificate in Advanced Flute Studies. He also holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (MM), and Florida State University (BM). He performs as a flutist and pianist with several schools and chamber groups, frequently the Kepler Duo with harpist and composer Dr. Vincent Pierce. Alan is a Co-Owner of the California Harp Center based in the Bay Area. He has also performed with the California Symphony, Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, Madison Symphony Orchestra, American Opera Projects, Brooklyn Wind Symphony, Awesöme Orchestra Collective, and the Albany (GA) and Astoria (NY) Symphonies.
Alan has been a competition judge and adjudicator for the National Flute Association Newly Published Music Committee, Flute New Music Consortium, Music Teachers' Association of California, Fanfares of Lviv International Competition (Ukraine), and the Florida Flute Association, performing solo and chamber works at several conventions. He has been a winner of two National Flute Association competitions: 2021 C.R.E.A.T.E. (Creating Resources through Engagement, Artistry, Teamwork, and Entrepreneurship) and 2019 Convention Performers. He has also served the NFA as 2004 Associate Program Chair for the convention in Nashville.
An advocate of new music, Dr. Berquist has commissioned works from Mark Fromm and Sami Seif, performed premieres, and collaborated with composers like Matthew Briggs, Viet Cuong, David DelTredici, Scott Gendel, Libby Larsen, David Maslanka, and David Stock. Highly involved with early music, Dr. Berquist also studied Baroque traverso, recorder, and Renaissance recorders, playing for Barthold Kuijken, Na’ama Lion, and Jeanne Swack.
His principal teachers include Eva Amsler, Alberto Almarza, Jeanne Baxtresser, Stephanie Jutt, Susan Clark, and former CSU Stanislaus professor Caryl Mae Scott. He has performed in masterclasses for Sir James Galway, Paul Edmund-Davies, Karl-Heinz Schütz, Leone Buyse, and Marina Piccinini.