About Nicolas Duchamp

Nicolas Duchamp is an internationally acclaimed performer and respected French flute teacher, in the tradition of the Paris Conservatory French School of flute playing, of which Philippe Gaubert was among the most famous. Born in Bordeaux France, he received directly the tradition of the French flute playing from his teachers in his native city. Mr. Duchamp has served for many years as principal flutist for the National Opera Comique in Paris and toured extensively in his native France as well as Europe, Japan, China, Vietnam and North America.  

With his ‘’warm tone, distinctive charm and creative poetic eloquence”, Mr. Duchamp has performed as soloist with many of France’s leading chamber music ensembles and orchestras, including Paris Opera Bastille, Nice Opera, Strasbourg National Opera, Lamoureux Orchestra, Metz Orchestra and the Bordeaux National Opera, with conductors such as Seiji Ozawa, Georges Prêtre, Myung-Whun Chung, Philip Walsh, Brian Schembri, Yutaka Sado, Laurent Petit Girard, and Philipp Morehead.