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| | Robert Aitken |
 | | He subsequently had training as a flautist with Marcel Moyse in both Europe and Vermont intermittently for nine years and studied with Hubert Barwähser in The Netherlands, Severino Gazzelloni in Italy, André Jaunet in Switzerland, and Jean-Pierre Rampal in France, all in 1964-65, on a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. |
 | | His honors as a flautist include prizes in the Paris flute competition (1971) and the new music flute competition in Royan (1972) and an invitation from Pierre Boulez to present a solo recital at IRCAM (1977, one of only twelve instrumentalists chosen), as well as the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Flute Association (2003). |
 | | As a flautist, he served as principal flautist of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in 1958-59 (the youngest in the orchestra's history), second flautist in the CBC Radio Orchestra from 1960-64 and co-principal flautist of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra from 1965-70. |
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