Negotiations

Apr 19 2006
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Erich Graf
Erich Graf

Erich Graf is former principal flutist of the Utah Symphony. His teachers have included Nelson Hauenstein at the University of Michigan, Jean Pierre Rampal at the Académie Internationale in Nice, France, and Julius Baker at the Juilliard School. Previous to the Utah Symphony, Graf performed with the New York Philharmonic, the New Jersey Symphony, the Royal Ballet Orchestra, and the Stamford Symphony, among others.

Graf has appeared as soloist with the Utah Symphony, the Ann Arbor Symphony, and with the Arkansas Symphony. He has performed chamber music with Columbia University's Group for Contemporary Music, the Guarneri String Quartet and the Aeolian Chamber Players. He has performed at Avery Fischer Hall and Carnegie Hall with Julius Baker and Jean Pierre Rampal and in Utah with James Galway.

Mr. Graf's discography include a music video and two CDs featuring the works of Bach, Berio, Gaubert, Roussel, Prokofiev, Nobis, Borne, Varèse, Debussy, and Poulenc.

Outside interests include physical fitness, cooking, and writing. Mr. Graf is a published travel writer and restaurant critic, and served as President of Local 104, American Federation of Musicians from 1994-2011

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I’d like to elaborate on several elements in Ms. Brownell’s eloquent posting. There is absolutely no question that during the past decades the excellence of pedagogy has increased the quality of playing exponentially.

What has made me impatient as a labor official is my tendency to hold the administrative staff of my orchestra to this same standard. Perhaps this is unfair of me, because, as a musician, I spent many years honing my skills, and administrators can hone theirs during one seminar of several weeks in the ASOL program.

This makes it exceedingly difficult to create the positive atmosphere at the bargaining table that Ms. Brownell discusses. She is on point regarding the implementation of the negotiation results. The musicians are definitely stakeholders in the organization, but the COMMUNITY owns the organization.

A successful negotiation and the resultant Collective Bargaining Agreement is only the first step in the process of implementation.

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Erich Graf
Erich Graf

Erich Graf is former principal flutist of the Utah Symphony. His teachers have included Nelson Hauenstein at the University of Michigan, Jean Pierre Rampal at the Académie Internationale in Nice, France, and Julius Baker at the Juilliard School. Previous to the Utah Symphony, Graf performed with the New York Philharmonic, the New Jersey Symphony, the Royal Ballet Orchestra, and the Stamford Symphony, among others.

Graf has appeared as soloist with the Utah Symphony, the Ann Arbor Symphony, and with the Arkansas Symphony. He has performed chamber music with Columbia University's Group for Contemporary Music, the Guarneri String Quartet and the Aeolian Chamber Players. He has performed at Avery Fischer Hall and Carnegie Hall with Julius Baker and Jean Pierre Rampal and in Utah with James Galway.

Mr. Graf's discography include a music video and two CDs featuring the works of Bach, Berio, Gaubert, Roussel, Prokofiev, Nobis, Borne, Varèse, Debussy, and Poulenc.

Outside interests include physical fitness, cooking, and writing. Mr. Graf is a published travel writer and restaurant critic, and served as President of Local 104, American Federation of Musicians from 1994-2011

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