Flute doyenne Jeanne Baxtresser will receive the National Flute Association's lifetime achievement award at its convention Aug. 10-13 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. Now a professor at the Carnegie Mellon School of Music, Baxtresser made her orchestral debut at 14 and went on to be principal at the New York Philharmonic and a renowned teacher. Her annual weeklong master class takes place June 18-25 at CMU.

-- Post-Gazette classical music critic Andrew Druckenbrod