Timothy Archambault

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Timothy Archambault (also known as Tim Archambault; b. Willimantic, Connecticut, United States, February 9, 1971) is an American Native American flutist, architect, and composer.

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[edit] Background

Archambault is a member of the Kichesipirini Algonquin First Nation, a people indigenous to the Ottawa River area of eastern Ontario and southern Quebec, Canada, and his ancestry also includes several other U.S. and Canadian tribes including the Métis Nation of Quebec. He studied music theory at Brown University and graduated with bachelor's degrees in architecture and fine arts from the Rhode Island School of Design.

[edit] Musical career

Archambault began playing the Native American flute in 1989 and has devoted intensive study to the earliest recordings of the instrument, dating back to the early 20th century. He has also studied informally with the Native American flutists Kevin Locke (Lakota) and Edmund Wayne Nevaquaya (Comanche), and has collected songs of his Kichesipirini heritage, from elders in Canada as well as from archival wax cylinder recordings made in the early 20th century.

In addition to performing in traditional styles, since the early 21st century he has achieved notoriety for being one of the few Native American flutists to perform contemporary classical music on the instrument. He is able to play complex chromatic music on the Native American flute, and is the first enrolled member of a North American indigenous nation to master this style. He has performed the music of Native American composers David Yeagley, George Quincy, and Raven Chacon. His recording of Yeagley's Wessi vah-peh, for Native American flute and orchestra, performed with the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra Katowice, will be released by Opus One Records in December 2007. He was the first person to use the old "warble" technique (in which a single flute tone "splits" into a multiphonic oscillation) within the context of contemporary classical music.[1]

Archambault is a member of the First Nations Composer Initiative and has performed at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C..

Additionally, he performs as a volunteer musician for the Bugles Across America organization, playing "Taps" on the bugle for the funerals of veterans of the United States Armed Forces, due to the shortage of buglers in the employ of the United States Department of Defense.[2]

[edit] Personal

Archambault lives in New York City, where he was formerly employed as an architect by REX (Ramus-Ella Architects), an international architecture and design firm. He is a hereditary senator of the Kichesipirini Algonquin First Nation, and is active in tribal issues, keeping close ties with the nation, which is based in Pembroke, Ontario.

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