Claude Cobert has performed with the Bach Aria Group Festival, The Grand Teton Festival Orchestra in Wyoming, American Institute of Musical Studies (Graz, Austria), Orquestra de Guadalajara, Mexico, The Goldovsky Grand Opera Tours and Summer Festivals, Spoletto Festival of Two Worlds, The Norfolk/Yale Summer Chamber Music Festival and the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival in Blue Hill, Maine. Mr. Cobert has had the opportunity to play in orchestras led by Eleazar Carvalho, Colin Davis, Gunther Herbig, Lorin Maezel, Lawrence Leighton Smith and Michael Tilson Thomas. Principal teachers include Jeanne Baxtresser, Doriot Dwyer, Andre Jaunet, Judith Mendenhall, Louis Moyse, Nora Shulman and Ransom Wilson.

Mr. Cobert began piano studies at the age of five and flute at the age ten. He graduated with honors from the University of Toronto and received an Artists Diploma from the Zurich Konservatoriums and Hochschule. In 1992, Mr. Cobert graduated from Yale University Master of Music program. While at Yale, he was the winner of the 1991 Woolsey Hall Concerto Competition and won the first presentation of the Thomas Nyfenger Memorial Prize awarded to the most outstanding woodwind instrumentalist of the graduating class. This is Mr. Cobert’s 18th season as principal flutist with the Cape Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Cobert is co-founder of the South Coast Chamber Music Society, which began performances in the summer of 2001. He is also principal flute of the Simon Sinfonietta which makes its home in Falmouth, MA and serves on the faculty at UMass Dartmouth.