Robert Hugh Willoughby

Robert Hugh Willoughby (June 6, 1921 – March 27, 2018) was an American classical flute player and flute teacher. He played both Baroque and modern flute. He has been described by Flute magazine as the "American grandmaster of the flute".

Willoughby taught for many years at Oberlin College, where he was the first Robert Wheeler Professor of Performance. He taught for ten years at the Peabody Institute, and later at the Longy School of Music of Bard College. He received the Alumni Achievement Award from Eastman School of Music and in 1996 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Flute Association.

Among his many students is the jazz flute player Paul Horn.

• The Oberlin Woodwind Quintet:

Robert Willoughby, flute

James Caldwell, oboe

Lawrence McDonald, clarinet

Robert Fries, French horn

Kenneth Moore, bassoon

Saturday, January 14, 1984, 8:00 p.m. in Hamman Hall, Rice University Digital Scholarship Archive http://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/76867

He married author Elaine Macmann Willoughby in 1957.

• "The Flute Practice Techniques", Conn-Selmer Keynotes, 1974.