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Petri Alanko |
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Flutist
Petri Alanko studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki with Mikael
Helasvuo and subsequently at the Freiburg Music Academy in Germany
with William Bennett and Hans-Peter Schmitz. He won first prize at
the 1989 Kobe International Flute Competition and again at the Munich
ARD Competition one year later. Performances in Germany, USA, Japan
and Finland followed. Petri Alanko (formally Principal Flute, Zurich
Opera Orchestra), holds the position of Principal Flute with the Finnish
Radio Symphony Orchestra. He also works with the Finnish Chamber Orchestra
and the Kerberos Ensemble. His first solo-cd was released 1993 including flute concertos of Nielsen, Ibert and Jolivet with Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Finnish Radio Symphony and Avanti! Chamber Orchestra. In 1996 was released "Dances With the Winds" including Finnish flute concertos of Einojuhani Rautavaara, Aulis Sallinen, Leonid Bashmakov and Tauno Marttinen. He has also recorded Complete Flute Sonatas by J.S. Bach and 20th Century Music for flute and orchestra of Sallinen, Penderecki and Takemitsu for Naxos label. In 2000-2005 Petri Alanko has been the Artistic Director of Crusell Music Festival in Uusikaupunki, Finland. |
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Nancy Andrew |
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Nancy Andrew is professor of flute at the University of Oregon in Eugene (USA). A frequent recital performer, she specialises in programmes and presentations related to Marcel Moyse, and has been featured as a guest artist in this capacity for the National Flute Association, the Utah Flute Association, the Central California Flute Association, and the Swiss Flute Association, among others. She is the executive director of the Marcel Moyse Society, an international organisation dedicated to preserving the legacy of this master teacher and performer. Ms. Andrew studied intensively with Marcel Moyse from 1980 to1983, lived with the Moyse family for a year and attended five summer seminars in Brattleboro, Vermont. Along with Blanche Moyse, she organised and catalogued the Marcel Moyse Archive, now housed at the New York Public Library. She prepared exhibits from this collection for the 1985 and 1989 conventions of the National Flute Association (NFA) and coordinated the Moyse Centennial Celebration in Brattleboro, Vermont in 1989. She has served two terms on the board of the NFA and is Program Chair for the convention in Albuquerque, New Mexico in August 2007. Ms. Andrew holds degrees from Peabody Conservatory, SUNY Stony Brook, and the University of New Mexico. |
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Jamie Baum |
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NYC-based
jazz flutist/composer, recording artist/clinician, has toured extensively
in the US, Europe, South America, Asia, and South Asia. Receiving
much critical praise for three CD's as leader, Sight Unheard on Gunther
Schuller's GM Recordings and, Moving Forward, Standing Still (OmniTone)
received four stars from DownBeat. Baum's performed with luminaries from Kenny Barron, Randy Brecker and George Russell to Dave Douglas, V. M. Bhatt and Karaikudi Mani. Though focused on jazz, her experiences include classical, new music, Brazilian, Indian and Latin music. Appearing at many top clubs: including the Blue Note, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, and top festivals: JVC Jazz Festival, Boston Globe Jazz Festival, Jazz Yatra (India) Bermuda Jazz Festival, she won by competitive audition a position as US State Department/ Kennedy Center Jazz Ambassador, touring from ’99-’03. A recipient of several awards and grants and nominated by the Jazz Journal Association as “Flutist of the Year (2005)”, found in DownBeat Critics Polls annually since ’98, she won the prestigious 2003 New Works: Creation and Presentation Award (Doris Duke/Chamber Music America Jazz Ensembles Project). Baum received her BM from New England Conservatory, her MM from Manhattan School of Music and studied with Ransom Wilson, Robert Stallman, Hubert Laws and Keith Underwood. |
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Atarah Ben-Tovim |
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Atarah Ben-Tovim MBE, Chair of the BFS Council now for three years, is a Flute diva, educator extraordinaire and a passionate advocate of live orchestral music. She was the second woman in the world to become a Principal flute on contract (RLPO in 1962), and as an Educator she has worked to over three million children live in her unique and unparalleled children’s concerts, both with her Band and now with orchestras. In between her various musical passions, she writes with her husband Douglas Boyd , including her best-selling book The Right Instrument for your Child, with 2006 seeing its new fourth edition and translations in sixteen languages. For this work she has received an MBE and an Honorary Doctorate. She rebuilds with her own hands (and her husband’s) their Dordogne farmhouse home, where five rooms are dedicated to a collection of 978 figures of flute players in two and three dimensions. Jazzy clothes and glitzy Doc Martens are no phoney image and make complete sense the first time you see her on stage in front of a family audience of 3,000 people. Never was a Chair less like a chair - she inspires us all with her unbridled life force. |
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William Bennett |
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One of
the foremost musical artists performing today, William Bennett has
raised the profile of the flute to that of an instrument capable of
a wide range of tone colours, dynamics and expression, giving it the
depth, dignity and grandeur of the voice or a string instrument.
His partnerships with Clifford Benson (piano) and George Malcolm (harpsichord), and his solo recordings with Yehudi Menuhin, the Grumiaux Trio, I Musici, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the ECO, Jimi Hendrix and Wynton Marsalis, have received international acclaim and enthusiastic reviews in record and CD journals. Early in his career he made the first recording in the UK of all of Handel’s flute sonatas, and of contemporary works including the Sonatine by Boulez, Berio’s Sequenza, Messiaen’s Merle Noir and Richard Rodney Bennett’s Winter Music (this last written for him). He has also made pioneering recordings of many neglected nineteenth-century works, including music by Ries, Romberg and Taffanel. More recently he has premiered concertos by William Mathias and Diana Burrell, Raymund Pineda. All of these were written for him. In January 1995, HM The Queen presented William Bennett with the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his distinguished services to music. |
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Clifford Benson |
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Clifford Benson is a pianist, highly acclaimed for his sensitivity, outstanding musicianship and strong feeling for poetry and colour. He enjoys a varied career of performing, both solo piano and chamber music, recording, teaching and composing. Clifford’s recitals and teaching take him worldwide, and in Britain, he has appeared at the Proms as a soloist and chamber pianist and is often heard on BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM. With violinist, Levon Chilingirian, he won the BBC Beethoven and Munich International Duo Competitions. His many recordings range from Mozart to the present day and he has given world premieres of solo works by Richard Rodney Bennett and Malcolm Lipkin. Clifford was pianist for the Jacqueline du Pré masterclasses on BBC 2 television, was a member of the Nash Ensemble for many years and, in addition to Levon, has had long standing duos with flautists William Bennett and Trevor Wye, and clarinettist Thea King. He is Professor of Piano and Chamber Music at the Royal Academy of Music, London and runs a yearly summer course at Frensham Heights in Surrey. |
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Jean-Louis Beaumadier |
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JEAN-LOUIS BEAUMADIER, PICCOLO, began studying flute with Joseph Rampal at the Marseilles conservatory continuing at the Paris conservatory with the latter’s son, Jean-Pierre. Soloist in the Orchestre National de France for twelve years, he subsequently became one of the world’s leading representatives of the piccolo, thanks to his abundant discography, concerts throughout Europe, the United States, South American and the Far East, and a collection for piccolo publish by Gérard Billaudot Editions. He is one of the rare flutists to give recitals for piccolo and piano, wherein all styles rub shoulders. “Jean-Louis was my father’s pupil before becoming mine. Endowed with marvelous technique, he stood out thanks to his winning personality and his developed artistry. It is a joy to hear him dream and turn pirouettes: he is the Paganini of the piccolo.” – Jean-Pierre Rampal |
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Emily Beynon |
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The Welsh flautist, Emily Beynon is principal flute of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam. She began her flute studies at the Royal College of Music (junior department with Margaret Ogonovsky) and then went on to study with William Bennett at the Royal Academy and with Alain Marion in Paris. In 2002 Emily was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music. Equally at home in front of the orchestra as in its midst, Emily has performed as concerto soloist with, amongst others, The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, many of the BBC Orchestras and Vienna, Prague, Netherlands and English Chamber Orchestras. As a chamber musician she works regularly with her sister, the harpist, Catherine Beynon and the pianist Andrew West, and has made guest appearances with the Nash Ensemble, Skampa Quartet, Steven Isserlis, Dame Felicity Lott, Jean-Yves Tibaudet, the Kungsbacka Trio and Brodsky Quartet. Emily's many solo CD recordings range from premier recordings of British works to the French classics and the Mozart Concerto.She can be heard regularly on BBC Radio 3 and has featured in television documentaries for Thames, the BBC and AVRO (Netherlands). An enthusiastic protagonist of new music, Emily has had many new works written for her by some of the UK's leading composers: Sally Beamish, Jonathan Dove, John Woolrich and Errollyn Wallen. |
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Edward Blakeman |
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Edward Blakeman is a former Chairman of the British Flute Society. He is Editor of Live Music at BBC Radio 3, responsible for the broadcasting of orchestral concerts, opera, and the annual season of BBC Proms. Before joining the BBC, he was Head of the Wind Department at the London College of Music and he freelanced as a flute player, writer and presenter. He studied at Lancaster and Birmingham Universities and at the Royal Northern College of Music where he was the first holder of the Ida Carroll Research Fellowship. Scholarships from the British Council and the French CNRS took him to Paris to complete his studies for a doctoral thesis on the great French flute player and conductor Paul Taffanel. His recording with William Bennett - Vive la flûte! - also explored his particular interest in French flute playing styles and repertoire, and he has edited various collections of flute music, including a two-volume anthology of studies called The Flute Player’s Companion. His book Taffanel: Genius of the Flute was published recently by Oxford University Press, and his next project is editing The Cambridge Companion to the Flute. |
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Denis Bouriakov |
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Principal Flute of the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra in Finland, Denis has recently won prizes at some of the world’s most prestigious international flute competitions, including second prizes in the Jean-Pierre Rampal, Aurele Nicolet and Carl Nielsen Competitions, as well as prizes in Kobe and Munich ARD Competitions. One of his latest achievements is a CD recording with William Bennett and English Chamber Orchestra, where he plays as a co-soloist. Denis studied with William Bennett at the RAM from 2000. After his graduation in 2004, gaining a record 99% mark and a DipRAM diploma for an outstanding Final Recital, the Royal Academy of Music has awarded Denis the Principal’s award and the Fellowship for the following year. In 2006 he has been awarded Associate of the Royal Academy of Music title (ARAM). Denis has performed as a soloist with many orchestras, among which are the Moscow Symphony, Moscow Philharmonic, Moscow Virtuosi, Prague Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble of Tokyo, Odense Symphony, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Ensemble of Paris, Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra and Beijing Symphony Orchestra. Denis gave recitals at the BFS Convention in York in August 2004 and a Headliner Recital in the NFA Convention in San Diego in August 2005. He has been William Bennett’s teaching assistant in his Summer School for the past 3 years. |
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Wissam Boustany |
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Wissam Boustany has
established an international career as a concert artist and teacher
touring South and North America, Europe and the Middle and Far East.
In 1995 Boustany founded the international initiative Toward Humanity,
which uses music as a catalyst to support humanitarian projects on
an international scale. Born in Lebanon, Boustany began his musical studies in Beirut with his stepfather. He moved to Britain in 1977 where he studied at Chetham's School of Music & the Royal Northern College of Music, with Trevor Wye. He has received many awards, notably the Silver Medal in the 1982 Madeira international Flute Competition and (in the same year) the woodwind prize in the Royal Overseas League Competition. He received the silver medal in the Shell/LSO competition and won the 2nd prize in the woodwind section of the first BBC Young Musician of the Year. In 1997 he was awarded a knighthood by the Lebanese government (Chevalier de l'Ordre du Cedre) in recognition of his music and peace work. On 3rd February 1998 he was presented with the Crystal Award at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Wissam continues to use his music as a powerful healing force to open the doors of inspiration between people and nations, and help us reflect on our common humanity. He teaches at Trinity College of Music, in London. |
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Rachel Brown |
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Since winning first prize at the American National Flute Competition, Rachel Brown has become known for her versatility on modern and historical flutes and recorders. She plays principal flute and recorder with the Academy of Ancient Music, the Hanover Band, the King’s Consort and many of the London-based period-instrument ensembles. She has given many concerto appearances in Europe, America, Canada and Japan, most recently at London’s Wigmore Hall performing Telemann concertos on both flute and recorder with AAM and Mozart’s D major Flute Concerto with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in Latvia and Estonia. She will also appear as a soloist with the AAM at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and at the 2006 BBC Proms. Rachel’s solo recordings include three recital discs of French Baroque Music, Quantz Sonatas and works by Schubert & Boehm for Chandos Records and recordings of C.P.E. Bach and Quantz Flute Concertos for Hyperion. With the London Handel Players she has recently released two discs of Handel’s trio sonatas Op.5 and arrangements of Handel arias, Handel at Home. Rachel is professor of baroque flute at the Royal College of Music in London. She is author of the Cambridge handbook to The Early Flute and has composed cadenzas for the new Bärenreiter edition of Mozart Flute Concertos. |
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Timothy Carey |
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Since winning first prize at the American National Flute Competition, Rachel Brown has become known for her versatility on modern and historical flutes and recorders. She plays principal flute and recorder with the Academy of Ancient Music, the Hanover Band, the King’s Consort and many of the London-based period-instrument ensembles. She has given many concerto appearances in Europe, America, Canada and Japan, most recently at London’s Wigmore Hall performing Telemann concertos on both flute and recorder with AAM and Mozart’s D major Flute Concerto with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in Latvia and Estonia. She will also appear as a soloist with the AAM at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and at the 2006 BBC Proms. Rachel’s solo recordings include three recital discs of French Baroque Music, Quantz Sonatas and works by Schubert & Boehm for Chandos Records and recordings of C.P.E. Bach and Quantz Flute Concertos for Hyperion. With the London Handel Players she has recently released two discs of Handel’s trio sonatas Op.5 and arrangements of Handel arias, Handel at Home. Rachel is professor of baroque flute at the Royal College of Music in London. She is author of the Cambridge handbook to The Early Flute and has composed cadenzas for the new Bärenreiter edition of Mozart Flute Concertos. |
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Ian Clarke |
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BFS 'Floscar winner' (Flute
Oscar!) Ian Clarke is one of the UK's leading player/composers. His
unique compositions have been performed across five continents on
stages ranging from the South Bank to Glastonbury by internationally
acclaimed performers, teachers, colleges & students alike. Ian made his international debut as guest soloists at the NFA's 2001 International Flute Convention, Dallas with subsequent appearances as guest artist at the 2003 Hungarian National Flute Event and headline artist in the 2005 NFA Convention in San Diego. He has given masterclasses at many premiere music colleges and has regularly been invited to perform & lead workshops for leading Summer Schools, Flutewise and numerous other flute events around the country. A prize-winning student, Ian studied with Simon Hunt, Averil Williams and Kate Lukas of the Guildhall School of Music, London. He concurrently studied Mathematics at Imperial College, London graduating with Honours. Ian works extensively with musician/composer Simon Painter writing, producing and performing music for film & television under the name of Diva Music with numerous recordings between them and applications from Microsoft to Oprah Winfrey! Ian is professor of flute at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and is an International Miyazawa Flute artist. http://www.ianclarke.net |
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Concerts Lumiere |
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Lumiere is a flute ensemble
group founded in Yokohama, Japan in 1995. |
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Philipa Davies |
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Philippa Davies, has established an international reputation as one of the finest flautists currently performing. As a recitalist, she plays and broadcasts throughout the world at international festivals, whilst performing concertos and giving master classes from China, to the USA. Philippa’s schedule includes many world premières; numerous distinguished composers have dedicated works specifically to her. She has recorded all Peter Maxwell Davies’s flute works for the internet. Amongst numerous outstanding performances are a recent acclaimed rendition of Mozart’s Flute Concerto in G Major with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra under Noseda and a highly-praised solo flute recital at Wigmore Hall. In the coming months she will be performing Mozart’s Flute Concerto No.1 in G Major with the Mozart Players at Chipping Camden and Paul Reade’s Flute Concerto and Bach Brandeburg No 5 with the Southern Sinfonia at Newbury and at Winchester. Philippa performs with the Nash Ensemble and London Winds. Her own group, Philippa Davies & Friends is a flexible ensemble line-up ranging from duos to sextets. Her recording of Alwyn's Flute Concerto will be released this summer as will the Davies Cole Duo (with Maggie Cole harpsichord) CD of Bach Flute Sonatas. Philippa is a founder member of the quartet Arpège. Her recordings, from Mozart to Ligeti, are best sellers. She is a Professor at the Guildhall School of Music, London. |
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Robert Dick |
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With equally deep roots in classical music old and new and in free improvisation and new jazz, Robert Dick has established himself as an artist who has not only mastered, but redefined the flute. He has performed his music throughout the US, Europe, South America and Asia, and has released numerous solo recordings. Dick has also performed and recorded with a wide range of Europe and America's finest improvisors. Dick's compositions have been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEA Composer Fellowships, a Koussevitzky Foundation Commission, two Meet the Composer Commissions and many more grants, fellowships and commissions. His flute music is played worldwide and his pedagogical works, including the book "The Other Flute: A Performance Manual of Contemporary Techniques", are considered the standard bearers in their field. Robert Dick has given masterclasses at universities, colleges and conservatories all over the world. He resides in New York City and is teaching flute privately and at New York University. Complete info: www.robertdick.net |
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Kyle Dzapo |
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| Kyle Dzapo is Professor of Music at Bradley University (Illinois), Principal Flute of the Peoria Symphony and a pre-concert lecturer for the Chicago Symphony. She has performed recitals on WFMT’s Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series (Chicago) and Wisconsin Public Radio’s Sunday Afternoon Live, as well as at Lincoln Center’s Bruno Walter Auditorium and the Royal Opera House in Aarhus, Denmark. She has published extensively on the subject of Danish flute player, composer, and conductor Joachim Andersen including the book Joachim Andersen: A Bio-Bibliography (Greenwood Press, 1999), articles for The Flutist Quarterly and a new edition of Andersen’s Fünf leichtere Stücke, Op. 56 (Zimmermann Music Publishers, 2005). She will give a presentation about Andersen at the German Flute Society’s 2007 conference in Berlin next March. She earned a Doctor of Music degree from Northwestern University where she was a student and teaching assistant of Walfrid Kujala and also holds degrees from New England Conservatory and the University of Michigan. | |
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Bulent Evcil |
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Born in Istanbul,
Evcil started his academic career at MSU Music Academy with Mukerrem
Berk (1980) Following his graduation in 1988 He won national flute
competition in Istanbul and went on studying with Marc Grauwels at
Brussel Royal Academy where he is graduated from flute and chamber
music branches in 1992. He continued his academic career with Jean - Michel Tanguy at Heidelberg- Mannheim Music Academy (1994). In 1996 he received the efficiency in art qualification. Between 1992 - 1999, he studied with world famous flute virtuoso Sir JAMES GALWAY. Galway described Evcil as 'one of the best flutists of his generation' . Evcil is invited to a number of concerts as guest artist with Galway's recommendation. He has given a number of concerts and Master classes in USA, Europe and performed in festivals in Ukraine and Turkey. Between 1996 - 1998, he played as solo flutist in Imperial Concerts Soloist Kapella in Vienna. between 1999-2004 he was principal flutist in Istanbul state Opera and ballet Orc. and since 1999, he is principal flutist at Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra. and since 2004 he is principal flutist at Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra. Presently he is lecturer at I.T.U - MIAM master programme in flute section in Istanbul. Evcil owns the Belgium Royal Art Encouragement medal www.bulentevcil.com |
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As Fret and Flute fusion, Fiona Harrison and Julie Wright have co-hosted many highly successful and popular flute and guitar events since 2001 and have established themselves in an area virtually unexplored by most other flute and guitar duos. In addition to this, Fiona and Julie have performed in venues ranging from Parisian town houses, Dordogne Chateaux to the Purcell Room and Barbican Centre. Their music fuses melody, mood and dance rhythms with a wide blend of styles combining traditional and original ideas from around the world. |
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Niurka Gonzalez Nunez |
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Born on March
21st, 1977 in Havana, Cuba In 1997 she finished her studies as flutist
in the Superior Conservatory of Paris (CNR) where she obtained 1er
Prix at the Flute Award of the Superior Cycle of the CNR she was there
under the guidance of Sophie Cherrier. She also received classes from
professor Alain Marion. In Europe she assisted to masterclasses from
Jean Pierre Rampal, Michel Debost, B. Kuijken and Andras Adorjan.
In 1999 obtained the Master in Music at the Superior Institute of
Arts in Havana. Highlighted are her interpretations as soloist with the National Symphonic Orchestra of Cuba, also with the National Band of Concert and with the Chamber Orchestra of the European Community. She has offered numerous recitals in different concert halls in Cuba, Mexico, Argentina, Spain, Italy, Brasil, Ecuador, Chile, France and has recorded for radio and TV programs. She is often invited to play in the recordings of many cuban musicians. Regularly she is invited to play and give masterclasses in Flute Festivals and Conventions around the world. Her CD Flauta Virtuosa won in 2003 the price of Best Opera Prima in the Cubadisco Competition. She is teaching at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana since 1999 and she works as soloist in the Centro Nacional de Música de Concierto in Havana since 1997. |
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Marco Granados |
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Marco Granados, a native of Venezuela, has received worldwide acclaim for his diverse flute repertoire, dynamic sense of rhythm and exhilarating style. Since his 1991 New York debut at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, he has given concerts and recitals around the world and made his London recital debut at Wigmore Hall in October 2000. He tours with his own group, Un Mundo Ensemble, which is dedicated to bringing the passion and energy of Latin American music to the world, His Grammy-nominated 1999 CD Sunflute brought 'a new dimension' to flute playing, according to flautist Julius Baker. He recently joined the chamber trio "Triangulo", which specialises in chamber music from Latin America, He attended Juilliard School of Music and received degrees from Mannes College of Music and the Manhattan School. In addition, he has studied with Jean-Pierre Rampal, James Galway and William Bennett. He teaches privately in New York City. |
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Amara Guitry |
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Amara Guitry, first prize winner of the 2002 American Bach Soloists Competition, has performed with American Baroque Soloists and the English Haydn Festival. She is has just finished a DMA in London, researching and developing new techniques for the baroque flute. Her ground-breaking work was quickly noticed and admired by a number of musicians and composers and early in 2004was highlighted in an electro-acoustic composition Less, written for Guitry by Jo Thomas. Amara performs as freelance musician, gives lectures-recitals on her work and teaches with Stephen Preston at the Wildacres Flute Retreat, North Carolina, USA. |
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Heidi Krutzen |
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In addition to
being Principal Harp of the Vancouver Opera Orchestra, Heidi is in demand as a soloist and chamber musician in the USA and Canada. Frequently featured at festivals such as the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, Vancouver Chamber Music Festival, Strings in the Mountains, Colorado and Festival Vancouver, Heidi will be appearing this summer at the Bach Dynamite and Dancing Festival, Wisconsin, Bellingham Festival, and will serve as faculty of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. Next season she will perform with Jean Stilwell for Vancouver's Music in the Morning concert series. A member of the Krutzen/McGhee Duo with flutist Lorna McGhee, Heidi has appeared in recital and concerto performances throughout North America. Their performances can be heard on CBC National Radio and National Public Radio in the US. This summer they performed Mozart's Flute and Harp Concerto at the Oregon Bach Festival, a work they performed with the Nashville Chamber Orchestra last summer. Their first duo CD "Taheke - 20th Century Masterpieces for flute and harp" was released on the Skylark label to critical acclaim. Heidi is a prizewinner in the American Harp Society National Competition. She is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, with both a Bachelor and Masters of Music and Eastman's highest honour, the Performer's Certificate. |
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Rhonda Larson |
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Rhonda Larson is a Grammy Award winning flutist, and a former First Prize winner of the National Flute Association's Young Artist Competition, including a Carnegie Hall debut. This American Montana native integrates her classical training with various ethnic traditions and flutes from around the world, creating original music that merges the most soulful elements of sacred, folk, medieval, classical, and Celtic music. Rhonda has performed all over the world, and has a discography of over 17 recordings, including two solo releases, "Free as a Bird" and "Distant Mirrors". As a composer, she also runs her own music publishing company, Wood Nymph Music. Some of her past participation in masterclasses include the Ramsgate Summer School (William Bennett), and James Galway's masterclass in Weggis, Switzerland. Her website is www.RhondaLarson.com |
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Nicola Mazzanti |
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Nicola Mazzanti graduated in 1982 from the “Luigi Cherubini” Conservatory of Florence after studying with Sergio Giambi. He later attended courses and masterclasses with important soloists such as Mario Ancillotti, Aurèle Nicolet, Maxence Larrieu, Raymond Guiot, Emmanuel Pahud and James Galway. In 1986, Nicola Mazzanti earned a degree with full marks from D.A.M.S. ( University of Arts and Music) with a thesis in Music History. Nicola Mazzanti has been the piccolo flute soloist in the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra since 1998; his performance received acknowledgements from conductors such as Mehta, Bychkov, Slatkin, Mata, Muti, C. Abbado, Ozawa and many others. In 1999, he was invited by Claudio Abbado to play as solo piccolo flute with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in the opera “Falstaff”. In 2002 he was asked to audition for “solo piccolo flute” in the Berliner Philharmoniker. Nicola Mazzanti performs intensely both as a soloist and with chamber music ensembles in Italy and abroad. In order to diffuse the piccolo flute repertoire, he gave recitals for piccolo flute and piano during “Flautissimo”, the italian Flute Convention. Nicola Mazzanti has also been invited to perform at the Vienna Flute Festival for the year 2003 and at the Annual Convention of the National Flute Association in San Diego for the year 2005. Nicola Mazzanti teaches both flute and piccolo. Since 1982, he has taught at the “G.Verdi” music school in Prato. Since 2001, he has held annual courses in piccolo flute at the “Esperienze Musicali” association based in Rovigo and at the Italian Flute Academy in Rome, where he co-operates with both Raymond Guiot and Angelo Persichilli. He is often invited to hold masterclassses in Italy and abroad.www.piccoloflute.it |
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Lorna McGhee |
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Lorna McGhee was formerly co-principal flute of London's BBC Symphony Orchestra. She has appeared as guest principal with numerous orchestras, including the Academy of St-Martin-in-the-Fields. Lorna has performed concertos with the LSO, SCO, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, as well as with many of the orchestras in her new homeland - Canada. A recent highlight was a performance of Penderecki's flute concerto under the baton of Krystos Penderecki himself. As a chamber musician and recitalist, she has performed throughout Europe and North America in such venues as London's Wigmore Hall and Barge Music in New York. Her recitals have been broadcast on national radio in the UK, USA and Canada. She has made chamber music recordings for EMI, Decca ASV, Naxos and Meridian. Upon release, her recording of Bax's chamber music with "Mobius" was selected as the Editor's Choice for Gramophone Magazine. Lorna's latest recording "Taheke, 20th century Masterpieces for flute and harp" with duo partner Heidi Krutzen was released in July 2004. In addition to her solo and chamber music career, Lorna teaches at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Lorna studied with David Nicholson and William Bennett, and is a past winner of the Shell /LSO Scholarship and the RAM's Queen's Commendation for Excellence. |
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Susan Milan |
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Susan Milan was Principal Flute of the Bournemouth Sinfonietta from 1968-72 and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra from 1974-1982, During her active and diverse career, she has played as guest Principal and performed solo works with major orchestras in UK,as well as touring in Europe, USA, South Africa, Australia and the Far East as a recitalist, chamber musician and soloist. Her interest in contemporary music has led to world and UK premieres and has inspired contemporary composers such as ; Richard Rodney Bennett, Antal Dorati, Carl Davis, Jindrich Feld, Edwin Roxburgh, Robert Saxton, Ole Schmidt, Robert Simpson, Keith Gates, Cecilia MacDowall and Brian Lock to compose works for her. She has recorded the Ole Schmidt Concerto for the Da Capo label and there are plans to record the Robert Simpson Concerto and Richard Rodney Bennett’s Memento. Susan is often heard on the BBC and she records primarily for the Chandos and Upbeat labels .She is a Professor and Fellow of the Royal College of Music and holds an annual summer master class course at Charterhouse School in Surrey. Susan is married with two sons, James, who is a molecular biologist and Christopher ,who is a cellist. |
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Mike Gluyas,
B.Sc., Ph.D., F.Inst.P. Trained as a physicist and lectured in Electronics
in the Physics Department of the University of Salford for 28 years.
He has always been interested in promoting an interest in Science
by delivering popular lectures all over the United Kingdom at schools,
colleges, universities, science conferences and other public events.
Wendy Gluyas, M.A., has taught in a number of educational establishments in the U.K., specialising in the teaching of English as a foreign language to undergraduates, linguists and educators. Mike and Wendy commenced lecturing together in 1989 when they undertook a UK Tour for the Institute of Physics. This involved delivering 36 lectures in 23 major cities before a total audience of over 10,000 students. They both retired from full-time education in 1993 - but have continued presenting their “Musical Squares” lecture as a retirement activity ever since. Over the last sixteen years, numerous lectures have been delivered throughout the UK – and overseas in Belgium, the British Virgin Islands, France, Granada, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Singapore, Switzerland and Trinidad In 2004, Mike and Wendy were awarded the Kelvin Medal and Prize – by the Institute of Physics - for their joint contribution to the Public Understanding of Physics. |
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Stephen Preston |
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Dr Stephen Preston, a pioneer in his work on early flutes and a leader in the development of early music performance in the UK, is active as a teacher at all four major music colleges in London. Stephen’s career spans an international reputation performer playing baroque music, founder and director of two dance companies, choreographer of numerous operas and dance performances. In the last five years he has been developing new techniques and improvisational forms for baroque flute based on research into birdsong. From this he has created a new musical language - ecosonics, which in 2005 was incorporated into a BBC commission - The Soft Complaining Flute – written for Preston by the composer Edward Cowie. In addition to solo work and his duo with Amara Guitry, Stephen directs an ensemble of musicians and composers -The Ecosonic Ensemble. Ecosonic came into being when Amara Guitry began assisting Stephen Preston in his PhD research into birdsong as a basis for new techniques and improvisational forms. The success of their collaboration led to the formation of a duo and to performances in the US and the UK presenting programmes with an emphasis on new improvisation and contemporary music for two baroque flutes. The duo also lies at the heart of the continued development of ecosonics as a new way of making music and learning about birdsong. |
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Abbie de Quant |
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Abbie de Quant
was a pupil of Jan Prins and later Koos Verheul. In 1970 she Abbie de Quant inspired many composers to writing new works. Many of these compositions could be heart in the Small Auditorium at the Concertbebouw in Amsterdam where she is organizing for fourteen years her own series. |
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Quintessenz |
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Quintessenz
started in 1996 - the members are: Anna Garzuly, assistant principal flutist of the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig (1st flute) Gudrun Hinze-Hönig, piccolo player of the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig (piccolo/2nd flute) Ute Günther, assistant principal flutist of the Leipzig Radio Symphony orchestra (3rd flute) Bettine Keyßer, assistant principal flutist of the Philharmonic Orchestra Halle (alto flute) Christian Sprenger, principal flutist of the Leipzig Radio Symphony orchestra (bass flute) It was
Christian's idea to form a flute ensemble of five players; in the
beginning it was just for fun, but soon it was so much fun, that
we started to rehearse frequently and plan concerts and Cd recordings.
As there are not too much works for five flutes, we had to do our
arrangements ourselves, and funny enough, this was even more fun!!! |
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Carla Rees |
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Carla Rees completed her BMus and MMus degrees at the Royal College of Music, studying flute, alto flute and composition under Graham Mayger, Simon Channing and Timothy Salter. Since graduating in 1999, she has become a leading alto flute specialist, working to raise the profile of the instrument through research, performance and commissioning new repertoire. Carla plays a Kingma system alto flute, an instrument with which she is able to break new ground in contemporary techniques and repertoire. She is artistic director of rarescale and performs as part of Contemporary Consort and illegal harmony. She has performed throughout the UK, including at the Edinburgh Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and Proms Composer Portraits, and in tours to Europe and the USA. She has recorded for Albany, Metier and Tetractys and has been broadcast on British and international radio and television. Carla has premiered over 150 works, many of which were composed specially for her. She has given masterclasses and workshops at many of the world’s leading universities and conservatoires, including the Royal Academy of Music in London, The Juilliard School in New York and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She also works as a photographer and has had her work published in the UK and the USA. See www.rarescale.org.uk |
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Gary Schocker |
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Gary Schocker
is a world-renowned flutist as well as an award-winning composer with
over 100 works in publication. He is the most published living composer
of music for the flute in the world. His engagements have included
performances with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra,
the Dallas Symphony, the West German Sinfonia, an extended tour with I Solisti Italiani and solo recitals in New York, Cleveland, Detroit, Philadelphia, Boston, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. He concertizes in duo with internationally acclaimed guitarist Jason Vieaux. He has toured and taught throughout the United States and internationally. Mr. Schocker’s recordings include “Flute Forest” (Azica); “Arioso” and “Dream Travels,” recorded with guitarist Jason Vieaux (Azica); “The Mozart Flute Quartets” (Chesky), “Bach, Handel and Telemann” (Chesky). His recordings on Jonathan Digital include a CD of all-Schocker compositions, “Airborne,” and “Regrets and Resolutions.” Schocker’s musicals, Far From the Madding Crowd and The Awakening can be heard on Original Cast Records. His music can also be heard on the Sazas, Troy, Koch, MHS, SNE, Elysium, Gionata and Flying Frog labels. Mr. Schocker’s popular summer master classes take place in upstate New York, attracting flutists from all over the world. For more information, please visit www.garyschocker.com . |
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Shashank |
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Shashank, born
on Oct. 14, 1978, was barely nine months old when he was initiated
to south Indian classical music, even before he started speaking his
mother tongue. As advised by Flute Maestro T.R. Mahalingam, he learnt
only vocal music from veteran musicians including Palghat K.V. Narayana
Swamy. At his six Shashank picked his father's flute and stunned onlookers
by playing, spontaneously, to signal his entry into the flute world.
His maiden flute concert was at Adelaide, Australia in Sept 1990 when
he was eleven followed by his debut in India on Dec 20, 1990. He became
the youngest musician of the century to have been invited to play
the prestigious "SADAS" concert on Jan. 1, 1991 at the Music
Academy, Madras. Since then, has been a celebrity flautist world over
and performs in the company of top ranking artistes in India and abroad. Shashank's performances feature an extraordinary range of musical expression - from the deepest meditations to youthful fun and astonishing virtuosity. Audiences respond enthusiastically to his flair and unpretentious style. His percussionists add pizzazz to the performances with rhythmictexture that ranges from colorful, sparse punctuation to driving motives that swell to exhilarating levels during solo passages. He has 29 CD albums to his credit apart from two DVDs of his live concerts |
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Helen Spielman |
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Helen Spielman has a lively, successful private studio where she teaches flute to children and adults and counsels musicians regarding performance anxiety in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. Helen is a frequent presenter at the National Flute Association (NFA) national convention, has given presentations for and been on the Board of Directors of the Raleigh Area Flute Association (RAFA), and given talks at Flutewise events and universities. As a faculty member of Wildacres Flute Retreat, she teaches a week-long seminar on performing anxiety each year. Helen’s essays about flute playing and music making have been published internationally in Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand, and translated into Japanese, Polish, Swedish, and Dutch, as well as published widely in the US. For ten years, she was List Manager of the FLUTE internet mailing list of 2400 members from fifty-four countries, and was Music Director of Unity Center of Peace for eleven years. Helen lives with her devoted husband Fred. She enjoys travelling, reading, floral design, and laughing with her friends and two preschool godchildren. Helen has numerous British flute-playing friends and connections from her frequent trips to the UK, and is delighted and honoured to participate in this BFS convention. www.unc.edu/~hbs/. |
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Alexa Still |
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Alexa Still is known internationally for her many recordings on the Koch International Classics label, mostly specializing in twentieth century repertoire. In January of 2005 she recorded her 13th solo disc (featuring recent compositions for flute and piano with English pianist Stephen Gosling) and two more discs in April of 2006. Her most recent release, featuring concertos of John Corigliano, Chen-Yi and Katherine Hoover, has received unanimously rave reviews. A native of New Zealand, Alexa was principal flute of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra (1987-1998), appointed Associate Professor of Flute at University of Colorado at Boulder in 1998, and has recently taken up the Flute position at the Sydney Conservatorium in Australia. Following her graduate studies (MM and DMA) in New York with teachers Samuel Baron and Thomas Nyfenger, and numerous competition successes, she made regular tours to the US from her base in New Zealand, and was also the recipient of a Fulbright Cultural Grant in 1995-96. She has appeared as soloist, recitalist and masterclass clinician in China, England, Germany, Slovenia, Turkey, Mexico, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and throughout the United States. You can read much more about Alexa and her motorcycle at http://www.AlexaStill.com/ |
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Mimi Stillman |
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Yamaha
Performing Artist Mimi Stillman,"A magically gifted flutist,
a breath of fresh air" (The Washington Post), performs internationally
as soloist and chamber musician. She has performed as soloist with
The Philadelphia Orchestra, at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy
Center, the La Jolla Chamber Music Society, and at other major concert
halls and festivals. At 12, she was the youngest wind player ever accepted to the Curtis Institute of Music, where she received her Bachelor of Music studying with Julius Baker and Jeffrey Khaner. She was the youngest wind player ever to win the Young Concert Artists International Auditions. Ms. Stillman is a freqeuent guest artist and masterclass teacher at universities and flute societies. Her recent CD "MIMI" includes her award-winning book of arrangements of Debussy's songs, Nuits d'Etoiles: 8 Early Songs. She recorded the soundtrack for Kevin Bacon's film "Loverboy". Ms. Stillman has premiered music by composers including Daniel Dorff, Jennifer Higdon, Lawrence Ink, and Lowell Liebermann. She is a columnist for Flutewise Magazine, and a PhD candidate in History at the University of Pennsylvania where she is a Bradley Graduate Fellow. She is the founder and artistic director of the Dolce Suono Chamber Music Concert Series at U. Pennsylvania. |
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Emma Williams |
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Emma Williams studied with Susan Milan and David Butt at the Royal College of Music and with the late Alain Marion in Paris. As a chamber musician and soloist she has performed throughout Britain as well as internationally, including recitals at London’s Wigmore Hall (Ensemble Lumiere & YCAT Finalist), BBC Radio 3 (Young Artist) and South Bank Centre (Purcell Room). She regularly gives concerts with Richard Shaw (piano) and with Hugh Webb (harp). Emma has recorded for BBC2 television (film sound track to “The Gulag”), Cramer Music (“Classic Experience“, “Classic Experience Encores“, “Harlequin” and “Small Talk”) and for the Metronome, Metier, Dutton and Deux-Elles labels. In the contemporary field she has premiered Elena Firsova’s trio The Scent of Absence at the memorial concert for Prokofiev’s son, Malcolm Arnold’s Sonata and Nicholas Sackman’s Quartet. She has worked with the London Festival Orchestra, London Chamber Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and English Symphony Orchestra. Emma’s theatre work includes: National Theatre (His Dark Materials), Opera Interludes (Die Zauberflö te), Stanley Hall Opera (Falstaff, La Cenerentola, La Pietra del Paragone, Don Pasquale) and Independent Opera (La Scala di Seta). She has recently returned from the Middle East where she gave solo recitals and masterclasses, and from Zimbabwe, performing Mozart’s Magic Flute. |
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Matthias Ziegler |
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Matthias Ziegler
is one of the world’s most versatile and innovative flutists. Concert tours have brought him to the
US, Japan, Australia, South America and Israel. Many recordings
on CD document his inclusive musical interests. Searching for new sounds he enormously broadened the expressive potential of the traditional flute and the electroacoustically amplified contrabass flute. Inspired by the new dimension of sounds of these instruments, composers such as Michael Jarrell from Switzerland, Benjamin Yusupov from Tadjikistan, Mathias Rüegg from the Vienna Art Orchestra and the American Mark Dresser wrote flute concertos for him. Matthias Ziegler performs on a quartertone flute Brannen/Kingma system, a Alto- and Bassflute by Eva Kingma, a Contrabassflute by Kotato Fukushima as well as on his own invention, the ”Matusiflute. |
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