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ABELN, Melissa Colgin
ADAMS, Liselyn
psychology, and has been entirely
created by the Ensemble (all music
collaboratively composed),
choreographerMichael Montanaro
(Cirque du Soleil), Dr. Sha Xin Wei
(Topological Media Lab), video artist
Jérôme Delapierre, sound artist Navid
Navab, and writer Ann Scowcroft. A
film version of the production will be
released in 2015. Liselyn Adams is a
faculty member at Concordia
University in Montreal where she
coaches chamber music, teaches flute
and contemporary music performance,
and is currently serving as
department chair.
AITKEN, Dianne
Melissa Colgin Abeln is Professor of
flute and music literature at the
University of Texas at El Paso and
principal flutist of the El Paso
Symphony Orchestra.  She earned the
MM and DMA degrees from the U of
Texas at Austin, and the BM degree
from the U of Alabama. Her major
teachers include Sheryl Cohen,
Raymond Guiot, Torkil Bye,
Karl Kraber, and Bernard Goldberg.
Her research topic, The Memory Map
for Music, has led to invitations to
lecture at three conventions for the
National Flute Association (2007, 2008,
2011), the International Society of
Music Education (Greece 2012) and
conferences for the College Music
Society (2012), Music Teachers’
National Association (2013), Texas
Music Educators’ Association and MidSouth Flute Society (2014).
http://www.memorymapformusic.org/
2015 Canadian Flute Convention
Liselyn Adams moved to Canada after
completing her studies at the New
England Conservatory, Boston
University, and the Royal Conservatory
of the Netherlands. Her primary
teachers were Doriot Anthony Dwyer
and Barthold Kuijken. Equally at home
on the modern and baroque flutes,
Liselyn Adams has performed as
principal flutist with the Studio de
musique ancienne de Montréal, the Carl
Philipp Ensemble, and as a guest
soloist in many cities in North America.
She is a founding member of the Blue
Rider Ensemble, which, since 1990, has
premiered works by a wide variety of
Canadian and American composers,
including works of instrumental theatre
both composed for and collectively
created by the Ensemble. Their unique
process has drawn other artists to work
with them, from Québec poet and
playwright Michel Garneau (Blue Rider
Marmelade) to choreographer David
Earle, whose beautiful staging of Blue
Memos, a concert of structured
improvisations and works by Peter
Hatch drew critical acclaim, as have
their recordings on Centrediscs and
Maestro. The Blue Rider Ensemble¹s
most recent large-scale work drew its
inspiration from Mary Shelley¹s
Frankenstein. Frankenstein¹s Ghosts
began with an academic exploration
with researchers in ethics and
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Ms. Aitken is currently on the Flute
Faculty, The Royal Conservatory;
Department Coordinator of the
Woodwind, Brass and Percussion
Department; MEP Faculty Team
member; Woodwind Specialist, Senior
Examiner (RC Examinations, RC
Music Development Program, formerly
TAP – The Carnegie Hall Royal
Conservatory Achievement Program)
and former Chair, National Flute
Association's New Music Advisory.
Past academic activities include faculty
at University of Toronto, Glenn Gould
School, Wind Specialist Representative,
Council of Examiners (RC
Examinations).
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As curriculum developer,
publications include Overtones Flute
Series (FH 2010), RC Flute Syllabi,
Sight Reading materials, etc. (RC
Examinations), and assistance in
Hiroshi Koizumi's Technique for
Contemporary Flute Music (Schott ‘96).
Her compositions for flute include
Learning to Skate, Loco-motif,
cadenzas for Mozart and Stamitz works,
and chamber arrangements of
Marcello Sonatas.
Performances/broadcasts: Canada,
Europe, US with Aitken/Tureski Duo,
Barbara Hannigan, NMC, Esprit
Orchestra, COC, Zelda Symphony of
the Goddesses. Solo/ensemble
performances/showcases at NFA/CFA
Conventions include Chicago, Las
Vegas, Anaheim, New York, Oakville.
Selected discography: ô Bali, à la claire
fontaine, Henry Brant: Music for
Massed Flutes, Tyee (Centrediscs’
Neue Bilder). Active session/orchestral
player, clinician/adjudicator (WindsorEssex Kiwanis, Winnipeg Music
Festival), co-sponsors the Aitken
Award at Contemporary
Showcase festival.
Dianne Aitken received her
Bachelor of Music (Performance) from
University of Toronto, studying with
Douglas Stewart. Postgraduate work
includes courses in Europe, working
with midi-flute & ISPW (IRCAM,
Paris), Internationale Ferienkurse für
Neue Musik (Darmstadt), Rencontres
de la Chartreuse (Acanthes/Festival
d’Avignon); Artist-in-Residence at the
Banff Centre and personal study with
Marcel Moyse, Greta Kraus, PierreYves Artaud and Robert Aitken.
Her students continue to be
consistent award winners, i.e. Kiwanis
(Toronto: Platinum; Provincials: First
Place, Third Prize), North York Music
Festival: Trophy (Best Senior
Woodwinds) RC Examinations Gold,
Silver Medals, RC Scholarships, John
Weinzweig Centenary Scholarship,
Walter Homburger Award, and
accepted into various music programs,
i.e. UToronto, McGill, WLU,
UWindsor, McMaster, York, Brigham
Young University, École Normale de
Musique de Paris.
Dianne lives in Toronto and
maintains a balance between
performing, writing, her RC/NFA
activities & family.
ALLT, Leslie
Mr. Allt also specializes in exotic
flutes, ranging from penny whistles to
panpipes. He is featured on numerous
recordings and has brought his
expertise to the Toronto productions of
‘The Lion King’ and ‘Lord of the
Rings’, playing fourteen different
instruments.
An avid proponent of
contemporary music, he has performed
with Toronto’s New Music Concerts
and Arraymusic, and the Scotia Festival
under Pierre Boulez. He particularly
enjoys his work in chamber music
collaborations with some of the
country’s finest musicians.
ÁLVAREZ, Heidi
Leslie Allt is recognized as one of
Toronto’s most versatile musicians. He
is an accomplished jazz artist as well as
a respected classical flautist. As
Principal flute, Mr. Allt has toured
extensively throughout North America
and Europe with the Canadian Opera
Company, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet
and the National Ballet of Canada. His
work in recent years has included
performances with the Toronto
Mendelssohn Choir, Art of Time
Ensemble and at the DuMaurier Jazz
Festival, as well as the Elora Festival,
Festival of the Sound, and Guelph
Spring Festival.
He has been a guest soloist with
Nota Bene Period Orchestra, National
Ballet of Canada, Sinfonia Mississauga,
and the Canadian Opera Children’s
Chorus, among others. His facility with
various genres has led to performances
and recordings with such artists as Ray
Charles, Sophie Milman, Blue Rodeo
and Diana Krall.
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Heidi Álvarez is Professor of Music at
Western Kentucky University, where
she teaches flute, flute choir, music
appreciation, and music theory. She is
the Treasurer and a board member for
the Flute Society of Kentucky.
Additionally, she plays second flute in
the Orchestra Kentucky Bowling Green
and is a mother of three. Dr. Álvarez,
an avid supporter of new music,
released compact disc recordings that
feature commissioned flute chamber
music: Flute Chamber Music by
Michael Kallstrom; Volume One (CRC
2911) released in 2007 and Volume
Two released in 2012, both on the
Centaur Records Label; The Light
Wraps You on the MSR Classics Label
(MS 1217). Dr. Álvarez holds degrees
in flute performance from The Oberlin
Conservatory of Music (B.M.) and
from The Florida State University
(M.M. and D.M.). Her former flute
teachers include Michel Debost,
Kathleen Chastain, and Charles
DeLaney.
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ARRINGTON, Amanda
Amanda Arrington serves as faculty
collaborative pianist at the Kansas State
University School of Music, Theatre,
and Dance. She maintains an active
performing career collaborating with
faculty artists, guest artists, and
students in over 70 concerts each year.
She has performed national and
international premieres with her
colleagues at the North American
Saxophone Alliance Conference,
ClarinetFest, the International Double
Reed Society Conference, the World
Saxophone Congress, and the National
Association of Composers, USASummer Fest. As a concerto soloist, she
has enjoyed performances with KState’s Orchestra and Wind Ensemble.
She has also served as pianist for many
Manhattan engagements, including the
Hale Library Concert Series,
Manhattan Parks and Recreation
Department Summer Musicals, Kansas
State University’s Young People’s
Concerts, Manhattan’s Summer Chorus,
and an annual Messiah Sing-Along for
community members. Ms. Arrington
holds degrees in Music Education from
Kansas State University and Piano
Pedagogy from the University of
Central Missouri.
ARSLAN, Aydin
Born in 1978 in Lausanne, Switzerland,
Aydin Arslan starts studying piano at
age 7. In 1992, he enters Edith
Fischer’s studio and successively
completes a Bachelor’s degree in
Music, the “Performance Diploma”
delivered by the London Guildhall
School of Music with “merit” and in
1999, a chamber music degree at the
Conservatory of La Chaux-de-Fonds.
Later, he pursues his studies at the
Royal Conservatory of Music of
Toronto in the studios of André
Laplante and Marc Durand. Aydin
Arslan has attended Master classes
given by Jorge Pepi, Michael Davidson,
James Avery, Sebastian Benda, Josep
Colom, Adrian Cox and György Sebök
among others. He now dedicates
himself to chamber music, teaching and
vocal coaching.
After winning the Unanimous First
Prize in the class of Jean Morin at the
Conservatoire de musique de Québec,
flutist Catherine Audet continued her
studies at the University of Montreal.
She completed the Master of Music
degree in Interpretation with Lise
Daoust and perfected her art with Denis
Bluteau to obtain the Diplôme d’Études
Supérieures Spécialisé (DESS) in
orchestral repertoire. Awarded a grant
from the Canada Council for the Arts,
she studied in France under
Patrick Gallois.
During her years as a student, Ms.
Audet has participated in numerous
master‐classes. She has appeared on
stage as a soloist and a duettist (flute
and harp), and successfully performed
with a variety of orchestras and
ensembles such as, Les flûtistes de
Montréal. She also has recorded several
programmes for CBC Radio Canada
under the Young Artists Series.
In addition to her performing
career, Catherine Audet has taught at
the McGill Conservatory of
Music and currently teaches in the
school system.
BATY, Brian
AUDET, Catherine
A busy freelance bassist, Brian works
regularly with the following ensembles:
Toronto Symphony, Canadian Opera
Company, National Ballet of Canada,
Esprit, Soundstreams, Via Salzburg,
Art of Time Ensemble, Toronto
Concert Orchestra, Kitchener-Waterloo
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Symphony, Orchestra London,
Windsor Symphony, Kingston
Symphony, Hamilton Philharmonic,
National Academy Orchestra among
others.His experience in music theatre
includes performances of West Side
Story with the Stratford Festival and
both the latest production of Les
Miserables in Toronto at the Princess of
Whales Theatre and in Cambridge and
Grand Bend with
Drayton Entertainment.
BEARD, Christine Erlander
Described by Flute Focus as “…having
shattered any notions that the piccolo
might be lacking in deep, expressive
powers," flutist Christine Erlander
Beard enjoys an active career as a
soloist, chamber artist and teacher.
Quickly achieving international
recognition as a performer and
advocate for the piccolo, she has
performed extensively across the U.S.,
South America and Europe, including
twelve of the previous thirteen
conventions of the National Flute
Association and three British Flute
Society Conventions. Her recent
appearances have included
performances in Florida, California,
Costa Rica, Mexico and Peru; future
engagements include performances of
Houston Dunleavy's double concerto
(for piccolo/flute, alto/bass flute, and
wind ensemble) with low flutes
specialist Peter Sheridan; and her
thirteenth appearance at the 2015 NFA
convention where she will premiere a
new piccolo duo by David Loeb
(written for her and Mary Ann Archer).
She is also excitedly awaiting the
completion of a new piccolo concerto
being written for her by Dunleavy
which she will premiere with the
Omaha Symphonic Winds in 2016.
As a chamber artist, Christine regularly
performs as a member of Zephyrus with
percussionist, Tomm Roland. Formed
in 2010, this duo has toured across the
Midwest and has been featured at the
Festival Flautas del Mundo in
Argentina and at the Festival of New
American Music. Zephyrus will
perform at the 2015 Omaha Under the
Radar festival, and the duo is taking
part in a consortium to commission a
new piece by Ivan Trevino for bass
flute and percussion which they will
co-premiere during the
2015-2016 season. 
In addition to her active
performance schedule, Christine is the
Piccolo Artist for Gemeinhardt Musical
Instruments and in that role has
presented piccolo clinics and lecturerecitals at state music conferences and
flute festivals across the U.S. A
contributing editor for the NFA's Flutist
Quarterly, her pedagogical articles and
columns have been published in Flute
Talk, the Flutist Quarterly, Flutewise,
and The Instrumentalist, and her
arrangement of Eugene Damare's "The
Wren Polka" for solo piccolo and band
has enjoyed performances across the
U.S. and Europe.
Beard earned her MM and DMA
in flute performance from The
University of Texas at Austin. She
joined the faculty at the University of
Nebraska at Omaha in 2002 where she
 teaches flute, chamber music, directs
the contemporary music ensemble and
conducts the flute choir. In her spare
time, she serves as the
creator/webmaster for PiccoloHQ.com
and is the founder and Artistic Director
of the International Piccolo Symposium.
www.christiebeard.com
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BELLAVANCE, Michel
Swiss-Canadian flutist Michel
Bellavance is the Professor of Flute at
the renowned Geneva Conservatoire,
(HEM Switzerland). With engagements
on nearly every continent, Bellavance
enjoys a very full travel schedule with
invitations to headline as guest artist at
festivals, perform with orchestras, as
well as hold workshops, master classes
and recitals at conservatories and
universities.
Michel has appeared as soloist with
numerous European orchestras. He has
also given recitals and taught
masterclasses all over the world,
including Europe, Asia, South America,
Australia, Canada, and the United
States. He is a grant recipient of the
Canada Arts Council, studying in Paris,
Geneva, Zürich and San Francisco,
honing his performing skills with artists
such as Aurèle Nicolet, Patrick Gallois,
Maxence Larrieu, András Adorján and
Paul Renzi.
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BEN-TOVIM MBE, Atarah
Atarah Ben‐Tovim (MBE Hon D.Mus)
is a fluting legend‐ probably the only
flute player in the world to play live to
2 million children and adults. An
unusual woman, an unusual career,
starting with principal flute with
Sadlers Wells ,followed by 12 years
principal with RLPO (beating Sir
James ‐ good going, especially for a
woman in 1962. ) Great years .She
played all the major flute concertos
with the RLP0 and broadcast most of
flute solo and chamber
music repertoire.
She left the orchestra after a
calling while playing for children
handicapped by Thalidomide, to create
an ensemble to inspire kids to take up
instruments ‐Atarah’s Band, in which
she presented and played picc flute and
alto. A fusion ensemble of guitars
drums, trumpet and oboe –way ahead
of its time, it made 5 best –selling LP’s
gave 2000 concerts world-wide and TV
and radio series including a Radio 3
series. There were TV programmes
about her work on Omnibus, Magpie,
Blue Peter etc . Next, she restored her
farmhouse/flute museum near
Bordeaux, (much warmer than the 25
years spent in the North) ‐wrote The
Right Instrument For Your Child” ,
now in 4 the edition and 16 languages‐
Created and presented Children’s
Classic Orchestral Concert for ten years,
then 6 great years as Chairman of the
BFS . Now French Rep for ABRSM,
she runs flute courses for Adults and
students ,presents concerts, writes,
helps her husband Douglas Boyd
(whose 19th book comes out this year)
and teaches young and old . Regrets –
She refused the offer of “Professor of
Inspiration” in Liverpool, but her 60
year fluting‐ passion has inspired many
of today’s women teachers and
performers. Her family live in Toronto,
her daughter running the Cap Centre
and her grand‐daughter was in the
Toronto youth orchestra and studied
Music at McGill.
BERNEY, Boaz
Boaz Berney studied traverso with
Wilbert Hazelzet at The Royal
Conservatory, The Hague. He is active
in various early music ensembles and
performs music from the sixteenth to
the nineteenth centuries. In addition to
his activities as a performer, Boaz also
makes copies of historical flutes after
original instruments in various
European museums, and plays on flutes
that he has made himself. He
participates regularly in early music
exhibitions in London, Berlin, Boston,
Utrecht and Vienna. From 1995 to
1998 he was employed by the
Gemeente Museum in The Hague to do
research and conservation on the flutes
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in their collection. Boaz is also
researching the history of the
Renaissance flute, and has been invited
to lecture in various symposiums
dedicated to the history of Renaissance
woodwinds. http://berneyflutes.com/
BERRY, Mark
Mark Berry is Principal Timpanist with
Orchestra Kentucky, a position he has
held since 2002. He has performed with
the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, the
Cleveland Baroque Ensemble, the
Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra, the
Owensboro Symphony, and the
Jackson Symphony. Dr. Berry’s new
solo percussion CD entitled,
“DIMENSION” was recently released
on the Equilibrium label. His research
has been published in Percussive Notes
in an article entitled, “Thirteen Drums,
Op. 66: Interpreting in Concurrence
with Maki Ishii’s “Space‐Time”
Concept.” His percussion compositions
are published by C‐Alan Publications,
HoneyRock Publishing, and Tapspace
Publications. Dr. Berry’s steel band
arrangements have been premiered at
The Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
He is a founding member of the cello /
percussion duo, Col Legno. The duo
recently premiered Berry’s composition,
“Heliospheric II” at the Hawaii
International Conference on the Arts.
Dr. Berry is Associate Professor of
Percussion at Western Kentucky
University where he founded the WKU
Steelband in 2004 through a grant
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award. In 2008, he was recognized as
the TDKMEA “College/University
Teacher of Year.” Dr. Berry has earned
degrees from the University of
Michigan (DMA, MM) and The Ohio
State University (BME). His principal
teachers include Michael Udow and
Salvatore Rabbio.
BEYER, Jeffrey
An avid chamber musician, Beyer
performs regularly with Trio Fiori
(with violinist Theresa Stacy and
pianist Sharon Sweet), the Beyer Trio
(with clarinetist Amy Beyer-Rosas and
pianist Michael Rosas), and the
Michigan Flute Orchestra. He has also
performed with the Grosse Pointe
Symphony, and for several musical
productions with Stagecrafters at the
Historic Baldwin Theater in
Royal Oak, Michigan.
Beyer presently manages the
instrument department at Flute World
Co in Farmington Hills, Michigan. He
serves as the Vice President for the
Southeast Michigan Flute Association
as well Vice-Chair for the Oak Park
Arts and Cultural Commission. Beyer
performs on a Sankyo flute
(#teamsankyo).
Baroque flute with Wilbert Hazelzet;
and more recently the Renaissance flute
with Nancy Hadden.
BLOCKI, Kathy
BLANCHARD, Geneviève
Jeffrey Beyer can be found performing
fancy flute tricks in the greater Metro
Detroit area. Beyer studied flute under
Kelly Hill-Kretzer and graduated from
Siena Heights University in Adrian,
Michigan summa cum laude in 2005
with a Bachelors of Arts degree in
Music and minor in Theater and
Speech/Communications. Other
influential teachers include Sharon
Sparrow, Lori Newman, Nancy Sutton,
and Clement Barone, Jr.
Beyer frequently collaborates with
pianist Sharon Sweet. Together they
have presented several recital programs
including Gentle Dreams and Shiraz:
20th and 21st Century Works for Flute
and Piano (Huntington Woods
Lutheran Church); and Arabesque in
Memoriam: Works for Flute and Piano
(Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Detroit).
An advocate for new and contemporary
music, Beyer is often praised for his
engaging programming; he strives to
perform and promote lesser known
works for the flute whenever possible.
Geneviève Blanchard, originally from
Québec city, is currently living in Israel
where she is very involved in the early
music scene. A versatile musician, she
enjoys playing a wide repertoire on her
many flutes, ranging from Renaissance
to modern. She performs regularly with
leading Israeli Baroque ensembles and
teaches at the Israel Conservatory in
Tel Aviv. She participated in festivals
in Germany, Spain, the Czech Republic,
and lead masterclasses and chamber
music courses in France. In Canada she
served many years in the Calgary
Philharmonic Orchestra and
participated in numerous recordings
and broadcasts. Geneviève is a graduate
of the Conservatoire de Musique du
Québec and of the Conservatoire
National Supérieur de Musique de Paris,
France. She furthered her studies in
Germany with Aurèle Nicolet; in The
Hague where she specialized in the
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Kathy Blocki’s passion for excellence
in teaching is demonstrated by the
consistent success of her students.
Whether it is transforming an autistic
child’s fear of touching the metal on
the flute into the freedom to express
himself, or helping a gifted child win a
competition playing the Ibert Concerto;
her zeal to help every student reach
their fullest potential is unmistakable.
Numerous students have excelled in
competitions and several have received
full scholar‐ships to continue their
music education. Flute choirs under her
direction have consistently received
perfect ratings.
In January 2012 she received the
“Best Tools for Schools Award” at the
NAMM for the creation of the Pneumo
Pro Wind Director flute training tool
for teaching air speed, direction and
developing breath support. The new
“Flute Tutor” (patent pending) was
created with Belgium flutist Ludwig
Lapauw to help students to learn how
to maintain correct positioning and
flexibility without rolling the flute in
and out.
Her clinics on teaching the flute
have been enthusiastically received in
Europe, Canada, Australia, and
throughout the United States. Articles
on teaching the flute have been
published in the National Flute
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Association 2012 Pedagogy Anthology,
and the “School Band and Orchestra”
magazine. Articles featuring her
method of teaching the flute have
appeared in the Chicago “Pipe Notes”,
the Dutch “Fluit” magazine and in the
German “Flöte Aktuell” journal.
Her approach to teaching beginning
students has pioneered many new ideas.
The award‐winning Blocki Flute
Method was the first method to
introduce playing in multiple octaves;
and to use five‐note patterns as the
foundation for teaching new notes,
rhythms, tonguing, transposition, ear
training, key signatures, and theory.
The seven books also incorporate many
student composition projects which
introduce students to a variety of
musical forms. Her unique system of
teaching rhythm is woven throughout
all three volumes of the Blocki Flute
Method. Innovative pedagogical ideas
for teaching tone have led to the
founding of KinderFlute TM.
Teacher training sessions for the new
KinderFluteTMprogram began 4 years
ago, and now KinderFlute teachers can
be found in Australia, Canada, olumbia,
Holland, Spain, Germany, France and
throughout the US. In KinderFlute,
Kathryn combines the research of
Harvard professor Dr. John Ratey MD
and applies it to the pedagogy of
teaching the flute. Kinesthetic learning
is emphasized through the use of games
to create an active, fun and engaging
environment to best learn the flute and
to build a life time love of music.
Previously, she was a member of the
Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Chautauqua
Festival Orchestra, and a regular soloist
with the American Wind Symphony.
As a past faculty member of Goshen
College, she taught flute, flute choir,
and aural music skills. She graduated
with high honors from IU Bloomington,
Jacob’s School of Music and highest
honors from Arizona State University,
and has had the privilege of studying
with Eric Hoover, James Pellerite,
Samuel Baron, Bernard Goldberg, and
Amy Hamilton. Currently, she serves
as a member of the National Flute
Association’s Pedagogy Committee.
www.KinderFlute.com
www.BlockiFlute.com
BLOCKI, Martin
(soon!), she will return to music in
earnest, knowing, with Plato, that
“Music is the moral law!”
BOHNET, Andra
Martin Blocki a holds music degrees
from the Indiania University Jacob’s
School of Music and Arizona State
University, and a MDiv. from
Reformed Presbyterian Theological
Seminary. He was a band director at
South Adams School District in Berne,
IN, and on the music faculty at Goshen
College, and is currently a marriage
and family counselor and associate
pastor at NHRP church.
BLOCKI, Sarah
After studying piano with William
Nelson at Carleton College, Sarah went
on to teach math and practice law. She
currently is an Assistant Attorney
General in the state of Washington,
defending the state’s pension systems.
When she has her own pension in hand
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Andra Bohnet is a flutist who embraces
a rich variety of musical styles with
passion, virtuosity and sensitivity.
Andra performs and records on flutes
of all shapes and sizes (classical,
traditional wooden and a variety of
ethnic instruments), as well as Celtic
harp. In addition to her position
as Professor of Music at the University
of South Alabama where she teaches
flute, music business, music
history/literature and chamber music,
she is the principal flutist with Mobile
Symphony Orchestra. She also
performs on Irish and other folk flutes
with Mithril (www.mithril.us), a high energy Celtic/world music band, which
has released six CDs. Mithril is
currently being featured with
symphony orchestras pops concerts
throughout the U.S.
Her solo CD, Clinton on Clinton,
the culmination of a research project
which has been to rediscover the music
of John Clinton (1809-1864), an Irish
flutist, composer and flutemaker
who was a major figure in the
nineteenth-century flute
design controversy (www.clintonflutepr
oject.com). For this project, she
performed Clinton's music on seven
flutes manufactured by Clinton & Co.
over 150 years ago!
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The Silverwood Quartet
specializes in exploring popular and
world music in addition to the classical
repertoire has performed throughout the
United States and in Japan. She has
performed and presented at several
National Flute Association
Conventions. In addition to fluting,
Andra is a master martial artist, avid
snow skier, techno-geek, and
alternatively wishes she was a hobbit
or a Jedi knight.
BOUSTANY, Wissam
Sponsored in Part by
Royal Northern College of Music
initiative Toward Humanity, which
uses music as a catalyst to support
humanitarian projects on an
international scale. Born in Lebanon,
Boustany studied at Chetham’s School
of Music and the Royal Northern
College of Music. He won the Silver
Medal in the 1982.
Madeira international Flute
Competition and the woodwind prize in
the Royal Overseas League
Competition, as well as the silver
medal in the Shell/LSO Competition
and the 2nd prize in the woodwind
section BBC Young Musician of the
Year. In 1997 he was awarded a
knighthood in Lebanon in recognition
of his music and humanitarian work. In
1998 he was presented with the Crystal
Award at the World Economic Forum,
Switzerland. Wissam is Professor of
Flute at the Royal Northern College of
Music in Manchester.
BRACHFELD, Andrea
Sponsored by RS Berkeley
Wissam Boustany has toured in
South/North America, Europe and the
Middle/Far East and Africa. He
founded the initiative Toward
Humanity, which uses music as a
catalyst to support humanitarian
projects on an international scale. Born
in Lebanon, Boustany studied at
Chetham’s School of Music and the
Royal Northern College of Music. He
won the Silver Medal in the 1982
Madeira international Flute
Competition and the woodwind prize in
the Royal Overseas League
Competition, as well as the silver
medal in the Shell/LSO Competition
and the 2nd prize in the Wissam
Boustany has toured in South/North
America, Europe and the Middle/Far
East and Africa. He founded the
Flutist Andrea Brachfeld, a graduate of
The High School of Music and Art and
Manhattan School of Music, began her
musical career at 16 and has associated
with artists from all genres including
Tito Puente, Ray Barreto, Hubert Laws,
Nestor Torres, Dave Valentín, Paquito
D’Rivera,Wycliffe Gordon and
Wallace Roney, among others.
She is the first female flutist to play
“Charanga” music in the United States.
She has recorded six CDs with the
latest in 2012. She currently tours with
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her band and presents workshops
nationally. She plays in Wallace
Roney’s “Universe Orchestra” playing
Wayne Shorter’s music written for
Miles Davis.
BUDAI, Izabella
Izabella Budai has been an active flutist
for the past eighteen years, performing
extensively in solo, orchestral and
chamber music settings. A former
Principal Flutist with the Kindred
Spirits Orchestra, the London
Community Orchestra and a frequent
extra for Orchestra London Canada in
the past, she now freelances in the
Toronto area and devotes most of her
time to chamber music. In addition to
numerous short-term collaborations
with musicians in the area, she is
founding member of Duo Agilis with
pianist Peichen Chen and the duo
Flautas del Fuego with fellow flutist
Alhelí Pimienta. Flautas del Fuego is
currently recording their first CD to be
released in May 2015. Izabella studied
with Camille Watts, Nora Shulman
(University of Toronto) and Annelie
Metrakos (University of Western
Ontario) as well as János Bálint at
various summer programs in Hungary
and Italy.
Izabella has recently been awarded
her Doctor of Musical Arts in
Performance degree at the University
of Toronto where she won several
grants in support of her research. Her
doctoral dissertation won the National
Flute Association’s research
competition in 2014. A passionate
teacher, Izabella maintains a busy
teaching schedule working with young
flutists in her private studio as well as
at Montrcest School and the Toronto
Academy of Music Canada.
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BYRNE, Mary
CAMILLERI, Mark
Channel and TLC. Mark was also part
of the creative team for both seasons of
“Triple Sensation” (Produced by
CBC/Garth Drabinsky). Mark’s
greatest achievement is with wife
Louise St. Cyr in raising their 2 boys
Andrew and Adrian.
CAMPBELL, Joss
An active teacher, adjudicator, lecturer,
recorded artist, and published author,
Mary is internationally respected for
her wide-ranging works in flute
pedagogy, repertoire, and general
musicology. She boasts a thriving flute
studio of students at all ages and stages
of musical interest, and she is
justifiably proud of her students’ many
musical achievements. She frequent
performs with the Victoria Symphony,
and on a wide variety of Vancouver
Island’s stages. Mary carefully
balances the demands of professional
musicianship and family, reserving
some measure of time to indulge her
love of knitting and other textile arts.
She earned B.Mus. in Flute
Performance and Music Education and
M.Mus. in Flute Performance degrees
from the University of Michigan, and a
Ph.D. in Musicology from the
University of Victoria, specializing in
the pedagogy and performance practice
of the flute performer/teachers at the
Paris Conservatoire during the 19th and
early 20th centuries.
www.marybyrneflute.ca
Mark is thrilled to be playing with
Samantha Chang after recording 2
amazing CD’s with her. Mark’s last
appearance at Koerner Hall was as
Music Director for a PBS special
featuring the Canadian Tenors. Mark
has Music Directed many concerts and
has shared the stage with Andrea
Bocelli, Celine Dion, Oprah Winfrey,
Sting, Sheryl Crow, Sarah McLachlan,
David Foster, Herbie Hancock and
most of the major symphony orchestras
across North America. Mark’s theatre
credits include Music Director for “The
Toxic Avenger” (Dancap Productions),
“Cinderella” (Ross Petty Prodictions),
“Menopause Out Loud” (G4
Productions) “High School Musical”
(Drayton Entertainment) and many
shows with various regional theatres.
He was also Associate Musical
Director for “Mamma Mia” and “Dirty
Dancing” (Mirvish Productions). Mark
also owns and operates his own
recording studio IMAGINE Sound
Studios and his Recording/Producer
credits include working with Jeff
Healey, Jason Priestly, Marvin Hamlish,
as well as various CDs for Somerset
Entertainment. T.V. and Radio credits
include composing and recording
commercials and corporate videos for
Cosmopolitan Magazine, General Mills,
Microsoft, General Motors as well as
scoring documentaries for the History
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Joss Campbell started playing the flute
when she was five years old and by the
age of 13, debuted as a soloist, in
London, with The London Symphony
Orchestra at Henry Wood Hall and The
Barbican. Joss studied at Chetham’s
School of Music, won a scholarship to
study at The Royal College of Music
and then went on to study at The
Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
Her teachers have included Eddie
Walker, Gareth Morris, Trevor Wye,
John Francis and Peter Lloyd.
Joss was the runner up in both the BBC
Young Musician of the Year wind
finals and The Shell/London Symphony
Orchestra Scholarship. She has been a
member of The European Community
Youth Orchestra and has worked with
Scottish Opera and in the West End,
London. In addition to this, Joss has
performed on Radio 3 and given
recitals all over the UK, including
premieres at St John’s Smith Square
and at The Bath Festival. Joss
combines her performing with a very
successful teaching career in London
and enjoys running several flute choirs
in and around the London area. She has
written and produced teaching
resources for tone production
and warm ups.
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CHAMBERS, Laura
Toronto born flautist Laura Chambers
began her flute studies at the age of
seven. She has since had the privilege
of working with such artists as
members of Nexus and composer Steve
Reich. Ms. Chambers holds an Honours
Bachelor of Performance from the
University of Toronto and a Masters
Degree from the Thornton School of
Music at the University of Southern
California where she studied under
Professor James Walker. Previous
teachers include Patrick Gallois, Susan
Hoeppner, Camille Churchfield and
Tara Helen O’Connor.
Ms. Chambers has appeared as a
concerto soloist, orchestral player and
chamber ensemble musician across
North America. As a player of modern,
baroque and world flutes, Laura has
been a featured soloist with the
Mississauga Symphony, Toronto
Symphony and the Kitchener Waterloo
Chamber Orchestras, and a guest artist
at the Glen Gould Studio, and Ottawa
Chamber Music Festival. She has
recorded for the Naxos label and award
winning motion picture
soundtracks. As an active member of
the GTA freelance scene, Laura holds
the position of principal flute of
Orchestra Toronto and has appeared
regularly with groups such as the
Niagara Symphony and Orchestra
London. Her diversity as a flute player
has been further displayed during her
experience in musical theatre in such
shows as Acting Up's March 2008
theatre production of a Man of No
Importance in which she played over
13 different wind instruments.
CHANG, Samantha
Hailed by The WholeNote Magazine
for her “lyricism, resourcefulness, and
strong personal commitment to the
flute”, Canadian flutist Samantha
Chang is a musical tour de force and
rising young artist. Her mandate to
perform, teach, and create opportunities
for aspiring flutists is nothing short of
astonishing.
Samantha released her debut
album, “Flute Sketches” in March 2009,
and subsequently toured Canada, the
UK, China, and Taiwan, wrapping up
with a concert in Weill Recital Hall in
Carnegie Hall, New York. In April
2011, Ms. Chang drew a full house to
Koerner Hall, celebrating the release of
her second album “Sentimentale”.
Along with her performance
schedule, Samantha is committed to
several arts organizations devoted to
furthering young talent and fundraisers
for charities in the community. In 2009,
she created Samantha Chang
Productions Inc., a company dedicated
to promoting music development and
education in Canada. Samantha
frequently visits schools as workshop
instructor for young flute students, and
as the executive director of the
Canadian Flute Association, she
coordinated the first Canadian Flute
Convention, with the second
convention taking place at the
University of St. Michael’s College in
the University of Toronto in 2015.
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Devoted to the repertoire, Ms.
Chang founded Yikewen International,
a publishing company focusing on rare
flute sheet music. Samantha is also
conductor of the Ontario Cross-Cultural
Music Society Youth Symphony
Orchestra (OCMS-YSO) and the
Chinese Artists Society of Toronto
Youth Orchestra (CASTYO) Flute
Choir, assistant conductor of CASTYO,
competition manager of the Toronto
International Piano Competition and
CCC Toronto Piano Competition, and
regional representative for
Di Zhao Flutes.
Samantha Chang is a Fellow of the
Trinity College London and Fellow of
the London College of Music. She
received her Postgraduate Diploma and
Licentiate at the Royal Academy of
Music in London (England) and
Associate performance and teaching
diplomas from the Royal Conservatory
of Toronto (Canada). She is currently a
research assistant and MA student at
the University of Toronto, with
interests in Medieval, Renaissance, and
Baroque art history. In her spare time,
Samantha enjoys reading, following the
World Cup, and speaks English, French,
Mandarin, understands Taiwanese, and
“mumbles through Latin, Italian,
German, Dutch, Cantonese, and
Japanese.”
Samantha Chang performs on a
Muramatsu Platinum Clad Flute, DN
Model Flute, and Alto Flute.
CHERAMY, Michelle
Supported by the Office of the Vice
President (Research), Memorial
University of Newfoundland
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With playing described as a “...fine
blend of artistry and bravura.”
(Edmonton Journal), flutist Michelle
Cheramy is an artist recognized for the
beauty of her sound, the fluidity of her
playing and her interpretive skills in
repertoire from the 18th to the 21st
centuries. One of the few flutists in
Canada to hold a full-time university
appointment, Michelle is currently
associate professor of music at
Memorial University in St. John’s,
Newfoundland. From her maritime
base Michelle has appeared in recital
and as soloist with orchestras in Canada,
the United States and Russia; she has
also been featured in numerous radio
broadcasts, including nationally on
CBC Radio’s Symphony Hall, In
Performance, Two New Hours and The
Signal. Additionally, invitations to
present masterclasses and clinics have
taken Michelle across Canada and to
many corners of the US. A rare
combination of outstanding scholar and
performer, Michelle is past winner of
the Canadian Concerto Competition,
prize-winner in the Montreal
Symphony competition, and winner of
the National Flute Association’s annual
research competition for her
dissertation on the late work of André
Jolivet. While her performance work
now focuses primarily on solo and
chamber projects, past orchestral
appointments include second
flute/piccolo positions with both the
Thunder Bay and Augusta Symphony
orchestras.
A proud former student of Camille
Churchfield, Peter Lloyd, Kate Lukas
and Leone Buyse, Michelle holds
degrees from the University of British
Columbia (B.Mus.), Indiana University
(M.M) and Rice University (D.M.A).
She has also enjoyed the mentorship of
Trevor Wye, Samuel Baron, Damian
Bursill-Hall, Michel Debost and Carol
Wincenc at the Sarasota, Banff and
Domaine Forget summer festivals. A
committed teacher herself, Michelle
maintains a diverse studio at Memorial
that includes undergraduate and
graduate students in a broad variety of
degree programs. An active contributor
to flute culture in North America,
Michelle has served the National Flute
Association as competition coordinator
and committee chair, and is a current
member of the Flutist Quarterly
editorial board.
www.michellecheramy.com
CHOI, Esther
of 5 musicians chosen by Johns
Hopkins to represent the US at an
International chamber orchestra
university festival in Switzerland where
she was Principle/solo Flute. Ms. Choi
has given recitals at the Arts and
Letters Club of Toronto, the Women’s
Club of Toronto, and was featured
soloist with the Toronto Senior Strings
and numerous chamber concerts with
faculty members at Peabody Institute of
Music. An active chamber and
orchestral performer, Ms. Choi has
performed under the batons of many
conductors including Helmuth Rilling,
Agnes Grossman, Sir Andrew Davis,
Leon Fleischer, and Jacques Lacombe.
Ms. Choi has performed all across
Canada, USA, and Switzerland; notably
including Capital Hill in
Washington D.C.
CLELAND, Gordon
Born in Tokyo, and raised in Toronto,
flautist Esther Choi commenced her
flute studies at the Royal Conservatory
of Music. She continued her musical
education at the University of Toronto
with Susan Hoeppner, continued her
studies with Jeffrey Khaner in
Philadelphia followed by her further
education at the Peabody Conservatory
of the Johns Hopkins University where
she obtained both her Masters of Music
degree and the Graduate Performance
Diploma under the tutelage of Marina
Piccinini. Ms. Choi has performed in
numerous masterclasses including
those of Louis Moyse, Julius Baker,
Emmanuel Pahud, Robert Langevin,
Carol Wincenc, Maxence Larrieu, Peter
Lloyd, Jeanne Baxtresser, among others.
A two-time Silver Medalist for the
highest examination grade at the Royal
Conservatory of Music, Ms. Choi has
won numerous competitions including
first place at Nationals at the Canadian
Music Competition, the University of
Toronto Symphony Orchestra Concerto
Competition where she performed with
the orchestra under the direction of
Maestro Raffi Armenian, and was one
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Principal cellist of the Niagara
Symphony, Gordon Cleland has
performed across North America. He
has appeared as soloist with the
Niagara Symphony and for the Debut
Series in Montreal. He has extensive
experience as a chamber musician,
notably with violinist Atis Bankas at
the Niagara International Chamber
Music Festival and with pianist Karin
Di Bella at Brock University. Gordon
has broadcast frequently for CBC FM
Radio and has performed on TV5, the
international French television network.
Gordon is the cello instructor at Brock
University. He has been a featured
performer for the Concertino Program
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of Jeunesses musicales. Gordon has
adjudicated music festivals across
Canada and runs a private studio in the
Niagara region.
Houston, Texas where he studied with
Norman Fischer. Cook’s other teachers
have included Terry King, Evan Jones,
Richard Eckert, Andre Emelianoff and
Einar Holm.
COOK, Nathan
Supported by the Office of the Vice
President (Research), Memorial
University of Newfoundland
Cellist Nathan Cook has been praised
for his “authoritative yet relaxed”
playing, his “sweet and pliant” sound,
and “the combination of vigor and
beauty” in his interpretation (Houston
Chronicle). He has served as the
principal cellist of the Houston
Chamber Orchestra and of the
Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra,
and he has become a regular fixture at
the annual Cedar Valley Chamber
Music Festival (CVCMF) in the
Waterloo/Cedar Falls region in
Iowa. Currently associate professor of
music at Memorial University in St.
John's, Newfoundland Nathan performs
regularly with The Exorior Duo (with
Michelle Cheramy, flute) and is Artistic
Director of the Hot Earth Ensemble, a
group dedicated to performing music of
the Baroque period. His solo, concerto,
and chamber performances have been
heard regionally and nationally in
Canada on CBC Radio, and regionally
in the United States on NPR stations in
Buffalo, Houston and across Iowa.
Nathan hails from Appleton,
Wisconsin and holds an undergraduate
degree in chemistry from Grinnell
College in Iowa as well as a Master of
Arts in Teaching degree from Colgate
University in New York. Nathan
received his masters and doctoral
degrees in music at the Shepherd
School of Music at Rice University in
CRESCENT DUO
The Crescent Duo consists of flutist
Joanna Cowan White and clarinetist
Kennen White, both Professors in the
School of Music at Central Michigan
University. The Crescent Duo was the
first flute/clarinet duo to record and
release a full compact disc of flute
clarinet music. Flights of Fancy was
released in 2005 on the well-known
Centaur Records label. The duo can
also be heard on Woodwind Echoes,
recorded for White Pine Music, a
compact disc of works commissioned
by the performers for flute/clarinet duo
and two other instruments as well.
Joanna and Kennen White perform
nationally and internationally, most
recently at an International Clarinet
Association Clarinetfest in Italy, a
College Music Society Conference in
St. Louis, Missouri, and a National
Flute Association Convention in Las
Vegas. (Joanna White was born in
Toronto.)
DEPPE, Liesel
Flutist Liesel Deppe is a member of the
Windsor Symphony Orchestra in
Ontario, as well as a freelance musician
and teacher in southwestern Ontario.
She lives in Stratford, where she is
actively involved in the local music
scene, notably with the chamber music
series, INNERchamber.
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Liesel has played with many
ensembles and orchestras in South
Africa, Europe, the United States and
Canada. In the USA she was a member
of the Central City Opera Company and
the Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra,
while also playing as a substitute with
the Colorado Springs Orchestra. In
2002 and 2003 she was a member of
the National Academy Orchestra
(Canada), with whom she also
performed as a soloist. She also
appeared as a soloist with the
Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber
Orchestra in 2011, and with the
Windsor Symphony Orchestra in 2012.
Liesel was born in South Africa
and received her undergraduate degree
from the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
A scholarship from the German
Academic Exchange Service enabled
her to further her studies at the
Hochschule für Musik und Theater in
Munich, Germany, where she obtained
a Meisterklassendiplom. During the
2006-2007 season she was awarded a
grant from the Canada Council for the
Arts for private study in Europe, and in
2014 she received a grant from the
Ontario Arts Council for a residency
in Banff.
Liesel was awarded the degree of
Doctor of Musical Arts in November
2011 from the University of Toronto,
where she studied with Leslie Newman.
www.lieseldeppe.ca
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DIEZ D’AUX, Judy
Switzerland and around the United
States, including a concert for Hawaii
Public Radio in 2005. She has won
several auditions to perform with The
Professional Flute Choir at the National
Flute Association (NFA) Conventions
in New Orleans, Washington D.C.,
Charlotte, Las Vegas and Chicago.
She and Peter Sheridan have
commissioned 2 works for Bass flutes
and will record with MOVE Records in
2015. They will also perform concerts
in Melbourne and Canberra, Australia
promoting new music for low flutes.
DISCANTVS
Judy Diez d’Aux, originally from
Champion, Ohio, moved to Quebec in
2009. From her background as a
musician and flutist, she was inspired
to organize concerts to ensure that
chamber music remains a vital part of
life in our communities. She is the
creator of Les flûtistes de Montréal
(www.lesflutistesdemontreal.com) and
The Saint‐Victor Chamber Concerts
series. She was a founding member of
The Paramount Chamber Players in
Northeast Tennessee
(www.paramountplayers.com), a
network of artists who bring chamber
music to their communities. Currently,
she is flutist and piccolo player with
l’Orchestre Philharmonia Mundi de
Montréal, under the direction of Jean‐
Pascal Hamelin
(www.philharmoniamundimontreal.co
m). During the summers, Ms. Diez
d’Aux has been performing in Italy
since 2002 with the Assisi Performing
Arts as a faculty flutist
(www.assisiperformingarts.org).
Judy Diez d’Aux received the
Bachelor of Music degree from the
University of Akron, Ohio and the
Master of Music degree in Flute
Performance from Baylor University in
Texas. Major teachers have included
Brooks de Wetter‐Smith, Anne Whaley
Laney, Helen Ann Shanley and George
Pope. While living in East Tennessee,
she performed regularly with Knoxville
Symphony Orchestra and regional
orchestras. Other engagements have
included the Banff Centre for the Arts
in Canada, Domaine Forget in Québec,
Orvieto Musica in Italy and recitals in
“A caress for the ear” – Haaretz, Israel
Exciting, expressive and intriguing,
DISCANTVS is a unique ensemble of
Renaissance transverse flutes dedicated
to the performance of music from the
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The
musicians’ expertise and love for
Renaissance music makes it come to
life for today’s audiences.
DISCANTVS’ repertoire spans a
variety of styles and textures; from
delicate, filigree-like polyphony to
lively and touching popular chansons.
The only Renaissance flute consort in
Canada, the ensemble is comprised of
three tenor flutes and a bass flute. The
flutists in DISCANTVS have all
studied early music performance in
Holland, Belgium and Canada. The
flutes they play, built by ensemble
member and flute maker Boaz Berney,
are copies of Renaissance instruments
from the collection of the Brussels
Museum of Musical Instruments.
www.DISCANTVS.com
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DUMLAVWALLA, Diana
In 2011, Diana Dumlavwalla became
the first pianist to receive the Doctor of
Musical Arts Performance degree at the
University of Toronto. She studied
piano with James Parker and completed
pedagogical research under the
direction of Midori Koga. At the rank
of Assistant Professor, Diana is on
faculty at Western University where
she teaches doctoral and undergraduate
students. She also teaches at the
University of Toronto and was
previously an instructor at the
University of Windsor and Wilfrid
Laurier University. She is Director of
the Children’s Piano Pedagogy
Program at the University of Toronto, a
member of the Royal Conservatory of
Music’s College of Examiners and a
sought-after private teacher in
Brantford.
Diana has performed in North
America, Europe and Australia. Along
with violinist, Emma Banfield, she is
the pianist of the San Agustin Duo. Her
numerous awards include prizes at the
Royal College of Music Contemporary
Piano Music Competition and the
NUMUS Pan-Am Chamber Music
Competition. She was nationally
recognized when she received the
Marusia Yaworska Scholarship and the
Elizabeth Massey Award from the
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Canadian Federation of University
Women.
Diana received her Master of
Music degree from the Royal College
of Music in London, England, a
Bachelor of Music in Piano
Performance and Voice from Wilfrid
Laurier University and Associate
diploma from the Royal Conservatory
of Music. She has also studied with
many fine pedagogues including Agnes
Olsheski, Virginia Blaha, Heather
Taves, Yonty Solomon and Logan
Skelton.
DUO PELLIROJA
Dr. Leslie Marrs (Drake University)
has performed as a chamber musician
from the nation's capital to New Delhi
and Oxford, and has been featured as
Soloist with the Bay View Festival
Orchestra, University of North Carolina
at Greensboro Orchestra, and the
United States Army Field Band, and
has performed as a competition winner
at National Flute Association
conventions.  As a winner of the NFA
Dissertation Competition, she presented
"Integrating Extended Techniques into
Flute Pedagogy: A Resource Guide for
Flutists, Teachers, and Composers" at
the 2005 NFA convention in San Diego.
 Her article, "Rich Tone Production
with Centered Pitch a la Whistle
Tones" is published in The Woodwind
Player's Cookbook:  Creative Recipes
for a Successful Performance.  Dr.
Marrs's interest in contemporary music
has led to performances of new music
at the College Music Society annual
conferences as a member of the CMS
players. As a former board member and
vice-president of the Baltimore
Composers Forum, she premiered
several works for composers in the
Baltimore-Washington, D.C. area. She
has also hosted her own radio
show, Music from Marrs, for WHFC in
Harford County, Maryland.  She can be
heard on James Brody's Background
Count and on her recent release, Robert
Fruehwald: Music for Flutes and Guitar.
 Marrs brings a background in dance –
ballet, swing, and salsa – as well as the
practice of yoga to body movement and
awareness.
Dr. Nancy SchneelochBingham (Appalachian State University)
performs in the faculty woodwind
quintet, and Harmonia Baroque, an
early music ensemble featuring period
instruments.   She has performed with
the Western Piedmont Symphony,
Salisbury Symphony, Tallahassee
Symphony, Winston-Salem Symphony,
Kingsport Symphony, North Carolina
Symphony, and Appalachian
Philharmonia.  Adding to her eclectic
tastes in fluting, she enjoys the Irish
traditional flute style, and is a founding
member of the Irish music
band, Sunday’s Well. She is also a
faculty member and Associate Director
for the Hayes School of Music's study
abroad program in Irish traditional
music.  An active recitalist and
clinician, Dr. Schneeloch-Bingham has
been featured as a soloist and chamber
musician at the National Flute
Association’s annual conventions.  She
currently chairs the NFA’s Historical
Flutes Committee and has directed the
NFA’s Baroque Flute Artist and
Masterclass Competitions.  Regionally,
she serves on the advisory board of the
Raleigh Area Flute Association, and
has presented workshops at their annual
Flute Fairs.  Dr. Schneeloch-Bingham
also teaches and coaches chamber
music at Cannon Music Camp, a
comprehensive summer music program
on the Appalachian State Campus. 
Marrs and Schneeloch-Bingham met in
graduate school at Florida State
University, and have been performing
together since the 1990’s.  Inspired by
breadth of their performance and
pedagogy expertise, they formed Dúo
Pelliroja in 2010.   They tour annually,
presenting engaging duo flute concerts
and dynamic team-taught master
classes and workshops.
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DYDNANSKY, Patricia
Canadian flutist Patricia Dydnansky
balances a busy career of many facets.
She currently holds the position of
Second Flute & Piccolo with the
Niagara Symphony, teaches at Brock
University and is the resident flute
expert at Long & McQuade Musical
Instruments. She is also an active
freelance musician, often playing flute
and piccolo in the Shaw Festival
Orchestra, the Stratford Festival
Orchestra, Talisker Players Orchestra,
Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra,
Hamilton Philharmonic, Windsor
Symphony, Orchestra London,
Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony and
various smaller ensembles in the
Greater Toronto Area. As a faculty
member in the Marilyn I. Walker
School of Fine & Performing Arts at
Brock, Patricia has regularly performed
recitals on the Music@Noon and
Encore! Professional concert series
since joining the Music Department in
2002.
Patricia has a Bachelor of Music
(Music History & Theory) from
McMaster University, a Master of
Music (Performance) from the
University of Western Ontario and a
Postgraduate Diploma (Performance)
from the Royal Northern College of
Music in Manchester, England. She has
participated in the Professional
Residency Program at the Banff Centre
for the Arts and her teachers include
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Peter Lloyd, Patricia Morris, Paula
Elliott, Camille Churchfield, Wissam
Boustany and Ian Clarke.
Patricia has been a member of the
National Youth Orchestra of Canada
and the National Academy Orchestra of
the Boris Brott Music Festival. Recent
summer activities include being a
Mentor for the National Academy
Orchestra and teaching lessons,
coaching chamber music & conducting
the flute ensemble at the Scottish
International Flute Summer School,
held in St. Andrew's, Scotland.
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has also been a sessional flute
instructor at University of Calgary.
At Mount Royal University
Conservatory, Ms. Eselson is also the
Woodwind coordinator for the wellknown Academy program for gifted
young musicians, and is also the
Woodwind Coordinator for General
Programs. She is a Woodwind-Brass
examiner for the Royal Conservatory of
Music, and is in demand as an
adjudicator across Canada. She is the
flute instructor at the well-known
Valhalla Summer School of Music in
beautiful New Denver, B.C.
Ms. Eselson holds a Bachelor of
Music from the Cleveland Institute, and
a Master of Music from Northwestern
University. Her principal teachers were
Walfrid Kujala , Maurice Sharp , Jim
Walker, Claude Monteux and
Geoffrey Gilbert.
ESPOSITO, Nicole
Sponsored by Miyazawa Flutes
Lauren Eselson is an Instructor of Flute
at Mount Royal University
Conservatory. She has been a regular
extra musician in the flute section of
the Calgary Philharmonic since 1987.
During the seasons of 2003-2006 she
was Acting Assistant Principal Flute
with the CPO. Ms. Eselson has also
performed with the National Ballet
Orchestra, Royal Winnipeg Ballet
Orchestra, Calgary Bach Society,
Kensington Sinfonia, Chicago Civic
Orchestra, the American Wind
Symphony, and in pit orchestras for
Theater Calgary and Broadway touring
productions. She has appeared as a
concerto soloist with the Calgary
Philharmonic, Calgary Bach Society,
Kensington Sinfonia and the Calgary
Chamber Ensemble, and has been
recorded in recital by CBC Radio. She
including ten National Flute
Association Conventions in major cities
across the United States, as well as
regional conferences including the
Oklahoma Flute Fair, Florida Flute Fair,
Madison Flute Festival, West Virginia
Flute Fling and the Iowa Flute Festival.
Recent and upcoming invitations
include appearances at the Atlanta
Flute Fair, Los Angeles Flute Guild
Flute Festival, San Francisco
International Flute Festival, The Texas
Summer Flute Symposium, Flutissimo!,
The Northeastern State University Flute
Workshop, Festival Virtuosi, Brazil,
the International Flute Festival
sponsored by the Brazilian Flute
Association, the Santa Maria
International Winter Festival, the
International Flute Festival of Costa
Rica, the Spanish National Flute
Convention, Bogotá Flute Festival, the
International Flute Congress of
Argentina, Chilean Flute Encounter, the
British Flute Society Convention, the
European Piccolo Festival in Slovenia
and the Adams Flute Festival in
Holland. A Miyazawa performing artist,
Esposito can be heard on the Con Brio,
Albany Records and MSR Classics
labels. She is the host of the annual
summer workshop, the Iowa Piccolo
Intensive and often contributes articles
to Flute Talk magazine and other
publications. She holds degrees from
Carnegie Mellon University and the
University of Michigan and her
principal teachers include Jeanne
Baxtresser, Amy Porter, Jennifer Steele
and Marianne Gedigian.
www.neflute.com
FESTIVE FLUTES
A charismatic and versatile flutist,
Nicole Esposito is the flute professor at
The University of Iowa. Acclaimed by
Fanfare magazine as “an exceptional
flutist in every way”, Esposito has
achieved a career as a soloist, teacher,
chamber and orchestral musician on an
international level having been featured
across the United States, Europe and
Central and South America. She has
performed at numerous events
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Festive Flutes have performed together
since meeting at the Guildhall School
of Music and Drama and will be
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celebrating their 30th anniversary of
playing together in 2015. They
combine their musical talents with an
infectious exuberance and friendship,
to produce entirely unique
performances and educational
workshops. Over recent years the group
have released two charity CD’s
‘Overnight Sensations’ and ‘Christmas
Crackers’ raising funds for the NSPCC
and three highly successful single
tracks, now for sale on ITunes.
All the members of Festive Flutes
perform regularly in some of the
country’s finest orchestras and are
passionately involved in education,
teaching flute, coaching ensembles and
giving workshops that inspire the
young musicians of the future. Festive
Flutes’ innovative and inspiring group
workshops and concerts are enhanced
by using their own tailor-made
arrangements and draw on their
experience of performing on original
early instruments, traditional music and
composition.
In the summer of 2013, they were
involved in two hugely exciting
performances in St Columbs Cathedral
Derry-Londonderry where they
premiered an arrangement by Mel
Orriss of Shaun Davey’s “The Relief of
Derry Symphony”. These concerts,
streamed live, were the highlight event
of the Maiden City Festival
celebrations for Derry-Londonderry Uk
City of Culture 2013 and involved over
80 players playing 10 different types of
Flute and included 3 local Irish Flute
Bands, a solo Traditional Flautist, a
mezzo Soprano and our solo Flute
Quartet. Festive Flutes also recorded
live performances for BBC radio and
TV while they were in DerryLondonderry.
In September, 2014, Festive Flutes
have the honour of headlining “The Big
Flute Challenge” in Belfast. This event
sees the gathering of some 4,000
flautists from all over the globe,
representing many fluting genres,
playing together in a World Record
attempt for charity with a piece entitled
‘Towards the Blue Horizon’ which has
been composed for the occasion by Mel
Orriss.
FLAUTAS DEL FUEGO
of Idaho, where in addition to
performing they have also been invited
to lead master classes.
Flautas del Fuego has recently recorded
their first album entitled Back to Our
Roots to be released in May of 2015.
Representing the background of the
two flutists, the CD features the works
of Mexican, Hungarian and North
American composers.
Praised for their virtuosic technique,
warm personalities and the welcoming
atmosphere they bring to every
performance, Flautas del Fuego has
been active in Toronto for over three
years. Although born on distant
continents and trained in different
countries, the intense personal
connection between flutists Alhelí
Pimienta and Izabella Budai sparked a
musical partnership of shared passion
and artistic concord that can be clearly
heard in their performances. Playing
together has become the highlight of
their professional endeavours.
Flautas del Fuego is dedicated to
performing the music of living
composers. They have recently
presented the Canadian premiers of the
Concerto for Two Flutes, Orchestra and
Harpsichord by Miklós Kocsár and
Fantasía Mexicana for Two Flutes and
Orchestra by Samuel Zyman. This year
they premiered their first commission:
Danzas del Fuego for two flutes and
marimba by Canadian composer
Constantine Caravassilis. Deeply
intrigued by the creative and expressive
potential gained from the fusion of the
various arts, the duo is currently
collaborating with visual artist Yesim
Tosuner on a multimedia project.
Flautas del Fuego has performed in
numerous series and venues in Toronto,
including Mazzoleni Hall, Hart House,
Gallery 345, Christ Church Deer Park,
St. Stephens-in-the Field, Yorkminster
Park Baptist Church and Nathan
Phillips Square. This season has
marked their first international
appearance at the National Flute
Association’s Convention in Chicago
with the Mexican Flute Orchestra. The
group’s 2015 tour includes
performances in Monterrey Mexico,
Budapest Hungary and the University
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FORRESTER, Doriann
Doriann Forrester is one of the most
versatile flutists in Canada. She is
renowned for her distinctive flute
sound and musical interpretation. Her
personable style, in-depth musical
training and vast experience adds
greatly to the appeal of Ambiance.
Doriann has performed in musicals,
television commercials, and with
various orchestras, chamber, wind and
jazz ensembles in Toronto. Wind
ensemble conducting, recording with
other artists and music festival
adjudications complement her musical
experience. An honours music graduate,
Doriann studied music at Humber
College, Sir Wilfrid Laurier University
and the Royal Conservatory of Music.
Her teachers included Geoffrey Gilbert
(teacher of James Galway), Jean-Pierre
Rampal and Toronto jazz musician
Pat Labarbera.
FÜLEP, Márk
Márk Fülep was born in Miskolc,
Hungary in 1977. He graduated Summa
Cum L in 2000 from the prestigious
Franz Liszt Academy of Music in
Budapest where he studied with Henrik
Pröhle. Attending close to forty master
classes have played a prominent role in
his training. These classes, which he
often attended on scholarship, gave him
the opportunity to learn from flutists
such as András Adorján, János Bálint,
Benedek Csalog, Béla Drahos, Zoltán
Gyöngyössy, Gergely Ittzés, István
Matuz, Walter Auer, Mario Caroli,
Michael-Martin Kofler, Alain Marion,
Auréle Nicolet, Paula Robison, Yossi
Arnheim, etc.
Mr. Fülep’s performances have
won him professional recognition: he
was awarded the Hungarian ArtisjusPrize twice (1998, 2008), received the
Annie Fischer scholarship three times
(2004, 2005, 2006) and the László
Lajtha-Prize (2008). He won both the
first and the special prize at the
International Flute Competition in
Timisoara (RO, 2002) and was
advanced into the second round at the
Budapest (2003). He was elected into
the directory committee of the
Hungarian Flute Society in 2004.
Apart from performing the entire
classical flute repertoire, Mr. Fülep
puts great emphasis on fostering the
Hungarian folk music tradition. He
explores the potentials of his
instrument in various musical styles
such as Baroque ornamentation
technique, extended techniques
(including circular breathing),
improvised cadenzas and folk
instruments. At his concerts he often
plays different flutes and was the first
in Hungary to give an alto recorder
recital. His affinity and openness for
contemporary music has resulted in a
number of works dedicated to him by
contemporary Hungarian composers.
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Thus, he has collaborated with the
Ensembles EAR and Marcato.
Mr. Fülep gives concerts in
Hungary and abroad and his playing
has been repeatedly recorded by the
Hungarian radio and television. Fülep’s
chamber partner is József Gábor pianist.
His inclination to experimentation and
careful planning of programmes has
resulted in several innovative concerts.
First CD release “From Paris to
Moldavia.” The album features eight
different types of flutes.
Márk Fülep has taught at the
secondary and university level and at
the Summer Academys in Hungary.
Since 2000 he has been a teacher at the
Leopold Mozart Music School of
Budaörs where he is also the founder of
a flute ensemble. He has done
numerous instrumentations and
arrangements, has published articles
and has conducted a youth musical.
Gave over 500 recitals in Hungary and
abroad, including Austria, Czech
Republic, India, Italy, Russia, etc.
Since 2008 Márk Fülep has been
playing a Yamaha 14k gold flute
awarded to him by the Hungarian State.
GEIER, Rachel Taylor
Rachel Taylor Geier holds a DMA
from the University of Minnesota in
Flute Performance with an emphasis in
Historical Musicology, an MM from
San Francisco State University in Flute
Performance and a BM from DePauw
University in Music Performance. As a
doctoral candidate at the University of
Minnesota, Dr. Geier was awarded the
prestigious Berneking Fellowship and
served as a teaching assistant to flute
professor Immanuel Davis where she
instructed elective and secondary flute
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lessons. Her dissertation,
entitled Misrepresentations, focuses on
the late 19th century Methode for
Flute by Henri Altes and traces
inconsistencies between the original
publication and subsequent editions of
the work uncovering the true nature of
the Methode as a systematic
pedagogical tool. Dr. Geier has
performed in masterclasses for world
renowned flutists such as Robert
Stallman, Leone Buyse, Keith
Underwood, Gary Schocker, Mario
Caroli, Marco Granados and Alexander
Technique guru, Pedro de Alcantara.
Her principal applied teachers have
included Immanuel Davis, Linda Lukas,
Anne Reynolds and Rhonda Bradetich.
Dr. Geier is an alumni member of the
Mu Phi Epsilon and Eta Sigma Phi
honorary fraternities and has received a
lengthy list of scholarships including
the John McElroy Scholarship, CoffinSims Scholarship, Coldwater Creek
Scholarship, Dahl-Williams
Scholarship, and the Neiman Music
Award. She has also performed with
the Gonzaga University Symphony
Orchestra as the winner of the 1998
Gonzaga Young Artists Concerto
Competition. Dr. Geier currently serves
as Principal Flute of the Camellia
Symphony Orchestra, instructs flute
sectionals for the Davis High School
Symphony Orchestra and teaches
privately in Davis, California
www.racheltaylorgeier.org
GIECK, Sarah
A native of Calgary, Sarah Gieck is a
freelance flutist working throughout
Calgary and Southern Alberta. Sarah
has been a regular guest musician with
the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
since 2009, including guest
performances on piccolo and principal
flute. Sarah has also played with
Land’s End Chamber Ensemble,
Musaeus String Quartet, Ensemble
Resonance, the Instrumental Society of
Calgary, and the Red Deer Symphony.
Sarah joined the faculty of the
University of Lethbridge as the flute
instructor in 2008, her students
consistently excelling in the musical
community both locally and nationally.
Through the University of Lethbridge
Music at Noon Recital Program and
Faculty Artist and Friends Series, she
has been a featured soloist on an annual
basis. In 2012, Sarah was a featured
concerto soloist with the University of
Lethbridge Wind Orchestra, joining
them on a tour throughout southern
British Columbia and Washington.
Sarah is proud to be the co-founder of
Green Banana Flute Studios, a Calgary
based company committed to finding
new and engaging avenues for both
performance and education on the flute.
Sarah is also on faculty at MusiCamp
Alberta, a summer music program for
young student hosted by Red Deer
College.
Sarah holds a BMus, MMus and
AD in flute performance. Her teachers
include Peter Lloyd, Royal Northern
College of Music and Dr. Bradley
Garner, College-‐Conservatory of
Music, University of Cincinnati. Sarah
has also studied extensively with Lorna
McGhee and William Bennett.
www.sarahgieck.com
GLINKA, Iwona
Iwona Glinka was born in Kwidzyn,
Poland. At the age of 18 she graduated
from the Music Lyceum in Gdansk
with a Flute Diploma (Highest
Distinction), with a parallel
specialisation on teaching. She
continued her studies at the Music
Academy of Gdansk, Poland. She
graduated from the Academy in 1994
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with the degree of Master of Music in
Performance (flute).
Between 1991 and 1994, on the
Baloise Holding Scholarship, she
attended the Summer Courses of the
Music Academy of Lenk in
Switzerland with Peter-Lukas Graf. In
1992, on a scholarship from the Mayor
of the City of Darmstadt in Germany,
she attended the Ferienkurse für Neue
Musik where she studied with PierreYves Artaud.
In 1996 there followed a further
period of studies at the Accademia
Internationale Superiore di Musica in
Biella, Italy, again with Peter-Lukas
Graf and later at the Ecole Normale de
Musique in Paris, France, with PierreYves Artaud.
She has given dozens of solo
recitals with classical and
contemporary repertoire and has
appeared as Principal Flautist with
orchestras and chamber ensembles in
Greece as well as Russia, Italy,
Switzerland, Poland, Australia, Canada
and the US. She has developed a great
interest in New Music, which since
1994 has resulted in over one hundred
world premières of works by Australian,
Belgian, British, Canadian, Greek,
German, Polish and US composers,
more one hundred of them
commissioned by and written
especially for her.
In 1995, Dr Iwona Glinka has
made Athens, Greece, her home. She
teaches flute and chamber music at the
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Municipal Conservatory of Patras and
at the Conservatory Nikolaos
Mantzaros in Athens. She is Principal
Flautist of the Athens Symphony
Orchestra and a core member of the
Hellenic Contemporary Music
Ensemble of Theodore Antoniou.
In addition to touring on a regular
basis, she was chosen as a featured
performer for 5th and 10th Sacred
Music of Patmos (2005 and 2010,
Greece), Electro Media Works (2008,
Athens, Greece), International James
Galway Flute Festival (2007, Weggis,
Switzerland), 3rd and 4th
Mediterranean Contemporary Music
Days (2005 and 2006, Istanbul,
Turkey), 3rd Flute Festival (2006,
Madison, USA), Archanes Festival
(2002, Greece), Days of Contemporary
Music (2002, Athens, Greece),
Schoenberg Festival (2001, Athens,
Greece), International Flute Festival
(1997, Rome, Italy), International
Computer Music Conference (1997,
Thessaloniki, Greece).
In 2012, she received major grants
from the RVW Trust, the Britten-Pears
Foundation and the Alberta Foundation
for the Arts to commission new works
from Roger Redgate (UK) and Piotr
Grella-Mozejko (Canada), respectively.
Dr Beata Iwona Glinka has
recorded extensively and appears on a
dozen CDs available on the European,
Canadian and US labels such as BMG,
Irida, Magni, Mercury, PGMaudio
and others.
In May 2009, she obtained a
Doctor of Music in Performance (flute)
from the Academy of Music in Cracow,
Poland, for her dissertation on and a
recital of Brian Ferneyhough’s
complete flute music. In 2012, she was
awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in
Musicology by the National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens,
Greece, for her research on
contemporary Greek music for solo
flute. www.iwonaglinka.com
GOLDSMITH, Ai
Flutist Ai Goldsmith is a soloist and
chamber musician with a bel-canto
style and bell-like sound. Her tone has
been described as: “most magnificent”
(William Bennett), “delicate, richly
layered, shimmery, bold & feisty or
hauntingly beautiful” (Carol Wincenc).
While following her passion to
express the stories and the emotions
within the musical scores, Ai has
presented solo recitals and
performances across the USA and
beyond, including at the British Flute
Society Convention, Florida Flute Fair
and Mid-Atlantic Flute Fair with
pianist Tim Carey; the National Flute
Association Convention (Anaheim),
San Francisco International Flute
Festival, and recital tour or Tokyo and
Saitama (Japan) with pianist Miles
Graber; the Mid-South Flute Festival;
Tuscia Opera Festival (Italy); and
Kentucky Flute Festival with pianist
Hye Jin Yeom.
Ai first became interested in solo
performance after performing as a
concerto competition winner with the
Brentwood-Westwood Symphony
Orchestra. Since then she has
performed as a soloist with the Palo
Alto Philharmonic and the San Jose
State University Orchestras, given solo
recitals in the Davis Shinkosky Concert
Series at the University of California, at
Middle Tennessee State University
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(MTSU) with pianist Lillian Pearson,
the Trinity Concert Series in Berkeley,
CA, and was the featured guest artist
for the twenty-first Flute Day at
University of Nevada, Reno. Ai’s
recent collaborations include a worldpremiere performance and recording of
a song cycle by the noted American
composer, Henry Mollicone of opera
fame (Faces on the Bar Room Floor),
commissioned by soprano Nancy Krom
Wait, duo performances with flutist Dr.
Jessica Dunnavant, and joined
renowned flutist Robert Stallman and
Isabelle Chapuis as a guest performer
(with Annie Wu).
Ai feels her career path has been
served by her challenges. During the
final years of her musical studies, she
sustained a hand and wrist injury that
seriously threatened her mobility. But
with the long-time physical therapy,
much self-exploration, patience and
creativity, Ai not only overcame this
career-threatening difficulty, but made
it a win for herself, as she became more
deeply connected with life, people,
music, and the flute. From this
experience she came to believe that
what matters the most in a musician is
his or her inner world, and that
technical mastery is only a tool to
communicate the life and
understanding that resonates with the
composer from within oneself. This
awakening became the true starting
point of Ai’s mastery of the flute and
her path in music. She eagerly travels
this mindful path each day.
Ai attributes her development and
success to many wonderful musicians,
most notably to Isabelle Chapuis,
David Shostac and Sheridon Stokes
who were her professors at San Jose
State University (M.A.) and UCLA
(B.A.) where she made her formal
studies. She also credits master flutist
Robert Stallman as someone who
deeply inspired in her the importance of
being true to one’s self as an
interpretive artist, during her studies
with him at the Ameropa Festival
(Czech Republic), masterclasses and
private lessons. Further inspirations
were imparted to her in masterclasses
and summer music academies in the
United States and abroad by other
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master flutists, among them William
Bennett, Vieri Bottazzini, Heather
Clark, Sir James Galway, Göran
Marcusson, Susan Milan, Liisa Ruoho,
Ransom Wilson, and Anne DienerZentner.
Ai is committed to sharing the
skills and passion for music and flute
playing with budding musicians of all
ages and levels. She currently provides
private flute instruction in Cupertino,
California. As a testament to Ai’s
effectiveness as a teacher, her students
earn recognition as concerto
competition soloists, awards and
distinctions at state and local levels
such as principal flutist of California
State Honor Band and Orchestra and
youth orchestras, receive “Command
Performance” ratings at CMEA
festivals. Ai’s advanced students
volunteer for the concert organization
Encores On Wheels, through which
they share their excitement and joy for
music with the community throughout
the San Francisco Bay Area. Ai also
receives invitations to adjudicate for
various auditions and competitions,
including the Kentucky Flute Festival
Young Artist Competition, Santa Clara
County Honor Band and the Areon
Flutes Summer Flute Institute, and is
invited to give clinics, presentations,
sectionals, and masterclasses such as by
Middle Tennessee State University,
Western Kentucky University,
University of Nevada, Reno, the
MTAC Santa Clara division, MidSouth
Flute Society, etc.
GOODMAN, Lindsey
Lindsey Goodman is known for her
“generous warmth of tone and a fluid
virtuosity” (Charleston Gazette), and
for her “impressive artistry” (TribuneReview), “agility, and emotion”
(Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). Renowned
for her “brilliant”, “bravura
performances” (Tribune-Review), Ms.
Goodman is in high demand as a soloist,
chamber collaborator, orchestral
musician, teacher, and clinician.
As a soloist, Lindsey was most
recently featured in her New York City
recital debuts presented by the Phoenix
Concerts and PRISM Projects; as
concerto soloist with the West Virginia
Symphony Orchestra, the Bach and
Beyond International Baroque Soloists
(NY), the River Cities Symphony
Orchestra (OH), and the Marietta
College Wind Ensemble (OH); in “a
near perfect recital” (Daily Mail)
presented by the Charleston Chamber
Music Society (WV); and as the guest
artist for Ohio University’s Flute Fest
and Marshall University’s FluteWorks
festival (WV). Goodman has performed
as a featured soloist at the National
Flute Association Convention (IL and
NC), the June in Buffalo festival (NY),
the NewSound Festival presented by
the Ethos New Music Society (NY), the
Sound Series at the Andy Warhol
Museum (PA), the Marshall University
New Music Festival (WV), and at
Walfrid Kujala’s retirement gala (IL).
In the past five seasons, she has
presented recitals at the University of
Colorado at Boulder, Ohio State
University, Bowling Green State
University (OH), Ohio University,
Duquesne University (PA), University
of Akron (OH), West Virginia
University, Capital University (OH),
University of Mount Union (OH),
Ashland University (OH), Frostburg
State University (MD), and Allegheny
College (PA). Lindsey’s interpretations
of Mathew Rosenblum’s Under the
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Rainbow for flute and soundtrack on
New World Records, and Russell
Pinkston's Lizamander for flute and
electronics on the CD against the
emptiness are commercially available,
and she has been featured in radio
broadcasts on WQXR (NYC), WQED
(PA), WMRT (OH), and West Virginia
Public Radio.
An avid performer of new music,
“flutist Lindsey Goodman appears to
know no fear in tackling the most
demanding music” (Tribune-Review).
A strong advocate for emerging
composers and electroacoustic or
multimedia works, Lindsey is an active
commissioner of new pieces, and has
given nearly seventy world premieres,
including twenty-five solo and chamber
compositions written especially for her.
Goodman is in her fourteenth season as
solo flutist of the Pittsburgh New
Music Ensemble, a group with whom
she has recorded two CDs and a DVD,
made two international tours, been
featured eleven times as soloist, and
currently serves as a member of the
board of directors. Additionally,
Lindsey has performed contemporary
chamber music at Carnegie Hall (NYC)
on the invitation of John Adams and
David Robertson, with the new music
band Alarm Will Sound in the Miller
Theatre (NYC), as flutist/actress at the
Edinburgh Festival Fringe (UK), with
Music on the Edge (PA), for
FestivALL (WV), and as guest artist on
the Fresh Ink Music Series (NC). Ms.
Goodman, with collaborator Robert
Frankenberry, is co-founder of
Chrysalis, a transformative duo
commissioning works for singing flutist
and singing pianist. With musical
partners Scott Christian and Anne
Waltner, Goodman is also co-founder
of ASS3MBLY, a flute, percussion,
and piano trio, championing both
master and emerging composers for the
instrumentation.
As an orchestral musician,
Goodman holds the Martha Gaines
Wehrle Chair in her eighth season as
principal flutist of the West Virginia
Symphony Orchestra, and can be heard
on both of the orchestra’s CD releases.
Lindsey has also performed with the
Toledo (OH), Akron (OH), Lima (OH),
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and River Cities (WV) Symphony
Orchestras; the Fort Wayne (IN), Erie
(PA), and Tuscarawas (OH)
Philharmonics; the Ohio Valley and
New World Symphonies (FL), and is
an associate musician with the
Columbus Symphony Orchestra (OH).
Ms. Goodman is on faculty at both
West Virginia State University and
Marietta College (OH) as adjunct
lecturer of flute, and at CODA
Mountain Academy of Music, a
summer festival in Fayetteville, West
Virginia. During the 2013 - 2014
academic year, Goodman was also
interim adjunct instructor of flute at
Ashland University (OH). Additionally,
Lindsey is sought after as a clinician,
giving flute master classes and
presentations on music careers and
entrepreneurship, working with
electronics, and the commissioning
process to students at twenty-four
universities and colleges across eight
states in the last four seasons.
During 2015, Lindsey looks
forward to releasing her debut solo CD
of commissions on the New Dynamic
Records records label; concerto
appearances at the University of Sioux
Falls (SD) with both the Wind
Ensemble and Chamber Orchestra;
performing a guest artist chamber
music concert at West Virginia
University featuring Crumb’sVox
Balaenae and the world premiere of a
companion work by Joseph Dangerfield;
performing a full recital of
commissioned electroacoustic works at
the Canadian Flute Association biennial
convention in Toronto; performing
three commissioned works at the
National Flute Association annual
convention inWashington, D.C.; and a
six-work collaborative commissioning
project called "Flute City: No Birds
Allowed" with composer Randall
Woolf. Ms. Goodman’s trio
ASS3MBLY will make a spring tour to
the Studio Subscription Series (SD) and
record Joseph Schwantner’s Taking
Charge for CD release.
A student of New York
Philharmonic principal flutist Robert
Langevin, Lindsey also studied with
Walfrid Kujala, former principal
piccolo of the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra. She received her masters
degree from Northwestern University,
her bachelors degree summa cum
laude from Duquesne University, and a
professional studies diploma from the
Manhattan School of Music’s
orchestral performance program. Born
in Virginia and raised in Ohio, Ms.
Goodman resides in Columbus, Ohio
with her husband and dog. There, she
maintains an active teaching studio
with students who have won state and
regional honors as soloists and
ensemble members, and trains as a
classical mezzo-soprano. “{A} soprano
of uncommon precision” (Pittsburgh
Tribune-Review), Ms. Goodman gave
her professional vocal debut with
Opera Theatre Pittsburgh (PA) in 2009,
her New York City vocal debut in 2011,
and her soloist debut with the West
Virginia Symphony Orchestra in 2012.
Lindsey has also sung with the
Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble (PA),
on the Marshall University New Music
Festival (WV), the Davidson College
Concert Series (NC), and The Kanawha
Forum 2.0 (WV), has commissioned
six works for singing flutist, and can be
heard singing on recital events
throughout central Ohio. For more
information, visit
www.LindseyGoodman.com.
GRANOFSKY, Casey
Casey Granofsky is an exciting fresh
face on the Canadian classical music
scene. She is making a splash in
Toronto, having just returned to the city
after completing her Masters degree at
McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.
Future performances include 20th
century works with Masterworks of
Orchestra in Oakville, Ontario (May
2015) and at the 2015 Canadian Flute
Association Convention in Toronto.
2014 saw her return to the Banff
Centre as a participant in the summer
master class program for winds and
strings. That fall she returned to
Montreal to complete her Master's
degree in performance at McGill,
where she studied with Timothy
Hutchins. She also worked on a project
with the McGill Contemporary Music
Ensemble where she performed the
flute concerto Mémoriale
(...explosante-fixe...originel) by Pierre
Boulez, as well as Density 21.5 by
Edgard Varèse.
Before attending McGill, Casey
completed a diploma program at
l'Université de Montréal, studying with
Denis Bluteau, and both a Bachelor's
degree and Artist Diploma at The
Glenn Gould School where she studied
with Dr. Kathleen Rudolph.
In addition to all of the incredible
teachers and colleagues she's met
during her studies and travels, none of
it would have happened had she not
caught the "bug" at a young age. She
would be remiss to leave out her first
flute teacher, Loyda Lastra, who
created the musical foundation that
Casey continues to build upon to this
day. www.caseygranofsky.com
GRIFFITH, Meg
Meg Griffith (DMA, RYT 200) has
received several honors as a modern
and Baroque performer, including first
prize at the Chicago Flute Club
National Chamber Competition,
placement as a semifinalist in the
National Flute Association’s Baroque
Young Artist Competition, Honorable
Mention in the Respighi Prize Music
Competition, and winner of the Texas
Tech University Concerto Competition.
Her Carnegie Hall debut received
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critical acclaim from the New York
Concert Review: “...an excellent
flutist...playing at breakneck
speed...facility with total control;”
Griffith “radiated calm serenity and
impressionistic colors, giving...a fine
opportunity to exhibit her beautiful,
singing tone.”
Griffith is a founding member and
partner of Whole Musician, a collective
of five uniquely experienced flutists
collaborating to offer intensive retreats
addressing the mental, physical, and
musical demands placed on the 21st
century performer. She has presented
and performed at the Canadian Flute
Festival, the British Flute Society’s
Convention, and the National Flute
Association Convention. Griffith
served as Assistant Program Chair of
the 2011 NFA Convention and
President and Industry/Commercial
Liaison of the Texas Flute Society. She
is Adjunct Professor of Flute at
Southwestern Adventist and Texas
Wesleyan Universities and offers Yoga
for Musicians classes geared toward
simplifying and solidifying the physical
and mental practices of artists.
http://meggriffith.com/
GUZMAN, Viviana
Sponsored by Altus Flutes
with the Southeast Missouri Symphony
Orchestra & San Jose Chamber
Orchestra. http://www.Viviana.org
HAGEN, Timothy
Described by the New York Times as
"an imaginative artist," Chilean-born
flutist, Viviana Guzmán
(www.viviana.org) performs over 50
concerts a year throughout the world.
Her most recent recording “Traveling
Sonata” received a Grammy
Nomination. She has been featured on
programs for PBS, NBC, and NPR,
seen on the cover of Latina Style
Magazine, and in COSMOPOLITAN
en Español and has performed in 123
countries, & in all 7 continents
including South Africa, Ireland, Spain,
Brazil, Bali, India, Peru, Japan, China,
Argentina, Greece, and Antarctica. She
has performed as soloist with 65
ensembles including orchestras
in Russia, Chile, Vermont, New York,
Wisconsin, California, Texas, Montana,
Philippines, in such halls as in Carnegie
Hall, Avery Fisher Hall in
Lincoln Center.
Viviana began her musical
training at the age of 5 & won her first
competition at 7. By the age of 15, she
played as a soloist with orchestra,
studied with Jean-Pierre Rampal, and
was featured on a John Denver
nationally televised NBC TV special.
Ms. Guzmán studied with Albert
Tipton and in Masterclasses with James
Galway, and graduated from
the Juilliard School with Julius Baker.
A former member of the Houston
Grand Opera and the New World
Symphony, Viviana is the Executive
Director of the San Francisco Flute
Society & Festival, Flutes by the Sea
Masterclasses, & is an Altus Flutes
Artist. Last season included
performances in Argentina, Philippines,
Taiwan, Tahiti, Easter Island,
California, Japan, Korea, China,
Indonesia, Thailand, and as a soloist
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Dr. Timothy Hagen is an
internationally acclaimed flutist whose
"technical virtuosity and musical
sensitivity" (NewMusicBox) have led
to prizes from the Australian
International Flute Competition,
Pasadena Showcase House
Instrumental Competition (USA), and
Jack Kent Cooke Foundation (USA).
He was also the only American
semifinalist in the 2007 Jeunesses
Musicales International Flute
Competition (Serbia).
Tim’s passion for music from all
eras and places is displayed in the
numerous concerts he performs each
year. As Principal Flute of the Missouri
Symphony, Tim spends his summers in
Columbia, MO, where in 2013 he
debuted as a soloist with the MSO
Chamber Players. Aside from the MSO,
he has performed throughout the
United States with the San Antonio
Symphony, Dallas Winds, Eugene
Symphony, Midland-Odessa
Symphony, Las Colinas Symphony,
and Winston-Salem Symphony. He has
also had solo debuts at New York's
Lincoln Center and 92nd Street Y and
appeared at the Atlantic, Hot Springs,
and Las Vegas Music Festivals, as well
as the Norfolk and Austin Chamber
Music Festivals.
Increasingly in demand as a
composer, Tim has won awards from
the American Composers Forum and
MetLife Creative Connections. His
chamber and solo works for flute,
published by Owl Glass Music, have
been commissioned and performed
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throughout the United States and were
mentioned favorably in the February
2014 issue of Flute Talk. His
pedagogical and scholarly work is
published by Owl Glass and in journals
such as The Flutist Quarterly, the
official publication of the National
Flute Association.
The depth and breadth of Tim’s
experience as an educator distinguish
him. He has taught for Lincoln Center,
the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and The
University of Texas at Austin, among
many other fine institutions. His private
students have consistently won regional
and national awards, and he is in high
demand as a teacher and clinician at
universities, festivals, and conventions
throughout the United States, Canada,
and Australia.
Tim received his Doctor of
Musical Arts from The University of
Texas at Austin, Professional Studies
Certificate from the Colburn School,
Master of Music from the University of
Southern California, and Bachelor of
Music from the North Carolina School
of the Arts. His former teachers include
Jim Walker, Marianne Gedigian, Philip
Dunigan, Renée Siebert, and Tadeu
Coelho. When he is not traveling the
country, Tim makes his home in Dallas,
TX, where he is Adjunct Instructor of
Flute at Brookhaven College and
maintains a large private studio.
http://www.timothyhagen.com/
HAHN, Sara
Hailed by the Calgary Herald as
“outstanding”, having "beauty of tone
and a wonderfully flexible phrasing”,
as well as “perfect intonation” and
“meltingly seductive” melodies, Sara
Hahn is currently the Principal Flutist
for the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra.
Prior to accepting her post with the
Calgary Philharmonic in 2006, Sara
performed professionally in the
position of Assistant Principal
Flute/Piccolo with the Vancouver
Symphony Orchestra as well as
completing an extensive three week
tour of Japan and Hong Kong with the
National Youth Orchestra of Canada
in 2002.
As a soloist, Sara has also
performed throughout Canada, the
United States and Brazil as a guest of
the Campos do Jordao International
Winter Festival in 2007. She recently
performed the Chaminade Concertino
with the Calgary Philharmonic
Orchestra to critical acclaim, and is
looking forward to a world premiere
performance in December 2015 of a
flute concerto by Canadian composer,
Arthur Bachmann again with the CPO.
Locally, in addition to her
performances the Calgary Philharmonic
Orchestra, she has been a featured
soloist with the Kensington Sinfonia,
the University of Lethbridge, the
Instrumental Society of Calgary and
has been asked to join the newly
formed Wild West New
Music Ensemble.
Awards for Sara’s solo flute
performances include the University of
Toronto concerto competition, first
place in the National Finals of the
Canadian Music Competitions, and the
Junior Musical Club Concerto
Competition in Winnipeg, which gave
her a debut performance as a soloist in
front of an orchestra at the age of
seventeen. In 2005, Sara was awarded
first prize of $10,000 as the winner of
the Women’s Musical Club of
Winnipeg Doris McLellan Competition
for Solo Performance with Orchestra.
Sara has been quite active as a flute
teacher and coach across Canada for
almost two decades. Her enthusiastic
approach to sharing musical ideas and
techniques have ensured that several of
her private students have been accepted
into both Undergraduate and Graduate
programs at the University of Manitoba,
University of Calgary, and McGill.
Sara is proud to be a co-founder and
active member of the Green Banana
Flute Studios, an innovative teaching
and performing collaboration. See
www.gbflutes.com for more details.
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She graduated with honours from
the University of Toronto, receiving a
Bachelor in Music Performance under
internationally renown flutist, Susan
Hoeppner. www.sarahahn.net
HAMILTON, Amy
Dr. Amy Hamilton is the Flute
Professor, and Coordinator of Winds,
Brass and Percussion Department in the
Faculty of Music at Wilfrid Laurier
University.
Amy Hamilton received her
Bachelor of Music/ Performer’s
Certificate from the Eastman School of
Music, a Master of Music from Indiana
University and a Doctor of Music from
Northwestern University. She has
performed with the Toronto Symphony,
Canadian Opera Company, National
Ballet of Canada, and appears in solo
recitals and chamber concerts.
Recordings include Canadian Flute
Duos, with Jennifer Brimson Cooper,
Canadian Flute Quartets with Quartet
Laurier, Canadian Music for Flute and
Piano, Tryptique with the Meridian
Trio, and the Laurier Flute Ensemble,
under her direction, recorded a CD of
Canadian flute octets entitled 8 Pieces
for 8. Dr. Hamilton has completed
Canadian Music Centre annotated
bibliographies of flute and piano and
flute chamber music. Her recent book,
Effective Practice Strategies for the
Advanced Flutist, is published by The
Avondale Press.
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HUMMEL, Cate
Mark completed two seasons as
the studio and live TV drummer for
CBC's TRIPLE SENSATION hit TV
reality series. Mark has been a first call
sub for several long running theatre
shows in Toronto including WE WILL
ROCK YOU, DIRTY DANCING,
ROCK OF AGES, and JERSEY BOYS.
Along with a busy studio career
Mark is currently touring the globe
with Decca/Universal Recording
Artists THE CANADIAN TENORS.
Mark can be seen and heard on The
Canadian Tenors PBS special and DVD
as well as their most recent CD ‘The
Perfect GIft’ and CBC Christmas TV
special.
INNEO, Mark
JACKSON, Sarah
Dr. Cate Hummel discovered the books
and teaching of Marcel Moyse as an
undergraduate student in Philadelphia.
While a master’s student at Manhattan
School of Music, she met and studied
with Judith Mendenhall, who
introduced her to Moyse’s teaching of
the melodies in Tone Development
Through Interpretation. As a doctoral
student at Manhattan School of Music,
Cate’s interest in Moyse’s teaching
became her dissertation topic, a
discussion of how Moyse taught the
melodies of Tone Development and the
various experiences and artists that had
shaped his musical thought. She
received her DMA and MM degrees
from the Manhattan School of Music
and BM from the Philadelphia College
of the Performing Arts. Dr. Cate is
Adjunct Professor of Flute at the
University of St. Francis in Joliet, IL
and has a large private studio, teaching
both private lessons for all ages and
group classes for younger students. She
is also founder and director Dr. Cate’s
Flute Camp since 2000, a day camp for
7th - 10th grade flute students.
https://drcatesflutetips.wordpress.com/
Mark began playing drums at age three,
and enjoyed a wide variety of musical
experiences as a young person due to
his parent's great support for the arts.
He started his professional career at age
thirteen when he became full time
drummer for three time Grammy
winner, (and Polka King) Walter
Ostanek. Later as a graduate of Wilfrid
Laurier University with an Honours
Degree in Orchestral Music
Performance, he gained much practical
experience as an orchestral
percussionist. After that Mark spent 5
years studying with acclaimed
musician Jim Blackley. Mark's
seemingly boundless musical appreciation and experience has taken him
around the world and allowed him the
opportunity to work with such artists as
David Foster, Sarah Mclachlan, Amy
Sky, Eva Avila, Rich Little, Bob
Newhart, Ben Vereen, Petula Clark &
Regis Philbin.
Mark was recently featured as
house drummer on Country Music
Television’s Cross Country Tour and
TV special. In the country world Mark
has toured with Tara Oram, Victoria
Banks, The Higgins, Jason Blain, Alex
J Robinson, Chris Commings and
Adam Gregory.
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Sarah Jackson has held the position of
Piccolo for the Los Angeles
Philharmonic since 2003. Prior to this,
in 1993, she joined the Vancouver
Symphony Orchestra (British Columbia,
Canada) as Second Flute. Ms. Jackson
then moved on to take the position of
Assistant Principal Flute and Piccolo
with the same orchestra. Ms. Jackson
also taught flute and piccolo at the
University of British Columbia.
Sarah Jackson is a much sought
after piccolo and flute teacher, and she
attracts students from around the world.
Sarah is also an active chamber
musician, soloist, clinician, and
freelance artist, and has played for
numerous films, CD recordings, and
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TV and radio broadcasts. In addition to
orchestral playing and teaching, Sarah
Jackson has frequently been engaged as
soloist and/or clinician on both flute
and piccolo in Venezuela, Belgium,
The Netherlands, Japan, the Czech
Republic, Canada, and the U.S.
Sarah received her Bachelor of
Music Degree in Flute Performance
from the University of British
Columbia in Vancouver. In addition to
taking private voice lessons, she
specialized in flute and piccolo,
studying with Camille Churchfield,
former Principal Flute with the
Vancouver Symphony. Sarah attended
McGill University in Montreal, Quebec
for Graduate Studies with Tim
Hutchins, Principal Flute of the
Montreal Symphony. While studying
there, she auditioned for and won her
first professional position as 2nd Flute
with the Vancouver Symphony.
JOHNSON, M.J.
M.J. works regularly as a music
director, vocal coach, voice teacher,
pianist, and vocalist. Her recent
performance credits include: 'Broadway
Across Canada' tour of "Wicked"
Drayton Entertainment's production of
Les Misérables, and the Toronto
production of "Jersey Boys". In
addition to her thriving private vocal
studio, M.J. has taught at the Randolph
Academy for the Performing Arts,
Sheridan College, and has worked as a
Vocal Director for Disney Cruise Line.
JOHNSTON, Beverley
Canada¹s premier percussionist
Beverley Johnston is internationally
recognized for her virtuosic and
dynamic performances on a wide range
of percussion instruments. Her exciting
performances have been distinguished
as unconventional, effectively
combining classical transcriptions,
contemporary music, and a touch of
theatre; she is also a leader in
commissioning and premiering new
works for percussion. Her
performances and recordings have been
broadcast on radio networks all over
the world; her six solo CDs are Woman
Runs with Wolves (2013, Centrediscs),
Ming (2009, Centrediscs); Garden of
Delights (2004, independent release);
Alternate Currents (1992, Centrediscs);
Marimbach (1989, CBC Records
Musica Viva); and Impact (1986,
Centrediscs, JUNO nominee). She can
also be heard as soloist or chamber
musician on numerous other
recordings.In the 2013/14 season
Beverley was invited to perform
atmarimba festivals in Luxembourg and
California, toured with the "Joint
Venture Percussion Duo" in China
(2014) and was a guest soloist at the
2014 Percussive Arts Society
International Convention in the
Indianapolis in November. Beverley
has been a guest performer at several
marimba/percussion festivals recently
including the Shenyang International
Percussion festival (2010) in China,
The International Marimba Festival and
Conference in Minneapolis, USA
(2010), The Zeltsman Marimba
Festival (2005, 2009, 2013) and Nebo
jsa Zivkovic¹s International Marimba
Academy in Germany (2008). She has
been an inspiration to many percussion
students all over the world because of
her unique expression as a
percussionist. Among Beverley¹s other
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performing interests, she has been keen
in developing her passion for
performance collaborations, which
have included the combination of voice,
movement, art and theatre. She is
constantly expanding the boundaries of
what is possible as a performing artist.
In 2009 she was given the distinction of
becoming an Ambassador of the
Canadian Music Centre in honour of
her exemplary commitment to the
performance of the music of Canadian
composers. Beverley Johnston
currently teaches at the University of
Toronto and lives in rural Ontario with
her husband, composer Christos Hatzis.
Beverley is a Marimba One and Paiste
Artist.
KALLSTROM, Michael
Michael Kallstrom has been composing
and performing multimedia art works
for over 25 years. The works of his
Electric Opera series have been
performed over 200 times and combine
singing, acting, audio and visual media,
and puppetry. His music has been
performed on all seven continents,
including Antarctica. His compositions
include an opera, "Sunday Pages," on
an original libretto, and an electronic
ballet score for a new version of
"Frankenstein." Recent interests
include animated videos, created by the
composer and making use of iPhone
and iPad drawing apps, that serve as
catalysts for his vocal improvisations,
sung over processed audio tracks. Other
projects include the release of a second
CD of his flute chamber music with
and an orchestra work premiered in
China. He teaches at Western Kentucky
University and is a University
Distinguished Professor, the
institution's first in the performing or
visual arts.
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KEITH/LARSON DUO
Formed in 2012, the Keith/Larson Duo
aims to explore and expand the
horizons of the flute and guitar world
through the commission and
performance of new works and unique
original arrangements of orchestral
repertoire, shedding light on the artistic
potential of the flute and guitar
ensemble. The duo first met while
studying modern music at the
University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Leanna Keith, an accomplished and
award-winning flutist, has been a
featured artist at the First Canadian
Flute Convention and, recently, a
featured soloist with the Heartland
Philharmonic Orchestra. Her first book
on Chinese Flute Music will soon be
published by ALRY Publications.
Zachary Larson is a classically trained
guitarist who has studied under
luminaries Hadley Heavin, Jonathan
Leathwood, and Ricardo Iznaola. He
has been a featured soloist with the
UNO Chamber Orchestra and had
performances broadcast on 90.7fm
KVNO. Both Keith and Larson hold
degrees from the University of
Nebraska at Omaha in music
performance and are pursuing graduate
studies at the University of Washington
and Denver University’s Lamont
School of Music, respectively. The duo
has had the privilege to receive
coaching from Christine Erlander
Beard, Hadley Heavin, Horacio
Massone, Greg Pattillo, and Ross
Snyder. www.keithlarsonduo.com
University of Washington in Seattle
with Donna Shin. In 2014, Ms. Keith
received a Bachelor of Music degree in
flute performance under the tutelage of
Dr. Christine Erlander Beard at the
University of Nebraska at Omaha. She
has had additional studies in orchestral
repertoire with Erica Peel of the Omaha
Symphony. Ms. Keith has served as
principal flute in the Heartland
Philharmonic Orchestra and in 2012,
became a founding member of the
University of Nebraska's first modern
music ensemble, Ensemble 768. Ms.
Keith currently performs regularly with
University of Washington’s Symphony
and Wind Ensembles. An avid chamber
music enthusiast, Ms. Keith also
performs with her flute and guitar duo,
the Keith/Larson Duo, with classical
guitarist Zachary Larson.
http://www.leannakeithflute.com
Like many grade school students,
Sylvia Kim (Née Park, Sook Young)
first picked up the flute in school band.
With private lessons, a joyous and
challenging passion became her choice
of major. Under the tutelage of Ko
Soonja, she completed her Bachelor of
Music Performance at Seoul National
University. In Canada, she continued
her studies with Doug Stewart in
Toronto, and earned her Masters of
Music in Performance and Literature at
University of Western Ontario with
Fiona Wilkinson. She has played in
Master Classes of renowned flutists
such as Maxence Larrieu, Raymond
Guiot, Alain Marion, Per Øien, Leone
Boyse and Peter Lloyd. She has
participated in music festivals, most
notably Domaine Forget, in Quebec.
She has had the honour of premiering
Austrian‐Canadian composer Gerhard
Weunsch’s Three Pieces for Solo Flute
in Vienna in 2006. As a freelance flutist
in the GTA area, Sylvia was principal
flute of Richmond Hill Philharmonic
Orchestra, Unionville Symphonia,
founding member of Flute Street,
Toronto Professional Flute Choir, and
first flute of her beloved Korean
Canadian Symphony Orchestra for over
23 years.
KIM, Sooyun
Sponsored by
Verne Q. Powell Flutes, Inc.
KIM, Sylvia
KEITH, Leanna
Leanna Keith is a freelance flutist and
composer in Seattle, Washington. She
is currently pursuing a Master of Music
degree in flute performance at the
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Having attracted international attention
as one of the rare master flute soloists
on the classical music scene, SOOYUN
KIM is a native of Seoul, who grew up
in the United States. Currently, she is
an Artist member of The Chamber
Music Society of Lincoln Center,
performing regularly in concerts in
New York City and on tour.
Subsequent to making her debut
with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra
at the age of ten, Sooyun Kim has been
the guest soloist with leading orchestras
in the United States and Europe, among
them, The Boston Pops, New Jersey
Symphony Orchestra, Münchner
Rundfunkorchester and Münchener
Kammerorchester. In the United States,
she has performed in New York City’s
Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall at
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
and The DiMenna Center for Classical
Music, Boston’s Jordan Hall and
Washington, DC’s John F. Kennedy
Center for the Performing Arts, while
abroad, Ms. Kim has been featured in
Budapest’s Franz Liszt Hall, Munich’s
Herkulesaal and Prinzregententheater,
Paris’ Auditorium du Louvre and Salle
Gaveau, Helsinki’s Sibelius Academy,
Odense’s Carl Nielsen Hall, Kobe’s
Bunka Hall and Seoul’s Sejong Arts
Hall. Her summer appearances include
Chamber Music Northwest,
Music@Menlo, Newport Music
Festival, Spoleto USA Festival and
Yellow Barn Festivals.
A winner of the Georg Solti
Foundation career Grant, Sooyun Kim
became the first American since 1964
to win a top prize at Munich’s 2010
ARD International Flute Competition
in Munich, at which she was also
awarded a Special Prize for the best
interpretation of a commissioned work
by Bruno Mantovani.
Sooyun Kim is also an avid
chamber musician and, in 2009,
became one of the handful of musicians
to be invited to join The Chamber
Music Society of Lincoln Center’s
prestigious CMS TWO program for
rising young artists. Subsequently, she
has collaborated with dozens of
distinguished artists, including Kenneth
Cooper, David Finckel, Leila
Josefowicz, Ani and Ida Kavafian,
Paula Robison, Russell Sherman, Fred
Sherry, David Shifrin and Richard
Stoltzman, as well as the Borromeo,
Jupiter, Orion and Parker string
quartets. During the summer of 2012,
Ms. Kim served as an Artist in Resident
with the Danish Chamber Players, for
whom she curated and collaborated
with the ensemble in its annual festival
“Sumermusic in Fuglsang.”
Sooyun Kim earned all of her
degrees - Bachelor of Music, Master of
Music, Graduate Diploma - at the New
England Conservatory, where she
worked with Paula Robison. In addition
to her musical training, she studied
baroque dance with Melinda Sullivan.
Her recordings are available on the
ArtistLed label.
KING, Melissa
Sponsored by
Glenn Korff School of Music at
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
LANGEVIN-CHARLEBOIS, Maude
Maude Langevin‐Charlebois began her
training at an early age. She has studied
piano and flute in Mont‐ Tremblant,
continuing her focus as a flutist at the
Cégep de Saint‐Laurent, where she
completed her Diplôme d’Études
Collégiales (DEC) in 2009. Presently,
Ms. Langevin‐Charlebois has recently
completed her Bachelor of Music
degree from l’Université du Québec à
Montréal under the tutelage of Danièle
Bourget.
Along with her interest in chamber
music, Ms. Langevin‐Charlebois
composes and arranges pop and jazz
music. She is an active performer in
area bands, including Porcelaine, The
Jazzotopes and Kalmunity.
LANZ, Megan
Melissa King is a Graduate from the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln where
she studied with Dr. John Bailey. For
the past 2 years, Melissa has studied the
Alexander Technique with Robert
Rickover, a teacher of the technique for
over 30 years and among the last to
study with the Late Marjorie Barstow.
Melissa received her B.A. from Iowa
State University where she was
Concerto Competition winner. She was
a member of the Iowa Health Ensemble
for 5 years, has performed with the
Eugene Ballet (Oregon), in recital at
Drake University (Iowa) and maintains
a successful home studio.
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Flutist Megan Lanz enjoys having a
multi-faceted career as a pedagogue,
international solo performer, orchestral
musician, and pit orchestra musician.
She maintains an active studio of
students, and her students have
continued on to attend the Interlochen
Arts Academy, The Colburn School,
and many other colleges and
universities. She currently serves on the
faculty at the College of Southern
Nevada.
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On the stage, Megan has had the
pleasure of performing with a variety of
ensembles and productions, including
the Las Vegas Philharmonic, the first
national tour of Wicked, Phantom: The
Las Vegas Spectacular, and
Disney’s The Lion King. Highlights
from her concert performances include
appearances with great artists such as
Andrea Bocelli, Natalie Merchant,
Jackie Evancho, Celtic Woman, Hillary
Hahn, Edgar Meyer, Linda Eder, Bebe
Neuwirth, and Dr. Peter Schickele
(P.D.Q. Bach).
Megan is passionate about making
quality education accessible to any
student who wishes to learn. She is a
founding member of Whole Musician,
a non-profit collective of five uniquely
experienced flutists who collaborate to
offer unique workshops and retreats
that address the demands placed on the
21st century performer. The Whole
Musician team is dedicated to creating
scholarship opportunities so that all
students, regardless financial situation,
will find this holistic approach to
pedagogy and artistry to be within
reach. Megan is also a member of the
Cultural Outreach Committee for the
National Flute Association, which
provides scholarships for students who
would otherwise be unable to attend the
NFA annual convention.
As a champion of modern solo and
chamber repertoire, she enjoys
commissioning and premiering new
works. Her most recent commission
was Seven Shards for Three
Flutes (2014) by James Grant, which
was premiered at the Whole Musician
2014 Retreat in Big Bear Lake, CA.
Other commissions include
Cascade (2013) by Cody Westheimer,
which was premiered at the Canadian
Flute Association’s 2013 convention,
Stephen Bachicha's Red Stilettos (2009,
rev. 2013), and James Romig's Leaves
from Modern Trees (2011). She was
asked to share Red Stilettos with the
attendees of both the National Flute
Association Convention and the
Canadian Flute Association Convention.
In addition to being a member of the
National Flute Association, the
American Federation of Musicians, and
the Theatre Musician's Association,
Megan is associated with Golden Key
Honor Society and the Alpha Lambda
Delta and Phi Eta Sigma Honor
Societies. She has recorded on the GIA
and Klavier record labels.
LARSON, Zachary
LARGE, Karen
Dr. Karen McLaughlin Large is an
assistant professor of music at Kansas
State University. She teaches flute,
music theory, flute methods, world
music, and directs the KSU flute
ensemble. Dr. Large earned her Doctor
of Music, Master of Music, Bachelor of
Music, and Bachelor of Science
degrees as well as graduate certificates
in Music Theory Pedagogy and College
Teaching from the Florida State
University. She studied with Eva
Amsler, Stephanie Jutt, Joshua Carter
(under Charles Delaney), and Mara
Rose Rys. Dr. Large is piccoloist with
the Topeka Symphony and is a
founding member of Traverso Colore:
Baroque Ensemble and performs with
them throughout the United States. She
is also a member of the Florida Flute
Orchestra, performing on the Sub
Contrabass flute in G—one of only a
few such instruments in the world. Dr.
Large regularly performs at the
National Flute Association’s annual
convention and has performed at the
International Clarinet Association’s
ClarinetFest as well as the International
Double Reed Society’s conference. Dr.
Large is the creator of the Virtual Flute
Choir. http://www.karenlarge.com
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Currently based in Denver, Colorado,
Zachary Larson is an ambitious
guitarist dedicated to exposing
audiences to the rare and underperformed music in guitar literature.
Many of his concert programs have
included the works of Hans Werner
Henze, John Duarte, Reginald SmithBrindle, Albert Harris, and Segundo
Pastor, as well as premieres of new
chamber compositions. A strong
advocate of chamber music, Zachary
was an original member of Ensemble
768- a modern music ensemble that
aided in the formation of his flute and
guitar duo with flutist Leanna Keith.
While in Omaha, Zachary’s frequent
solo and ensemble engagements led
him to be a featured soloist with the
UNO Chamber Orchestra, a two-time
winning soloist in the annual Honor’s
Recital competition, and have
performances broadcast on 90.7 fm
KVNO. Zachary earned his Bachelor of
Music degree in guitar performance
from the University of Nebraska at
Omaha and is currently pursuing a
Master of Music degree at Denver
University’s Lamont School of Music.
His main instructors have been Hadley
Heavin, Jonathan Leathwood, and
Ricardo Iznaola.
http://www.zacharylarsonguitar.com
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LEE, Christopher
Altus Flutes Artist Christopher Lee is a
laureate of the AGIMUS International
Competition in Italy and grant recipient
of the Canada Council for the Arts.
From 1991 to 2013 he was Principal
Flute of the Toronto Philharmonia.
As a soloist, his recitals in Canada,
the USA, and Europe have garnered the
acclaim of reviewers, colleagues and
audience alike.
“An amazing spectrum of tone
colours” - Wholenote Magazine
“Magnificent” - John Terauds,
freelance critic for the Toronto Star
“From the very first note I knew
you have what I search for in the flute –
originality, creativity and a subtle sense
of humour with all the technique to go
with it” Dr. Atarah Ben-Tovim former
Principal Flute Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic
Of his highly successful recital at
the 2014 British Flute Society
Convention...
“Christopher Lee and Richard
Shaw (pianist) have gone above and
beyond by moving the entire audience”
- PAN the Journal of the British Flute
Association
“Transcendental! I really can't
describe Christopher's wonderful
playing. What a magician!” - Richard
Shaw, pianist.
Chris is a Certified Personal
Trainer and a founding faculty member
of Whole Musician. A team of five
flutists with unique qualifications
providing all-encompassing retreats in
North America and Europe. In addition
to masterclasses, Chris presents
workshops on Interpretation, Fitness,
Recording, and Career Guidance.
He has also performed with other
orchestras including the Windsor
Symphony, Niagara Symphony,
Ontario Philharmonic, Hamilton Ballet
Orchestra, and Sinfonia Toronto. From
1989 to 1991 he was Principal Flute of
the Band of the Royal Regiment of
Canada and from 1994 to 2007 he also
played with the Hunstville Festival
Symphony during the summer.
In addition, he has given recitals
and masterclasses for the British
Embassy Church of St.George, Madrid,
Spain, the Canadian Flute Association
in Vancouver and Toronto, the Los
Angeles Flute Guild the Ottawa Flute
Association and the British Flute
Society Convention. With the Whole
Musician, he has given recitals,
masterclasses and workshops at retreats
thus far in Los Angeles, London,
Oklahoma, Texas and Toronto.
On recording he has released two
discs; My Lucky Life of music for flute,
harp and violin and Bailar conmigo of
music for flute and guitar. He also
appears as guest on recordings by
Samantha Chang, Michael Holt,
Euphonia, Morrow and Nurmi and a
future recording with the
Amadeus Choir.
Chris began formal studies on
flute at the age of 19 at the Royal
Conservatory of Music. Subsequent
studies followed at the Faculty of
Music, University of Toronto and he
received a licentiate in flute
performance from Trinity College of
Music, London, England.
Engagements for 2015 include
appearances with the Amadeus Choir,
recitals and masterclasses in Lima, Peru
for the 30th Festival Internacional de
Flautistas, the Canadian Flute
Association convention in Toronto and
Whole Musician tours to Toronto,
Oklahoma, Texas, and London (UK).
Chris performs on the handmade
Altus Flute by Suichi Tanaka.
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LIM, Terry
Described as “imaginative and
magical”, flutist Terry Lim is a
charismatic performer with a colourful
tone and brilliant artistry. He received
his Bachelor of Music degree with an
international soloist, Lorna Mcghee, at
the University of British Columbia and
completed his Master of Music degree
at New York University with a
renowned flutist, Bradley Garner. Terry
was a faculty member at the UBC
Summer Music Institute and New York
University. Terry also played in many
of BC based ensembles such as
Redshift Society, Vancouver
Metropolitan Orchestra, and Burnaby
Symphony. Terry has performed in
various music festivals and concert
series across North America, including
Domaine Forget, Orford, Toronto
Summer Music Festival, Banff Centre
and Pierre Monteux. He also has been
heard on the radio and in concert halls
throughout the United States, Canada
and Asia, performing at the Chan
Center, Kimmel Center, Carnegia Hall,
DiMenna Center, Alice Tully Hall, and
Merkin Hall. These performances
showcased collaborations in a variety
of musical mediums. He also has
passionately delivered weekly solo and
chamber music lessons, designed aural
skills, and theory courses, and given
various master classes. Additionally, as
an energetic proponent for
We #CanFlute
contemporary music, Terry has worked
closely with numerous composers and
has given several world premieres of
works written for him. An enthusiastic
chamber musician and soloist, Terry is
an artistic and executive director of
chamber music series, “Project Infinity”
where he presents innovative and
unusual programs along with
showcasing many of emerging young
composers and musicians.
http://terrylim.ca
LYON, Amelia
In 2003 she won first place in both
the Ottawa Youth Orchestra's and the
Ottawa's Thirteen Strings concerto
competitions. She has been the
recipient of the Harold Crabtree
Foundation Award and the Special
Prize for Orchestral Excerpts in 2007
and the National Arts Centre Orchestra
Bursary in 2008 from the NACO
Bursary Competition. In November of
2009, she was a semi-finalist in the
Montreal Symphony’s Standard Life
competition in winds brass and
percussion, and she has been invited to
play as a soloist at the National Arts
Centre in Ottawa twice this year. In
addition to music, Amelia is an avid
knitter and crocheter, having made and
sold many of her own clothing
and designs.
MACPHAIL, Rozalind
Amelia received both an Undergraduate
and a Masters degree in orchestral
performance at the McGill Schulich
School of Music, under the orchestral
tutelage of Carolyn Christie, Denis
Bluteau, and Alexis Hauser. Previously
she spent seven years studying with
Beverley Robinson, and one with
Robert Cram in Ottawa. In her
extracurricular activities, Amelia spent
four years as principal flute of the
Ottawa Youth Orchestra, two years
playing with the National Youth
Orchestra of Canada, under the baton
of Jacques Lacombe, and completed
three summers with the National
Academy Orchestra working with Boris
Brott. After her completion of
university, Amelia moved to Toronto
and began freelancing with various
ensembles in the area including the
Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony,
Sinfonia Toronto, and the Toronto
Concert Orchestra. This spring she won
an audition for the position of principal
flute with the Kingston Symphony
Orchestra and is very excited to take up
the job at the beginning of the coming
season in September.
flute to help treat her asthma. From
composing at the Banff Centre to
touring solo across Canada, Rozalind
has made guest flutist appearances on
stage with celebrated music artists: Yo
La Tengo, Great Lake Swimmers,
Constantines, Elliott Brood, Lou
Barlow, Pick a Piper and more.
Based in St. John’s,
Newfoundland, this ECMA and
MusicNL Awards nominee is an active
performer, film composer, producer,
session player and music clinician. In
2011 MacPhail invited Newfoundland
filmmakers to create silent films about
St. John’s for which she composed and
recorded the soundtracks. PAINTED
HOUSES earned rave reviews from
screenings at the St. John’s
International Women’s Film Festival
and at the Dawson City International
Short Film Festival.
Her recent music and film
project, HEAD FIRST premiered at the
Banff Centre, was co-presented by the
St. John’s International Women’s Film
Festival at Newfoundland’s LSPU Hall
and was recently featured at TEDx St.
John’s. HEAD FIRST received its live
American premiere at the 20th Annual
Cucalorus Film Festival in Wilmington,
North Carolina where MacPhail was a
long-term Artist in Residence last fall.
MAHAR, Eric
“Rozalind MacPhail, St. John’s
troubadour flutist, best flute on both
coasts.” Wavelength Music Series
“An eccentric performer with a
sound that’s all her own.” Kenny
Sharpe, CBC Radio
Classically trained Canadian
flutist and multi-instrumental looping
artist Rozalind MacPhail intoxicates
audiences with her fusion of classical,
electronica and jazz performed to silent
film via Ableton Live and her laptop.
A native of Toronto Island,
MacPhail began her love affair with the
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Born in Stratford, Ontario, and now
settled in Bolton, Ontario, Eric is a
studied musician and teacher with
We #CanFlute
honours degrees in music and
broadcasting from Humber College. He
has also studied under acclaimed jazz
guitarists Lenny Breau, Ralph Towner,
and John Abercrombie. He has been in
demand over his long career for his
many talents as a guitarist, singer and
producer and is known as the
"musician's musician". Eric has
recorded, produced and performed with
a multitude of national artists in concert
and on T.V. across North America and
Europe including: The Mercy Brothers,
The Bending the Bows Show, Marie
Bottrel, Frank Leahy, Michael Burgess,
The Kitchener Waterloo Symphony,
Mac Wiseman, and "new country"
sensations Wayward. In the summer of
2000 he was a cast/band member of the
theatrical show "Don Messer's Violin"
which played in Prince Edward Island
to sold out crowds. He was also a band
member with the Shaw Festival. Eric
keeps busy teaching the various
instruments he plays at his recording
studio MAHAR MUSIC STUDIO in
Bolton Ontario when he’s not mountain
biking or skiing. career
Barlow, Denzal Sinclaire, Rez Abassi,
The Canadian Tenors, Mark Masri,
Sophie Millman, and many others. Jon
had the opportunity to play bass in the
house band for the first two seasons of
the CBC television program Triple
Sensation, and appeared on the double
platinum selling record "the Perfect
Gift" by the Canadian Tenors. He has
worked extensively in theatre as well,
and played bass in the Toronto
productions of Rock of Ages (Mirvish)
and Jersey Boys (Dancap). In 2007 he
was given a grant from the Canada
Council for the Arts to study in New
York City, where he had the
opportunity to take private lessons with
Drew Gress, Scott Colley, Matt Brewer
and Ben Street. He is currently working
on his debut album as a leader, which is
set to be released in 2011.
MAIMETS, Kaili
2014-2015 season included performing
Mozart's D Major Concerto for Flute
with Orchestra London.
Kaili studied with Denis Bluteau
at McGill where she earned her Masters
of Music in Orchestral Performance.
While Kaili completed her Bachelor of
Music in Flute at the University of
Toronto, she studied with Nora
Shulman. An important mentor to Kaili
in recent years has been Camille Watts,
with whom she also studied piccolo.
Kaili is grateful for her training
experiences with National Youth
Orchestra of Canada, National
Academy Orchestra of Canada, Youth
Orchestra of the Americas, Banff
Festival Orchestra, Scotia Festival of
Music, and Toronto Symphony Youth
Orchestra. At these institutes she has
had the opportunity to learn from
world-renowned flutists William
Bennett, Jeanne Baxtresser, Emmanuel
Pahud, Mathieu Dufour, Tara Helen
O’Connor, and Carol Wincenc.
http://kailimaimets.com
MARQUARDT, Sibylle
MAHARAJ, Jon
Jon Maharaj is a bass player from
Toronto, Canada. He currently plays
with or has played with The Tara
Davidson Quartet, The Allison Au
Quartet, Dione Taylor, Christian Scott,
Matt Stevens, Don Thompson, Mike
Murley, Reg Schwager, Emilie Claire
Principal Flute of Orchestra London,
flutist Kaili Maimets has performed
across Canada, South America, and
China. In recent years her chamber and
orchestral performances have been
broadcast nationally on CBC Radio.
Kaili has performed with the Toronto
Symphony Orchestra, National Ballet
of Canada, Toronto Concert Orchestra
and most recently with the National
Arts Centre Orchestra. This past fall,
she performed Bach's Brandenburg
Concerto no.4 on October 8th, 2014
with Orchestra London. Highlights of
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A native of Germany, Sibylle
Marquardt moved to Canada in 1997.
Her orchestral career began at the early
age of 23, when she was regularly hired
as 2nd flute/piccolo with the Radio
Symphony Orchestra Munich under Sir
Colin Davis, touring to Italy and Japan.
She went on to join the orchestral
program of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
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and held a solo flute/solo piccolo
position at the Freiburg Philharmonic
Orchestra under Sir Donald Runnicles.
She was a substitute player with the
Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart,
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie
Bremen, Gaertnerplatz Theater Munich,
Bern and Biel Symphony Orchestras.
She has also played with the Windsor
Symphony, the Toronto Philharmonia
and the Oshawa Durham Symphony
amongst others, as well as in the
productions of the Phantom of the
Opera and the Beauty and the Beast in
Toronto.
She is a member of the ERGO
ensemble, specializing in modern
music, as well as the Trio D'Argento
and Duo Resonance with whom she
performs regularly all over Ontario. In
Germany she was a founding member
of Trio Resonance, which was an
established ensemble at numerous highprofile concert venues and festivals
throughout Germany and Switzerland.
In the last few years she has been
performing solo recitals in Switzerland
with harpsichord and organ with
Angelika Hirsch/Basel.
Sibylle studied at the Hochschule
for Music Munich and Stuttgart from
1985-1992, finishing with a masters
equivalent and a teaching diploma.
Sibylle’s teachers include Hermann
Klemeyer, Jean-Claude Gerard and she
had lessons with Wolfgang Schulz,
Trevor Wye, Geoffrey Gilbert and
Aurele Nicolet. She has performed in
Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Austria,
Japan, Italy, former Czechoslovakia
and France, as well as for Radio
Canada, the BR Munich and TV and
movie productions.
Since 1998 she is on faculty of the
Royal Conservatory of Music and a
member of the College of Examiners,
as well she is the visiting artist at the
Etobicoke School for the Arts.
Sibylle has recorded the CD
“From The New Village” with guitarist
Wilma van Berkel featuring
20th century music and in the spring of
2013 her new CD with Trio D’Argento
and members of the Canadian Brass
will be released.
MARSHALL, Anne
South African born pianist Anne
Marshall has established herself as a
leading accompanist based in London.
Anne is a regular accompanist for Sir
James Galway and often appears in
concert with him, including the
Sherborne Abbey Festival and the
Slovenian Flute Festival, both in May
2014, Koerner Hall, Toronto in October
2014 and St John Smith Square London
as part of the Gramophone Magazine
Awards Ceremony in September 2014.
Anne is the principal accompanist at
the Galway Flute Conventions in
Atlanta, USA and Weggis, Switzerland
and a regular accompanist for various
other flute festivals, including Whole
Musician London.
Anne has accompanied many
distinguished artists in concert,
including Samuel Coles - principal of
the London Philharmonia Orchestra,
Lorna McGhee - principal of the
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Stefan
Hoskuldsson - principal of the
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra New
York, Joanna Westers - Royal
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Julie
Stewart-Lafin and Marina Piccinini.
Recent broadcasts include
accompanying Sir James Galway in
February 2014 and August 2012 live on
the BBC Radio 3 program “In Tune”,
and appearing on Summit TV, South
Africa, in April 2011. The concert in
Slovenia with Sir James Galway was
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broadcast on Slovenian National Radio
and the concert in Toronto was
broadcast live on Classic 96FM.
Anne has a Postgraduate Diploma from
the Royal College of Music in
Advanced Performance, with
accompaniment as principal study,
where her teachers were Andrew Ball
and Roger Vignoles. She was a
recipient of an Associated Board
Scholarship, and received bursaries
from both the Ernest Oppenheimer
Memorial Trust and the Apollo Music
Trust going on to become an
Accompanist Junior Fellow at the
Royal College of Music, supported by
the Anthony Saltmarsh Trust. Previous
studies include a Masters degree in
performing arts from Pretoria
University, studying under Professor
Joseph Stanford. Anne obtained
licentiates from the University of South
Africa (UNISA) in chamber music and
in performance as well as winning the
SAMRO/UNISA/Brenda Rein
Overseas Music Scholarship
(chamber music).
As a solo pianist, Anne has
performed with a number of
international orchestras including the
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra,
the Chamber Orchestra of South Africa,
the Youth Festival Orchestra of the
Czech Republic, and the Orchestra of
the University of Pretoria.
http://www.annejmarshall.com/
MASUDA, Taka
We #CanFlute
Taka Masuda, born in Japan, is a
concert flutist based in Tokyo. She can
be heard on CDs such as an album of
Basil Athanasiadis's contemporary
works “Stray Cat's Dreams”
(SARGASSO) and “Apple Blossom
Nostalgia” (Mercury Records COO040)
a collection of small pieces for flute
and piano/koto including folk music
from the Tohoku region of Japan. She
graduated from the Royal Academy of
Music in London with a PGDip, where
her teachers were William Bennett and
Patricia Morris (piccolo) and Clifford
Benson (chamber music).
She completed her Masters degree
at California State University,
Northridge with Louise DiTulli, and
her Bachelors degree at Kunitachi
College of Music. She has participated
in numerous music festivals, such as
Aspen Music Festival, William Bennett
International SummerSchool and the
Louis Moyse Flute Seminar.She has
performed at the NFA Flute
Convention in San Diego, where she
gave the American premiere of Ian
Clarke’s “Within...for 7 flutes” with
William Bennett, Trevor Wye, Wissam
Boustany, Denis Bouriakov, Hitomi
Furukawa and Ian Clarke. Another
performance highlight was when she
performed in William Bennett’s
Taffanel Lecture Recital in
Daegu, Korea.
She currently gives many recitals
across Japan and is a faculty member at
Tokyo Music Arts.
MCBIRNIE, Bill
Despite a rather uneventful musical
beginning in the small town of Port
Colborne, Ontario, Bill has attained an
international standing as one of the
finest flutists in jazz, even though he
rarely sets foot outside his domicile of
Toronto, Ontario. Bill's longstanding
commitment to the instrument has
earned him unqualified accolades as
well as awards, here in Canada and
abroad, including Flutist of the Year
(Jazz Report Award), Best Jazz Album
(Toronto Independent Music Awards)
and a Best Jazz Album nomination
(Independent Music Awards in the
USA). One of Bill's notable
achievements is that he is the only
flutist to have ever clinched a “triple
crown” at the National Flute
Association in the USA, winning all
three of the jazz flute (1) Soloist, (2)
Masterclass and (3) Big Band
competitions. As a testimony to his
singular place in the global flute
community, Bill was personally
solicited by Sir James Galway in 2005
to serve as the resident Jazz Flute
Specialist at Sir James' official web site.
recently, she was a season artist for the
Ottawa New Music Creators 2014-2015
concert season. Jen is an adjunct
professor with Carleton University's
music program and also teaches from
her home studio. 
http://jenmclachlen.weebly.com/
MCPHERSON, Angus
MCLACHLEN, Jen
Jen McLachlen is a Canadian composer
and flutist. She received her Bachelor
of Music from the University of Ottawa
in 2005, with a double major in
composition and flute performance
studying under Steven Gellman and
Lise Germain. In 2009, she received
her Masters of Music in flute
performance from Texas State
University where she studied under Dr.
Adah Jones.  She completed a DMA in
flute performance at Texas Tech
University in 2013 under Dr. Lisa
Garner; and a PhD in Fine Arts with a
concentration in music composition
with Dr. Mei-Fang Lin and Dr. Peter
Fischer. As a composer and performer,
she has participated in festivals and
conferences across North America,
South America, and Europe. Most
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Angus McPherson is an Australian
flutist based in Sydney and Hobart. He
performs regular recitals around
Australia and in 2014 he performed and
taught at the British Flute Society's
Convention in the UK. He played flute,
alto flute and piccolo in the
International Opera Theater's 2011
production of the contemporary opera,
Decameron, in Citta della Pieve and
Citta di Saluzzo, Italy. In Sydney,
Angus has performed as a soloist with
Orchestra 143, playing Vivaldi's Flute
Concerto in D major, 'The Goldfinch',
in 2013 and Cimarosa's Concerto for
Two Flutes in 2011. Angus runs classes
on extended techniques, circular
breathing and contemporary flute
playing, and is a regular adjudicator at
the NSW Flute Society's annual
eisteddfod. His articles on flute playing
have appeared in Flute Focus, Flute
Tutor Australia, the British Flute
Society's Journal, Pan, and the Dutch
flute magazine, FLUIT.
Although Angus enjoys many
styles of music, he is keenly interested
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in contemporary music and extended
techniques for the flute. Angus
travelled to Hungary in 2014 to
interview Hungarian flutist-composer
Gergely Ittzés about his work and in
2011 visited New York to conduct
interviews with contemporary flute
expert Robert Dick about his invention;
the Glissando Headjoint. Angus has
performed in international
masterclasses for Robert Dick in
Seattle, USA, and Gergely Ittzés in
Győr, Hungary, and has performed in
masterclasses in Sydney for flutists
such as Michael Cox, Emmanuel Pahud
and Aldo Baerton.
Currently enrolled in a PhD in
Music at the University of Tasmania,
Angus completed a Master of Music
and Bachelor of Music (Honours) at the
Sydney Conservatorium of Music,
studying with Alexa Still. He holds an
AMusA and LMusA (with Distinction)
from the Australian Music
Examinations Board.
Between gigs, Angus lives in
Sydney with his wife, Lorri, and guinea
pig, Patrice.
www.angusmcphersonflute.com
MELVILLE, Alison
Soundstreams, New Music Concerts,
Chatham Baroque, Oberlin Baroque
Ensemble, Boston Early Music Festival,
Early Music Vancouver, Opera Atelier
and many others, in venues ranging
from Tokyo's Bunkamura Hall and
Carnegie Hall to cinemas, convents,
gardens, libraries, barns, ferries, school
gymnasiums and prisons. With
extensive television, film and radio
credits (CBC/Radio-Canada, BBC,
RNZ, NPR, Iceland State Broadcast
Service and others), Alison can be
heard on the soundtracks of The Tudors,
The Borgias and The Vikings, CBCTV’s beloved ‘The Friendly Giant’, and
films by Atom Egoyan, Ang Lee,
Amnon Buchbinder and Stephen Dirkes,
and on Malcolm Sutherland’s awardwinning short animation Umbra. She
has played on over 55 CDs including
several critically acclaimed solo
recordings. Alison Melville taught at
the Oberlin Conservatory of Music
(OH) from 1999-2010, and is currently
on faculty at the University of Toronto
and Wilfrid Laurier University. She has
given master classes at numerous
universities across Canada, and taught
for Amherst Early Music, Early Music
Vancouver, the Texas Toot, CAMMAC,
SFEMS, Montréal Recorder Festival
and others. She studied in Toronto,
London (UK) and at the Schola
Cantorum Basiliensis (Basel, CH) as
the recipient of awards and
scholarships from the University of
Toronto, Canada Council for the Arts,
Women’s Art Association of Canada,
Royal Conservatory of Music, and
others. www.alisonmelville.com
MILLER, Douglas
Since playing her first CBC radio gig at
20, Alison Melville's career as a
performer on historical flutes and
recorders has taken her across Canada
and to the USA, Iceland, Japan, New
Zealand and Europe. A member of
Toronto Consort and Ensemble Polaris,
and Artistic Director of the Bird Project,
she appears frequently with the
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra both as
orchestral player and soloist, and has
television recordings. He has
Hamilton Philharmonic, and Kitchener
Waterloo Orchestra. He is current
principal flute of the Niagara
Symphony and a former Instructor at
Brock U. As theatre musician, he is a
regular member of the pit orchestras in
Toronto productions such as The Sound
of Music, Phantom of the Opera, The
Wizard of OZ, and recently Les
Miserables. In The Lion King, and The
Lord of the Rings, he played a
collection of ethnic bamboo flutes,
several of which he built himself. In
2004-2006 he toured North America
with Hal Princes’ production of EVITA,
celebrating the show’s 25th anniversary.
He has been a member of the Shaw
Festival Orchestra in various
productions since 1991 and recently,
their 2011 production of My Fair Lady,
and Ragtime in 2012. He is heard on
the soundtracks of many films and TV
series such as CBC’s Road to Avonlea
and David Suzuki’s Nature of Things.
Mr. Miller’s diverse education includes
a Master of Music in flute from
University of Toronto, a Bachelor of
Music and Licentiate with Distinction
in saxophone from McGill University,
where he completed a year of graduate
studies in recording engineering. A
graduate of the Royal Conservatory’s
Orchestral Training Program, he also
spent a year of Advanced Studies in
Music at the Banff Centre followed by
private studies in Vienna. He is a
founding member of The Gallery
Players of Niagara and has produced
three CDs with his trio Glissandi. He
regularly performs his show, “Flutes en
Route! a showcase of ethnic flutes from
around the world. He makes his home
in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
MILOJEVIĆ-BOGDANOVIĆ,
Milica
Douglas Miller is a versatile soloist
who performs regularly in various
symphony orchestras, chamber music
series, mega-musicals, film and
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Milica Milojević-Bogdanović was born
in Belgrade, Serbia. She finished
specialization course for piccolo at the
AIF in Rome with prof. N. Mazzanti in
2009. As a piccoloist she performed at
festivals Flauta Fest 2009, 2011 and
2013 in Belgrade, 1st European piccolo
festival 2011, 2nd European piccolo
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festival 2013, Vox Laci 2012 in
Jezersko, 8th International Flute
Festival of Costa Rica, BFS
Convention 2014 and gave recitals and
master classes in Austria, Serbia and
Slovenia.
In 2012 along with the Flute
Association of Serbia she initiated
event “How and why should I learn to
play piccolo” in Belgrade. She
currently teaches flute and piccolo at H.
Lanner Regional musikschulverband in
Austria.
Giancarlo Mincone currently holds an
H.BMus and a Diploma in Music
Performance from McMaster
University. He has studied under
celebrated flutists Dianne Aitken at the
Royal Conservatory of Music and Dr.
David Gerry at McMaster University.
Recipient of the Dianne and Robert
Aitken Award from the Alliance for
Canadian New Music Projects:
Contemporary Showcase, multiple 1st
place finishes at the Kiwanis Festival, a
2nd place finish at the Canadian Flute
Association’s Inaugural Competition
and most recently the recipient of the
Advance Winds Award from the
ACNMP. Mr. Mincone gave the
Canadian Premiere of David Von
Vactor’s ‘Concerto Grosso’ with the
McMaster Chamber Orchestra in 2013.
He has participated in Masterclasses
with internationally renowned flutists
Robert Aitken, Robert Dick, Paul
Edmund- Davies and the distinguished
opera singer Elise Bedard. Mr.
Mincone is currently pursuing a career
as a freelance flutist, critic and
instructor, teaching exclusively at the
North York Suzuki School of Music.
MITCHELL, Clyde
MINCONE, Giancarlo
Canadian/American Conductor Clyde
Mitchell is Conductor and Music
Director of Lions Gate Sinfonia and
Lions Gate Youth Orchestra in
Vancouver, British Columbia. Clyde’s
guest conducting appearances include
all of Canada’s major orchestras,
including the Montreal and Toronto
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Symphonies, the Canadian Opera
Company, the National Arts Centre
Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic,
Edmonton and Vancouver Symphonies,
etc. Many of Clyde’s additional guest
conducting appearances have been with
orchestras and opera companies in the
U.S. and abroad, including Chicago,
Houston, Rochester, and in South
America, Asia, Europe, US,
and Canada.
Clyde is an outspoken advocate
for music education, and regularly
conducts and holds workshops for
Honour Bands and Orchestras across
North America. A fun additional career
sees Clyde as a guest speaker and host
for classical music radio and television
shows. Clyde regularly visits school
music programs to coach young
musicians, as well as to work with band
and orchestra directors.
Clyde Mitchell was born and
raised in Orlando, FL, and studied
piano, organ, and French Horn and
decided to pursue a career in music.
Music Performance degrees from
Louisiana State University (B. Mus.)
and Cal. State U‐Northridge (Master of
Arts in Music) led to a performing
career on Horn in Bogotá, Colombia,
Tucson, Arizona, and Montreal,
Quebec. In Montreal, he was Associate
Principal Horn in the prestigious
Montreal Symphony Orchestra under
Charles Dutoit, and was Professor of
Horn and Chamber Music Studies and
Conductor of the Brass Choir at McGill
University.
Following his orchestral playing
career, Clyde turned to conducting
studies at CSU‐Long Beach (Master of
Music) and USC (Artist Diploma.)
These degrees, and his experience as an
orchestral performer, led to Conductor
and Music Director positions in Canada
and the US, including Resident and
Associate Conductor of the Vancouver
Symphony. Clyde has won several
important conducting awards and
competitions, including Canada’s
Heinz Unger Award as “Canada’s Most
Promising Conductor” and the U.S.
National Conductor’s Award with the
National Repertory Orchestra.
Clyde lives in Los Angeles, where
his wife, Sarah Jackson, plays Solo
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Piccolo with the world‐famous Los
Angeles Philharmonic. Sarah and
Clyde love their two cats, and enjoy
traveling and experiencing different
cultures, languages, food and wine.
MOON, Sarah Yunji
currently pursuing a Doctorate in
Musical Arts degree at the University
of Toronto. Sarah holds Master’s of
Music degree in Contemporary
Performance from the Manhattan
School of Music, and a Bachelor of
Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon
University. http://sarahmoon.ca
performing with the Istanbul Festival in
the spectacular 6th century Church,
Aya Irene which sits in the grounds of
Topkapi Palace, and adding her trade
mark kiss on Festive Flutes CD's
Christmas Crackers and Overnight
Sensations!
MORITA, Yoriko
Flutist Sarah Yunji Moon is recognized
for her intense, commanding
performances, delivered with virtuosity
and technical assurance. Sarah’s
dedication in promoting and
performing new music has led her to
creating innovative concert programs,
and focusing on communicating with
her audience. As an active chamber and
orchestral musician, Sarah regularly
performs with Ontario Philharmonic
and National Academy Orchestra.
Sarah held the principal Flute position
with Symphony Nova Scotia for two
seasons from 2008-2010. She is the
founder of the Rosedale Winds, a group
dedicated to performing the hidden
gems of contemporary woodwind
quintet repertoire. As a soloist, she has
performed concertos with numerous
orchestras in North America and Asia
such as the Seoul Philharmonic and the
Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Ms.
Moon has been chosen to tour Eastern
Canada for six weeks giving recitals of
contemporary Flute repertoire as part of
Jeunesses Musicales’ 2014-2015
concert season.
Broadening her interest into
academic studies and research, Sarah is
Yoriko Morita is an active cellist in the
Boulder/Denver area. She
performs regularly with a variety of
Colorado orchestras as well as
chamber ensembles. Yoriko holds a
performance degree from Lawrence
University, with additional graduate
studies at the University of
Colorado at Boulder; her teachers have
included Janet Anthony, Calvin
Wiersma, Judith Glyde and Natasha
Brofsky. She is also a proud mom of
two music-loving children.
Yoriko Morita is an active cellist
in Colorado. She performs regularly
with a variety of Colorado orchestras
and chamber groups. Yoriko holds a
performance degree from Lawrence
University, with additional graduate
studies in cello at the University of
Colorado at Boulder.
MURPHY, Sarah
Sarah Murphy is based in Derry,
Northern Ireland and has a passion for
creative music making. She studied at
the Guildhall School of Music and
Drama and is a founder member of
Festive Flutes. Sarah has performed at
many festivals and venues around
Europe in chamber music groups,
world music groups and orchestras.
Some of her personal highlights include:
sell out performances with Juan Martin
at London's South Bank Centre;
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Sarah is Artistic Director of
Wall2Wall Music and devises creative
music projects in schools and with
communities often in collaboration
with other art forms. Sarah also
delivers training to music teachers for
Musical Futures in Ireland. Her creative
music facilitation was in the foreground
of the City of Culture in
Derry/Londonderry through
groundbreaking programmes such as
“At Sixes and Sevens” and “Stroke
Odysseys”. Her most recent project
involved facilitating a Creative Arts
Lab involving young musicians, poets
and video artists who together created 5
new works which they performed in
Derry-Londonderry at Culture Tech
Festival.
NEWMAN, Leslie
Leslie Newman made her professional
debut with the Toronto Symphony
Orchestra at the age of eighteen,
performing Carl Nielsen’s Flute
Concerto under the baton of Sir
Andrew Davis. Following graduate
studies at Yale University and Juilliard,
Leslie settled in England where she
presented live solo BBC Radio
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broadcasts from almost every major
centre, including two recitals at the
world-famous Wigmore Hall, which
were broadcast live by the BBC’s
Radio 3.
As guest Principal Flautist, Leslie
has performed with the Hallé Orchestra,
Bournemouth Symphony, BBC
National Orchestra of Wales, National
Ballet Orchestra and Canadian Opera
Company Orchestra. She has toured
through Brazil, Argentina, Japan,
Europe and the U.S. with Sir Simon
Rattle and the City of Birmingham
Symphony Orchestra. Festival
appearances include Banff, Belle-Ile
(France), Bogotá, Ottawa’s
Chamberfest, Salzburg, Sorrento, the
Stratford International Flute Festival
(UK) and the Oregon Bach Festival.
Now living in Toronto, Leslie teaches
at the University of Toronto’s Faculty
of Music. She performs frequently as
soloist, chamber musician and with the
Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra
where she holds the position of
Principal Flute. Recent performances
include a tour to China and Taiwan
with Toronto’s Soundstreams, concerto
appearances with the Hamilton
Philharmonic Orchestra and Montreal
Chamber Orchestra and recitals
throughout Canada.
www.leslienewman.ca
NOURSE, Nancy
Born in Picton, Ontario Nancy Nourse
is a musician, educator and music
publisher who has studied Her passion
for all things related to the flute have
seen her engaged over the years in
multiple activities from playing the
flute in London, England’s Kensington
Philharmonic, piccolo in the American
Flute Orchestra, traverso in KitchenerWaterloo’s Note Bene Period
Orchestra and contrabass flute in
the National Flute Orchestra of
England. She has conducted flute
ensembles such as the Toronto Youth
Flute Orchestra, the University of
Illinois Flute Choir and the MidAtlantic Honor Flute Choir from
Washington, DC. and has led public
flute choir reading sessions sponsored
by Long and McQuade in Toronto.
For over a decade her
company, Nourse Wind
Publications has been publishing music
for flute ensembles, flute solos and
flute in various other combinations.
Performances of her arrangements and
compositions have been heard from
California to Kazakstan and Paris to
Shanghai. Often Nancy can be found
scouring libraries for her continuing
research into the history of the piccolo.
She has written articles and reviews for
various journals such as The Journal of
Aesthetic Education, The Journal of
Curriculum Studies, The Canadian
Music Educator, The Flutist
Quarterly and Flute Focus. She has just
returned from a tour of northern Spain
with the International Flute Orchestra,
an ensemble in which she has also
performed in France, Poland, Russia,
Eastern Europe, the Baltics, Belgium,
China, and Chile.
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NOYCE, Rik
Increasingly in demand as a recitalist
and collaborative chamber musician,
Dr. Rik Noyce is known for his rich,
expressive tone, and his passionate
musicality. An advocate of
contemporary composition, he has
commissioned and premiered numerous
new works. He has held principal
positions with several orchestras and
wind ensembles, and has performed
throughout the United States, Canada,
and Europe. Noyce may be heard on
several recordings, including those for
Oregon Catholic Press, and with Shelly
Cohen, former assistant musical
director of Johnny Carson's
Tonight Show.
Dr. Noyce is cofounder of the
Whole Musician Retreats; a
collaboration of five uniquely
experienced flutists who offer
unparalleled intensive retreats
addressing the mental, physical, and
musical demands placed on the 21st
century performer.
Hailing from Boston,
Massachusetts, Dr. Rik Noyce began
musical studies at the New England
Conservatory Extension Division and
later earned his degree as Bachelor of
Music in Performance from the Hartt
School of Music. After spending time
performing in the New England tri-
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state area, a full talent scholarship
brought him to southern California.
Noyce holds a Doctorate of Musical
Arts, with distinction, from the
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and a
Master of Music with highest
distinction from California State
University, Northridge. He also served
as adjunct faculty at both universities.
He currently serves as Lecturer in
Music at both Loyola Marymount
University and California State
University, Dominguez Hills.
In addition to his many musical
accomplishments, Noyce has been
coaching people's lives for nearly
fifteen years and is a certified coach by
the International Coach Federation. He
has coached several hundreds of people
from all walks of life with time
management, personal goals and
productivity, creative blocks, stage
fright, and performance anxiety.
Thanks to consistently improving
technology, he is able to work with
people around the world via video chat
and phone.
O’RIORDAN, Niall
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Described by critics as ‘dazzling’,
‘tonally ravishing and technically
flawless’ (British Flute Society) Irish
flutist Niall O’Riordan enjoys an
international career as soloist and
teacher. In 2014 he was awarded the
prestigious rising star award by Sir
James Galway at the Galway
International Flute Festival, Weggis,
Switzerland and was presented with a
14k gold headjoint by Nagahara
Flutes Boston.
As a soloist Niall has appeared at
the First Canadian Flute Convention
(2013), the British Flute Society
Convention and the San Francisco
International Flute festal (2014) and
performs regularly in Europe and with
duo partner Anne Marshall. He is a cofounder of Whole Musician, a
collective of five international flutists
offering unparalleled holistic a retreats
incorporating mins, movement and
music. In 2014 they held retreats at Big
Bear Lake California, and Notting
Hill London.
Niall is an experienced and
passionate teacher and holds advanced
qualifications in flute pedagogy from
Lund University, Sweden, where he
was later visiting lecturer. He has also
taught at University College, Cork, and
the Cork School of Music, assisted at
the Oxford Flute Summer School
(2006-2010), and gave workshops at
William Bennett’s Summer School
(2011).
Niall is a certified Feldenkrais
Method awareness through movement
teacher and uses the method to help
musicians reach their potentially by
learning about their functioning and
how to act efficiently. He has taught
Feldenkrais classes at the Galway
International Flute Festival since 2012.
He is internationally recognised for his
completely holistic approach to flute
playing and teaching drawing
inspiration from yoga, psychology,
voice work, Neuro-Linguistic
Programming (NLP), metaphysics and
visualisation. He has given workshops
at the last four British Flute society
Conventions on his pioneering style.
Niall was awarded his MA and BMus
from Cork School of Music, Ireland,
where he received consecutive
scholarships to study with Evelyn
Grant and Sabine Ducrot. Since 2011,
Niall has been mentored by Sir James
Galway. He writes regularly for PAN
magazine, the Journal of the British
Flute Society.
Plans for 2015 include a tour of
South Africa, performing at the Adams
Flute Festival, Netherlands, a Whole
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Musician retreat in Toronto and later
this summer appearing as soloist at the
Galway Flute festival, Weggis,
Switzerland.
OHARA, Kiyoka
Japanese flautist, Kiyoka Ohara,
graduated from The Royal Academy of
Music, where she studied with William
Bennett, Kate Hill, Karen Jones and Pat
Morris for her Bachelor and Master
degrees. At the Academy, she
participated in the LSO Scheme,
working with principal players from the
LSO. Prior to her studies in England,
Kiyoka studied at a private arts school
in Korea. She has also participated in
masterclasses with Lorna McGhee,
Clare Southworth, and cellist David
Waterman. She has appeared as soloist
and chamber musician inmany recitals
at venues such as Wigmore Hall and
Colston Hall in Bristol. She regularly
performs in London and also gives
recitals in cities across Japan. Many of
her concerts in Japan help those who
cannot otherwise go to concerts
because of illness. Kiyoka was
Teaching Assistant at the William
Bennett International Flute Summer
School in 2011, where she performed
alongside William Bennett. In 2013,
Kiyoka became a Core Strengthening
Instructor and uses her knowledge of
this discipline in her teaching. She has
her own private studio of students in
North West London.
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OUELLETTE, Sylvie
Sylvie Ouellette received her early
education in flute at the Conservatoire
de Musique du Québec à Montréal. She
continued her studies to obtain the
Bachelor of Music Education degree at
Université du Québec, followed by the
Master of Music in Interpretation at the
University of Montreal. She has
advanced her skills as a flutist by
training in Quebec and in France with
great masters, including Alain Marion,
Raymond Guiot and Maxence Larrieu.
From 1989‐1994, Ms. Ouellette was
principal flutist with the Philharmonie
des Vents du Québec. Between 2000
and 2007, she gave over one hundred
performances throughout Canada and
the United States with l’Arsenal à
Musique, an ensemble for music
production and orchestration through
the merging of disciplines and talents.
Since 1978, Ms. Ouellette is an
avid teacher and presently works with
students on flute, chamber music and
ear training at Cégep Marie‐Victorin.
Her latest project is performing with
Les flûtistes de Montréal.
Green Gables” and a 10-year run in the
orchestra pit for “Phantom of the Opera”
in Toronto.
PIMIENTA, Alhelí
Ms. Pelletier holds a Master of
Music degree from the New England
Conservatory in Boston, and a
Bachelor’s degree from her hometown
University of Ottawa.
PILTCH, Susan
PELLETIER, Maria
Flutist Maria Pelletier is a member of
the National Ballet of Canada
Orchestra and the Esprit Orchestra and
performs regularly with the Canadian
Opera Company Orchestra.
She plays regularly with the Ontario
Philharmonic Orchestra as well as other
orchestras in Southern Ontario. Her
musical theatre experience includes
four summers in Charlottetown, PEI,
playing in the orchestra for “Anne of
MOON and FLOWERS (1994)
and NATURE'S PLAY (1996). In 2006,
Susan and harpist Sharlene Wallace
produced and performed on their first
collaborative recording
ANTICIPATION, a collection of
original compositions of their own and
of close friends. Two of Susan's
compositions have been published
through Nourse Wind
Publications: Labyrinth and Little One.
They are both listed on the Royal
Conservatory of Music's flute exam
syllabus. Susan released her own solo
recording OUT OF THE SHADOWS
in 2009 on which she plays all of the
flute and piano parts herself.
Flutist/pianist SUSAN PILTCH began
her music studies at the Royal
Conservatory in Toronto with
pianist/composer Dr. Samuel Dolin.
She later studied recorder with Hugh
Orr, then flute with her father Bernard
Piltch. Susan has recorded two CDs
with guitarist Daniel LaBrash: THE
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Alhelí Pimienta is one of the most
active Mexican-Canadian flutists and
an international collaborator and
promoter of new music for her
instrument. Her commissions and
national and international premieres of
works include pieces by Harvey
Sollberger, Constan- tine Caravassilis,
Eduardo Angulo, Eugenio Toussaint,
Exequiel Mantega, José Lezcano and
Roberto Sierra, among others. Her
active life as a recitalist has taken her to
important halls and music festivals in
France, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, the
United States and Canada. Her work
has been rewarded by multiple
generous scholarships and grants, and
outstanding prizes at competitions like
the National Flute Competition in
Mexico (gold medal 2014, professional
category), the Crescendo Music
Awards International Competition
(gold medal 2010), and the Professional
Development Grant by the Ontario Arts
Council (2014-2016). Alhelí gives
master-classes in Canada, the US,
Mexico and Brazil regularly and
academic conferences about Latin
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American solo and chamber repertory
for flute, and Prehispanic music, her
main research topic as a Doctoral
student at the University of Toronto.
She currently lives in Mexico where
she has taken the temporary position as
Flute Professor at the national
conservatory Escuela Superior de
Musica y Danza de Monterrey, but her
home is Toronto where she actively
rehearses, teaches and performs. Her
most active touring chamber ensembles
include: Flautas del Fuego (Canada),
Tio Chorinho (Brazil), Trio de las
Americas (Mexico), Duo Nuevo
(Mexico), and Duo Pimienta/Olivieri
(Puerto Rico).
In March 2015, Alhelí will be
presenting the world premiere of her
most recent commission: the Concerto
for Two Flutes, Timpani and String
Orchestra "Soultones" by GreekCanadian composer Constantine
Caravassilis, performing next to her
mentor, Canadian soloist Susan
Hoeppner, in Monterrey Mexico with
the OCFAMUS Contemporary
Chamber Orchestra. Other projects for
this year include tours in Canada,
Brazil and Europe, as well as the
release of Flautas del Fuego Debut CD
"Back to our Roots."
PUTTERMAN, Mika
Mika Putterman produces a series in
Montreal called Autour de la flûte
which features the wooden flute from
the baroque era to the romantic era. She
performs in both Canada and Europe
and plays regularly with the Ensemble
Arion in Montreal and has also been
invited to play with the Montreal
Baroque Festival, the Lamèque
International Festival, the Festival
Bach de St. Malo and the Festival de
musique de Nantes. She has performed
with numerous groups such as
Tafelmusik (Toronto), Il Fondamento
(Belgium), the Theater of Early Music
(Montreal), Ensemble XVIII21 (France) and Les Menus Plaisirs du
Roy (France), and has had the privilege
of working with such conductors as
Daniel Cuiller, Paul Dombrecht,
Manfredo Kraemer, Barthold Kuijken,
Jeanne Lamon, Jaap Ter Linden, Hervé
Niquet, Dominique Visse and Julian
Wachner. Mika has recorded concerts
for both the CBC and Radio-Canada,
and has recorded as a soloist with the
early-music.com label.
QUINTANILLA, Mario
Mario Quintanilla was born in
Monterrrey Mexico. He began his
musical studies in the year 2000 with
Pedro Salcedo in Mexico’s most
prestigious conservatory: the Escuela
Superior de Musica y Danza de
Monterrey, where he graduated with
the highest honours. Mario studied
musical development in Parma, Italy
with the guitarist Giampaolo Bandini at
the Musical Academy of the Thea- tre
Cinghio, and has studied and
collaborated with distinguished
international performers such as Leo
Brouwer, Oscar Ghiglia, Mar- co
Tamayo, Marcin Dylla, Ricardo Gallen,
Denis Azabagic, Judicaël Perroy,
Giampaolo Bandini, Juan Carlos
Laguna, among many others. As an
active soloist, Mario has also
performed in the most important
concert halls in Mexico. As part of the
V International Guitar Festival in
Monterrey, he released the national
perimere of “El concierto de Bayoan”,
a concerto for guitar and orchestra by
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the guitarist and composer Ernesto
Cordero, who at the end of the concert
expressed his admiration for the young
Mexican guitarist.
Mario has shared stages with
several international famous artists
such as Susan Hoeppner, playing with
her as a duo in the Interna- tional Flute
Festival in 2010 in Monterrey. That
same year, he played with the cuatrista
Edwin Colon in the International Guitar
Fes- tival in Monterrey. In 2011, in the
same guitar festival, he shared stages
with the famous international guitarists
Marco Tamayo, Ana- bel Montesinos
and Jaime Márquez interpreting
the ”Concierto Andaluz” for 4 guitars
and orchestra, honoring the famous
spanish composer Joaquín Rodrigo.
In January, 2008 the FONECA (Fondo
Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes)
awarded him a travel and performance
grant to promote contemporary guitar
repertoire. That same year in November,
he released the national premiere of the
“Fantasia Concertante” from the
guitarist and acclaimed composer
Nikita Koshkin. In November, 2009 in
the V International Guitar Festival
Juvenile of Tepoztlán, he released the
worldwide premiere ‘Alebrijes of the
Mexico City’ from the spanish guitarist
and composer Eduardo Garrido. In the
Year 2010 he relesed in Monterrey the
premiere of the Concierto No.2 for
guitar and orchestra "El Alevin" from
de Mexican composer
Eduardo Angulo.
Mario Quintanilla also has
obtained important prizes in Guitar
Competitions throughout Mexico, and
currently collaborates with Me- xican
flutist Alhelí Pimienta in “Duo Nuevo,”
an ensemble dedicated to the promotion
of contemporary Latin American
repertory for flute and guitar.
RAPHAEL, Nan
Since retiring from the US Army Field
Band in 2003 after 26 years as solo
piccoloist, Nan Raphael  has been a
guest artist/clinician around the US,
piccoloist with the Maryland Lyric
Opera, International Flute Orchestra,
Washington Winds recording studio
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band, Capitol City Symphony, and the
Columbia Flute Choir.
She has 4 piccolo CD’s and a
book of piccolo excerpts from the
symphonic band repertoire as well as
an article in the National Flute
Association's Pedagogy Anthology vol.
2.  www.nanraphael.com
REES, Carla
Carla Rees is a UK-based low flutes
specialist who has developed an
international reputation for her
innovative work. She is Artistic
Director of rarescale, an ensemble
which celebrated its 10th Anniversary
in 2013 with the premieres of 17 new
works in 10 days. Shewas Programme
Director for the British Flute Society
International Conventions in 2012 and
2014, and currently serves as
International Liaison for the National
Flute Association of America, as well
as being a member of their New Music
Advisory committee.She completed her
PhD at the Royal College of Music in
London in 2014, researching extended
techniques for Kingma System alto and
bass flute with the support of
scholarships from the Arts and
Humanities Research Council and the
Royal College of Music. She is
currently Professor of Flute at Royal
Holloway University of London and at
London College of Music, and a Music
Tutor for the Open College of Arts.
Carla plays Kingma System quartertone
flutes made by Eva Kingma and
Bickford Brannen.
Since 2000, Carla has been
working to develop recital repertoire
for the alto and bass flute, and she has
had several hundred works written for
her by a wide range of composers from
around the world, and has premiered
works by composers including Claes
Biehl, Dan Di Maggio, Alexander
Goehr, Sungji Hong, Robert Fokkens,
Daniel Kessner, Nicola LeFanu, Adam
Melvin, Scott Miller, Patrick Nunn,
David Bennett Thomas, Ian Wilson,
Scott Wilson, Elizabeth Winters and
long-term collaborative partner,
Michael Oliva.
Carla performs frequently at
international festivals, both with
rarescale and as a soloist, including
most recently at the Costa Rica Flute
Festival, Flute Conventions in the UK,
USA, France and Slovenia. Recent
performance highlights include
Feldman’s For Philip Guston with John
Tilbury and Simon Allen at
Huddersfield Contemporary Music
Festival, and the premiere of a new
work by Ian Wilson at University
College Cork with the RTE Vanburgh
Quartet, as well as appearances with
rarescale at Spitalfields Festival and
Nonclassical.
Carla has recorded five discs for
rarescale records, as well as for Atopos,
Capstone and Metier, and appears on
incidental music for film, TV and radio,
including Nanny McPhee 2, and the
BBC Radio 4 series Dear Professor
Hawking. She is the Director of low
flutes specialist publishing company,
Tetractys, and also works as a freelance
photographer. www.carlarees.co.uk
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REINE, Kimberly
Kimberly Reine began her studies on
traverso with Claire Guimond at
McGill University. She went on to
study with Wilbert Hazelzet at the
Royal Conservatory of the Hague, the
Netherlands, and with Marc Hantaï at
the Escola Superior de Música de
Catalunya in Spain. Kimberly performs
regularly, both in Canada and abroad,
and is a founding member of the
renaissance flute consort DISCANTVS
as well as Barrocade, the Israeli
Baroque Collective. She has worked
with a variety of early music ensembles
including le Studio de musique
ancienne de Montréal, under the
direction of Christopher Jackson, the
Theatre of Early Music, and the
Académie Baroque d'Ambronnay,
under the direction of William Christie.
Until her recent move back to Montreal,
she was the principal flute in the
Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra, under
the direction of David Shemer and
Andrew Parrott.
REUGE, Carole
Carole Reuge is an independant flutist,
pedagog and event producer. She is the
initiator and director of “la Côte Flûte
Festival”, Switzerland’s leading flute
festival and convention. With around
1300 visitors, 32 exhibitors, around 180
artists and nearly 50 sponsors/partners,
the first edition of this new event has
been a huge success in October 2014.
Born in 1973, Carole Reuge studied
flute in Switzerland, where she
obtained the diplôme d’enseignement
(master in music pedagogy) from the
Conservatory of Lausanne (HEMU)
and the diplôme de virtuosité (master in
performance) from the La Chaux-DeWe #CanFlute
Fonds -Conservatory in 2002, with
Michel Bellavance. She also studied
flute through master classes and
exchanges between music schools with
José-Daniel Castellon (F), Philippa
Davies (UK), Sophie Dardeau (F),
Andràs Adorjan (D), and Ricardo
Ghianni (I). From 1998 to 2002, she
studied music interpretation whith
Canadian pianist Marc Bourdeau. In
2006, she created “L’Atelier À
Travers“, the music studio she operates
from her hometown in Gland,
Switzerland.
She teaches flute through private
lessons, workshops and summer classes.
With three teachers, enrollment at the
studio totals about 50 students. In
addition to managing La Côte Flûte
Festival and her studio “L’Atelier À
Travers“, Carole Reuge has also
performed flute concerts and given
classes, in Europe and North America.
RICKETTS, Carolyn
Carolyn is a proud Flute Street member
with such wonderful players and good
friends. Her formal music training was
at Western (B.Mus, MA), U of T (B.Ed)
and the RCM (Orff 1 and 2). Her
informal musical training comes from
having sung to her sons at the dinner
table and learning from their criticisms.
Also, she is an active member of the
Toronto Choral Society who takes great
satisfaction in performing and teaching
music that includes theory, Orff
and flute.
opera, and several musical theatre
productions, both in the pit orchestra
and on stage.
RUDOLPH, Kathleen
ROBERTS, Philip
Philip Roberts currently resides in St.
John’s, Newfoundland, where he serves
as Visiting Assistant Professor of Piano
Memorial University’s School of Music.
He holds a Doctorate in piano
performance from the University of
Montreal where he studied with Marc
Durand, as well as a Master’s degree
from the University of Montreal and an
Honours Bachelor of Music from
Memorial University.
An active performer, Dr. Roberts
has been heard regularly on CBC radio,
including local and national broadcasts.
His solo and collaborative
performances have taken him across
Canada and in the U.S. and Europe,
including performances with Banff
Centre String Orchestra and the
Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra.
He has won numerous awards
including the International Gold Medal
at the Llangollen International Musical
Eistenfodd in Wales, and the Royal
Bank-Debut Atlantic Award for
Musical Excellence.
Dr. Roberts’ teaching career has
included mentoring students at
universities, conservatories and the precollege level. He also regularly serves
as a piano adjudicator at music festivals
across Newfoundland and Labrador. Dr.
Roberts’ teaching activities also include
serving as accompanist and vocal coach
for the instrumental and vocal faculties
at Memorial University, as well as
being an active accompanist in the
community, from private studio recitals
to major public performances. His
ensemble performances include
orchestra, concert band, jazz band,
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Kathleen Rudolph has been hailed
variously as “a major artist” (CD
Review) and as “a virtuoso flutist”
(Washington Star). Ms. Rudolph is
much in demand as a recitalist,
chamber musician, and teacher. In
1998, Ms. Rudolph was appointed
Coordinator of the Woodwind Division
at the Royal Conservatory’s Glenn
Gould School in Toronto. She is also
Assistant Professor at Western
University in London, Ontario.
Ms. Rudolph has performed on
some of the most prestigious chamber
music series in the United States and
Canada, including Masterpiece Music,
the Vancouver Chamber Music Festival,
the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival,
and Tanglewood. When Principal Flute
of the former CBC Radio Orchestra,
she was often featured as soloist. Ms.
Rudolph gave the North American
broadcast premiere of the Strathclyde
Concerto No. 6 by Sir Peter Maxwell
Davies, with the composer conducting.
She also gave the Canadian premiere of
Paul Schoenfield’s Klezmer Rondos. In
October 2006 she and her husband,
percussionist John Rudolph, gave the
world premiere of a work for flute,
marimba, and strings by John Wyre of
NEXUS. The work was commissioned
We #CanFlute
by the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation (CBC) for the Rudolphs,
and was performed with the CBC
Radio Orchestra. She also gives
frequent concerts with the Rudolph
Family Players, which includes her
husband and her daughter, violist
Theresa Rudolph.
Kathleen has recorded a solo CD
on the CBC Musica Viva label, “Silver
Sounds for Flute” and is featured with
the CBC Radio Orchestra on two
recordings: “Entre Amis” and
“Northern Landscapes”.
Ms. Rudolph played piccolo and
was Assistant Principal Flute with the
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra for
seventeen years and was principal flute
of the CBC Radio Orchestra for
twenty-five years. She was also
Adjunct Professor at the University of
British Columbia and on the faculty at
the Vancouver Academy of Music and
Courtenay Youth Music Centre. She
has given masterclasses at the Shanghai
Conservatory, the Montreal
Conservatory, the Orford Centre for the
Arts, and in December 2007 she gave
concerts and masterclasses in Turkey.
She has been a featured perform er at
the conventions of the National Flute
Association and is a judge for the
annual NFA competitions.
Kathleen grew up in a musical
family in a small farming community in
Iowa. She was a scholarship student at
the National Music Camp at
Interlochen, Michigan, while in high
school. She is the recipient of a Doctor
of Musical Arts degree from the
Catholic University of America in
Washington DC. While still in
university, she was a member of the
Kennedy Center Opera House
Orchestra and the orchestra at Wolf
Trap Farm Park in Virginia.
Kathleen enjoys reading,
gardening, and walking her basset
hound, Arthur.
www.kathleenrudolph.com
SCHOCKER, Gary
Sponsored by Haynes
annual Newly Published Music Award
numerous times. Among artists who
have played his compositions, James
Galway gave the American premier of
Green Places with the New
Jersey Symphony.
In 2008 Schocker was
commissioned to write the required
piece "Biwako Wind" for the
Biwako, Japan for which he also served
as judge.
Gary has private flute studios in
NYC and Easton, PA where he dually
resides. He is on the faculty at NYU.
He performs on both Haynes and
Powell flutes and headjoints of David
Williams (platinum) and David Chu
(boxwood).
SEED, Roderick
Flutist-composer-pianist Gary Schocker
is an accomplished musician of
outstanding versatility. At age 15, he
made his professional debut when he
performed as soloist with the New
York Philharmonic and the
Philadelphia Orchestra. He has won
numerous competitions including the
Young Concert Artists, the National
Flute Association, the NY Flute Club
and the East-West Artists. Often, he
concertizes in duo with guitarist Jason
Vieaux. Internationally, he has toured
and taught in Colombia, Panama,
Canada, Australia, Taiwan, Japan,
Germany, France and Italy.
Schocker has composed sonatas
and chamber music for most
instruments of the orchestra. He also
has written several musicals, including
Far From the Madding Crowd and The
Awakening, which can be heard on
Original Cast Recordings. Both shows
were winners of the Global Search for
New Musicals in the UK and were
performed in Cardiff and at the
Edinburgh Festival, as well as in New
Zealand. In New York, they were
winners of the ASCAP music
theatre awards.
Schocker has won the
International Clarinet Association's
annual composition competition twice
and the National Flute Association's
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Roderick Seed is a British flute player,
who made his Carnegie Hall debut
in 2010.
He graduated from the Royal
Academy of Music, London in
2009,where he won the "Paddy Purcell
Award" - an Entrance Scholarship - to
study with William Bennett, OBE. He
went on to study with Lorna McGhee,
the principal flute of the Pittsburgh
Symphony Orchestra. He has also
studied with Sebastian Bell, Kate Hill
and Pat Morris (piccolo).He has had
masterclasses with Emily Beynon,
Emmanuel Pahud, Jacques Zoon, David
Takeno (violin professor) and
Shigenori Kudo. In September 2010
Roderick was a First Prize Winner of
the Alexander & Buono International
Flute Competition (New York) and in
October he performed at the Weill
Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall. Roderick
has given recitals and concerts in
We #CanFlute
venues such as Snape Maltings
(Aldeburgh Festival), St Martin in the
Fields, St James's Piccadilly and Wes
tminster Cathedral, as well as concert
halls in Hungary, Germany and USA.
He has played with London Octave as
guest principal flute and has toured
Europe as soloist in Malcolm Arnold's
Flute Concerto with West Sussex
County Orchestra. Most recently, he
has given concerts and masterclasses in
Canada and Japan. He has played
alongside flautists such as William
Bennett and Denis Bouriakov.
Roderick is a keen advocate of new
music, having worked with many
composers whilst still a student. He has
premiered many chamber works by
young composers and also a concerto
by Nimrod Borenstein as a result of
winning the solo award at the London
Concerto Competition. In 2010, he
gave a premiere of a new work written
especially for him by Eddie McGuire at
the British Flute Society Convention in
Manchester. Roderick is an active
teacher and teaches at his studio in
London and for the “Every Child a
Musician”scheme in East London. He
was Teaching Assistant at the William
Bennett International Flute Summer
School in 2009 and 2010. He has also
given masterclasses at the Lizst
Academy in Budapest, Hungary and for
the Royal Muscat Philharmonic
Orchestra in Oman. More recently, he
gave classes in Toyko and Kyoto,
Japan on the Moyse 24 studies and the
basic principles of music. Roderick is
now an Altus Artist with Altus Flutes
Europe. He plays an Altus flute with a
headjoint made my Miguel Arista.
roderickseed.wix.com/flute
SHAW, Richard
“incisiveness and fluent
sensitivity” (The Independent)
“excellent support” (The Times)
“fervent, intensely moving
performance” (The Strad)
Richard Shaw specializes in
chamber music and accompaniment
and has performed extensively in
Britain and abroad. In the last few years
his many broadcasts for BBC Radio 3
have included live duo performances
with violinists James Ehnes, Viviane
Hagner, Leonidas Kavakos, So-Ock
Kim, Pekka Kuusisto, Andrew McGee,
Vadim Repin, Ittai Shapira, Nikolaj
Znaider, cellists Narek
Hakhnazaryan, Richard Harwood and
Li Wei, flautists Jean Ferrandis,
Kathryn Thomas and Laura Lucas,
clarinettists Martin Fröst and Sarah
Williamson, Hannah Marcinowicz
(saxophone), Karen Geoghegan
(bassoon), Christopher Orton (recorder),
sopranos Elizabeth Atherton, Elizabeth
Byrne, Nicole Cabelle (winner of
Cardiff Singer of the Year 2005),
Majella Cullagh, Eva Kallberg, Jennifer
Smith and Ailish Tynan, mezzosopranos Alice Coote, Catherine
Griffith and Jean Rigby, Anna Larsson
(contralto), counter-tenors Robin Blaze
and Michael Chance, tenors Paul
Agnew, Hal Cazalet, John Hudson,
Richard Margison and Kurt Streit,
Matthew Rose and Jonathan Veira
(bass-baritone) and Robert
Pomakov (bass).
He is also Staff Accompanist at
the Royal Academy of Music and gives
masterclasses for accompanists at
CSSM (formerly the Charterhouse
Summer School of Music) each July.
He has given recitals for the Double
Reed Society, Lionel Tertis
International Viola Festival, British
Horn Society, British Flute Society,
Barbirolli International Oboe Festival
& Competition, and the British Clarinet
and Saxophone Society. He regularly
performs at the Dartington Festival,
partnering musicians such as Sally
Burgess (mezzo soprano), Michael
George (bass), Neil Jenkins (tenor),
Stephen Varcoe (bass baritone), Sarah
Francis (oboe), and the Dante String
Quartet, among others.
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Richard takes a keen interest in
music of our day. The many composers
with whom he has worked include
Malcolm Arnold, Elena Firsova, Karl
Jenkins, Patrick Nunn, Vladislav Shoot
and Dmitri Smirnov. He has performed
Firsova’s music with Patricia Rozario
(soprano), Alexander Ivashkin (cello),
Yuko Inoue (viola), and Julian Sperry
(flute), among others. His music
album, Malcolm Arnold: Songs and
Arias, is published by Novello &
Co/Music Sales very shortly. His series
of Wigmore Hall concerts featured
Malcolm Arnold’s chamber music,
which he performed with Nicholas
Daniel (oboe), Karen Jones (flute), Ian
Partridge (tenor), Paul Watkins (cello),
Roger Chase (viola), Ensemble
Lumière, and many others. These
included premieres of works by Sir
Malcolm, performed in his presence.
The composer and artist Edward Cowie
is currently writing a series of piano
works for him.
His current CDs include music by
the great French flautist Phillipe
Gaubert, with Kathryn Thomas (flute),
on the Deux-Elles label (DXL 923),
and a critically acclaimed CD of
chamber works (with the Galliard
Ensemble) and piano solos by Sir
Harrison Birtwistle (DXL 1019). His
‘Piper’s Dream’ CD (with Ensemble
Lumière) features the piano solos and
chamber works of the British composer
Cecilia McDowall (DXL 1033). His
latest CD is of the music of Fauré and
his circle (DXL 1125). He has recorded
26 CDs for Cramer Music.
Forthcoming recordings include
CDs for Toccata Classics with the
Ashton Piano Trio.
SHULMAN, Nora
Regarded as one of the pre-eminent
flutists of her generation, Nora
Shulman first joined the Toronto
Symphony Orchestra in 1974 and has
been the Principal Flutist since 1986.
Before becoming a member of the
Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Ms.
Shulman was an associate fellow at the
Berkshire Music Center in Tanglewood,
the co-principal flute of the Aspen
Chamber Symphony at the Aspen
We #CanFlute
Music Festival, and a member of the
Denver Symphony.
faculty of the Glenn Gould Professional
School. Her former students hold
positions with most major orchestras
and universities in Canada, as well as
with orchestras in the United States and
Sweden.
Ms. Shulman has recently released
her latest CD for Naxos, 20th Century
Music for Flute and Harp, a
collaboration with the harpist Judy
Loman.
working in various capacities for the
Glenn Gould School and Taylor
Academy at the Royal Conservatory.
SPEER, Donald
SMITH, Ben
During her tenure with the
Toronto Symphony Orchestra, she has
garnered critical praise for her beautiful
performances. Ms. Shulman has
frequently been a soloist with the
Toronto Symphony Orchestra, which
has included being featured on major
Canadian tours. She has also appeared
as a soloist with the National Arts
Centre Orchestra, the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra, the CBC
Vancouver Orchestra, and the Denver
Symphony.
She has participated in numerous
chamber music concerts including
those of Amici, the Guelph Spring
Festival, Colours of Music Festival,
The Ottawa International Chamber
Music Festival, and the Faculty Artist
Series at the University of Toronto.
In 2014, she was guest host for the
CBC show “This is My Music”. Ms.
Shulman’s recordings for Naxos have
included the critically acclaimed Berio
Sequenza I as well as the best-selling
Dance of the Blessed Spirits with the
harpist Judy Loman and Giuliani:
Duets for Flute and Guitar with the
guitarist Norbert Kraft. She has also
recorded for the CBC, Centrediscs, and
Marquis Classics labels. Ms. Shulman
has collaborated on recordings with the
singers Karina Gauvin and Catherine
Robbin.
She is an Adjunct Associate
Professor in the Faculty of Music at the
University of Toronto and is also on the
A laureate of the 2013 Virginia Waring
International Piano Competition,
Canadian pianist Benjamin Smith holds
degrees from Juilliard, the Glenn Gould
School, the University of Toronto, and
Stony Brook University. His principal
teachers have been Andrea Battista,
James Anagnoson, Julian Martin, and
Christina Dahl. He has performed as
soloist and chamber musician across
Canada and the United States, with
recent concert highlights including
recitals in Texas, Chicago, and
Carnegie Hall (Weill). Concerto
appearances include the Stony Brook
Symphony Orchestra, the Ontario
Philharmonic, Orchestra London, the
Windsor Symphony, and the U of T
Hart House Orchestra. Formerly a
member of the piano faculty at the
University of Western Ontario, Dr.
Smith has also taught undergraduate
piano for the Department of Music at
Stony Brook where he completed his
DMA, and currently resides in Toronto,
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Donald Speer, Professor of Piano at
Western Kentucky University, also
teaches for the KY Governor’s School
for the Arts. In addition to collaborative
performances with WKU faculty, Dr.
Speer has performed with Wilfrid
Kujala, Steven Mead, Frank Morelli,
Vince DiMartino and Paul Basler. He
has recorded works by Michael
Kallstrom, Susan Kander, Lewis
Neilson and Rodney Rogers. He holds
a BM from LA College, MM from
SIU‐Edwardsville, and PhD from
Louisiana State University. Former
teachers include Mary Ann Crump,
Ruth Slenczynska, Linda Perry, and
Jack Guerry.
STANLEY, Michelle Batty
Michelle Batty Stanley is a flutist that
plays wholeheartedly and teaches with
a limitless excitement for flute
and music.
We #CanFlute
Dr. Stanley is Assistant Professor
of Music at Colorado State University
where she teaches flute and chamber
music and classes for the LEAP arts
entrepreneurship program. Michelle is
a regular performer in solo, chamber
and orchestral settings. From early
music to new music, Michelle is a
passionate performer and strong
advocate of the musical arts. As an
enthusiastic and dedicated teacher she
enjoys an active and successful
university flute studio. She is a regular
international artist and has enjoyed
giving masterclasses from China to the
U.S.. She has performed in throughout
the U.S. and in Japan, China, and most
recently in France, England, Scotland
and Italy. The summer of 2014 will
take Michelle to Germany, Austria,
Slovakia and Hungary.
Michelle is a regular performer in
the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, and
is principal flute for the Pro Musica
chamber orchestra and the Colorado
Bach Ensemble and Festival. She was
the second flutist/piccolo player with
the Colorado Ballet orchestra from
2008-2013. She has presented and
performed for the National Flute
Convention (2012 in Las Vegas, 1999
in Atlanta), College Music Society
Regional and National Conferences,
Colorado Music Educators Association
conference (2010, 2013), and Music
Teachers National Association State
and National conferences. She has
performed at the Berkeley Early Music
Festival, and spent 5 seasons as the
second flutist with the Colorado Music
Festival orchestra.
She is a founding member and
performer with the Sonora Chamber
Duo that regularly performs and
commissions chamber music for flute
and cello. She has commissioned and
premiered over 20 works from
composers throughout the United States.
Her first CD of newly commissioned
chamber music was released by
Centaur Records in 2006.
In addition to her active
performance career, Dr. Stanley is the
author of an online music appreciation
textbook published by Great River
Technologies called ‘Music
Appreciation: Successful Listening in
All Music’. This text is used at CSU for
over 3000 students per year. She is also
a part of a team of faculty who are
teaching in the innovative and groundbreaking arts entrepreneurship and
leadership program called the LEAP
Center for the Arts at CSU in Fort
Collins.
Michelle received a M.M and
D.M.A in flute performance from the
University of Colorado at Boulder and
received a B.A. in Music from the
University of New Hampshire. She also
attended Trinity College of Music in
London where she studied with Anne
Cherry. Michelle was the President of
the Colorado Flute Association and
program chair for the Association's
annual Flute Celebration from 20022004 and is currently the College
Events Chair for the CFA.
Dr. Stanley is a ‘Best Teacher’
nominee at CSU and was named a
Writing Fellow for the AY 2012/2013
for her research on writing for Music
Appreciation students at CSU.
STEWART-KROEKER, Miriam
Connections Concert Series. Last
winter, Miriam completed a residency
at the Banff Centre for the Arts both as
a soloist and with the trio. Miriam's
chamber ensembles were the recipients
of the Penderecki String Quartet
Chamber Music Prize for two
consecutive years (2009-10), and won
the Canadian Music Competition in
2011 with the Zwickau Piano Quartet.
She has participated in summer
chamber music and orchestral programs,
including QuartetFest, the Tuckamore
Chamber Music Festival in
Newfoundland, and the National
Academy Orchestra with conductor
Boris Brott.
A native of Hamilton, Ontario,
Miriam has had the opportunity to
study with a number of renowned
cellists, namely Paul Pulford and Matt
Haimovitz. Miriam is a graduate of
Wilfrid Laurier University, receiving
an Honours Bachelor of Music in Cello
Performance as well as a Diploma in
Chamber Music Performance. She
currently holds the principal positions
in both Stratford and Georgian Bay
symphonies.
When not playing the cello,
Miriam enjoys baking, learning new
languages, canoe tripping and other
outdoor activities.
SWEET, Sharon
Miriam Stewart-Kroeker is a young,
emerging cellist based in KitchenerWaterloo, and recent graduate of
McGill University with a Master’s
degree in cello performance under the
direction of Matt Haimovitz.
Miriam has collaborated with a
number of orchestras and choirs, both
as a soloist and orchestral musician, but
her passion remains rooted in chamber
music. She is a founding member of the
Schweigen Piano Trio, who have been
involved in several concert series,
including the Kitchener-Waterloo
Chamber Music Society and Guelph
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We #CanFlute
Sharon Sweet performs regularly as
pianist and mezzo-soprano. She holds a
Bachelor of Arts in Piano Performance
from the State University of New York
(SUNY-Empire State) and a Master of
Music from the Eastman School of
Music, University of Rochester, New
York. Ms. Sweet's most
influential teachers were Margaret
Stone, Lynne Lynch, Diane Lim (piano)
and Erma Gattie Mellinger, John Maloy,
and Jan DeGaetani (voice), and Richard
Erickson (church music).
Musical performances have been
many and varied during Ms. Sweet's
career, but ensemble work is her
favorite pursuit. Past performances
include appearing as vocal soloist or
conducting major works with orchestra,
such as Handel's Messiah; Vivaldi's
Gloria; Rutter's Requiem, Gloria and
Magnificat, Bach's Cantatas,etc, in
Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania,
and Canada. She was the staff mezzo
soprano for Lutheran Church of the
Incarnate Word, Rochester, NY. She
also sang with the Michigan Opera
Theatre Chorus, the Eastman Chorale,
the Rochester Oratorio Society, the
Eastman Rochester Chorus, was
accompanist for OperaLancaster (PA)
and served on the Board of the
American Guild of Organists-Detroit.
She has collaborated with many
different vocalists and instrumentalists,
from lutanists to percussionists. She
currently performs as pianist in Trio
Fiori (with Jeffrey Beyer, Flutist and
Theresa Stacy, violinist) and
collaborates with soloists Jeffrey Beyer,
flutist and Chris Wheeler, oboist.
Sharon is the Director of
Music/Organist at Huntington Woods
Lutheran Church, teaches a studio
of singers and pianists at her home in
West Bloomfield, and is the Piano
Instructor for the Cathedral Choir
School in Detroit. She is also raising
her sons David and Jonathan. She is a
member of the Music Teachers
National Association (MTNA).
SWINDEN, Laurel
Laurel Swinden maintains an active
career as a performer, pedagogue and
researcher. Principal Flute of the
Stratford Symphony Orchestra since
2004, she has also performed with
numerous orchestras across Ontario and
in the southern United States.
Described as having a sweet and
distinct tone…breathtaking in colour
(Whole Note), Laurel’s recent recital
presentations include performances at
the National Flute Association
Convention, the Sichuan Conservatory,
China, the inaugural Canadian Flute
Convention, the Perimeter Institute and
chamber music series throughout her
home base of Ontario, Canada.
Equally at home with 18th century
through 21st century repertoire, Laurel
has premiered contemporary works for
flute, and flute with electronics, on
concert series throughout the United
States, with performances broadcast
on NPR.
Laurel is the Applied Instructor of
Flute at the University of Guelph
School of Fine Art and Music and an
Adjunct Assistant Professor at Western
University’s Don Wright Faculty of
Music. Dr. Swinden’s CD Celebrating
Women: Music for Flute and Piano by
Women Composers with pianist
Stephanie Mara has garnered critical
acclaim and is available on CD Baby
and iTunes.
Laurel earned her DMA in Flute
Performance as a Fellowship recipient
at the University of Toronto, where she
studied with Nora Schulman and
traverso with Alison Melville. Her
dissertation explores eighteenth-century
Scottish music for flute.
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SZILÁGYI, Szabolcs
Szabolcs Szilágyi was born to a family
of artists. His father is an actor and his
mother is a cultural manager, who
works as an art gallery director.
He started studying music at the age of
six in a specialised school. Singing in
Janos Remenyi’s choir was a defning
experience for him. He made TV, radio
and CD recordings with the choir, and,
among several other prizes, they won
not only the frst prize in their category
in 1985 at the Cork International
Choral Festival in Ireland, but also the
Grand Prix.
Szabolcs Szilagyi started playing
the flute at the age of nine. He
graduated from the Liszt Academy of
Music in Budapest, where he was a
student of the late Tihamer Elek. He
then went to London to continue
postgraduate studies at the Royal
College of Music with Susan Milan.
Meanwhile, invited by the maestro, he
attended Sir James Galways
international seminar in Weggis,
Switzerland, on several occasions.
He was supported in his studies, among
others, by the Soros Foundation, New
York, USA, the Pro Helvetia
Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland, the
Royal College of Music, London,
United Kingdom and the Bilkent
University, Ankara, Turkey.
Szabolcs Szilagyi has been a
member of Concerto Budapest –
We #CanFlute
formerly Hungarian Symphony
Orchestra - since 1995. The orchestras
artistic director is Andras Keller, leader
of the world-famous Keller String
Quartet and professor at the Chamber
Music Department of the Liszt
Academy. Mr. Szilagyi played at the
Frankfurt Chamber Opera in 1996/1997,
and was a regular member of the
Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
under baton Tamas Vasary in season
2003/2004 and Adam Fischer in season
2006/2007.
As an orchestral musician, he has
worked with such distinguished artists
as conductors Kobayashi Ken Ichiro,
Tierry Fischer, Yuri Simonov,
Krzysztof Penderecki, Janos Furst,
Gerhard Markson, Michael Halasz and
Zoltan Kocsis, and soloists Gidon
Kremer, Sir James Galway, Dame
Evelyn Glennie, Vadim Repin, Barbara
Hendricks, Boris Berezovsky, Juliane
Banse, Gilles Apap, Andrea Rost,
Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Laszlo Polgar,
Olga Kern, Jose Cura, Bobby McFerrin,
Ildiko Komlosi and Branford Marsalis.
He has toured in nearly all European
countries, as well as Russia, China, the
Middle East and the USA. He has made
TV, DVD and radio recordings, as well
as CD recordings for Hungaroton,
BMC, Teldec/Warner and Naxos.
As a soloist and chamber musician,
Szabolcs Szilagyi has performed in
Hungary, among others, in the Valley
of Arts, Zsambek Jazz Open, where the
concert was broadcast live by the
Hungarian Radio, Merlin Teatre, Trafo
- House of Contemporary Arts, the
Hungarian National Museum and
Concerto Budapest’s House of Music.
Besides Concerto Budapest, he has also
played with the Budapest Chamber
Symphony and Amadinda Percussion
Group, with the latter’s performance
recorded on CD. His chamber music
partners have included pianist Laszlo
Borbely and jazz pianist Aron Talas
and guitarrist Krisztian Schweigert.
He premiered in Hungary the works of
such composers as Lowell Liebermann,
Mike Mower and David Heath.
In 2012 he had a solo concert at
Weggis, Switzerland, at the Sir James
Galway Flute Festival, where other
distinguished guest artists included
Denis Bouriakov, Andrea Griminelli,
Philippe Bernold, Jim Walker, Rafaele
Trevisani, Prof. Senqi He, Nicola
Mazzanti, and Marlene Verwey.
He has been invited to participate in
August 2013 at the Annual Convention
of the National Flute Association in
New Orleans, Louisiana, in the
United States.
the Calgary Philharmonic, the Banff
Festival Orchestra and the Canadian
Sinfonietta. His performances have
been broadcast on multiple occasions
nationwide on CBC Radio.
SZRAM, Aleksander
Sponsored in Part by
Royal Northern College of Music
Aleksander Szram has performed at the
major UK venues and in thirty
countries across five continents,
including concerts in Palestine, Ireland,
Belgium, the Netherlands and Greece
with Wissam Boustany. As a
collaborative pianist he has also
worked with the British Flute Society,
and with Rachel Brown, Stefan
Hoskuldsson, Ian Pace, Paul Edmund
Davies, Lorna McGhee, Anna Noakes,
James Galway, Jonathan Snowden,
Jean Ferrandis and Andras Adorjan. He
teaches piano and lectures at Trinity
Laban Conservatoire of Music and
Dance, and is particularly interested in
contemporary music, having recorded
and premiered several music by many
composers including Rzewski,
Runswick, Bedford and Fujikura. Aleks
holds a DMA in piano performance
from the University of British
Columbia in Vancouver and won the
Vlado Perlemuter Award in 2004.
TAM, Stephen
One of the most versatile flautists in
Toronto, Stephen Tam is the First-Prize
Winner of the 32nd CBC/RadioCanada National Competition for
Young Performers. His past concerto
engagements include appearances with
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As chamber musician, Stephen has
performed at The White House, the
Ottawa International Chamber Music
Festival and the Hong Kong
Government House. He is a founding
member of the newly-formed
woodwind quintet, the Sinfonietta
Winds. Also in demand as interpreter
of contemporary music, Stephen is a
frequent guest of Contact
Contemporary Music, Toca Loca, the
Toronto New Music Projects and 5Penny New Music Concerts (Sudbury).
Stephen is currently the principal
flute of the Canadian Sinfonietta. He
has performed with the Cleveland
Orchestra, the Kitchener-Waterloo
Symphony and the Ontario
Philharmonic, and has served as
principal flute with many choral groups
around Toronto.
An experienced and passionate
teacher, Stephen is the newest flute
faculty member at the University of
Toronto’s Faculty of Music. Previously,
he served on the faculty of the Don
Wright Faculty of Music at the
University of Western Ontario.
Stephen received his Master of
Music in Orchestral Performance
degree and the Professional Studies
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Certificate from the Manhattan School
of Music, where he was a student of
Jeanne Baxtresser and Michael Parloff.
He also studied with Douglas Stewart
at the University of Toronto’s Faculty
of Music, where he obtained his
Bachelor of Music in Performance
with Honours.
THIBAULT, Annie
popular venues, such as le Domaine
Maizeret and Domaine Cataraqui,
where she performed the complete set
of Mozart’s Flute Quartets. As a
representative of the Suzuki method,
Ms. Thibault has established a class in
Quebec City to train young flutists. She
also teaches at the Charlevoix Cultural
Center, the Centre de musique de Cap‐
Rouge and conducts group classes at
Polyvalente de Victoriaville as a
woodwind specialist for l’Harmonie
le Boisé.
Ms. Thibault plays regularly in the
Montreal area with Orchestre
Symphonique de l’Isle, with whom she
performed Poem for Flute and
Orchestra by Charles Griffes; as well as,
Le Choeur d’été de Montréal and the
production Edgar et ses fantômes.
THOMAS, Laura
Annie Thibault studied flute at the
Conservatoire de Musique de Québec
with Barbara Todd‐Simard and Jean
Morin, where she received awards in
flute and in chamber music. She has
attended advanced courses and
seminars, including Domaine Forget in
Québec and Tanglewood Music
Festival in Massachusetts, where she
was awarded a grant to study with
Doriot Dwyer. Focusing her career as
an orchestral musician, she began her
study with Denis Bluteau at the
University of Montreal to obtain
the Diplôme d’Études Supérieures
Spécialisé (DESS) in orchestral
repertoire. Ms. Thibault performs
frequently with l’Orchestre
symphonique de Québec in Quebec
City; as well as with other orchestras,
including Orchestre de musique de
chambre Gilles Auger, Orchestre du
Domaine Forget, Thunder Bay
Symphony Orchestra and Orchestre du
festival de musique contemporaine
de Québec.
In addition to her performances
with Les flûtistes de Montréal, Ms.
Thibault is an active chamber musician
with the trio, Sérénade and the
ensemble, Les Jeunes chambristes. She
has performed around Quebec at
Etobicoke Philharmonic and the North
York Concert Orchestra. Ms. Thomas
holds a master’s degree in conducting
from New York’s prestigious Bard
College, where she studied with Harold
Farberman. She is also a graduate of
Hamilton’s Mohawk College and
McMaster University, where she
studied percussion and composition.
Ms. Thomas has written music for
symphony orchestras, choirs, small
ensembles, jazz groups and solos. Her
compositions and arrangements can be
heard in the orchestra and ensemble
repertoire of Flutes en Route! featuring
Douglas Miller. She composed and
recorded the soundtrack for the play
“Bullying Hurts” by Monica Dufault
and produced by Mainstream Services
in St. Catharines. Many of her songs
can by heard in performances and on
recordings by Niagara’s eclectic
folk/blues band, BroadBand and, in
March 2013, her Concerto for Jazz Trio
and Orchestra was premiered by John
Sherwood and the Niagara Youth
Orchestra. Her recording credits
include the Aradia Ensemble’s CD for
Naxos Records, “Ballet Music for the
Sun King”, the Niagara College Jazz
Band’s “On the Move”, Rich Blend’s
self titled CD, sisterLune’s “Wonder”,
and BroadBand’s “LIVE at the Black
Sea Hall” and “BroadBand”.
THOMPSON, Jamie
Laura Thomas, is a conductor, arranger,
composer, percussionist and teacher.
She is Music Director of the Niagara
Youth Orchestra and the Dundas
Valley Orchestra, as well as Associate
Conductor and Principal Percussionist
of the Niagara Symphony Orchestra.
Currently she is the Director of the
Hamilton/Niagara area WomEnchant
Chorus, and she was, for six years,
Artistic Director of Niagara-based choir
Choralis Camerata. She has appeared as
a guest conductor with many ensembles
including the Huronia Symphony, the
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Jamie Thompson has established
himself as a versatile and innovative
performance artist in Toronto’s
burgeoning arts scene, and is the author
of the critically acclaimed Urban Flute
Project, one of Canada’s most popular
music blogs; renowned as both
musician and visual artist, Jamie
explores urban history and architecture
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while celebrating grass-roots cultural
initiatives and organizations. Respected
as a prominent flutist and music
pedagogue, Jamie has been on the Flute
Faculty of the Royal Conservatory
since 1988 and is a member of the
RCM College of Examiners. Jamie’s
musical versatility is as varied as the
locations of his Post-Industrial stealth
performances, and is a founding
member of both The Junction Trio
which covers everything from Bach to
Radiohead, and The Starfires, a
psychedelic prog-rock/fusion musical
collective. In demand for school
lecture/demonstrations, Jamie is an
itinerant instructor with TDSB and has
been a guest speaker at U of T’s
Rotman School of Management for a
Creative Industries class, expounding
about his unorthodox and renegade
artistic appropriation of public space.
As a photographer, Jamie is a returning
participant in Nuit Blanche (The
Residue Group, 2011), Luminato and
CONTACT. An active member of
Toronto’s Urban Exploring scene,
Jamie introduces a haunting, musical
component to UE adventures as hidden
aspects of our changing urban
landscape are documented and explored.
Jamie has been an adjudicator for
Indian Summer Music Awards (ISMA)
since 2008.
Jamie Thompson is a member of
the flute faculty of the Royal
Conservatory, and is a founding
member of The Junction Trio.
Combining classical music with urban
exploration, Jamie celebrates space
with sound on his blog, Urban
Flute Project.
TREMBLAY, Sylvie
Following her studies at the Granada
Conservatory in Spain, Sylvie
Tremblay returned to Quebec to
continue her training in music with
Cindy Shuter at l’Université de
Sherbrooke. She received the Bachelor
of Music degree in Interpretation in
1995. During these years, Ms.
Tremblay performed with l’Orchestre
Symphonique des Jeunes de
Sherbrooke, was involved with various
chamber ensembles and developed her
future teaching experience by
performing in choral ensembles.
Since 1997, Ms. Tremblay has
been the Director for the children’s
choir at Pensionnat Notre‐Dame‐des‐
Anges. Combining her passion for
education and music, she has worked as
a director at Camp Musical de
l’Abitibi‐Témiscamingue and continues
to train students of flute, recorder,
choirs and jazz Orff ensembles.
VIA, Kelly
Kelly Via received the Bachelor of
Music from Drake University and the
Master of Music from East Carolina
University. He is the piccoloist with the
Atlanta Ballet Orchestra and Macon
Symphony Orchestra. A flute choir
enthusiast and arranger, Kelly has been
selected to perform with the National
Flute Association Professional Flute
Choir each year since 2000. He served
as Flute Choirs Coordinator for the
NFA from 2007 to 2012 and High
School Flute Choir Coordinator from
2012 to 2014. He has appeared as guest
conductor for flute choirs in Arizona,
Canada, Connecticut, Florida, Iowa,
Michigan, New Jersey, Texas,
and Virginia. Kelly’s arrangements and
compositions for flute choir are
available through Nourse Wind
Publications. His arrangements include
winners in the NFA’s 2002 and 2013
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Newly Published Music Competition
and a finalist in 2004. Kelly teaches
flute at Mercer University, University
of North Georgia and the Atlanta Music
Academy. He also directs the Mercer
University and Atlanta Metro Youth
flute choirs and the UNG Flute
Ensemble.
WALKER, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Walker “as perfect a
demonstration of the modern wood
flute's capabilities as one could wish to
hear”
Elizabeth is a founder member of
Festive Flutes, which she set up with
Sarah whilst studying at the Guildhall
School of Music and Drama. During
this time, she was studying flute with
Kathryn Lukas, Renaissance flute with
Nancy Hadden and Baroque flute with
Stephen Preston. At this time, she also
gained valuable experience recording
for the BBC, and nine CD recordings
for Decca with the ensemble New
London Consort. Elizabeth went on to
study Baroque and Classical flute with
Wilbert Hazelzet in Holland and was
involved in concerts and recordings for
the ‘Orkest van de Achttiende Eeuw’,
under Frans Bruggen. She has
performed with a number of period and
modern orchestras, most notably the
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment,
the Classical Opera Company, The
English Concert, the BBC Symphony
Orchestra and the City of
London Sinfonia.
With her baroque ensemble
‘Continuum’ she has recorded the
Telemann Fantasias and the Bach Flute
Sonatas, and in October 2014 she
recorded works by Schubert on her
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original Louis Lot flute with Richard
Shaw, pianist.She teaches in London
and at the specialist music school
in Wells and her book ‘Baroque Flute
Studies’ is available at Wonderful
Winds (www.wonderfulwinds.com)
and has sold successfully throughout
the world and a second study book
‘Baroque Studies for modern flute’ will
be available soon. Her arrangement of
Four Strauss Lieder for flute and piano
is published in America by Alry
Publications
(www.alrypublications.com). More
information about Elizabeth Walker
can be found at www.lizwalker.co.uk
WATTS, Camille
WILLIAMS, Patrick
Patrick Williams studied at the Royal
Manchester College of Music under
Geoffrey Gilbert, Trevor Wye and
David Butt, during which time he was a
recipient of the Pernod Award. On
leaving college he joined the Ulster
Orchestra with which he appeared as
soloist. Shortly afterwards he joined the
Welsh National Opera Company and
later the Sadlers Wells Royal Ballet
Orchestra as Principal Flute. He has
appeared as guest principal flutist with
several British orchestras including the
BBC Concert and Radio Orchestras,
Academy of London, City of London
Sinfonia and Opera North, and his
activities as a soloist have taken him to
Europe, USA and Australia. He has
made highly-acclaimed recordings,
including a world-premiere recording
of the Arnold Cooke Flute Quartet.
YONCE, Tammy Evans
Camille Watts is a member of the
Toronto Symphony Orchestra flute
section, and solo piccoloist. Prior to
coming to Toronto, she was a member
of the Atlanta and Denver Symphonies.
In Toronto, she has performed with the
Canadian Opera Company, Belladonna,
New Music Concerts, and other groups
across the region.
Camille is Adjunct Professor in
the Graduate Faculty at the University
of Toronto Faculty of Music, and
teaches flute, piccolo, chamber music
and an academic course in
contemporary performance practices.
She is also piccolo faculty for the
National Youth Orchestra of Canada.
As well, Camille is a former Massage
Therapist and founder and board
member of the Artists Health Alliance.
musicology. She was previously on the
faculty of Gainesville State College
(GA), Newberry College (SC), and the
University of South Carolina Aiken.
An avid collaborative musician and
recitalist, Dr. Yonce is an enthusiastic
supporter of new music.
Dr. Yonce holds degrees from
Kennesaw State University (B.M.),
Indiana University (M.M.), and the
University of Georgia (D.M.A.). She
won the Atlanta Flute Club Young
Artist Competition in 2004 and has
been published in Flute Talk; Pan, the
Journal of the British Flute Society; and
South Dakota Musician. She has
recently presented and performed at the
National Flute Association, Flute
Festival Mid-South, College Music
Society, British Flute Society, Atlanta
Flute Club, Flute Society of Kentucky,
Society of Composers, Electronic
Music Midwest, National Association
of Wind and Percussion Instructors,
and South Carolina Flute Festival
conventions. She recently served as one
of the judges for the Newly Published
Music Competition of the National
Flute Association as well as of
competitions of the British Flute
Society, Atlanta Flute Club, and Flute
Society of Kentucky. Dr. Yonce
currently serves as Immediate Past
President of the Atlanta Flute Club. She
recently gave a TEDx talk about
collaboration, new music, and the
glissando headjoint.
www.tammyevansyonce.com
BRAVI TO OUR ARTISTS!
Thank you to all our artists for taking
time out of their busy schedules to
travel to Toronto to present at the 2015
Canadian Flute Convention. We are all
enriched and inspired by your
performance and contributions. We
thank you for your patience and support
in the months leading up to this historic
event. Because of you, this convention
was like no others! Here’s to new
friendships and ongoing collaborations.
Flutist Tammy Evans Yonce, an
Atlanta native, is Assistant Professor of
Music at South Dakota State University
where she teaches applied flute,
woodwind pedagogy, and courses in
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THANK YOU TO OUR
PARTNERS AND
SUPPORTERS!
KUDOS TO OUR
TEAM AND
VOLUNTEERS!
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Burkart-Phelan, Inc
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Carol Who Flute Accessories
La Côte Flûte Festival
Guo Musical Instrument Co
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Paul Hahn & Co.
Staples Canada
Steve's Music Store
University of St. Michael’s College
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Whole Musician, LLC
Windward Flutes Ltd
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CHANG, Wen-Hsoung
CORTEZ, Danilo
LIN, Ariel
EBRON, Michelle
EBRON, Ricci
EBRON, Rico
GARCIA, Lorely
HEYD, Amy
HWU, Carol
JACOME, Crystal
JEVTIC, Stefan
JONES, Dwight
KURIHARA, Samantha
LAI, Carrie
LEE, Christopher
LIM, Terry
LI, Amy
LIU, Mike
MACLEAN, Kirsten
MANIVONG, Andre
MIDANIK, Shaun
NEKHAI, Dina
ORMROD, Claire
PAN, Ting Ting
PAPADIMOS, Jackie
PENG, Jenny
RAMJIT-MCKELLAR, Jenna
REN, Martin
SOOKRAM, Subrina
TANG, Kitty
WANG, Mr. & Mrs.
XU, Ken
Thank you to all our convention
partners and supporters. We are very
lucky to have worked with such a
wonderful group of people that has
gone above and beyond to make this
convention a truly unique and
memorable experience.
We would like to give special
thanks to all the staff members at the
University of St. Michael’s College in
the University of Toronto. They have
been most generous and understanding
with the logistics of our event, and we
could not have asked for a better team
to work with. Thank you to Alyssa Ash
and Amber Roberts for taking care of
all the convention needs and requests.
We are grateful for the ongoing
support of Long & McQuade Ltd.,
especially the team from the Band
Department team led by Greg Eskins.
They have been instrumental in helping
us arrange and secure many details of
the convention.
We would also to thank Shashi
Ramu from Steve’s Music Store and
Jeremy Elliott from Paul Hahn & Co.
for working with us in making this
weekend of festivities a success.
This convention would not have been
possible without the tireless effort of
our convention team. Thank you to the
many individuals that have worked on
organizing and coordinating the details
of the convention over the past year.
Although many hours of sleep were lost,
the convention has finally come
together and we hope all our delegates
have enjoyed their time with us. Thank
you to Subrina and Jackie for holding
down the fort in the COOP, and a
special shout-out to our on-site
volunteers in blue, led by Michelle and
Rico, who kept the convention running
smoothly. We hope everyone will get
some much-needed rest now!
Due to the printing schedule, we
apologize for any names we’ve missed!
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