Carolina FluteFest 2015
Ian Clarke, featured artist
Carla Copeland-Burns, host
February 6-7, 2015
UNCG Music Building
Opening Concert
Friday, February 6, 2015
7:30pm
Recital Hall, Music Building
Ian Clarke, flutist-composer
Ināra Zandmane, piano
Flute ensemble:
Krisztina Dér
Janet Phillips
Abigail Simoneau, piccolo
Mandy Mitchell
Carla Copeland-Burns, alto
Nancy Schneeloch-Bingham, bass
William L. Lake Jr., conductor
Program
'Within . . .' for 7 flutes Ian Clarke
Orange Dawn for flute and piano
The Great Train Race for solo flute
Hatching Aliens for flute and piano
Intermission
Hypnosis for flute and piano
Touching the Ether for flute and piano
Zoom Tube for solo flute
Deep Blue for flute and piano
Finale:
Carmen Fantaisie for flute and piano François Borne
(1840-1920)
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Please join us for a reception following the performance
Schedule of Workshops and Classes
Saturday, February 7th, 2015
Organ Hall Atrium:
Registration Open 8:30-11:30
Lunch Available – sold by SAI 11:30-2:00
Workshops and Classes:
Room 207
9:00-12:00 Let’s talk repair! JL Smith Flutes. Drop in and ask a pro. Ask questions
about anything pertaining to flutes, models, repair, etc. Assessments of your
instrument’s condition and needs will be available. At 10:00 there will be a short
presentation on proper flute maintenance.
Room 111
9:15-10:20 Warm-Ups and Alexander Technique Basics (all levels)
Bring your flute! Carla Copeland-Burns and Rachel Niketopolous
10:30 – 12:30 Ian Clarke Workshops
10:30 Finger & tone technique - an insight into Ian's approaches to finger and
tone technique that draw on numerous ideas outside Taffanel & Gaubert and
Moyse’s De la Sonorite.
11:30 Extended Techniques Demystified - A fun multi-level practical workshop
around techniques and material used in pieces such as Walk Like This or Zig Zag
Zoo. Techniques include: whale noises (vowel games), flutter tongue, whole tone
scale, introduction to quarter-tones, ghost notes. Bring flutes, all are welcome to
try these sounds if you’d like. No previous knowledge of the pieces or
techniques required ... all mistakes welcome!
12:30 – 6:00: Exhibits open JL Smith & Co. Flutes
Room 221
12:30-1:15 Careers in Music – panel discussion. “What did my Music
Degree do for me?” Audience Q&A with a panel of professional musicians
discussing their expected AND unexpected career paths. Led by Dr. Jennifer
Walter, Panel Moderator and UNCG Assoc. Professor of Music Education.
1:30-2:15 Careers in Music – panel discussion (repeat)
Room 235
1:00-2:20 Centered Performing with Rachel Niketopolous
A workshop on confidence, focus, and a centered approach to performing.
Organ Hall
2:30 Ian Clarke Masterclass
5:00 PM Flute Day activities conclude – mass flute ensemble in Organ Hall
Atrium, led by Peter Shanahan
6:00 PM Exhibits close
Ian Clarke Masterclass 2:30-4:30
Ināra Zandmane, piano
Rachel AuBuchon, piano
Sydney Horner, High School student of Shirley Gilpin
Concertino by Cécile Chaminade
Noah Cline, Undergraduate Student, UNC-Greensboro
The Great Train Race by Ian Clarke
Jackie Traish, Undergraduate Student, Eastern Carolina University
Orange Dawn by Ian Clarke
Caroline Sullivan, High School student of Peter Shanahan
Carmen Fantasy by François Borne
Abigail Simoneau, Graduate Student UNC-Greensboro
Sonata by Walter Piston, Mvmts. I. Allegro moderato e con grazia & II. Adagio
Willie Santiago, Graduate Student, Eastern Carolina University
Hatching Aliens by Ian Clarke, Mvmt. 1
*Mass flute ensemble reading in atrium immediately following the masterclass.
Biographies
Miyazawa Artist Ian Clarke, Professor of Flute at the Guildhall School of Music
and Drama in London, is acknowledged as one of the leading players/composers
in the flute world. Ian's compositions have been performed across five continents
on stages ranging from the South Bank to Glastonbury. 2005 saw the release of
his long awaited CD 'Within...', now critically acclaimed as one of the flute
world's best sellers. 2013 saw the release of his second CD, 'Deep Blue', which
reached the Top 40 Classical Artist Album charts in its first month of sales. His
works are establishing themselves as some of the most exciting flute repertoire of
today and are being embraced by internationally acclaimed performers, teachers,
colleges and students alike.
Ian has performed as a featured guest soloist and teacher at major conventions
and events in Canada, Italy, Brazil, France, Iceland, Slovenia, Hungary,
Netherlands and numerous times for the British Flute Society (BFS) and for the
NFA (National Flute Association) in the USA - including in New York 2009 and
at Caesar’s Palace Las Vegas. He has given master-classes at the Royal Academy
of Music, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Royal Scottish Academy, Royal
Northern, Royal Welsh and Trinity College of Music. 2014 sees him giving
master-classes at New York's Juilliard, MSM and Mannes along with other
recitals and classes across the USA. He has worked with Flutewise (UK) over
many years and has been their artist of the year. In his career he has performed
in genres ranging from classical opera to a guest appearance with rock group
Jethro Tull/Ian Anderson. Over the years Ian has been invited as a guest artist to
many of the top flute courses. Along with Clare Southworth, Ian led the
Woldingham International Summer School for many years and has been a
regular teacher (and performer) at the Scottish Summer School with Wissam
Boustany and Ruth Morely. He is frequently invited to lead and teach at
numerous flute events working with all ages and stages around the country and
abroad.
Born in the capital of Latvia, Riga, Ināra Zandmane started to play piano at the
age of six. Ms. Zandmane holds the BM and MM from the Latvian Academy of
Music, MM in piano performance from Southern Illinois University at
Carbondale, and DMA in piano performance from the University of Missouri at
Kansas City. She has been the staff accompanist at the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro since 2003, performing up to fifty recitals per year. Ms.
Zandmane is frequently invited to serve as an official accompanist at national
competitions and conferences, among them the North American Saxophone
Alliance conference and the MTNA National competition since 2004. Ms.
Zandmane has been presented in solo recitals in St. Paul, Kansas City, Cleveland,
St. Louis, and New York, as well as in many Republics of former Soviet Union. In
April 2000, she was invited to perform at the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto.
Ināra Zandmane has appeared as a soloist with the Latvian National Orchestra,
Liepaja Symphony, Latvian Academy of Music Student Orchestra, SIU
Symphony, and UMKC Conservatory Symphony and Chamber orchestras. She
has performed with various chamber ensembles at the International Chamber
Music Festivals in Riga, Vilnius, Tallinn, Helsinki (Finland), and Norrtelje
(Sweden). Ms. Zandmane has collaborated with such musicians as Martin Storey,
Paul Coletti, Branford Marsalis, Michel Debost, Kelly Burke, Steven Stusek, and
Susan Fancher. For the last few years, Ināra Zandmane has worked together with
Latvian composer Peteris Vasks. She has given Latvian premieres of his two
latest piano pieces, Landscapes of the Burnt-out Earth and The Spring Music, and
recorded the first of them on the Conifer Classics label. Solo recordings include
the piano works by Maurice Ravel, recorded together with her husband, Vincent
van Gelder, and the complete Sonatas for piano by Alexander Scriabin. She also
can be heard on various chamber music CDs.
Flute ensemble members include UNCG DMA flute students: Krisztina Dér,
Mandy Mitchell, Janet Phillips, and Abigail Simoneau and DMA conducting
student William L. Lake, Jr.. The low flutes section consists of Appalachian State
University Associate Professor of Flute Nancy Schneeloch-Bingham and UNCG
Lecturer of Flute Carla Copeland-Burns.
Carolina FluteFest Host Carla Copeland-Burns enjoys an active teaching and
performing career based in the artistically diverse and thriving state of North
Carolina. She joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina at
Greensboro in 2014 after eight years as Instructor of flute at Radford University.
Copeland-Burns currently performs with the Greensboro, Salisbury, and NC
Symphonies as well as the NC Opera Orchestra, Carolina Ballet Orchestra, Blue
Mountain, Mallarmé Chamber Players, and with the performer-composer
collective Forecast Music. Performances with the North Carolina Symphony
include all positions of the flute section, including numerous appearances as
Principal Flute. As a guest artist-teacher, Copeland-Burns has appeared at
schools including the New Zealand School of Music, Auckland University,
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University of North Carolina School
of the Arts, and Florida State University. She has been a featured performer at
the National Flute Association Conventions in New Orleans (2013) and Charlotte
(2011), and at several International Double Reed Society Conferences including
Melbourne, Australia, Banff, Canada and Madison, Wisconsin. In summers she
has been associated with the New England Music Camp and the Eastern Music
Festival, and in 2013 she joined the faculty of the InterHarmony International
Music Festival in Arcidosso, Tuscany, Italy. Mentors include Charles DeLaney,
Lois Schaefer, Carol Wincenc, and Nadine Asin and her degrees are from Florida
State University, New England Conservatory and the University of Cincinnati
College-Conservatory of Music.
The seventh of eight children growing up in a house full of art, music, and
bicycles in Davenport Iowa, Rachel Niketopoulos began playing the horn at age
11. She studied horn performance at the Universities of Iowa and Missouri
(Kansas City). As a student, she attended the Music Academy of the West, the
Sarasota Music Festival, and the Aspen Music Festival. She also toured Europe
with the New World Symphony (where she met her future husband) and the
North Carolina School of the Arts Orchestra. After seven seasons with the
Virginia Symphony and Opera, she joined the North Carolina Symphony in
2005. She performs regularly with the NC Symphony Wind Quintet, and was a
soloist with the Orchestra in performances of Schumann's Konzertstück for four
horns.
Trained at the Alexander Alliance in Philadelphia, she has been a certified
teacher of the Alexander Technique for over 10 years. Rachel currently teaches
Alexander Technique at UNC-Greensboro and maintains a busy schedule of
private lessons and workshops for musicians all over North Carolina and
Virginia, including the UNC School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and recent
Southeast Horn Workshops at Appalachian State University, Virginia
Commonwealth University, and UNC-Greensboro. She works with Yoga
students at Global Breath Yoga in Durham, teaching Alexander Technique and
Anatomy.
Careers in Music Panel Members:
Panel Moderator Dr. Jennifer S. Walter is currently an Associate Professor of
Music Education at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, specializing
in instrumental music education. She has received degrees in music education
from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, OH, The University of
Tennessee at Knoxville, and The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Walter taught
elementary, middle, and high school band in North Carolina and Tennessee and
she is an experienced clinician. She is also active in the field of music education
research and has presented her research at state, regional, national and
international conferences. Dr. Walter's current research involves the level of
noise exposure experienced by music teachers and students and how to develop
pre-service teachers’ knowledge, skills, and dispositions toward successful
teaching. Dr. Walter lives in Greensboro, North Carolina with husband Donny,
son Andrew, and daughter Charlie.
Michael Hrivnak is a Principal Software Engineer and Team Lead at Red Hat, a
global software company headquartered in Raleigh, NC. Before joining Red Hat,
he completed two degrees from UNCG, the first in Music followed by the MBA,
and then made his living for several years as a freelance French horn player.
Michael is just a few recitals shy of his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from
SUNY-Stony Brook. Performance work included being a full-time substitute with
the NC Symphony for several seasons, playing with orchestras from New York
to Key West, opera and ballet pits, touring Broadway shows, and every kind of
chamber performance in which you could imagine finding a horn player.
Michael has served on the board of directors for several nonprofits and is
currently on the board for Local 500 of the American Federation of Musicians.
SN Jennifer Neese, flutist, recently joined the Navy after graduating from
UNCG with a Bachelors degree in Flute Performance and is currently in training
at the Naval School of Music. She will join the Navy Band Southwest in May.
Suzanne Rousso was trained at the Curtis Institute of Music, The Eastman
School and the New England Conservatory, earning Bachelor and Master of
Music degrees in viola performance. Some of her teachers included Eugene
Becker, Max Aronoff, Heidi Castleman and Walter Trampler. In her early career
she held orchestral positions around the country, including with the
Chattanooga Symphony and Opera, The Amarillo (TX) Symphony, The New
Mexico Symphony, the Spoleto Festival and the Santa Fe Opera. From 1989-2001
Suzanne was principal violist of the Greensboro Symphony and performed
regularly with the North Carolina Symphony. Additionally, from 1999-2006 she
was a faculty member and performer at the Eastern Music Festival, where she
also served as personnel manager.
Ms. Rousso was appointed Director of Education for the North Carolina
Symphony in May 1999 where she oversaw all aspects of the Symphony’s
education program and in late 2006, she was appointed Director of Operations
and Education of the Portland (Maine) Symphony. While in Maine she
performed as a member of the Vermont Symphony, Portland Opera, Opera
Boston and the Portland Chamber Orchestra. Suzanne returned from Maine to
North Carolina in the summer of 2008 to become the Artistic Director of the
Mallarmé Chamber Players, where she also performs as a violist. She is a
freelance musician in the Triangle area, and performs with North Carolina
Opera, Carolina Ballet, the Choral Society of Durham and others. Suzanne is a
Board member of Arts North Carolina, an arts advocacy organization, and is also
the President of the Board for the American Federation of Musicians, Local 500.
