Dear Flutists,

Please note the time/date change of the guest class in Bellingham at Western Washington University: now at 1 to 3 pm. Free and open to the public in PAC #24 in the Music department.

Technique! Everyone’s favourite! 🙂

Please:  1.  review all your major and minor scales and arpeggios. 2. Also review T and G #4 exercise. and 3.  Be prepared to perform any etude of your choice from the current book of etudes from which you are working. I would suggest (for most of you) to present the most recently completed one….but up to you.

In case any of you are wondering what ‘Suppressed Music’ is….since I seem to perform lots of it 🙂 Here is a ‘Q and A’ I did recently for my University of Alberta 13 September recital….

http://www.curiousarts.ca/what-is-suppressed-music

Just a reminder: I will be performing in Vancouver (at UBC’s noon hour concert series), so there will not be any lessons or masterclass that day.

We just wrapped up an afternoon of flute masterclass, with many flute playing visitors from the community auditing the class. We also had several fellow flute teachers sitting in, a group of keen flute students from Reynolds High school, and a talented guest performer (Georgia Tuhten, current student of Brenda Fedoruk) from Coquitlam.  Next year we will have this event in January (I will be on study leave from July through December). Details will be posted. Hope to see you then!

Faculty of Fine Arts Student Meet & Greet
3:30 to 5:00pm Wednesday, October 14
Fine Arts lobby

Coursework concerns? Wondering how to approach an instructor? Issues adjusting to university life? We’ll be happy to answer your questions!

Whether you’re interested in meeting students in other Fine Arts programs, or would just like to touch base about how you’re doing, come talk to us. This is a chance for all new (and not-so-new) Fine Arts students to connect with some of our instructors in a casual atmosphere. No question too small!

Hi everyone,

We will be  having Kirk McNally come to our masterclass on 21 Oct to discuss audition recordings.  He wants to work with a few of you as sort of demonstration subjects. Yes, guinea pigs of sorts 🙂 Jillian, want to record your Szunyogh? Bailey, how about your Telemann Fantasie for that day? Anyone besides Cooper and Gillian (since they will be performing on 14 Oct masterclass) working actively with a pianist currently and would be really ready with something w piano on 21 Oct? Please let me know. Thanks.

This just in from Brenda Fedoruk, Vancouver based flutist and flute instructor at UBC:

“A heads up for a piccolo masterclass here at UBC–Friday November 6th, from 5-7:30 pm. Sarah Jackson, principal piccolo for the Los Angeles Philharmonic. We’d be delighted to see you and any UVic students who are able to “jump the pond” to get here.”