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(Last Updated August, 2007 by Kim J. Teal)
Fall/Winter 2007 Concert News
Flûtée will be opening our 20th anniversary concert season with the concert Flûtée Memories on Sunday, October 7, 2007 at 4:00 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church on M-25 in Bay City, MI. The concert will feature some old favorites from our past twenty years of concerts. Composer/pianist James Hill will be joining us for a special performance of In Remembrance by Burl Red in memory of our dear friend and colleague, Pamela Rowe. Flute-playing friends and colleagues of Pam are invited to join us in this special tribute and will need to provide their own music stands. In addition, The Delta Flute Choir (Mary Anderson, director), Birds of a Feather Flute Ensemble (Kim Teal, musical director) and The Midland Flute Choir (Wendy Hohmeyer, director) will also be joining us for a special performance of The Pink Panther Suite by Henry Mancini. As a "thank-you" to all of our devoted concert-goers over the years, the concert will be admission-free and will be followed by a reception. We hope you can join us!
Flûtée
Mary Anderson: C & Bass Flutes
Kim J. Teal: Piccolo, Eb, C & Alto Flutes plus Flûte d'Amour
Lauren Rongo: Piccolo, C & Alto Flutes
Christine Dodge: C & Alto Flutes
with guests
James K. Hill: Organ
The Delta Flute Choir
Birds of a Feather Flute Ensemble
The Midland Flute Choir
Flûtée members will be performing for the Bay Chorale's annual Christmas concert on Sunday December 10, 2007 at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Bay City at 4:00 p.m.
Summer, 2007 News
We are delighted to announce that Flûtée member Tess Miller gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, Roslyn Harding Miller on July 16, 2007. Congratulations to Tess and her husband Scott and to baby Roz!!!
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Important Notice!!!!!
Flûtée will no longer be affiliated with Saginaw Valley State University as a professional Artists in Residence ensemble as of the 2007 - 2008 concert season. We have had a wonderful time being affiliated with SVSU and thank them greatly for their support over the last seventeen years. If you wish to contact Flûtée, please email Business Manager Kim J. Teal at:
kjt at glis.net
(In your email program, insert the @ sign where the word "at" occurs and delete the spaces between.
Please include the words "Flute Quest" in the subject line.)
Flûtée is deeply saddened to announce that member Pamela Rowe passed away on June 27, 2007 after an extended illness. She was a wonder flutist and friend and will be deeply missed by all of us. God bless her.
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Spring, 2007 Concert News
Flûtée will be presenting the concert Flûtée: For Flutists by Flutists, featuring flute ensemble music composed in the last two hundred years by flutists, on Sunday April 15, 2007 at 4:00 p.m. in Founders Hall at Saginaw Valley State University. Music to be performed includes Grand Quartet Concertante, Op. 53 No. 2 by Johann W. Gabrielsky, Nymphs by Gary Schocker, Appalachian Sketches by Mel Lauf, Jr., Rondo Capriccioso by Robert Russell Bennett, and Sinfonietta: Divertimento Flautistico for 5 flutes by Leonardo de Lorenzo. Former Flûtée member Lauren Rongo will be filling in for Pamela Rowe on this concert and we will also be joined by flutist Lisa Hedley. Tickets are $5.00 for general admission and $3.00 for students and senior citizens.
For further information, contact the SVSU Box Office at (989) 964-4261.
Flûtée
Mary Anderson: Piccolo, C & Bass Flutes
Kim J. Teal: Piccolo & C Flute
Tess Miller: Piccolo & C Flute
Lauren Rongo: Piccolo, C & Alto Flutes
with guest
Lisa Hedley: C Flute
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| Flûtée L to R: Tess Miller, Lisa Hedley, Mary Anderson, Lauren Rongo & Kim Teal (4-15-2007 Concert) |
| Lisa
Hedley currently teaches private flute lessons in Midland,
where she also plays with
the Midland Community Orchestra and the Music Society Pit Orchestra.
Lisa has
studied flute at the Music Center of the Northwest in Seattle,
Washington, as well as at the Shanghai
Conservatory of Music in China. She has performed with
various flute ensembles and orchestras in the Seattle area, and has
frequently
played at local hospitals. She performed a solo work for contrabass
flute in
2005 at the National Flute Association’s annual convention. |
Our new CD, Celtic Flûtée, will also be on sale at the concert for $15.00 Orders will also be taken at that time.
Fall/Winter, 2006 Concert News
Flûtée will be performing a Christmas concert with the Bay Chorale on Sunday December 3, 2006 at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Bay City at 4:00 p.m. Flûtée will be performing Christmas Morning Suite by George McKay, African Noel arranged by Ann C. Pearce, O Northern Star by Stephen Pollock as arranged by Nora Kile, We Three Kings of Orient Are arranged by Ricky Lombardo, and Semi-serious Variations on a Christmas Theme arranged by Nancy Nourse, plus other holiday favorites with the Bay Chorale. Tickets will be available at the door or from Bay Chorale members.
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| Jeffery Zook and Flûtée,
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Flûtée, 10-1-06:
Mary Anderson, Pam Rowe, Tess Miller & Kim Teal |
Flûtée will be presenting the concert Flûtée: For the Birds! at Saginaw Valley State University on Sunday, October 1, 2006. The concert will take place at 4:00 p.m. in Founders Hall and will feature music for flutes with a bird theme. Our guest artist for this concert is Jeffery Zook, piccoloist and flutist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Music to be performed includes Mel Lauf Jr.'s arrangement of Quartet, Op. 33, No. 3 "The Bird" by Franz Joseph Haydn, On Eagles' Wings by Jared Spears, Prikichi, Chuchubi, and Other Birds of Curaçao by Donna Kelly Eastman, Sparrows by Bruce Broughton, and Beach Music by Saginaw composer Catherine McMichael. Guest artist Jeffery Zook will join Flûtée as soloist for Kim Teal's arrangement of Pan and the Birds by Jules Mouquet and Pamela Rowe's arrangement of L'Oiseau des Bois (The Woodbird) by Franz Doppler. Mr. Zook will also perform the unaccompanied flute solo Oiseaux Tendres by Jean Rivier. Tickets are $5.00 for general admission and $3.00 for students and senior citizens.
For further information, contact the SVSU Box Office at (989) 964-4261.
Flûtée
Mary Anderson: Piccolo, C, Alto & Bass Flutes
Kim J. Teal: C, Bb & Alto Flutes
Pamela Rowe: Piccolo, C & Alto Flutes
Tess Miller: Piccolo, C & Alto Flutes
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| Jeffery Zook |
| Jeffery
Zook,
piccoloist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra,
began his formal musical studies at the Interlochen Arts Academy and
continued at the University of Michigan. In 1988, he received the
Recital’s Diploma from the
Royal Academy of Music in London, England. Mr. Zook joined the DSO in a one-year substitute position as second flutist during the 1988-89 season, and performed as piccoloist on the Orchestra’s 1989 European tour under Maestro Günther Herbig. He joined the DSO fulltime as piccoloist in 1992. In 1998, he joined Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony on its tour of Japan. Throughout his career, he has won prizes in many competitions, including the National Flute Association Young Artists Competition and the William Byrd National Concerto Competition. Additionally, he received a grant from the National Endowment for the Advancement of the Arts. Aside from his duties with the DSO, he has served on the faculties of the University of Michigan School of Music, Oakland University, and Central Michigan University, and has taught and performed at the festivals of Tanglewood, Interlochen, and Banff. Each summer, he joins DSO principal flutist Ervin Monroe at Oakland University to direct the Orchestral Flute Institute, a weeklong program for aspiring orchestral flutists. In 2002, he and the DSO second flutist formed the Detroit Flute Connection, a series of masterclasses for flutists of all levels. In 2001, Mr. Zook and harpist Kerstin Allvin released Comfort and Joy, a unique compilation of holiday music for flute and harp that explores all musical styles from classical to jazz. He recently hosted a flute retreat and a chamber music festival at his 1890’s farm on the Bruce Peninsula in Dyer’s Bay, Ontario. |
Summer, 2006 News
Congratulations to fellow Flûtée member Tess Miller, who was named Alternate this summer for the National Flute Association's Young Artists Competition! Bravo Tess!!!!!!!!!!
In other news, the article A World of Flutes, written by Flûtée member Kim J. Teal for Flûtée's Help Files webpage, will be featured as a part of an interactive exhibit on flutes in the United Nations Building in Bonn, Germany for the UNESCO Center for Vocational Education and Training, UNEVOC. The flute exhibit, put together by Dr. Hermann Müller-Solger, will be displayed on the 25th floor of the UN Tower.
Spring, 2006 Concert News
Flûtée will be presenting the concert Flûtée's Contemporary
Composers Showcase at SVSU on Sunday, March 19, 2006 at
4:00 p.m. in Founders Hall. We have received
submissions of flute
quartet music by composers from Germany, Russia, and the U.S.
for performance on this concert, which will feature the world premieres
of Flaute
by Juan María Solare and Illusions
by Sergey Zyatkov, plus the Michigan premieres of Salt
of the Earth by Catherine McMichael and A Cloudy
Day by Thomas Woodson. We
will also be performing The
Flute Garden by
Ricky Lombardo, Quatre
Flûtes en Balade by Serge Lancen, and The
Easter Islanders by Mike Mower. Tickets are $5.00
for
general admission and $3.00
for students and senior citizens.
For further information, contact the SVSU Box
Office at (989) 964-4261.
Fall
& Winter, 2005
Concert
News
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| Tess Miller |
Fall, 2005 Concert News
Flûtée members Pamela Rowe and Kim Teal performed pre-concert music for the annual benefit concert for the Field Neurosciences Institute of Saginaw at the Temple Theater in Saginaw, MI on Saturday, October 29, 2005. The concert featured Irish tenor Ronan Tynan and his orchestra.
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| Flûtée (10-23-2005): Mary Anderson, Pam
Rowe, Tess Miller, and Kim Teal. |
Flûtée with Cheryl Cheger-Timm on keyboard and Thomas Zantow on bassoon (Photos courtesy Stan Rowe.) |
Flûtée will be presenting the concert, Flûtée's Golden Age of the Flute at Saginaw Valley State University's Founders Hall at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 23, 2005. This concert will feature music written for one to four flutes from 1685 to 1835 and will include Grand Quartet in E Minor by Kuhlau, Quatuor by Reicha, Quintet in B Minor by Loeillet for flutes, harpsichord, and viola da gamba, and special arrangements by Flûtée member Kim J. Teal of movements from Mozart's Flute Quartet in D Major, K. 285 and Vivaldi's Piccolo Concerto in C Major, P. 78. In addition, Flûtée members will be performing unaccompanied flute solos from the time period on Eb, Bb, alto, and bass flutes. To provide a more authentic sound, Flûtée members will also be performing on wood when using C flutes. Guest artists for this concert include our final auditionee Tess Miller on flutes, plus Cheryl Cheger-Timm on harpsichord and Thomas Zantow on bassoon.
Flûtée
Mary Anderson: C &
Bass Flutes
Kim J. Teal:
Piccolo, Eb, C & Alto Flutes
Pamela Rowe:
C, Bb & Alto Flutes
with guest flutist
Tess
Miller:
Piccolo, C & Alto Flutes
Tickets are $5.00
for
general admission and $3.00
for students and senior citizens.
For further information, contact the SVSU Box
Office at (989) 964-4261.
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OUR
AUDITIONEE FOR THIS CONCERT
Tess
Miller
is
currently a freelance performer and flute instructor from the
mid- Michigan area. She has enjoyed being the flute instructor at
Albion
College since 2000 and in December 2004, Tess received her D.M.A. in
Music Performance from Michigan State University. As a freelance
performer, Tess has played with the Midland, Traverse, Lansing,
Jackson, and Battle Creek Symphony Orchestras. Although she has had
many opportunities to perform traditional symphonic repertoire, her
true passion is for chamber music performance. As a member of the
London Trio (2 flutes and cello), as well as the Everon Duo (flute and
marimba/percussion), Tess is able to pursue musical creativity in the
chamber music realm. As a result of teaming up with these ensembles,
Tess has been able to perform in venues including Mackinac Island, the
Grand Ledge Opera House, the MSU Kellogg Center, and many others. Tess'
dream is to bring to audiences an awareness of and appreciation for
modern concert art music. |
Summer, 2005 Concert News
Flûtée performed a garden concert in Bay City, MI for the Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra's pre-concert
"Random Acts of Music" on Sunday, July 17, 2005, performing Irish music for flute quartet.
Flûtée was joined by former member and now a sub, Lauren Rongo!
Spring,
2005
Concert
News
Flûtée
will be presenting a special concert Celtic
Flûtée in honor of St. Patrick's Day on Wednesday, March 16,
2005 at 7:30 p.m. in Founders Hall at Saginaw Valley State
University. The concert will feature music from Ireland and Scotland,
with guest artists Cheryl
Cheger-Timm
on keyboard, and Matthew
Boog, tenor vocalist, plus Flûtée's substitute flutist
Christine
Dodge. The concert will also be the world
premiere of a new work by Flûtée member Kim
J. Teal.
The piece, Éireann
Legends, is a three movement work based on Irish folklore and
includes Irish tin whistles and bodhran as well as piccolo, C, alto,
and bass flutes. Other music arrangements by Kim J. Teal will also be featured
including: Songs
of the Emerald Isle
(for
tenor voice, harp, Irish tin whistle, and flutes), Gaelic
Airs and
Dances (for flute quartet), Brian
Boru's
March (for
flutes and bodhran), Carolan
(music of Turlough O'Carolan for flute quartet), Celtic
Shores
(medley for flute quartet), and the Scottish hymn, Be
Thou My Vision,
(for tenor voice, celtic harp, and flute.) Flûtée
member Pamela
Rowe
will be featured with our guest artists on the latter piece.
Mary Anderson: Piccolo,
C & Bass Flutes
Kim J. Teal:
Piccolo, C & Alto Flutes, Irish Tin Whistle, Bodhran
Pamela Rowe:
Piccolo, C, Tenor & Alto Flutes, Irish Tin Whistle
Christine
Dodge:
Piccolo, C & Alto Flutes
Tickets are $5.00
for
general admission and $3.00
for students and senior citizens.
For further information, contact the SVSU Box
Office at (989) 964-4261.
Just
a note about our auditions for a fourth flutist: we will be extending
our audition process through the fall of 2005, in order to accommodate
one other candidate.
Fall & Winter, 2004 Concert News
Flûtée
presented the concert A
Flûtée Christmas at McBrite Manor in Saginaw on
December 14,
2004 as an SVSU outreach concert.
Flûtée
will be presenting the concert Something
Old, Something New..., on Sunday, October 24, 2004
at 4:00 p.m. in
Founders Hall at SVSU. This concert will feature performances on
historic (a late 18th/early 19th Century 1-key flute, an early 20th
Century wooden Haynes flute, fifes, and recorders) and ethnic flutes
(shakuhachi, native American flute, Central American bamboo flute, and
Irish tin whistles) in addition to our usual piccolo, Eb, C, Bb tenor,
alto,
and bass flutes. A showcase of ethnic and antique flutes and piccolos
will also be on display at the concert. We look forward to performing
with our first
auditionee of the concert season, Wendy
Hohmeyer, of Midland, MI!
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OUR
AUDITIONEE FOR THIS CONCERT
Wendy
L. Hohmeyer is a professional flutist who grew up,
performed,
and taught in the greater |
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guest Wendy Hohmeyer, and Kim Teal
(Photo courtesy Lisa Hedley.)
We will be performing our annual Snow
Queen
concert for area schools on Tuesday, November 23, 2004
at 9:30 a.m. in the
SVSU Theater and will be performing an SVSU outreach concert for
Christmas somewhere in Saginaw, details TBA.
Our spring concert at SVSU, Celtic Flûtée, in celebration of St. Patrick's Day will be on March 16, 2005
at 7:30 p.m. in
SVSU's Founders Hall, with lots of Irish (and Scottish and Welsh)
music! Guest artist(s) and auditionee TBA. For further
information on the above concerts contact the SVSU Department of Music
at (989) 964-4159.
If you are interested in attending the Michigan
Flute
Festival on October 17, 2004 at Central Michigan University,
here is the link to their web site: www.music.cmich.edu/flutefestival.htm.
We highly recommend it!
Spring, 2004 Concert News
This is the fifth work that Flûtée has commissioned from Nancy Faber. The others are Voices From Between Worlds (2 versions, the first being a one movement work commissioned and performed by Flûtée in honor of Ervin Monroe's 25th anniversary as principal flutist with the Detroit Symphony, which became the basis of the first movement of the second version), The Snow Queen, and Chinese Dragons. For more about Nancy Faber, see the bio below for the Fall, 2003 SVSU concert.
Tickets are $5.00 for
general admission and $3.00
for students and senior citizens.
For further information, contact the SVSU Box
Office at (989) 964-4261.
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with special guest *World Premiere
The
Composer's "Impressions"… 1.
Arab
Cavalry Practicing
a Charge (Eugene
Delacroix) 4. The Garden
Path (Claude Monet)
The opening cantabile melody presents rich "color tones" set against a canvas of alto and bass flute pianissimo harmonies. Each return of the opening theme occurs with an expanded sense of harmonic color and dynamics, whether through the sensuous timbre of the alto flute or the full tonal palette of the entire flute quartet. The narration is cast against pianississimo trills, almost as if tiny blossoms were quivering in a soft spring breeze. 5. In The Gare
- St. Lazare, Arrival of a
Train
(Claude Monet)
The industrial grit and mechanical movement of this painting is imitated in the flute quartet. Unrelenting syncopation and ostinato, as well as quick, mournful bent tones evoke train whistles and screeching wheels. Rough-hewn, syncopated playing on flute head joints generates a raucous "out-of-tune" locomotive undercover that is set against a soaring Eb flute melody. Expansive ascending and descending runs coupled with abrupt time signature changes creates a feeling of impatience and tumultuous movement. The final fortissimo "shhhh" offers one last release of steam. 6. Sleeping Woman by
the Sea (Pierre-Auguste Renoir)
The languid, cadenza like melody of the C flute floats atop lush harmonic tones provided by the alto and bass flutes. In this semi-conscious "daydream by the sea," some phrases stretch and yawn while others curl to a wisp. The quartet plays gentle, full-ensemble waves while gathering tremolos and glissando-like scales evoke rippling water, shimmering light, and fleeting dreams. 7. The Beach of
Bas-Butin at Honfleur
(Georges Seurat)
The essential style of Seurat, the pointillist or "dot" technique, is imitated in two ways by this movement. First, the quartet whispers quick, round syllables - "pah" or "bah" - in rapid, syncopated patterns. These whispered "sound dots" might represent Seurat's dots being dabbed in quick, succession on a canvas. Second, rapid staccato patterns are tossed amongst the flutes, often with wide leaps. The very opening of the movement features a high-pitched melodic call, as if shouting from a cliff, which then cascades down to a sea of highly energetic vocal and instrumental "dots." 8. La
Bonheur de Vivre (Henri
Matisse)
The painting depicts both the joy of wild action (through joyful dancing) and the joy of serene relaxation. This musical movement takes its form by juxtaposing two tempi and two melodies. The first is a simple, folk-like melody in 3/4 time. This is followed by a bright, energetic dance in which the drum joins the flutes in playful abandon. Back and forth, the contrasting tempi and musical material develop until the wild, dance rhythms triumph in raucous, dissonant display. Nancy
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We wish a very fond farewell to
Flûtée member, webmaster, and friend Lauren
Rongo, who has been with us for nearly ten years. We wish her
well in her all future endeavors and will miss both herself and her
artistry greatly!
Flûtée rehearsals take place on Tuesday mornings (not every week) and concerts are performed on various days of the week. Formal concerts at SVSU are usually on Sunday afternoons or Wednesday nights, with performances of The Snow Queen taking place on Monday or Tuesday mornings. Flûtée also performs various other concerts in Michigan and occasionally performs out-of-state at NFA conventions. Prospective candidates must be interested in performing a wide variety of musical styles from Baroque to jazz to contemporary. We are very committed to commissioning new music, presenting educational performances and workshops, and to performing innovative thematic concerts that entertain a wide variety of audience goers. For further information on types of concerts performed, see other concerts listed below or please visit our Flûtée's Program Listings Page. Our mission statement and bios can be found at The Flûtée Home Page.
For further information on auditioning for Flûtée,
please contact Kim
Teal, Business Manager, at:
kjt at glis.net
(in your email program insert
the @
sign where it says "at", without spaces,
& please put "Flûtée
Audition" in the subject line).
Résumés can also be mailed for consideration to:
Flûtée
Saginaw Valley State University
Department of Music
7400 Bay Road
University Center, MI 48710
Fall, 2003 Concert News
Tickets are $5.00 for general admission and $3.00
for senior citizens and students.
For further information contact the SVSU Box Office
at (989) 964-4261.