2014-15 Education and Enrichment
Past Event: Workshop with Alice Kogan Weinreb: Teaching the Exceptional Student
Sunday, January 15, 2015
4:00-5:00 pm.
Engelman Recital Hall
Baruch Performing Arts Center
55 Lexington Avenue (entrance on E. 25th Street)
New York, NY
National Symphony Orchestra flutist Alice Kogan Weinreb was Emma Resmini's teacher for many years and played a key role in Emma's musical development. In her preconcert workshop, Ms. Weinreb will share some of what she has learned about the special satisfactions and challenges of teaching exceptional students. Read excerpts from her December 2009 "A Lesson with Emma" that was posted on the Kennedy Center's blog website on the occasion of nine-year-old Emma's performance with the NSO Pops in the January 2015 New York Flute Club Newsletter here.
Admission: FREE for NYFC members
Past Event: Masterclass with Mark Sparks, flute, and Linda Mark, piano
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Friday, December 12, 2014
2:00 - 4:30 pm
Studios 244
244 West 54th Street, 10th Floor
New York, NY
Mark Sparks is coming to New York! He is the principal flutist of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and is recognized for his colorful tone, spirited phrasing, and charismatic style (described by the Denver Post as "mesmerizing"). Mr. Sparks is an artist-faculty member of the Aspen Music Festival and School, where he teaches an annual studio of the nation's top talent, and is principal flutist of the Aspen Chamber Symphony.
Admission: FREE for NYFC members
Event recap (from the January 2015 NYFC Newsletter):
On December 12, Mark Sparks presented a NYFC class at Studios 244 on West 54th Street. A master of careful listening, honest evaluation, constructive corrections, and amazing time management, Mr. Sparks was able to offer everyone in attendance an inspiring experience. He provided memorable advice on the topics of collaboration ("...with your pianist, your conductor, your orchestral colleagues, and your flute"); communication with the audience ("Preach the piece"); dealing with nerves ("Open up, regardless of how you feel"), and tuning ("Accept the piano...tune yourself"). He reminded everyone of the importance of developing artistry without losing attention to basic fundamentals.
Performers were Francesca Moorman, Jonah Murphy, Nadira Novruzov, Denis Savelyev, Ellie Tsachtani, Anna Urrey, and Fanny Wyrick-Flax, all students or former students at Juilliard Pre-College, Mannes College, Special Music School, Mannes College, Queens College, Manhattan School of Music, and Bard College Conservatory. Linda Mark was the collaborative pianist.—Wendy Stern
Past Event: Nicole Mitchell Workshop
Sunday, November 23, 2014
4:00-5:00 pm.
Engelman Recital Hall
Baruch Performing Arts Center
55 Lexington Avenue (entrance on E. 25th Street)
New York, NY
Flutist/composer/improvisational flutist Nicole Mitchell will share her signature improvisational concepts and techniques in a workshop entitled "Breaking Boundaries with Experimental Flute Improvisation: an Inside Approach." Free for all Flute Club members, this event has a special One Dollar admission fee for all students! All ages and abilities welcome. Bring your flutes!
More about Nicole Mitchell can be found here.
Event recap (from the January 2015 NYFC Newsletter):
For an hour before her November 23 concert in Engleman Hall, Nicole Mitchell shared her signature improvisational concepts and techniques in a workshop entitled "Breaking Boundaries with Experimental Flute Improvisation: An Inside Approach." The event began with a conducted improvisation session in which around eight volunteer flutists on stage followed cues for dynamics, pitch, and note speed (with the full flute, or just headjoint plus footjoint) to make an interesting and quite appealing musical performance. Ms. Mitchell pointed out that conducted improvisation is a good teaching tool because it develops "listening to others" and "connecting" skills in a low pressure/low anxiety environment where there are no wrong notes or rhythms. She then demonstrated a bunch of techniques that we were to hear later in the concert, including singing and playing at the same time (with the voice either below or above the flute note, with voice above the flute note being easier for female flutists), and rapid alternation between singing and playing. All attendees were struck by the sonic beauty of her special effects and by the musically convincing way in which she used them in the concert that followed.—Katherine Saenger
Past Event: Jean-Louis Beaumadier Masterclass
Monday, October 20, 2014
7:00-9:30 pm.
Mannes College
Goldmark Hall 3rd Floor
150 West 85th Street
New York, NY
Beaumadier studied flute with Joseph Rampal at the Marseille Conservatory and continued his studies at the National Superior Conservatory in Paris under the stimulating teaching of Jean-Pierre Rampal. Following his studies, he performed as piccolo soloist with the National Orchestra of France for twelve years, during wich time he performed under the batons of such renown conductors as Sergiù Celibidache, Leonard Bernstein, Lorin Maazel, Seiji Ozawa, Karl Böhm, Pierre Boulez and others. Jean-Pierre Rampal wrote about Beaumadier: "The Paganini of the piccolo ....endowed with marvelous technique, he stands out, thanks to his winning personality and his developed artistry. It is a pleasure to listen to him."
Beaumadier has appeared as guest soloist with the Orchestre National de France, Orchestre Jean-François Paillard, Orchestre d'Auvergne, Orchestre de Chambre de Tours, Orchestre des Jeunes du Venezuela in Caracas, Brussel Chamber Orchestra, Wiener concert verein, Orchestre de Cannes, Orchestre de Picardie, "Ensemble orchestral de Marseille, Ensemble "la Follia " de Mulhouse, Le "Concert Buffardin," Les Musiciens de France," Orchestre de Bohème and others. Much in demand as a piccolo soloist, he performs in Ireland, Israel, England, Japan, the United States, Belgium, Germany, Senegal, Croatia, Spain, Austria, Brazil, Venezuela, Costa Rica and Italy as well as over one thousand concerts throughout France. He also performs frequently as soloist on radio and television. Beaumadier has recorded twenty CDs.
This masterclass is presented in collaboration with the Mannes College The New School for Music.
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