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About Jayna Nelson

Instrument: Flute

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Jayna Nelson was born in Lincoln, Nebraska and began to study piano as soon as she could reach the keyboard. At age 9 she began to study the flute as well and by age 17 had won both the Baldwin Junior Keyboard award and the l Music Teachers' National Association Competition. She graduated from the University of Toronto in Flute Performance where she studied with Louis Moyse, Andre Jaunet and Jeanne Baxtresser. For the next two years, she served on the faculty at University of Toronto teaching chamber music. There she also premiered a work by Mario Davidovsky: Synchronism #1 for Flute & Electronic Tape under the direction of the composer

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Bloom of Creation

By Jayna Nelson

Label: Sunjump Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Indah Dreams; Star Seed; Tim's Brain; Fact: Re-Blues; Bloom of Creation; Junk DNA Dance; Return of Buffalo Calf Woman; What Was That?; Agar; Communion; Reality Shifts.

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Jayna Nelson: Bloom of Creation

Read "Bloom of Creation" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard
February 3, 2010

While it is often recognized that music is a matter of both the head and the heart, few artists have taken the statement as literally as the flutist Jayna Nelson. Before the recording of a concert at the legendary Knitting Factory, she instructed her fellow players by handing out copies of a diagram showing the brain's ...

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