Results for "flute"

Julee Avallone

Julee Avallone began playing flute at age 7, guided and encouraged by an artistic family, and soon dreamed of playing in orchestras. She learned other instruments while specializing to earn her Bachelors in Flute Performance at Arizona State University. After returning to New England she completed her Masters degree in Contemporary Improvisation at the New England Conservatory. Along her journey Ms. Avallone has already played with in orchestral settings at Boston University Tanglewood Institute and the Chautauqua Music Festival, as well as numerous ensembles including: Lyric Opera Theater, the Bob Moses Ensemble, the Arabic Ensemble, the Allen Chase Contemporary Improvisation Ensemble, the Memphis Ensemble, Brazilian Jazz Ensemble, the George Garzone Ensemble, and the New England Conservatory Jazz Orchestra, and many others

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Anne Drummond

Flutist, pianist, and composer Anne Drummond practices and teaches improvisational music. She has been performing internationally since 1997, and as of 2006, began writing for various chamber groups receiving critical acclamation in North America and Europe. Of late she performs frequently with her spirited sextet co-led with Lew Soloff. Drummond has a strong research interest in the cognitive neuroscience of music, particularly improvisation. Currently she collaborates with researchers in cognitive neuroscience to study the effects of musical improvisation on the brain, and is interested in the biological basis of creativity and in relationship between music education and neuroplasticity. Endorsed by Powell flutes, Drummond teaches master classes to aspiring flutists

Louisa West

Born: June 14, 1979

Louisa West was born in Thomasville, Georgia in 1979 and began playing flute at the age of ten. Louisa holds a Bachelor of Music Performance from the University of Georgia. While studying there, she performed in numerous ensembles, including an orchestra conducted by the legendary Sammy Nestico. She studied privately with highly acclaimed classical flutists, including Angela Jones-Reus, William Bennett, Mary Karen Clardy, and Mimi Stillman, as well as jazz flutists Nestor Torres and Holly Hofmann. She has been a winner of a number of competitions, including the Florida Flute Association Young Artist Competition in 1999 and the 2009 National Flute Association Jazz Master Class Competition with Lew Tabachin

Cheryl Lynne Skinner

Place of Birth: Kentucky Bluegrass Calling: Composing, Arranging, Recording & Performing Life Ambition: Create great music Discography: "Beginnings" cassette release 1990, dedicated to patrons at the Moscow Planetarium "Sunday Afternoon" Live CD released September 1999 "Shades of Blue" released December 2009 Cheryl Lynne Skinner��"flautist, vocalist, pianist and composer��"combines a myriad of styles, including Jazz, R&B, Latin-American, African and classical to achieve her unique smooth contemporary sound

Jayna Nelson

Born: March 16, 1958

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

Nora Roberta Nausbaum

Born: August 19, 1947

Nora Nausbaumis a jazz and classical flutist as well as a certified Alexander Technique teacher. Nora received her Masters of Music degree from New England Conservatory of Music, taught in colleges in the Midwest and South before coming to California in 1985. She free lances in the Bay Area and all over Northern California,playing parties, weddings and concerts.

Marc Adler

Flutist Marc Adler has devoted most of his time and energy to developing his musical skills in the area of jazz improvisation and composition. He has received Jazz Performance Fellowships from the PA Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts and holds a Bachelor in Music and Music Education degree from the University of the Arts a Masters in Music degree from Temple University. Marc studied flute privately with Harold Bennett in New York and Pamela Guidetti in Swarthmore. In addition to jazz performance and composition he conducts and directs the PA Flute Choir. He is a featured writer for Flute Talk and has written a popular book of etudes published through Hal Leonard

Delandria Mills

Flutist, Songwriter, Educator, and Author Delandria Mills is carving a place in the music industry with her unique combination of jazz, classical, and gospel music. A native of Houston, Texas, Delandria earned her undergraduate music bachelors degree from Prairie View A&M University and two graduate degrees from The Peabody Conservatory of Music: a masters degree in classical flute and a graduate performance diploma in jazz. As a classical flutist, she has served as principal flutist of the Baytown Symphony and assistant/associate principal flutist while at Peabody. Her teachers included Dr

David Gould

I am a professional Flautist, Saxophonist, Clarinetist & Pianist. I also run my own band called Luminar (from Solo to Big Band).