[Here’s the latest from Jeffrey Cohan]
2006 WOOD FLUTE FESTIVAL AND CONFERENCE June 16-18 . University of Washington, Seattle 866-808-6708 (toll-free) . woodflutefest@aol.com . www.woodflutefest.com . registration and tickets available online .
Prominent flutists from all around the USA and Canada who play wooden Boehm-system flutes or wooden headjoints will gather in Seattle to celebrate the versatility of the “modern” wooden flute in five concerts and two cabaret performances which will showcase jazz, klezmer, Brazilian music from three centuries, the avant garde, early flutes from the renaissance through the present, woodwind quintets, and multiple flute ensembles in the first Wood Flute Festival and Conference. Lectures, discussion and ensemble sessions and performers’ and makers’ symposiums will be presented with well known scholars and collectors. Presentations are to include:
Concerts:
The Wisconsin Woodwind Quintet Duozona with Theresa and Chuck Hulihan, flute and guitar duo “The Avant-Garde Wooden Flute” with flutist/composer Clifford Dunn “Klezmer Flute” with Adrianne Greenbaum and Alexander Eppler, cimbalom “Brasilidade: Brazilian Music from Three Centuries” with Danilo Mezzadri “New Music from the Heartland” with flutist Tim Lane (Wisconsin) and pianist Namji Kim Flutist Lanny Pollet (Victoria, BC) performing the Cambini Wind Quintet No.1 and Villa Lobos “The Wood Flute: On the Cutting Edge through Six Centuries” with Janet See, Courtney Westcott, Kim Pineda and Jeffrey Cohan, performing on wooden flutes from the Renaissance through the 19th century
Felix Skowronek Memorial Concert:
The final memorial to Felix Skowronek and showcase performance will feature Soni Ventorum bassoonist Arthur Grossman, flutists Tim Lane, Clifford Dunn, Danilo Mezzadri, Lanny Pollet, Adrianne Greenbaum with cimbalom player Alexander Eppler, jazz flutists Martin Lund, Bradley Leighton and Jim O’Halloran, Duozono, the Wisconsin Woodwind Quintet, and a special selection performed by all conference participants with Mr. Skowronek’s University of Washington Flute Choir.
Cabarets:
Flutist Jim O’Halloran and the Jim O’Halloran Quintet Jazz flutist Bradley Leighton with the Tom McElroy Trio
Lectures/Discussion Sessions:
“The Wooden Flute in America” with David and Nina Shorey (Antiqueflutes.com) “Biophilia: Connecting with Nature and The Wood Flute” with Martin Mador (Yale) “Flute Woods and the Mysteries of Wooden Flute Construction” with Alexander Eppler (Eppler Flutes) “Historical Development & Orchestral Use of Wood Boehm-System Flutes” with Shelly Collins (Seattle Pacific University)
“Felix Skowronek, Pioneer of the Wooden Flute,” an audio-visual tribute by William McColl and members of the Soni Ventorum, with Neil and Theo Skowronek
Don’t miss this exciting first-ever event, whether or not you currently have a wooden flute or headjoint. Registration fees, which provide entrance to all events, are just $100 ($50 for students), and $65 ($25 for students) for one-day participants. Tickets to individual concerts are $20 ($10 for students). Housing is available at the University of Washington. For more information and for online registration please see www.woodflutefest.com or call Jeffrey Cohan at (866) 808-6708 toll-free.
The wooden modern flute was championed by UW professor of flute Felix Skowronek, who conceived and led the Wood Flute Conference until his untimely death in April. The final event in the weekend festival and conference will be a memorial concert dedicated to him. The Wood Flute Conference now serves in part as a tribute to Felix, an ardent spokesman for wood and everything it means for the flute, as he demonstrated in the concert hall, through his scientific studies and work in the UW School of Forestry, his many wood-gathering expeditions in mountainous wilderness in the United States and Australia, his involvement with flute-making, and his
information-gathering excursions among the wood flute players of Europe.