The Festival 2009

Since then, he has performed in numerous concerts throughout Europe, Asia, and North America, giving recitals, playing chamber music, or performing as a soloist with orchestra in prestigious concert halls, such as the Salle Pleyel and the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris, the Vigado in Budapest, the Alice Tully Hall in New York, the Taïpei Arts Center, the Palau de la Musica Catalana in Barcelona, the Hamarikiu Hall in Tokyo, the Wigmore Hall in London, the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, La Fenice in Venezia, under the direction of conductors such as Leonard Bernstein, Tibor Varga, Laurent Petitgirard, and Yoram David. He is also invited to participate in numerous festivals, among which the "Lanaudière" in Canada, the "Sion" festival, the Budapest Spring Festival, the "Midem" in Cannes, and the Berlioz Festival. Jean Ferrandis plays chamber music with outstanding artists, such as Jean-Philippe Collard, Henri Demarquette, Ivry Gitlis, Jean-Marc Luisada, Emile Naoumoff, Marielle Nordmann, Gérard Poulet, Caroline Sageman, Dominique de Williencourt.

In parallel to his engagements as a concert artist, he is professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. He regularly teaches Master Classes in Japan, the United States and Korea.In 1998, he was elected "Artist in residence" by the Lotos Club, in New York. He also leads a career as orchestra conductor, with ensembles such as the Saint Petersburg Camerata, or the Saint Christopher Chamber Orchestra of Vilnius. His recordings include pieces by Honneger and D’Indy, as well as Mozart’s Complete Flute Concertos, with Marie-Pierre Langlamet (Harp Solo from the Berliner Philarmonik). He recorded a CD of Schubert’s "Sonatinas" and "Arpeggione" with the pianist Emile Naoumoff for the label La Follia Madrigal and a CD of C.Ph.E Bach’s concertos with the Saint Christopher Chamber Orchestra of Vilnius.

In 2006, Jean Ferrandis was invited to the NFA (american flute convention) in Pittsburgh, giving there masterclass and concerts. He notably performed for a gala concert in the Heinze Hall with an audience of more than 3000 flutists.

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NZ Listener “…Attractive works and performances. Playing of deft sensitivity, full of proportion, equilibrium, expressive contouring and lyrical affection. ...” MusicWeb International. This period also marks the halfway point on the journey towards the complete recordings of the works for piano and orchestra by Beethoven's longstanding friend and student, Ferdinand Ries. Uwe conducted volume three with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and volume four with the Bournemouth Symphony in June 2008.

Grodd, a Naxos Recording Artist, won First Prize, in 2000, at the Cannes Classical Awards, for the 'Best 18th Century Orchestral Recording' with his CD of Symphonies by J B Vanhal conducting the Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia from Hungary. Further distinctions followed such as 'Editor's Choice' by British Gramophone Magazine in May 04 and February 08 for works by Hummel.
From 1998 until 2002, Uwe was Artistic Director of the INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL NEW ZEALAND and in 1998, before an audience of 250,000, he appeared as flute soloist in ‘Symphony Under the Stars’ with the Auckland Philharmonia.

An avid supporter of contemporary music of all genres, Uwe has given many first performances including, in 2002, conducting the premier season of the multi-media opera GALILEO, with music by John Rimmer and libretto by Witi Ihimaera. Uwe Grodd is Associate Professor of Flute and Conducting at the University of Auckland. His reputation as an inspiring teacher is well documented by his students' international performances and prizes.

A graduate of Mainz University, Germany, Uwe Grodd studied with teachers of international repute, including Manfred Schreier, Andre Jaunet and Werner Peschke. He attributes his major musical growth to the guidance of two of Europe's finest musicians: Robert Aitken and Maestro Sergio Celibidache.
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She is a founding member of the Naumburg Award-winning New Millennium Ensemble, a member of the virtuoso woodwind ensemble Windscape, the chamber ensemble Andalucian Dogs and is the flute soloist of the Bach Aria Group. Winner of an Avery Fisher Career Grant, she was the first wind player chosen to participate in the Chamber Music Society Two program. She performs regularly at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, the Spoleto Festial USA, Music from Angel Fire, and the Brandenburg Ensemble. She received two Grammy nominations in 2003 for her recording of Osvaldo Golijov's Yiddishbbuk. Her recent performances include collaborations with Jaime Laredo, Peter Serkin, Dawn Upshaw, David Shifrin, Ransom Wilson, the Tokyo String Quartet, and the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio. She has appeared on Live from Lincoln Center and A&E's Breakfast with the Arts. Ms. O'Conner is professor of flute and head of the wind department at Purchase College Conservatory of Music and is on faculty at Manhattan School of Music and at the Bard College Conservatory of Music.

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She has received awards from the Royal College of Music in London, English Speaking Union, Countess of Munster Trust, Aspen Music Festival and was twice a fellow of the Tanglewood Music Center and the recipient of their Chamber Music Award. A prize winner from the Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition in London, Lisa-Maree made her London Wigmore Hall debut in 2003 with Jane's Minstrels - a contemporary music ensemble she had the honor of travelling with to the USA and Scandinavia in addition to many Festivals including Harrogate, Spitalfields, Aldebrugh, Brighton amongst others.

She has also been invited to teach and perform at the Dartington International Music School with this ensemble. In addition to performing with many of the orchestras in London for over a decade, Ms Amos was a Live Music Now artist and a member of several small ensembles that performed nationwide in Festivals and Concert Series. After relocating to the USA, Lisa-Maree freelanced with a number of ensembles, and became a founding member of the Los Angeles Flute Quartet with whom she enjoyed the chamber music circuit, travelling throughout the West Coast of the USA, recording, broadcasting and commissioning new works. They were the winners of several grants and performed twice at the National Flute Association conventions, for the American Composers Forum and were a featured ensemble in Chamber Music America as well as recording their own CD, "Above and Beyond". Along with her husband, Peter Sheridan as the Married Flutes, they have recorded a CD entitled "Lovebirds", and have also commissioned many new works, and received critical acclaim for their performances and recordings from London to New York.

In April 2008 Lisa-Maree was appointed Principal Flute of Orchestra Victoria based in Melbourne, Australia, and enjoys a variety of musical activities from recording, chamber ensemble and large orchestral performances and working with the Australian Ballet and Opera Australia. In addition to her orchestral work, Ms Amos has been added to the casual staff of Melbourne University, teaches privately from her home, and holds an annual weekend course in Melbourne for training in audition technique, "Flute Audition Success". Ms Amos has recorded for NMC, BMIC, Innova records, live recordings for BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM in London, and has broadcast in over 60 stations across the USA for many classical music stations and programs. www.FluteAustralia.com

"Of note throughout the program were standout performances by principal Lisa-Maree Amos, flute." Sabine Kortals - Denver Post (Jul 19, 2005).

"Sheer golden sound - the flutist Lisa-Maree Amos was outstanding" Richard Dyer - Boston Globe - Bernard Rands "in the receding mist".

"Finely played by Lisa-Maree Amos in an altogether excellent concert" Michael White -Independent on Sunday - Aldeburgh Festival, England - Anthony Payne "1940's Childhood".

"The second half of the program brought a stunning performance of Claude Debussy's Sonate for Flute, Viola and Harp. Flutist Lisa-Maree Amos brought magic to the Boulder Theater with crystalline playing" Colorado Daily - Debussy Sonate.

"With graceful accompaniment from pianist Richard Berent, Amos and Sheridan deliver smooth performances with controlled dynamics, balanced timbres and sincere expression". - Lovebirds Blair Sanderson - Allmusic.com (Sep 13, 2005)

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As accompanist he has performed in festivals across the UK, Europe & Australia, including Chichester, Thaxted, Buxton (Festival & Fringe) & Edinburgh Fringe Festivals as well as concert and radio tours around Ireland, Spain, Italy, Poland, Germany, France & Australia. He has recently made his debut on BBC Radio 3’s ‘In-Tune’ programme as well as his comedy opera show with the Opera Larks “Are We There Yet?” receiving two highly recommended reviews at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. David's recital colleagues have included singers, Donald Maxwell, Roland Wood, Sarah Fox, Deborah Norman, Katrina Waters, the 'Opera Larks', plus many instrumentalists and leading him to form two chamber music ensembles, The Wren Players & Papillon (The Period Piano Quartet) with Europe’s leading string players. In addition to his opera & recital commitments, David works for Lost Chord (South Yorkshire & London) - music for dementia sufferers. He is both a Britten-Pears & Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now artist and his education/masterclass projects have been broadcast by ABC Classic FM (Australia) & BBC Radio Scotland. Hide Full Profile

His outstanding teaching ability sees him in demand at the University of Melbourne, Monash University and Presbyterian Ladies' College where he teaches the youngest of beginners through to tertiary level students. He frequently conducts masterclasses and workshops and adjudicates competitions both throughout Victoria and interstate. He is a regular guest for the Victorian Flute Guild and the South Australian Flute Society. His entrepreneurial skills initiated the highly successful Melbourne Flute School which has inspired and motivated many flautists.

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Andrew is Artistic Director of the Yarra Connections Music Festival. Andrew completed a course at IRCAM in Paris in 1998 , has collaborated in interactive sound space projects, multi media works, given many Australian premiere performances and his own compositions have been premiered at Chapel off Chapel, the Malthouse Theatre, Toorak Uniting Church and elsewhere. He released a recording of Handel’s Organ Concertos in 2005 performed on the historic Fincham Organ in Richmond Uniting Church. Andrew is currently undertaking doctoral studies in organ and electronics at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University. At the beginning of 2009, Andrew took up the position of Director of Music of the Tudor Choristers. Other recent performances have been for the Melbourne Composers League - a concert in which every work was a world premiere, and The Melbourne Town Hall Project which included world premieres of works by Peter Neville and Andrian Pertout. Hide Full Profile

After two years he accepted a postgraduate composition scholarship from the Polish Government, as a visiting composer, to the Chopin Academy of Music.  During this time he developed a close association with Witold Lutoslawsk. This association led to his doctoral thesis on Lutoslawski's compositional technique (University of Leeds, 1992) and his monograph ‘The Music of Lutoslawski’ (London: Faber and Faber, 1994) currently in its third edition (London: Omnibus Press, 1999). Returning to Leeds in 1983 he was appointed to a permanent lecturership in Composition and Analysis, and then in 1992 to the senior management position of Head of School of Composition and Creative Studies.  In parallel with his work for leading UK music academies he was for much of the 1990s a regular broadcaster (writer and presenter) for BBC Radio 3.  He made several radio documentaries on Lutoslawski and Penderecki, but his biggest project for the BBC was a ground-breaking 9-hour series of programmes on connections between Music and Bells.  This project represented a long-standing interest that had already been explored in several compositions beginning with 'Jede Irdische Venus', which had been premiered in Warsaw at the Chopin Academy of Music. In 2001 he was recruited from the RNCM to direct and merge two music schools in Adelaide, the Elder Conservatorium of Music and the School of Music of the Adelaide Institute of TAFE. 2002 was the first year of the new dual-sector music academy (initially known as the Elder School of Music).  From 2002 to 2005 he led a major multi-million dollar capital development of the school, jointly funded by the Federal and State Governments. The new facilities were formally opened by the Premier of South Australia in May 2005. In 2004, concurrent with his leadership of the Elder Conservatorium of Music, he was elected to a three-year term as Chair of the Academic Board (Academic Senate) of the University of Adelaide. In this capacity he also served, 'ex officio', as a Member of the University Council, a member of the Vice-Chancellor's Committee (the senior executive group of the university), and many other university committees. His professional debut took place in 1974, with the premiere of his first orchestral work, ‘Primum Mobile’.  The piece was selected for the finals of the UK Composers' Competition held in Aberdeen as part of the International Festival of Youth Orchestras.  There it was played by the Young Musicians' Symphony Orchestra of London, conducted by James Blair. The performance received a Radio 3 network radio broadcast by BBC Scotland. His Australian debut, as both pianist and composer, was given during the 2002 Adelaide Festival of Arts. Hide Full Profile

She has been President of the NSW Flute Society and a Board Member of the Australian Flute Society, for whom she produced the bi-annual national flute magazine Flute Australasia for 5 years. In 1993 Carolyn was accepted into Indiana University in the USA to further her flute studies with Peter Lloyd. She also studied baroque performance practice with Eva Legene and Stanley Ritchie in the Early Music department.

Since her return in 1995 she has held the full time positions of principal flute and piccolo with Phantom of the Opera, Beauty and the Beast, ShowBoat, Man of La Mancha, Sunset Boulevarde, South Pacific and Titanic as well as being a member of the orchestra for Australian Idol, which included recording Anthony Callea's number one Australian single 'The Prayer' in 2005. She has been a lecturer in Flute, Aural and Harmony at the Wesley Institute of Ministry and the Arts and has taught sight – singing skills at the Sydney Children's Choir. Carolyn is the owner and General Manager of a specialist percussion business called Optimum Percussion and is also a part-time postgraduate student researching baroque performance practices at the University of Newcastle. She is an examiner for the AMEB, a popular adjudicator and freelance flautist and currently performs in several chamber groups including a classical trio called Opus, and a jazz ensemble In Good Company. She has also been a member of the Proms Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House since 2000.

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Geoffrey has held a number of the country's most coveted flute positions, as Associate Principal Flute in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and for many years appeared as Principal Flute in the Australian Chamber Orchestra. He has been a concerto soloist with most of Australia's leading orchestras and in 1993 undertook his first major tour as a soloist for the ABC. In 2002 he gave the Australian premiere of the Christopher Rouse Flute Concerto with the Adelaide Symphony orchestra. He has played with many of Australia's leading contemporary music groups such as AZ Music, ACME, the Seymour Group, Flederman and the Sydney Alpha Ensemble. During 1995 he toured Europe as Guest Principal Flute with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra as well as releasing his third solo compact disc, Spinning, featuring contemporary Australian works, many of them commissioned especially for him. Other recordings include the complete Mozart flute quartets with the Australia Ensemble (awarded 'recommended recording' by the British 'Good CD Guide') and a duo recital with leading Australian harpist Alice Giles, 'Enchanted Dreams... Exotic Dances'. During 2005-6 Geoffrey was a guest artist at the Australian National Academy of Music in Melbourne.

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Since returning to Australia in 1970 Margaret Crawford has taught flute at the Canberra School of Music, the Sydney Conservatorium, the Queensland Conservatorium, the Melbourne University Conservatorium, the Victorian College of the Arts and the Australian National Academy of Music. From 1990 to mid-1997 she held the position of Head of Woodwind, Brass and Percussion at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Returning to Australia, she held the position of Senior Lecturer in Flute at the Sydney Conservatorium from 1998 to 2003. She moved back to Melbourne at the end of 2003. Margaret Crawford has presented masterclasses and lectures on a wide range of musical and flute-related subjects. As a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician she has toured Australia, New Zealand, Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain, and South East Asia. She has broadcast extensively in Australia and recorded a number of works by Australian composers. Margaret Crawford teaches at the VCA and at the Music Faculty of Melbourne University and is Artist in Residence at the Australian National Academy of Music. Hide Full Profile

Chamber music and new music are a central part of her musical focus and Melissa is a founding member of the Ossian Ensemble, currently the Junior Chamber Music Fellowship Ensemble at the Royal College of Music in London. The Ossian Ensemble were recently featured in a BBC Television documentary, working alongside drum and bass artist Goldie on his new orchestral composition for premiere at the 2009 Proms. Aside from her work as an Ossian, Melissa has also performed chamber music works by Sir Peter Maxwell-Davies, Jonathan Harvey, Julian Anderson and Giles Swayne in the presence of these composers to critical acclaim and will premiere a new piece she has commissioned from Australian composer Mark Isaacs at the Australian Flute Festival in October. Melissa has also toured Australia with her flute and piano duo - the Doecke Callanan Duo, and has performed at the Sydney Opera House, Sydney Flute Festival and at the Canberra and Perth International Music Festivals. Hide Full Profile

While in America Bridget won several competitions including the New York Flute Club Young Artists Competition and the Artists International Award, resulting in debut recitals at New York’s CAMI and Carnegie Halls in 1995 and 1997 respectively. She was placed 3rd in the Tilden Prize, a flute competition judged by the late Jean Pierre Rampal. In 1998 she was a semifinalist in the International Flute Competition at Markneukirchen in Germany.

Bridget performs regularly with leading NZ musicians in solo and chamber music concerts throughout the country. She plays with harpist Carolyn Mills in the duo Flight. She has released two CD’s with pianist Rachel Thomson: Syrinx; French music for flute and piano which was released in 2003 and Taurangi; a double CD of NZ flute and piano music which was released in 2006. Both CD’s have received widespread critical acclaim. Bridget is actively involved in the performance of new music and is a co-founder of the contemporary ensemble, STROMA.

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From 1982-2007 Christine was a member of Australia's leading contemporary music ensemble Sonic Art Ensemble (formerly The Seymour Group). In 1992 she founded Tucana Flute Quartet, which has performed at flute conventions in Chicago, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney as well as recording for ABC Radio and 2MBS FM. Christine is a represented composer at the Australian Music Centre. She has written works for solo flute, flute and piano, flute quartet and theatre pieces. She has also written a flute tutor Practical Studies for the Advanced Flautist with Rosamund Plummer Hide Full Profile

The Ensemble presented works mainly featuring Australian composers and including a commissioned work written by Iain Grandage called "Telegraphed". Both this work and Michal Rosiak's "Scherzo" for Flute Ensemble received a standing ovation. The Ensemble was also invited to play as part of a tribute to honour Sir James Galway. Utilising the full flute family including the Contra Bass Flute the Ensemble's main aim is to play works that feature a broad spectrum of sound, effects, tonal qualities and colours in a musical format that is both mature and challenging. The FFE are delighted to have been invited to present a concert program at the 2009 Australian Flute Festival. Hide Full Profile

Mark took up the position of Principal Bassoon with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra in 2003 and has since performed three times as soloist with the orchestra. In 2005 he won the Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year Wind and Brass category. An avid teacher, Mark was bassoon tutor at the National Music Camp and guest artist at the National Academy of Music in 2007 and 2008. He is also a bassoon lecturer at the Elder Conservatorium of Music. Hide Full Profile

In 1998, Lisa travelled to the United Kingdom to participate in International Flute Courses with William Bennett and Michael Cox and again studied with Michael when he visited Adelaide in 2001. She also toured the South Pacific in 1999 with the Australian Youth Orchestra.

Lisa has been a prizewinner in Adelaide Eisteddfods from 1993–1996 and has also won the David Cubbin Prize (1997), Allans Prize and ZONTA Award (1997). Lisa has been awarded distinctions for both AmusA and LmusA diplomas of the Australian Music Examinations Board.

Prior to her appointment with the ASO, Lisa performed extensively with the orchestra as a casual member from 1997 onwards. She has performed with the Adelaide Chamber Orchestra, the Adelaide Philharmonia Orchestra, the STATE OPERA of South Australia, the Adelaide Art Orchestra, Co-Opera and the Adelaide Youth Orchestra – for which she was also a soloist.

Lisa has also spent much of her professional life as a flute teacher (both privately, as she does currently, and in several Adelaide schools). She has also been a flute tutor for the Adelaide Youth Orchestra, State Music Camp and the Elder School of Music. Lisa has also been an active member of the Flute Society of South Australia for the last ten years.

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In between her studies, Julia has held one-year positions with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in Wellington, and the San Antonio Symphony in San Antonio, Texas. Summer music festival participation includes the UBS Verbier Festival International Youth Orchestra in Verbier, Switzerland; Tanglewood festival in Massachusetts; National Repertory Orchestra in Colorado; and Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California.

In her travels Julia has had the opportunity to work with some great conductors including James Levine, Zubin Mehta, Seiji Ozawa, Claudio Abbado, and Wolfgang Sawallisch. She also took part in an extensive tour of Europe in 2000, with the UBS Verbier Festival International Youth Orchestra.

Since being in Adelaide Julia has also been a member of the Stellar Collective chamber ensemble, and has taught flute at the Elder Conservatorium. She has appeared several times as soloist with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra playing Vivaldi’s Piccolo Concerto in C major. In 2007 Julia was a guest artist at the Sydney Flute Festival, performing on flute and piccolo. Hide Full Profile

For 8 seasons she was the Fellowship recipient to the Aspen Music Festival, followed by an invitation to the prestigious Marlboro Music Festival where she performed chamber music with members of the Guarneri String Quartet and the Beaux Arts Trio. She played Principle Harp with the St. Lukes and Orpheus Chamber Orchestras before becoming Principle Harpist of the Sarasota Opera. She has been Principle Harpist of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra for 16 years and in that time has participated frequently in solo and chamber music recitals, including Sunday Live concerts on ABC Classic FM. Hide Full Profile

Agnes has been semifinalist at the ‘Cimarosa’ International Flute Competition in Italy and been awarded with the Ministry of Education’s Top Achiever Doctoral Scholarship for 3 years. In 2007, her flute quartet “Cordelia” won the Sydney International Ensemble Competition. Agnes lives in Auckland with her husband and their four year old son. Hide Full Profile

Leigh has performed extensively throughout Europe, North America and Australia as both soloist and chamber musician, including concerts at Australia House in London, the Royal Academy of Music, the Mozarteum in Salzburg and concerto engagements with many Australian orchestras. In 2007 he undertook an extensive tour of the United States and Canada where he gave lectures on and performed the solo piano music of Robert Muczynski. Most recently he performed before a crowd of 25 000 as soloist with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra at the 2008 'Symphony under the Stars'.

His international reputation as an associate artist has led to collaborations with such luminaries as Thomas Reibl, lecturer in viola at the Salzburg Mozarteum; Michael Cox, principal flautist with the BBC Symphony Orchestra; Daniel Gaede, ex-concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; London flautist Wissam Boustany; New York violinist Charles Castleman; Swedish cellist Mats Lidstrom; and British pianist Mark Gasser, to name just a few. Other significant international collaborations have included performance and studies with Andrew Ball at the London Royal College of Music; Sophie Cherrier at the Paris Conservatoire; New York-based pianist Lisa Moore and English composer Peter Maxwell Davies. In June 2002, Leigh traveled to the Orkney Islands to perform a concert of Maxwell Davies' works in the presence of the composer.

Locally, Leigh maintains a fruitful relationship with the composers' collective 'The Firm' and has had several works written for him as a result. In 2006 he was their performer in residence, performing a highly acclaimed and demanding cycle of six concerts, causing The Adelaide Review to remark "…few have as magical touch as Harrold. Every phrase glowed with a radiant intensity that has become his hallmark". He is a founding member of The Kegelstatt Ensemble – a flexible, ever-changing chamber group dedicated to performing masterworks for non-standard groups of instruments which was awarded a 2006 'Oscart' for Best New Local Group. He is also a recording artist for ABC Classics.

In between studying for a Ph.D. in piano performance and working at the Australian National Academy of Music in Melbourne, Leigh finds time to go on long walks, read voraciously, write musical articles and programme notes, and drink lots of (decaf) coffee.

He holds two University medals - one for Music and one for Applied Science.

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She represented WA in the Perth Flute Convention competitions. She is an active freelance musician and educator. She currently conducts and directs a number of ensembles across Perth including the WA Youth Orchestra Flute choir and the UWA Flute ensemble. As an educator and examiner she has been active in examining woodwind instruments for the AMEB and is currently teaching in some of Perth’s most prestigious schools. Hale School for Boys and Wesley College. She continues to work on a personal research project of collecting, collating and grading ensemble pieces for flute players ranging from beginners to very advanced players and is hoping to be able to publish her research in the near future. Jan Has been very active in promoting the “bigger” flutes in ensemble situations and currently plays contra bass flute, Bass flute , C Flute and Piccolo with the Fisenden Flute Ensemble . Hide Full Profile

As a classical concert hall composer he has composed around 80 major works ranging across orchestral, chamber, choral and solo pieces (most recently for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Saffire, Sydney Philharmonia Choir and Tankstream Quartet). He is a recipient of an Australia Council Fellowship, a prize-winner in the Tokyo International Competition for Chamber Music Composition, the winner of the inaugural Miriam Hyde Composer-Pianist Award and the 2007 Albert H. Maggs Composition Award from the University of Melbourne and he holds a Master of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music, USA. He has curated the Brisbane Jazz Festival, has performed as a classical pianist and conducted his compositions.

'The work of an artist capable of matching the rich elements of classical composition with the flowing rhythms of jazz . .. the product of a splendid musical mind'
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She is a member of the Zephyr String Quartet and has performed in many varied venues and festivals in Adelaide, as well as interstate and overseas, and has much experience in playing and commissioning contemporary music and in cross-artform collaborations. As a baroque specialist she regularly plays with chamber ensembles such as Syntony, Adelaide Baroque, Adelaide Chamber Singers and the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra. At the other end of the musical spectrum she also is a skilled improviser and plays amplified cello with various experimental and improvising ensembles. Hilary composes and arranges music for film, dance, theatre and ensembles. She is also a dedicated teacher of cello and conductor of ensembles. Hide Full Profile

She was a lecturer in Flute at the Sydney Conservatorium from 1996 to 2005 and was a conductor for the SYO organisation during the same period. Emma assisted in preparing a beginner flute tutor book with Margaret Crawford for Mark Walton. She is an AMEB Diploma examiner and has been Secretary of the Australian Flute Society, and Vice-President of the Flute Society of NSW. Emma has released two solo CD’s with David Miller AM of new Australian Flute Compositions, 'From A Bridge of Dreams' and Flute Odyssey'. Hide Full Profile

In 1976 Elizabeth was awarded a prestigious Churchill Fellowship to study with Maxence Larrieu in Paris. She has performed in masterclasses with master teachers including Jean-Pierre Rampal, Alain Marion, Andras Adorjan, Sir James Galway, Susan Milan and William Bennett.

In 1992 Elizabeth attended International Flute Conventions in London and Paris, inspiring her to direct her own summer schools in Adelaide and Darwin. Elizabeth has been on the staff of many National Music Camps for Youth Music Australia and she was the first woman Director of State Music Camp in Adelaide, directing for nine consecutive years.

In 1999 and 2005, Elizabeth took several of her tertiary flute students to participate in masterclasses in London, Paris and Basel. The master teachers were William Bennett, Kirsten Spratt, Michael Cox, Susan Milan, Sophie Cherrier, Philippe Bernold, Felix Renggli and Paul Edmund-Davies.

In 2007 Elizabeth was Artistic Director of the Sydney Flute Festival and is the 2009 Artistic Director of the Australian Flute Festival, University of Adelaide.

Elizabeth continues her passion for teaching, with many of her former students playing and teaching professionally both nationally and internationally. Her students have been accepted into the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music, London, the Mannes School, New York, and have won positions in Australian symphony orchestras and the Australian Youth Orchestra.

Since 2002, Elizabeth has received several University teaching prizes for excellence, including the Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty Prize, a Carrick Citation and most recently the University of Adelaide’s highest teaching award, the Stephen Cole the Elder Excellence in Teaching Prize.

In June 2006, Elizabeth was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, for her services to flute music and for the mentoring of young musicians.

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Kshema performs in a variety of settings such as formal recitals, weddings and various functions. Kshema is a Sanskrit word meaning “the place your soul calls home”. In July 2006, Kshema were the winners of the Sydney Flute Festival Ensemble Competition. Hide Full Profile

After immigrating to New Zealand in 1999, Lyndie became the Vice-President of the New Zealand Recorder Society and the Secretary of the New Zealand Flute Society and was involved in the organization of the Auckland Flute Convention in 2004. She was invited to play First and Second Flute in the Auckland Symphony Orchestra, and formed a flute/piano duo called Tui’s Company, freelancing in and around Auckland. Lyndie was the resident flute teacher at the Corelli School of the Arts and taught at the Auckland University Academy of Music before immigrating to Australia. Hide Full Profile

She has also performed with the Munich Symphony, North West German Philharmonic, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, Melbourne Philharmonic Orchestra and the Australian Entertainment Orchestra. She has played in pit orchestras for the Royal Ballet, English National Ballet, Australian Ballet, Queensland Ballet, Simon Gallagher and co, Budapest based 'Operettvilag', the Broadway Touring Company/Stuttgart, Opera Queensland and Opera Australia, among others.

Karen performed as a Concerto Soloist with the Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sunshine Coast Sinfonia and the Balmain Sinfonia.. She has also performed in the Queensland Orchestra Players Chamber Music Concert Series and has been a guest artist with the Southern Cross Soloists, Armenian String Virtuosi and Topology. She performed as a guest artist at the Darwin International Guitar Festival in 1999. She is Solo Flute and Vocalist with the cabaret ensemble of the Queensland Orchestra, X-Collective.

Karen has a great love of pop, rock, jazz and other modern styles, and has played in back-up orchestras and ensembles, with well known performers from these genres, such as Il Divo, The Ten Tenors, Tommy Emmanuel, Grace Knight, Julie Anthony, Tommy Tycho, Simon Gallaher, Jon English, Marina Prior, Rhonda Birchmore, Donny Ray Evins, Jackie Love, Don Lane, Katie Noonan, Tyrone Noonan, Todd McKenney, Kate Miller-Heidke, Donald Cant, Tony Barber, Andy Firth, William Barton, Sirens of Song and Kerin Bailey.

She is an Examiner for the Australian Music Examinations Board in Queensland and Lecturer in Flute at the University of Southern Queensland. She has presented flute workshops throughout Queensland, as well as in New South Wales and the Northern Territory for the Australian Youth Orchestra, Sydney Flute Festival, NSW Flute Society, Education Queensland (Musically Outstanding Students programme), Queensland Flute Guild, 12th Australian Flute Convention in Coffs Harbour, Darwin Youth Music Camp, Grafton Artsfest, University of New South Wales Music Department, Central Queensland University, the McGregor Summer School/University of Southern Queensland and the Queensland Summer Flute Festival.

Karen is in demand as an Adjudicator and has worked in this role at the Toowoomba Eisteddfod, Gold Coast Eisteddfod, Queensland Flute Challenge, James Carson Competition, New South Wales Flute Society Eisteddfod, the Sunshine Coast Eisteddfod, Redlands Eisteddfod, University of Queensland Music Students' Society Wind Performance Prize, the Allans 'Jazzin' Up the Mall' competition and the Australian National Band Championships.

Karen is a Doctor of Musical Arts candidate at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, researching the topic of Injury Prevention and Management for Flutists. In 2008, she presented on her DMA topic at the 36th Annual National Flute Association Convention in Kansas City, USA and at the 2nd Australian Society for Performing Arts Healthcare Conference in Melbourne.

Karen has received financial assistance from the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland for this presentation.

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As an orchestral flautist and piccolo player, Lamorna works regularly with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra and the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Lamorna is a versatile and flexible musician who enjoys playing in various styles. In 2008 she played at the WOMAD World Music Festival with pop artist Sarah Blasko and has played in several music theatre productions including ‘Miss Saigon’, ‘Porgy and Bess’ and ‘Phantom of the Opera’. Lamorna particularly enjoys performing art music of the 20th century with some of Sydney’s finest new-music ensembles including Seymour Group, Ensemble Offspring and the new Australian music group, Kurrawong Ensemble. Hide Full Profile

Jean has presented her work at national and international conferences and festivals, most recently at the CMMR08 conference in Copenhagen, Denmark (2008), the Australian Computer Music Conference (2008), and the Musicological Society of Australia conferences in Brisbane (2007) and Melbourne (2008). Jean has given numerous premier performances of flute works, and had new works composed for her. Solo festival appearances include the 12th Australian Flute Convention, Yarra Connections Music Festival, Melbourne Flute Festival, The Australian Flute Festival, Organs of the Ballarat Goldfields, Melbourne International Festival of Arts, the Slovenian Flute Convention, Sonic Connections Festival and the Queensland Conservatorium recital series QC50 (2007). Hide Full Profile

In 1998, she formed the Eliza Tones Flute Ensemble which performed in the Victorian Flute Festival 1998 and as guest artist at the National Flute Convention, Brisbane 1999 performing works composed for and dedicated to the ensemble by South Australian composer Grant Sheridan and Victorian composer Geoffrey D’Ombrain. The Eliza Tones Ensemble performs frequently at community events in South Australia such as Rotary Pleasant Sunday Afternoon Concerts and Celtic functions. In 2007, the Ensemble toured UK and performed in Oxford, Manchester and at the International Flute Summer School at Strathallan in Scotland. Alison's qualifications include (B.Mus Hons, Dip T. and Master of Disability Studies). She was a founding member of the Flute Society of SA (1972) and is currently Patron http://www.saflutesociety.asn Currently Alison teaches privately in her home, examines for the Australian Music Examinations Board and University of Adelaide and has been involved in the formation of the AMEB Flute for Leisure syllabus launched in SA in 2006. Publications include: Scales and Arpeggios (Cubbin/Rosser) and Cubbin/Rosser Flute Technical Workbook. Vic. Allans. Hide Full Profile

Having recently completed her Bachelor of Music Education Honours at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, Kerryn’s qualifications also include an Advanced Diploma of Music (Performance - Flute), Bachelor of Music Teaching (Studio/Primary) and Bachelor of Music Teaching (Secondary) with First Class Honours. Kerryn currently works for DECS Instrumental Music Service, teaches both classical and folk flute privately and performs in gypsy trio The Vamps and all girl ska band Rudy. She is musical director of the Uraidla Concert Band and is co-conductor of Flutes of Fleurieu and Eliza Tones Flute Ensemble. Hide Full Profile

As a Guest artist, he has performed throughout the Southwest U.S. including the Grand Canyon, Colorado and Aspen music festivals. In California, Peter lectured for the Music faculties of La Sierra University, El Camino College and Santa Monica College, where he was nominated 'Outstanding Professor 2007.' Mr. Sheridan has presented for the National Flute Association, Los Angeles Bach Society, and the California Music Teachers Association. A native of New York City, Peter attended Juilliard Preparatory School, Mannes College, and performed with the New York Youth Symphony in Carnegie Hall. In recent years he has specialized on the Low flutes, and has commissioned some thirty five compositions (in six different countries). He has been a contributor to Flute Focus, Flutist Quarterly and other Woodwind journals, and is a board member of the Victorian Flute Guild. His flutes can be heard on Albany, Innova, Warner Music Latina, Varese Sarabande, and MOVE record labels. www.Lowflutes.com Hide Full Profile

Dr Still maintains a busy concert schedule, having presented recitals, concertos and master classes in England, Germany, Slovenia, Turkey, Mexico, Venezuela, Canada, Korea, Japan, China, Australia, New Zealand, and throughout the United States. 2009 solo performances include appearing as a guest artist for the International Flute Festival in Brazil, John Corigliano’s Pied Piper Fantasy with the Albany Symphony Orchestra (New York), other concertos including one premiere in New Zealand, and the premiere of a new sonata by Joseph Schwantner at the National Flute Association Convention in New York in August. Her 13th solo compact disc (concertos) was released in September 2004 to unanimous acclaim: “Anyone who doubts Still's dumbfounding technical ability or complete tonal control should hear these… You just won't hear better-sustained flute playing on disc than this” Fanfare Magazine. Alexa’s 14th CD was released in January (music for flute and piano with New York-based English pianist Stephen Gosling, including Carl Vine’s sonata) “Both performers are constantly praised for their technical prowess and amazing ability to make the most challenging works sound effortless and easy. Reviewers far and wide agree that Alexa Still doesn’t make anything sound tough. She gracefully sprints and hurdles through menacing challenges without seeming to break a sweat. Added to this technical superiority comes an equally superior sensitive musical side. This disc isn’t just flautistic fireworks.” Sequenza21 Alexa recently completed her elected term as President of the National Flute Association (USA) and regularly contributes articles to flute journals across the globe. She plays a silver flute made for her by Brannen Brothers of Boston with gold or wooden headjoints by Sanford Drelinger of White Plains, New York. When her flute is in its case, Alexa is an avid motorcyclist, and she shares a daughter and two dogs with her husband. You can read much more about Alexa on her website: http://www.alexastill.com/. Hide Full Profile

She was finalist in the Leonardo de Lorenzo International Flute Competition in Italy and won 2nd Prize in the Friedrich Kuhlau International Flute Competition in Germany which led to a number of concerto performances with orchestras including the Accademia I Filarmonici di Verona and the Klassische Philharmonie Bonn. She is deeply committed to chamber music and recent highlights have been performing the Weber Trio with Cellist Steven Isserlis and Pianist Dènes Várjon, in the “Bach in the Dark” series with Cellist Rachel Scott and premiering new compositions by Nigel Butterley and Andrew Ford with Halcyon. Australian composers including: Michael Askill, Elena Kats-Chernin, Mark Clement Pollard, Colin Spiers and Paul Stanhope have written for her as well as Coco Nelegatti (Argentina) and Knut Müller (Germany). Sally entered the Canberra School of Music as a single studies student at the age of 12, graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Sydney as a student of Geoffrey Collins, obtained her Artist’s Diploma from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover as a student of Prof. Andrea Lieberknecht and was awraded the Soloist’s Diploma from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Munich as a student of Prof. András Adorján. She is the recipient of the DAAD German Government Scholarship, The Queen’s Trust Prize and the Ian Potter Foundation Cultural Award. Sally is currently Lecturer of Flute at the Newcastle University and has been a Guest Lecturer for the Royal Irish Academy of Music Dublin and the Australian National Academy of Music. Hide Full Profile