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South Australian Flute News osiak The Flute Society of South Australia Inc. Print Post Pub. No. PP531629/00017 March, 2011 ABN: 96 991 331 922

PO Box 3208, Norwood SA 5067 (08) 8267 4319 The Flute Society of South Australia Inc. www.saflutesociety.asn.au Membership enquiries – Ph. (08) 8431 0452 Founder musicianship. He and Clemens Leske jnr

We’re on the Web! See us at: Professor David Cubbin and his string ensemble presented a www.saflutesociety.asn.au sparkling and most memorable evening

Patron on December 1 in the Festival Theatre. From the President Alison Rosser Happy 71st birthday for December 8, Sir About The Flute Society of South Australia Inc. Dear Flute Society Members, James! He was in Adelaide for a few Vice Patrons days and surprised me and my six The Flute Society of South Australia is a non-profit The Flute Society of South Australia Inc. was founded in Associate Professor students who are travelling to London and organization that aims to foster and encourage the enjoyment July 1972 at the instigation of the late Prof. David Elizabeth Koch OAM I hope all members had a wonderful Paris in January, with his presence at our of flute playing at all levels. Cubbin. Robert Brown Christmas and New Year and now feel Farewell Concert at Urrbrae House. The Society's role includes promoting local and interstate Its members represent a wide cross-section of the relaxed and invigorated for the start of 2011. I will have the privilege of hearing Sir artists, encouraging young players and forging links out into community – teachers, students, amateur flautists, the community. professional musicians and people from all walks of life, I am writing this whilst listening to the James in masterclass on January 27 at all sharing the same interest – playing, talking about and tragic news of the Queensland floods the Royal College of Music in London. By Regular activities include workshops, concerts, fun days, MEMBERSHIP listening to the flute. and hearing of people who have lost the time you read this newsletter my small masterclasses and recitals. RENEWALS homes. National Music Camp this week group of tertiary students and I will have participated in masterclasses in London Newsletter Contributions is in full swing at the Elder Membership Fees Membership renewal Conservatorium of Music and several of with Paul Edmund-Davies, Susan Milan, May 2011 issue deadline – Thursday, April 21 forms were posted to Simon Channing and Michael Cox. In Adult $40 the young musicians have heard that Please post to: members in October their homes have been flooded. The Paris we have classes with Philippe and January. Please Student, Pensioner, Country, The Editor collegiality and team spirit of playing in Bernold, Jean Ferrandis and Patricia renew your Unemployed, Associate $25 South Australian Flute News an orchestra and playing chamber Nagle at the Ecole Normale, where we will membership promptly also present a concert alongside some Life Membership $600 PO Box 3208, Norwood, SA 5067 to continue receiving music will hopefully uplift them. I often (08) 8431-0452, or email to [email protected] reflect on how fortunate we are playing students from the Ecole. Details of this South Australian Flute News, e-mail an instrument and having music in our trip will be recorded in the next newsletter. Attach as a Word.doc or JPEG file or send as body text; maximum Each year we hold a wonderful messages and to stay lives. Download a membership form from our website. length is 500 words. Please send separate Word and JPEG files. in touch with local and Talking about collegiality, the Flute competition for junior players, the Carolyn national flute news White Memorial Scholarship. I encourage Advertising rates for South Australian Flute News Society had a wonderful final event for and events. teachers to enrol their young students in Half page, $150; third page, $100; quarter page; $75. the year on November 21 with the AGM this competition. It is a great experience Buy and Sell - Members free; Non-members, $15 followed by an Adult Amateurs Players afternoon led by Kerryn Schofield. This to perform and to hear other players E-mail Database and Newsletter via email perform. Have a look at the insert in the event was an encore after the first one The Flute Society is building up a database of member’s e-mail addresses so that flute related news and information can be was so successful! The committee newsletter as it has all the details. Look sent to members from time to time. out too for the syllabus of the Adelaide Contents thanks Kerryn for her direction and Sometimes information and news becomes out-of-date before it can be published in South Australian Flute News. inspiration and for bringing adult players Eisteddfod, as there are plenty of sections If you have an e-mail address or would like to receive South Australian Flute News electronically please e-mail the details to to enter that will suit different ages and President’s Report 1 together in a non-threatening and Robert Brown at [email protected]. relaxing but educational environment. levels. Coming Events 2-4 Despite having a small gathering our I look forward to meeting as many of you as possible at some of our events this PRESIDENT PUBLIC OFFICER/MEMBERSHIP AGM was held and our 2011 committee Linda Pirie – 83421237 Scholarships 2, 3, 4 year. Elizabeth Koch OAM – 8303 5343 SECRETARY/EDITOR [email protected] consists of the 2010 committee with the [email protected] Robert Brown – 84310452 Notes and News 4-5 addition of Helen Seppelt, who is [email protected] Helen Seppelt – 82674319 preparing to study second year of the Concerts 5 VICE-PRESIDENT [email protected] Bachelor of Music degree. Welcome Newsletter Design and Layout Karen Fletcher – 8333 0665 Buy and Sell 5 Helen! We were also very pleased to Masako Kondo – 82712740 [email protected] present the student competition prize to [email protected] Recent Events 6-7 Amelia Turner for her excellent entry in SECRETARY COMMITTEE MEMBERS Articles 7-10 the James Galway CD Competition. Cristy Wilkins – 0410717280 Margaret Coventry – 82322884 Thank you to Pauline Michelson, who [email protected] [email protected] Music Review 11 had a lot of fun devising the competition. Flute Society Info 12 Those members who heard Sir James TREASURER Best wishes, Pauline Michelson – 8278 1756 Galway will no doubt totally bowled over Cara Seppelt – 82674319 [email protected] by his sound, stage presentation, [email protected] Elizabeth Koch OAM technique, sense of humour and Ann-Marie Oates – 83264531 [email protected] there are certainly a few tricky SA FLUTE NEWS Page 2 Page 11 SA FLUTE NEWS passages to master!’ Performance notes are included. classical guitar, trumpet, violin and Five Dances for Flute and Piano MUSIC REVIEW ‘cello! COMING EVENTS will be very popular. The overall At the request of Karen Lonsdale, presentation of the publication is by Robert Brown Kerin Bailey has composed and CAROLYN WHITE MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP first class, with clear notation, published Five Dances for Flute and When: Saturday, June 18, 12 noon carefully laid out to avoid bad Piano, an exciting new addition to the Venue: Colonel Light Gardens Uniting Church Five Dances for Flute and Piano by page turns. Get your copy! jazz repertoire (dedicated to Karen 560 Goodwood Road, Daw Park (corner Aver Avenue) Kerin Bailey. Movements: Raindrop Impressions, Lonsdale). Raindrop Impressions was Adjudicator: Anna Lester Amelia Turner, Pauline Michelson, Closing date: Thursday, June 9 Wave Dancer, Night Sky, Cherry premiered by Karen Lonsdale and Kerin Elizabeth Koch See brochure and entry form inside South Australian Flute News Blossoms Flying in the Moonlight, Bailey in January 2010 at the McGregor

Butterfly Samba. Summer School in Toowoomba. They WELCOME TO OUR NEW Website: Kerin Bailey Music, recorded Five Dances for Flute and MEMBERS MICHAEL COX FLUTE COURSE www.kerinbailey.com.au Piano in Adelaide in late 2010. This is When: July 4-9 Recommended retail price: $39.95. included on the CD provided with Five Bernadette Burke and Venue: Elder Conservatorium of Music Dances for Flute and Piano. In addition Barbara Deed. Enquiries: Elizabeth Koch, Ph. 8303-5343, Kerin Bailey’s Jazz Incorporated books there are backing tracks, backing tracks e-mail [email protected] provide well-known fun pieces with a - alternate tempo and practice tempo We hope you enjoy being part See enclosed poster for more information. jazz feel for young musicians. Many tracks. This allows much versatility for of the Flute Society and look classically trained players would like to the student while learning the music. forward to seeing you at our Michael Cox play jazz, but do not have the Kerin Bailey says ‘practice with CD events. Please visit our ADELAIDE EISTEDDFOD FLUTE DIVISION background for this. They revel when accompaniment is an invaluable aid to website! the chance to sound like a jazz player accuracy of rhythm, style and “feel” ’. When: August 12, 13 and 15 arises. Claude Bolling wrote the two Karen Lonsdale explains, ‘The Venue: Rosefield Uniting Church, 2 Carlton Street, Highgate ܭNEW ARRIVALܭ Suites for Flute and Jazz Piano for collection is intended for advanced Adjudicator: Carolyn Bounds. Jean-Pierre Rampal. He was also students, around AMEB Grades 6-8, Woodwind and Brass Divisions, August 14. asked to write similar suites for and as well as the gorgeous melodies, Adjudicator: Josie Hawkes. Five Dances Enquiries for Flute, Woodwind and Brass Divisions: Robert Brown, Convenor, Ph. 8431-0452, e-mail Carolyn Bounds [email protected] The 2011 Syllabus will be available free of charge from early Congratulations to Michal and February. Either send a self-addressed envelope 220 x 110 mm with $1.20 stamp to Dorota Rosiak on the birth of Adelaide Eisteddfod Society, 239 Magill Road, Maylands, SA 5069, collect a copy Maximillian Nicholas Rosiak from one of the major music stores or visit the website at on November 11, a brother for http://www.sacomment.com/aes.htm Entries will close on April 8. Look for the new Wiktoria. section, F621, for music by Australian composers, and for the Eisteddfod Concerto and the Eisteddfod Ensemble Event. Please note that the following information was accidentally omitted in the 2011 Syllabus for Section F620, ‘the entry fee is $20 (Members $16), plus a $20 deposit, which is refunded upon arriving to play’. Please include these amounts with your entry. See copy of Flute Sections and entry form inside South Australian Flute News.

MORE EXCITING EVENTS are being planned for 2011. We will keep Michal and Maximillian Rosiak you informed by post and by e-mail!

ENGAGEMENTۨ ۨ AUSTRALIAN FLUTE FESTIVAL October 1-3, 2011, Canberra School of Music, ANU, Canberra September 30, Professional Development Day, with Margaret Crawford Director: David Leviston, [email protected] Director/Co-ordinator: Lyndie Leviston, [email protected], Ph. (02) 8006-5345, mobile 0424-504-104 Jean and Robert Hill’s daughter, Post: 140 Sailors Bay Road, Northbridge, NSW 2063. Margaret Crawford Jessica, was recently engaged Website: http://www.australianflutefestival.com to Tristan Smith. We send them our congratulations.

♠ IN MEMORIUM♠ SA FLUTE NEWS Page 10 Page 3 SA FLUTE NEWS ARTICLE: PRO-POINTERS by Owen Fisenden COMING EVENTS dynamics, intonation – so that they do flute with Leslie Barklamb, gaining a (1978). He died in March 1984. AUSTRALIAN FLUTE FESTIVAL (Cont’d) not absorb our concentration during Diploma of Music from the University performance. The concentration can of Melbourne. He attended the first These Pro-Pointers appeared in the OVERSEAS FLUTE FESTIVAL GUEST ARTIST Margaret Lellmann died on then be fully on the style and National Music Camp at Point following issues of Flute Notes, DENIS BOURIAKOV(Photo: right) November 22. We send our interpretation of the music, the tonal Lonsdale in 1948. Owen Fisenden Journal of the W.A. Flute Society: Although still in his twenties, Denis has already developed condolences to Sid Lellmann beauty and inflections, and the was Principal Flute of the West July 1985, September 1982, May one of the fastest growing careers amongst the musicians and the members of his family. ensemble (togetherness with your Australian Symphony Orchestra from 1983, October 1984.♫ of his generation. He has won numerous prizes at many of accompanist in tempo, and its 1950-1977, founded the West the world’s most prestigious International Flute Competitions 1924-1911 variations, the importance of each Australian Flute Society in 1973 and (including Jean-Pierre Rampal, Munich ARD, Prague Spring, Carl Nielsen and Kobe part and the unity between the two was the author of Formula for Fluting, Competitions) and he was recently appointed Principal Flute at the Metropolitan Opera ALBERT COOPER ( or more ) parts). published by Albert in 1976. He in New York. He has already made several recordings, and his first solo CD album was The English flute maker, With this preparation beforehand, taught the flute at the University of released in 2009, which included the world premiere recording of the Sibelius Violin Albert Cooper, died on and concentration at the Western Australia, Colleges of Concerto on the flute. He has been very active as soloist, orchestral player and teacher January 25, aged 87 years. performance, confidence is built up Advanced Education and the Perth and in 2009 his engagements took him to Greece, Iceland, USA, Japan, Korea, UK and He was born in Hull on April and positive thoughts prevail to Modern School, and was an AMEB Lithuania. 12, 1924. Regarded as the ensure that your playing will be examiner. In 1975 Owen Fisenden Denis was born in 1981 in Crimea (now Ukraine). In 1991, he was given a place at the foremost flute maker of the pleasurable to yourself and to your was awarded a Churchill Fellowship Moscow Central Special Music School, where he studied with Professor Y.N. Dolzhikov. 20th century, Albert Cooper listeners. Then you will look forward and visited London, Europe and Since the age of 11, Denis has played in Russia’s premier concert halls, such as the Big began his apprenticeship at to enjoying your ability to make Japan; he was awarded the Queen’s Conservatoire Hall and Tchaikovsky Concert Hall. With the support of the New Names Rudall, Carte and Co. in 1938 beautiful music. Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977. He was International Charity Foundation and the Vladimir Spivakov Foundation, he played as a at the age of 14, sweeping a speaker, performer and adjudicator soloist in concert tours to over twenty countries in Europe, Asia, South America and floors and making tea! At this Owen Fisenden was born in at the Flute Conventions held in USA. time, almost everyone Melbourne in 1927. He studied the Adelaide (1976) and Melbourne Owen Fisenden After graduating from the Moscow Central Special Music School in 2000 he went on to preferred a wooden flute. No- study at the Royal Academy of Music with Professor William Bennett OBE in London. one thought about improving After his graduation in 2004, gaining a record 99 % mark and the RAM Diploma for an the intonation; the player was outstanding Final Recital, the Royal Academy of Music awarded Denis the ‘Principal’s told that he had a good Award’ as well as the ‘Fellowship Award’ for the 2004-2005 academic year, which instrument and that it was up involved him giving lessons and classes for flute students at the Royal Academy. In to him to play it. The wooden THE ASSOCIATED BOARD OF 2006, the Academy awarded Denis with the prestigious title of ARAM (Associate of the flute began to decline in Royal Academy of Music). During his time in London, Denis freelanced as Principal popularity from 1945, and the Flute with the Philharmonia of London, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Leeds Opera majority of players favoured THE ROYAL SCHOOLS OF MUSIC North, Frankfurt Radio Symphony and Russian Orchestra of London. silver or gold. The 24 Portland Place, London, W1B, 1LU, United Kingdom Just a year after graduating from the Royal Academy of Music, Denis gained his first international pitch of A = 440 www.abrsm.org job as Principal Flute with the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra in Finland, where he was adopted in 1939, and this Since 1889, we have provided music teachers and their students with exams and also taught at the Tampere Conservatory of Music for three years. In 2008 he was had affected flute making, with assessments that nurture and evaluate an individual’s performance and progress. As appointed Principal Flute with the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and later that year he makers changing the headjoint’s length for A = 440, the world’s leading specialist in music assessment, our consistent and rigorous won the highly coveted position of Principal Flute with the Metropolitan Opera, New approach carries recognised international authority. York. without adjusting the positions of the tone-holes, causing For the past few years, Denis has been William Bennett’s teaching assistant at his intonation problems. ABRSM offer: International Summer Schools in Farnham (UK) and Chicago (USA). They have also ¾Graded music exams and diplomas recorded the J.S. Bach Double Concerto with the English Chamber Orchestra for the After War service, Albert BEEP label and performed concerts together in Japan’s premier concert halls. Cooper returned to Rudall ¾Practical Musicianship exams As a soloist, Denis has performed with many orchestras, including the Moscow Carte, leaving in 1959 to set ¾Professional Development Programme Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Moscow Virtuosi, Prague himself up as a flute repairer, but soon turned to flute ¾CT ABRSM Plus Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble of Tokyo, Odense Symphony Orchestra, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Ensemble of Paris and Tampere Philharmonic making. He needed to decide Orchestra. He has also given recitals at the British Flute Society, National Flute whether to copy an existing For more information please contact Association and Japan Flute Association Conventions. flute design or develop his the local representative (South Australia) own pattern. Having collected measurements while at Rudall Ms Anastasia Chan DAVID CUBBIN MEMORIAL FUND 2011 Address: 48 Henley Street, Mile End Carte, Albert Cooper Grants are available to assist young Australian flautists attend a Flute Festival or Flute Event Tel: + 61 (0)8 8234 7616; E-mail: [email protected] formulated a scale, and made during 2011. Please send a letter requesting financial assistance to David Cubbin Memorial about 10 flutes based on this. Fund, C/- Robert Brown, PO Box 3228, Norwood, SA 5067 by Monday, May 9, 2011. He then abandoned it, having Please include your contact information - postal address, telephone number, e-mail address. determined the faults and Applicants are required to provide a supporting letter from their teacher. virtues of many flutes. IN MEMORIUM (Cont’d) rapidity of finger dexterity. Tense SA FLUTE NEWS Page 9 SA FLUTE NEWS muscles and tight tendons cannot Not being a flute player, Page 4 be relied upon for perfect control Cooper regularly asked for of the fingers. Controlled feedback from English flute ARTICLES : CHECKLIST (Cont’d) and PRO-POINTERS COMING EVENTS relaxation is the secret of playing players, professional, amateur Encores: these need to be ‘politically the flute. and student. Using this data, SOUTH AUSTRALIAN FLUTE ENSEMBLE correct’, so ‘to give an encore or not to PRO-POINTERS The closer the fingers are to the he arrived at some definite give an encore’? [apologies to keys, the better will be the finger conclusions and the Cooper The South Australian Flute Ensemble is looking for new members. Meetings are held on Shakespeare]. If there are several by Owen Fisenden action. When fingers are raised Scale, with accurately Tuesdays at 7-45 pm at the Mitcham Community Centre, corner Belair Road and Grange performers don’t give an encore. Be high above the keys there is a determined tone hole Road, Lower Mitcham. Dates for 2011 are February 22, March 8, 22 and 29, April 12 and mindful of any advice about encores PRACTICING loss of time for fingers to open positions and sizes, was the 26, May 10, 24 and 31, June 14 and 28, July 12 and 26, August 9 and 23, September 13 that may have been given to you. Only and close those keys. Another result. Over the years, Albert and 27, October 11 and 25, November 8 and 22, December 13. Current players range in think about giving an encore if the Students: For every day you miss disadvantage of raising the fingers Cooper made slight standard from 4th Grade to Masters and range in age from 18 to 86. If you would like to audience strongly requests one, you are practicing, it takes one day longer to be high off the keys is that this action adjustments to his scale, join please contact Caroline Weatherstone, Ph. 7123-8154 or 0401-176-230. the main performer and there is enough good. of the fingers causes the keys to based on comments that he time. Leaving the audience wanting Teachers: Keep your instruction simple. close with a noisy clicking. Apart received. With few more is useful advice. Too much detail can be confusing and from being a disturbing sound, exceptions, most flute makers THE FLUTE SOCIETY PROGRAM ON 5MBS - presented by Robert Brown students can suffer from Paralysis by these repeated blows can today produce flutes using the EXAMS/EISTEDDFODS/COMPETITIONS Analysis. They become like this damage the delicate mechanism Cooper Scale. Albert Cooper The Flute Society Program is broadcast on Monday evenings at 7 pm and repeated on the centipede: of the flute. Think of your fingers also introduced new styles of following Saturday mornings at 9 am. 5MBS is located at 99.9 on the FM Band. Bring your flute, music sorted into list as moving pianissimo in technical cutting the flute’s embouchure order and the exam slip with the pieces A centipede was happy quite, until a passages. In other words, light hole. listed in the provided spaces. Arrive at Monday, April 11/Saturday, April 16, Performances by Denis Bouriakov, including the toad in fun relaxed control is most desirable if In total, Albert Cooper made world premiere recording of the Sibelius Violin Concerto on the flute. least 20 minutes before the allocated Said, ‘Pray, which leg goes after a fluent technique is to be 94 flutes, including 8 alto time so you can book in, unpack and which?’ acquired. flutes, 2 C foot piccolos, 3 warm up. Pencil marks on the music This put his mind in such a fix Monday, June 13/Saturday, June 18, performances by Helen Seppelt and Anna Cooper bass flutes and one flute in B. should be rubbed out for an exam. He fell in a ditch at the MBS Young Performer State Finals in 2009 and 2010, and a selection of local He made 3 gold flutes, two for Breathing signs and some editing can Considering how to run. NERVES Sir James Galway, and the recordings. be left (check this with your teacher). third for the late Australian Never tell the examiner that you can’t Do you get nervous? When flautist, Douglas Whittaker. The theme music used for the Flute Society Program is Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the do something, such as scales or aural JOHANN JOACHIM QUANTZ young musicians are sitting for Albert Cooper made his flutes Bumblebee, played by Sir James Galway, flute, with Hiro Fujikake, synthesizer. tests – give it a go! For competitions AMEB and school practical in a small shed in his back find out from the rules when you are Johann Joachim Quantz, the great examinations, so often their yard. His workbench was required to book in. Bring copies of the eighteenth century flautist, wrote about results are jeopardised by nerves. famous for being a jumbled NOTES AND NEWS music for the adjudicator and completed the flute and flute playing. This is still What can we do about it? mess, but from it came some APRA/AMCOS forms. today acknowledged by all Most performers suffer from this of the best head-joints and The 15th Balaklava Eisteddfod will be held on Friday, August 5 (Choirs, Ensembles, instrumentalists as a great thesis. complaint, whether it be in the flutes ever made. Bands), Saturday, August 6 (Instrumental and Piano) and Sunday, August 7 (Finale APPLICATION FORMS FOR EXAMS, He sums up the principal field of music, sport, or anywhere Albert Cooper was a familiar Concert). To receive further information, visit http://www.balaklavaeisteddfod.org.au/, e- EISTEDDFODS, COMPETITIONS AND GRANTS characteristics of good playing as that where human endeavour is put to figure at many flute mail [email protected] (give address and contact details and put ‘Mailing which has tone which is not forced and the test. We all like to do our best conventions and seminars. List’ in subject line), write to PO Box 253, Balaklava, SA 5461, enquiries 0417-891-834, fax Read the application form and make has good intonation. The notes must and so there will be anxiety (08) 8863-1242. Entry Forms available in April. Entries close on May 6. NOT be played indistinctly, regarding the outcome. Lets He was a guest speaker at sure that you have all of the requested the 6th Australian Flute information before you start filling it in. unintelligibly, feebly, sluggishly, accept this fact and do what we Convention in Brisbane in Mt Gambier Eisteddfod. Enquiries, Secretary, Backstage Inc., PO Box 1711, Mount Check that you have supplied your tediously, sleepily, coarsely or dryly. can to minimise the effect on our 1986. Gambier, SA 5290, Ph./fax 8725-5905, e-mail [email protected], or visit name, address, telephone/mobile The playing is poor if the music is not results. http://www.backstageinc.org.au. Entries for the Music Division close in late June. numbers, e-mail address, and provided sung with warmth and with dynamic Basically, nervousness is caused interest. by fear of failure, so in order to all the necessary information, including The Music Teachers’ Association of SA offers scholarships and performance days to grade level, reference number, title(s) This certainly provides a good overcome this fear we must the students of its members. Further information from MTASA Secretary, Mrs Anne and composer(s) for music, the duration checklist for every practice session, for, prepare ourselves as well as Hutchesson, PO Box 1268, Golden Grove Village, SA 5125, Ph. 8251-8168, e-mail (if required), name of accompanist, as Quantz concludes, ‘The listener who possible for the performance. [email protected] or the website at www.mtasa.com.au. payment details, etc. Some hears a piece poorly rendered is apt to This means gaining a full organisations will not accept be overcome with drowsiness, and will knowledge of the work in hand. In be glad when it is over’! our own case this entails knowing applications that have not been fully SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSIC CAMP 2011 completed. If payment is required, our own flute part in all its detail

make sure this is enclosed or that you and having a good understanding South Australian Music Camp 2011 will be held from Monday, July 11 to Friday, July 15 at ACQUIRING A FLUENT TECHNIQUE have completed (and organised) the of the accompaniment (this makes St Peter’s College. This offers instrumentalists aged from 9 to 23 years an opportunity to credit card or direct bank transfer a good case for learning a piece play in one of five ensembles which cater for a wide range of ages, standards and levels of Your flute should be finely adjusted so details.♫ from memory – even if we don’t experience. The daily routine includes a mixture of tutorials and rehearsals. State Music that all keys will close, that is, the pads will seal the tone holes, with the lightest perform it from memory). Camp culminates with a concert in the Memorial Hall at St Peter’s College that showcases Through careful practice we the achievements of the five ensembles. Enquiries: visit the website at HAPPY PRACTICING AND PERFORMING!! of pressure from the fingers. The lighter the action, the greater will be the must secure all of the technical Albert Cooper www.samusiccamp.net.au. difficulties – notes, rhythms,

MUSIC TO DOWNLOAD SA FLUTE NEWS Page 8 Page 5 SA FLUTE NEWS ARTICLE : CHECKLIST FOR FLAUTISTS (Cont’d) NOTES AND NEWS: AMEB FLUTE PRIZES FOR 2010 Congratulations to the following flautists who received prizes in the 2010 AMEB reminders, counting, etc. that you need to correctly? Check that your right pinky can Examinations: write on the music. What can you do to comfortably reach all the keys and adjust make your playing more interesting? the footjoint, if necessary. Take your time Christina Handley, who received a Prize for Fifth Grade. Her teacher is Robyn Longden. with tuning. To start, the headjoint should Madeleine Stewart, who received a Prize for Sixth Grade. Her teacher is Karen Fletcher. Look for opportunities to develop your be pulled out about 3 to 4 mm. Blow some Julie Todd, who received a Prize for Flute for Leisure Seventh Grade. Bruno Monsaingeon’s performance skills. Play for your parents, air down the tube to warm the flute. Play work extents the relatives, friends, senior citizens, at your A first and then listen to the A from the CONCERTS Send your concert dates to the Editor for inclusion flautist’s chamber music school, church, enter competitions, piano. If you sound ‘dull’, you are probably in this section. repertoire. Transcribed eisteddfods, exams, etc. flat. If you sound ‘bright’, you are probably ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦

scores of original pieces sharp. Adjust the headjoint and check your BUY AND SELL February 20 and 27, March 6, Duo Orfeo, Maria Foot: flute, Lincoln Brady: guitar, Fringe tuning again. Pushing the headjoint in will for piano and flute are Festival Performances, Sunday Afternoons at Burnside Library, 401 Greenhill Road, BEFORE YOU PERFORM make the flute sharper – pulling it out will now available at Tusmore, 2-30 pm-3-30 pm. Includes works by Bartok, Paganini, Nielsen, Debussy, For sale: make the flute flatter. www.pianoandco.com. Freidlin, Steen/Derks and Sheridan. Tickets $20, concession $15. Book at Fringetix. Pearl 501 Student Flute. Will you be wearing clothes that are Next, think about the key signature and You will find on the site Five years old, $350. suitable for the occasion? Are jeans, T- the performance tempo. What is the first free scores that will allow Recitals Australia Wednesday Lunch Hour Concerts 2011, Pilgrim Church, 12 Flinders Ruth Banks, mobile 0402- shirt and sneakers appropriate or should note and how loud or soft should it be? you to assess the music. Street, Adelaide, at 12-10 pm and 1-10 pm. Adults: $5, Concession: $4. Tickets at the 716-874. Includes flute you be wearing something that looks Take some big breaths to make you relax. Have a look! door. Enquiries, Recitals Australia, Ph. 8266-4936. No performances by flautists listed for stand. smarter? Do you need a music stand? Make sure your accompanist is ready. Bring one with you, just in case. Have the first half of 2011. See http://www.recitalsaustralia.org.au/ for more information. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Most accompanists like to hear you take a you brought all of the music? Mark the Wednesday, March 30, Anna Cooper, flute; Alexander Hanyzs, piano. Music by Vivaldi big breath at the performance tempo when pages with paper clips or post it notes if you give the cue to begin. If there is a and Gaubert. you have several pieces to perform. Have piano introduction, indicate the tempo to you checked the date, starting time and your accompanist. Elder Hall Lunch Hour Concert Series, 1-10 pm. Admission: $7. venue location? Allow enough travel time See www.adelaide.edu.au/events/concert/lunch/ for more information. so you arrive punctually at the venue. AFTER YOU HAVE BEGUN TO PLAY Friday, March 11, Genevieve Lacey, recorder; Poul Høxbro, pipe and tabor. Upon a Have you timed the music? If you were Time, Medieval fable for recorder, pipe and tabor. asked to play for 10 minutes, don’t play for 15 minutes. This will upset the concert Enjoy yourself. The audience is there to be Friday, March 27, Elder Conservatorium Wind Orchestra; Robert Hower, conductor. organiser’s schedule. Have you entertained, so have fun! Everyone gets Music by Camphouse and Granger. rehearsed sufficiently with your nervous but if you are well prepared, all will Friday, June 3, Dialogue, the Art of Elegant Conversation, Lucinda Moon, Baroque

accompanist? Use a competent be okay. If you make a mistake, keep violin; Greg Dikmans, Baroque flute. Repertoire from the 18th century instrumental duo. Check out the 3D printed accompanist who will support you. going. Remember – a virtuoso makes flute at Sunday, May 29, Mitcham Orchestra, Colonel Light Gardens Uniting Church, 560 Do you need to tell the audience about fewer mistakes that everyone else! Never http://www.youtube.com/ the music before you start to play? If so, advertise mistakes by screwing up your Goodwood Road, Daw Park (corner Aver Avenue), 2-00 pm. Conductor: Mike Kenny. watch?v=zwHgszH0aqI make it interesting. Do some background face and looking disgusted with yourself! Admission: $10.

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RECENT EVENTS: ADULT AMATEURS FLUTE AFTERNOON RECENT EVENTS: SIR JAMES GALWAY IN CONCERT

how to hold our instruments by now. by Sylvia Beare The programme began with Mozart’s of County Down for flute and Perhaps the players could be put into by Robert Brown D Major Flute Quartet, followed by strings. The tin whistle

groups with a tutor and then come Debussy’s Clair de Lune and Girl with reappeared for the Belfast When: Sunday, November 21 together in a flute choir at the end of When: Wednesday, December 1 the Flaxen Hair, both beautifully played. Hornpipe. The audience offered Venue: Unley Uniting Church the day. It is a great chance to Venue: Adelaide Festival Theatre Clemens Leske was the sensitive thunderous applause, and left Director: Kerryn Schofield discuss one’s problems with others accompanist. Lady Jeanne Galway with the ‘buzz’ that appears when and often a problem shared is a It was twenty years since Sir James was to have partnered her husband in everything has exceeded their problem halved! Galway’s Australian tour with The Doppler’s Rigoletto Fantasy, but had to expectations.

Chieftains. His 6th visit to Adelaide had return to the USA after her mother, Sir James swiftly moved to the

Kerryn is a great tutor and the audience waiting with high Helen Cinnante, died suddenly. Sir foyer, where he autographed

understands the many problems we expectations. Sir James has the James soldiered on, performing CDs and Programmes for those

later starters have. I urge all Adult philosophy that all types of music can Chaminade’s Concertino, Swiss people who had lined up, with

Flute players to come to the next get and should be performed; it just has to Shepherd by Morlacchi, Borne’s much amiable chatter along the

together. It is great fun and a good be good! This has made him one of the Carmen Fantasy and Briccialdi’s way. Hopefully he will consider a

way to spend an afternoon with the most in demand instrumentalists in the Carnival of Venice. Having amazed 7th visit to Adelaide to enchant us

flute.♫ world. Having attended his previous everyone with his incredible technical all again in the not-too-distant Adelaide performances in 1977, 1980, agility, Sir James then turned to Henry future.♫ 1983, 1986 and 1990, it was good to Mancini, first the Pink Panther, and then When I attended the Adult Amateurs hear Sir James Galway still playing so Flute Afternoon in November last year, I Baby Elephant Walk on the tin whistle. brilliantly, one week shy of his 71st Two flute showpieces, Gossec’s Adult Amateurs Flute Afternoon never realised how much I missed birthday (on December 8)! The Tambourin and Marias’ Le Basque were playing in a Group. Specially with abundant Irish charm and anecdotes others who have taken up the flute later next. The Irish factor came to the fore, had everyone waiting eagerly for what with David Overton’s delightful in life. Sir James would be doing next, and no- arrangements of Spinning Wheel, She one present was disappointed. Sir James Galway During the afternoon I thought more Moved Through the Fair and The Star time could be given to playing and less

to the tuning techniques and gadgets. We should all know how to tune and ARTICLE: CHECKLISTS FOR FLAUTISTS by Robert Brown

PRACTICING

Practice everything! This includes technical work, tone exercises, studies, pieces, sight reading and aural tests. Make sure you are playing the right notes, playing with a good tone, playing in tune, using the correct ! fingerings (right hand pinky should be on for most notes # and left 1st finger up for second octave D, D# and Eb), playing all of the rhythms accurately, playing the correct articulations and have thought about the dynamics " (louds and softs). The old saying says ‘if you can’t play it slow, you can’t play it fast’. Practice the difficult bits slowly and gradually increase the tempo.

Check the title, composer, tempo indicator, suggested metronome speed, the key signature and the time signature. Are there any Italian terms? Do you know what they all mean? When was the music composed? This will influence the interpretation and style of the music. Find out about the composer; use Google or visit a library.

Think about your posture, hand and finger positions '+)(,*./.- and breathing. Do you need to use any particular tone $ # colours and vibrato? Has your teacher given you any pointers that you need to remember? Have a pencil and rubber to hand for any breathing signs, editing,