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Newsletter March 2011
New CD by Flutronix! In Search of a Voice... by Jane Lenoir Nathalie Joachim and My love of Latin flute Allison Loggins-Hull music has been nurtured form the flute duo by the sense of possibility Flutronix. These two that came from my Powell classically trained wood flute. The feelings I flutists have expanded have about this flute run the perception of what a flute duet pretty deep. I literally fell can sound like. Their combination in love with this flute at of instruments, voice and mixed the Columbus NFA Convention in 2000, and media elements creates an entirely played it nonstop at all my gigs--orchestra, jazz, new language for the flute. chamber music, concertos--everything, for Straddling the line between live and several years. I really loved the way I felt like I electronic music, their new CD was playing an oboe or clarinet sometimes, and (titled Flutronix!) creates a mood of the blend with the other woodwinds was mystery and excitement while different from the experience of a silver flute. maintaining a high level of The 3rd and 4th octave high notes were clear, musicianship. focused and in tune, certainly much more so Visit their website for more info: than some other wood flutes I tried out. Also, www.flutronix.com there was a mutuality that I felt while playing it,
in that the warmth of the wood was constantly BIO:Nathalie Joachim and Allison Loggins- Hull are Flutronix, a critically acclaimed giving me something back. pair of fresh and eclectic flutists who are paving the way from their classical roots to I have been playing the flute for over 45 years the future of music. Performing the works and for many years, improvising and playing in of notable pioneers of new music alongside their own creations, Flutronix displays an jazz groups. My latest CD, Tocando Juntos, innovative combination of flute and mixed was recorded by Primavera Latin Jazz band. This media elements. Their original group formed 2 years ago at a time in my life compositions, described by NewMusicBox when I was ready for a new musical direction. as "equally indebted to and comfortable in The band members met initially at Berkeley's several musical lineages,"navigate daring forms of popular, experimental, and Jazz School, in an ensemble class on Afro Cuban contemporary classical music while Jazz. This was love at first beat-the sound of the implementing electronics and digital wood flute with all its dark warmth and richness, effects.The duo pays tribute to coupled with those rhythmic percussive hits in groundbreaking work by exposing audiences to composers who have the high range, floating over the sound of contributed to new bodies of literature that claves, congas, piano and bass was just so expand the language of the flute. irresistibly hypnotic, not to mention appealing to the flute diva in me.. Unlike the jazz idiom, Flutronix has performed at leading new music venues including Galapagos Art where sometimes as a flutist I felt like a visitor, Space, The Tank and WNYC's Greene in Latin jazz the flute is queen--every solo a mini Space. Hailed for their innovative concerto of coloratura rhythmic flair. In Cuba, programming, the duo produces Flutronix there are still some charanga flutists are playing and Friends, a collaborative new music 5-key wooden transverse flutes (labeled in the series hosted most recently at The Cell Theater. Their self-titled debut album, "a 50's and 60's "charanga flutes") effortlessly masterful collage of electronic and acoustic popping out 4th octave E's and F's. music, woven into multi-faceted textures," (Black Grooves, 2011) was released in Click here to read more about Jane's odyssey October 2010 on the duo's label. Flutronix recordings have been broadcast on WQXR's into Latin music... Q2, WKCR and other stations nationally. Additionally, the duo has undertaken several entrepreneurial endeavors Featured Recording Studio Artist: including the publishing of their original Lois Bliss Herbine works and the launch and hosting of Real Flutists, an online web series sponsored by Lois Bliss Herbine is a Lois Herbine The Flute Center of New York. solo piccolo artist on Crystal Records. All six Flutist is out of this world! accompanied recordings from her CD, Take Wing, including premieres of Daugherty, Persichetti, and Dorff, have been broadcast on radio stations across the United States. Flute Talk and Flute Network reviews describe her piccolo as "enchanting", "mesmorizing", and "vivid". The Gramophone hails her recital as "high-flying" and "beguiling" and Music Web International exclaims, "Another leading wind soloist takes flight". In 2000 Herbine was invited to give a solo performance on the flute and piccolo for the Cady Coleman playing flute in Space! Republican Governors' Association at the Republican National Convention. Since then she Astronaut, Catherine "Cady" has performed multiple times at National Flute Astronaut, Catherine "Cady" Coleman, is currently aboard the Association conventions to favorable press. As a International Space Station for a 6 commercial orchestral artist, Herbine has served month mission. Cady is a graduate as principal flute for Peter Nero's Philly Pops and of MIT and the University of the Mann Festival orchestra, and performed in Massachusetts, as well as a flute soundtracks for television and radio specials, player! She currently has four flutes theme music and commercials. Most recently, with her aboard the International she was a backup artist for SONY artists John Space Station, and she is the first Legend and Il Divo. astronaut to play a wind instrument on board! This month Lois will present workshops and masterclasses in Michigan. Visit her artist profile Click here to check out a video of on itunes Ping for details of recent classes. Cady playing her flute in space! Click here for more information! It's like the spa....for your flute! Recitals & Master Classes
Your flute is like you, a well created March mechanism that requires a bit of maintenance to keep it running at 13 - Lois Herbine Elements of Musicality full speed. Every 18-24 months a Lecture and Flute/Piccolo masterclass presented flute that is regularly played will by the South East Michigan Flute Association require a "spa day" to bring it back (Ypsilanti, Michigan USA) to playing at its best. 14 - Lois Herbine Elements of Musicality At Powell, Rachel Lecture and Flute/Piccolo masterclass (Ann Baker has been our Arbor, Michigan USA) primary Repair Technician and 26-27 - Paul Edmund-Davies guest artist at afinisher since 2007. the Adams Flute Festival (Thorn, Netherlands)
31-April 3 - MENC Eastern Division Conference Rachel came to Powell with a (Baltimore, Maryland) Booth #708 breadth of experience, both formal schooling in instrument repair and April years of apprenticing in some of the 6-9 - MusikMESSE Hall 1, Booth D.48 finest repair workshops in the (Frankfurt, Germany) Northeast. Besides being an excellent repair technician, Rachel is 13-15 - Pennsylvania Music Educators a talented and accomplished flutist. Conference (Hershey, Pennsylvania)
Every instrument that Rachel works 16 - Christina Jennings, Guest Artist at the on is meticulously inspected, San Diego Flute Festival (San Diego, California) repaired and play tested. As she says "My goal is to make every Raffaele Trevisani 2011 USA Tour! flutist fall in love all over again with March 7 - Stephen Austin State University their flute." (Nacogdoches, Texas)
This is a great time of year to March 11 - University of Houston (Houston, schedule your flute for its spa day - Texas) once May arrives appointments fill up quickly! March 12 - Guest Artist at the Houston Flute Festival. (Houston, Texas) To schedule an appointment, contact Rebecca Eckles or (978)344- March 20 - Recital atSt. Catherine's Church 5160 (Wheeler, Oregon)
Powell on Facebook & March 23 - Recital atLawrence Family JCC - Twitter! Garfield Theater (San Diego, California)
April 14 - University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Lincoln, Nebraska)
April 16 - Guest Artist at the Iowa Flute Festival (Iowa City, Iowa)
April 18 - New England Conservatory (Boston, Massachusetts)
April 25-28 - Solo performance with the University Wind Ensemble at the University of South Mississippi. (Hattiesburg, Mississippi)
April 29-30 - Guest Artist at the Southeast Michigan Flute Association Flute Fair (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
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