Tod Brody, Director 10 AM, FRIDAY, 23 JANUARY 2009 STUDIO THEATRE, MONDAVI CENTER
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WORKSHOPS PERFORMANCE ANXIETY FROM INSIDE OUT Two Unique Workshops Open to All Performers with Helen Spielman Tod Brody, director 10 AM, FRIDAY, 23 JANUARY 2009 STUDIO THEATRE, MONDAVI CENTER Workshop I Performance Anxiety: Talking to Yourself Means You’re Sane and Confident Says Spielman: “This workshop will teach you a wide variety of strategies to develop self-assurance on stage, with an emphasis on what we say to ourselves and how we say it regarding our self-perceptions as musicians and our performances. In an interactive group format and through writing exercises, you will receive skills to combat perfectionism, learn scientifically proven tools to work in high-pressure situations, and begin to open the doors to freedom, confidence, and joy when sharing your music. This class is confidential and will be taught with humor, warmth, and support for the needs of each individual participant.” 10 AM, SATURDAY, 24 JANUARY 2009 Friday–Saturday, 23–24 January 2009 STUDIO THEATRE, MONDAVI CENTER Studio Theatre, Mondavi Center Workshop II Fr i , Ja n 23, 10:00 a m , St u d i o th e a t r e , mo n d a v i Ce n t e r Performance Anxiety: Hallucinating Means You’re in Control of Your Performances UC Davis Flute Festival Workshop I: Performance Anxiety—Talking to Yourself Means You’re Sane and Confident, with Helen Spielman. Visit http://music.ucdavis. Says Spielman: “This workshop will teach you a wide variety of strategies to develop self-assurance on stage, with an edu/flutefestival for more information. emphasis on the use of progressive muscle relaxation, mental rehearsal, and creative visualization. You will receive skills to increase your ability to concentrate in practice and in performance, and will learn how to control performance outcomes Fr i , Ja n 23, 2:30 p m , St u d i o th e a t r e , mo n d a v i Ce n t e r rather than leaving them to random chance. Group discussion will be encouraged but not required, and we will lie on the UC Davis Flute Festival Master Class: Julie McKenzie, San Francisco Opera Orchestra floor, so bring a pillow or blanket if you wish. Writing exercises will be included, and well-researched techniques will be principal flutist. Visit http://music.ucdavis.edu/flutefestival for more information. offered so that you can begin to use them to let your music soar. This class is confidential and will be taught with humor, warmth, and support for the needs of each individual participant.” Fr i , Ja n 23, 7 p m , St u d i o th e a t r e , mo n d a v i Ce n t e r UC Davis Flute Festival Recital: Julie McKenzie, San Francisco Opera Orchestra principal flutist, with Joan Nagano, piano. [$9 student & child, $18 adult] ABOUT THE PRESENTER Sa t , Ja n 24, 10:00 a m , St u d i o th e a t r e , mo n d a v i Ce n t e r UC Davis Flute Festival Workshop II: Performance Anxiety—Hallucinating Means Helen Spielman is a musician, flute teacher, and performance anxiety coach with 30 years of experience. Her special You’re in Control of Your Performances, with Helen Spielman. Visit http://music. interest in the area of performance anxiety is a synthesis of her experience as a performing musician and speaker, together ucdavis.edu/flutefestival for more information. with her years of coaching and teaching. She has conquered her own fears of performing, and she has been effective in helping many students, clients, and workshop participants release their fear of being on stage. She offers a seminar on Sa t , Ja n 24, 2:30 p m , St u d i o th e a t r e , mo n d a v i Ce n t e r performance anxiety, “Performance Anxiety from Inside Out,” that is designed to help musicians reduce or overcome stage UC Davis Flute Festival Lecture-Demonstration: Robert Dick on contemporary flute fright. She presents this seminar at the Wildacres Flute Retreat, which is held annually in the mountains of western North technique. Visit http://music.ucdavis.edu/flutefestival for more information. Carolina. She is on the Wildacres teaching faculty, which includes Göran Marcusson, Bradley Garner, and Stephen Preston. She presented her workshop “Radiant Performance: More Concentration, More Confidence” at the first annual Finger Sa t , Ja n 24, 7 p m , St u d i o th e a t r e , mo n d a v i Ce n t e r Lakes Flute Institute in Canandaigua, New York, this past summer with international stars Alexa Still (Australia) and Paul UC Davis Flute Festival Concert: Robert Dick, world-renowned flutist, composer, Edmund-Davies (the United Kingdom). Spielman is also on the faculty of the University of North Carolina Wellness Center, teacher, author, and inventor, performs his own works. [$9 student & child, $18 adult] where she teaches a performance anxiety class three times each year to help speakers, musicians, dancers, salespeople, athletes, actors, and others learn to perform well and confidently under pressure. She presents talks and workshops at colleges and universities around the United States, at national and international conventions, and for private music studios, music clubs and societies, and orchestras. More information is available at PerformConfidently.com. Program Program 7 PM, FRIDAY, 23 JANUARY 2009 7 PM, SATURDAY, 24 JANUARY 2009 STUDIO THEATRE, MONDAVI CENTER STUDIO THEATRE, MONDAVI CENTER UC DAVIS FLUTE FESTIVAL UC DAVIS FLUTE FESTIVAL Tod Brody, director Tod Brody, director Julie McKenzie, flute Robert Dick, flute with Joan Nagano, piano Program Program Techno Yaman for flutist with electric keyboard/drum machine (2000) Robert Dick (b. 1950) Methodical Sonata in E Minor Georg Philipp Telemann Grave (1681–1767) Gravity’s Ghost for piccolo (2007) Dick Vivace Cunando Lookout (1989) Dick Vivace Fish Are Jumping (1999) Dick Cantabile et Presto George Enescu (1881–1955) Air Is the Heaviest Metal (2008) Dick Intermission Intermission Sonata for Flute and Piano Jindrˇich Feld [email protected] for flutist/speaker with prerecorded sound (2003) Dick Allegro giocoso (1925–2007) Grave Sliding Life Blues for flute with Glissando Headjoint® (2001) Dick Allegro vivace Time Is a Two-Way Street for two flutists (2004) Dick Rigoletto-Fantaisie duo concertante for two flutes and piano Franz and Karl Doppler (1821–1883; 1825–1900) with Tod Brody, flute with Tod Brody, flute This concert is being professionally recorded for the University archive. Please remain seated during the music, remembering that distractions will be audible on the recording. Please deactivate cell phones, pagers, and wristwatches. This concert is being professionally recorded for the University archive. Please remain seated during the music, Flash photography and audio and video recording are prohibited during the performance. remembering that distractions will be audible on the recording. Please deactivate cell phones, pagers, and wristwatches. Flash photography and audio and video recording are prohibited during the performance. ABOUT THE ARTIST Robert Dick is known worldwide as a soloist, composer, teacher, author, and inventor. With equally deep roots in ABOUT THE ARTISTS classical music old and new, in free improvisation and new jazz, Dick has established himself as an artist who has not only mastered but also redefined the flute. He performs on the flute (with his invention, the Glissando Headjoint®, which does Julie McKenzie is principal flutist of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and piccoloist of the San Francisco Ballet for flute what the “whammy bar” does for electric guitar), piccolo, alto flute, and bass flutes in C and F, as well as the giant Orchestra, positions she has held since 1991. She is a graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she stand-up contrabass flute. His current projects include solo recitals of original compositions, duo concerts with pianist studied with Lloyd Gowen. Her other teachers include Julius Baker, Paul Renzi, Peter Lloyd, and Keith Underwood. Ursel Schlicht, and a group effort with Schlicht and other musicians called SoundCarrier. As a composer, Dick has received McKenzie has participated in the Berkshire Music Festival at Tanglewood, the Mendocino Music Festival, and the Carmel prestigious awards and fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Koussevitzky Foundation of the Library Bach Festival. She has been featured on a CBC television documentary with Jean-Pierre Rampal, and she has recorded for of Congress commission. Dick writes chamber music as well as his renowned solo works; his newest pieces are Startling New Albion and Teldec records. McKenzie serves on the flute faculty of UC Berkeley. Stories for woodwind quintet and Air Is the Heaviest Metal, a solo flute piece featured on tonight’s program. His discography reveals more than 20 CDs of original solo and chamber works and collaborations with fellow creative musicians. His latest Pianist Joan Nagano is a graduate of the music conservatories of Freiburg (Germany) and San Francisco. With an recording is Photosphere, in which he and Ursel Schlicht musically reinvent the flute and piano duo. As an improviser, Dick emphasis on chamber music, she has been coached by such noted musicians as Menahem Pressler and William Pleeth. has performed with New Winds, Tambastics, Oscura Luminosa, the Soldier String Quartet, the A.D.D. Trio, Paul Giger and A highly sought after musician in the Bay Area music community, Nagano’s performances have been broadcast locally on Satoshi Takeishi, Jaron Lanier, Randy Raine-Reusch and Barry Guy, Mari Kimura, Steve Gorn, Georg Gräwe, John Zorn, KQED-FM and KPFA-FM radio. In addition, Nagano has made recital tours of the Canadian Maritime Provinces, French and many more of Europe’s and America’s finest improvisers.