The British Flute Society the President Sir James Galway OBE magazine Vice-president Albert Cooper • Chairman Atarah Ben-Tovim MBE pan lute pan f The Journal of the British Flute Society 3 News 49 The Musicians Benevolent Volume 27 number 1 Fund March 2008 Editor Robert Bigio In the second of our series on musicians’ • organisations, Rosalind Parry describes the activities of the MBF. Contacting the BFS Secretary and advertising How flutes are made: Anna Munks 55 27 Eskdale Gardens padding and finishing Purley, Surrey CR8 1ET BFS competitions. The chairman writes. Telephone and fax 020 8668 3360 In the third of this series, Jim Phelan describes Email [email protected] Annual General Meeting. Flute choir news. BFS workshops: Robert Dick, Greg Pattillo the final stages of the making of a flute body. Membership secretary and Chris Norman. Convention artists part John Rayworth one: Sharon Bezaly, Michel Debost, Marianne The Nook, How Mill 61 Reviews Brampton, Cumbria CA8 9JY Gedigian, Andrea Oliva. New faces: Prema Telephone 0845 680 1983 Kesselman. Very new faces: Emma Resmini. Email [email protected] New CDs and music. Editorial 25 The extraordinary Robert Bigio Chevalier Rebsomen 1 Doveridge Gardens London N13 5BJ Telephone 020 8882 2627 Fax 020 8882 2728 Email [email protected] • Editorial committee Robert Bigio 73 Letters to the editor Simon Hunt Mike MacMahon Sebastian Bell. Music in the north of Scotland. • Jan Lancaster tells the tale of this amazing Assistant editor Carla Rees The new ABRSM syllabus, [email protected] nineteenth-century one-armed flute player. Junior editor Thomas Hancox Peter Spohr describes Rebsomen’s flute. [email protected] 75 Summer schools 2008 Copy editor Christopher Steward 43 A Boehm flute for a one- Summer schools in Britain and around the • handed player Design and typesetting Robert Bigio world. • Maarten Visser describes how his adaptations 78 The small print Cover Photograph by Peter Spohr allowed an accident victim to continue playing the flute with one hand. • BFS council, officers, local representatives Printed in the United Kingdom at the and the Association of Flute Traders. Small University Press, Cambridge announcements. Membership information. Views expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily reflect the official view of the British Flute Society. All copyrights reserved. 80 The Last Word… Registered charity No. 326473 ISSN 1360-1563 A flute with a built-in piccolo. www.bfs.org.uk News • British Flute Society competitions, 13 February 2008 By Thomas Hancox The eleventh Performance Plus Competition, along with the first-ever Needham Piccolo Prize and the second Geoffrey Gilbert Adult Amateur Competition, took place on Wednesday 13 February, in the Salvation Army’s Regent Hall in Oxford Street, London. The Performance Plus Competition was, as ever, divided into three classes of increasing ability (up to Grade 5, up to Grade 8 and post-Grade 8 respec- tively). Just under sixty players participated. Quite refreshingly, there was very little overlap in reper- toire, and some fantastic time-keeping prevented Jennie Tu, Haruaka Sata and Charlotte Perkins any over-running (indeed, some classes finished ahead of schedule). free entry to this summer’s convention at the RNCM and a voucher from Top Wind. In second place came Catherine Hare, who won a voucher from Just Flutes and a BFS medal, followed by Ji-Hyun Chang who was awarded the Trinity Guildhall Prize and a BFS medal. Three further medals were also presented to Josephine Wilkin, Meera Maharaj and Paula Barda. Group C provided a real challenge for the adjudi- cators, with twenty-six competitors playing some of the most demanding repertoire. Over thirty minutes were spent on deliberation, trying to whittle down to the final few. Philippa Davies remarked on the ‘real sense of performance and overall preparation’ Amy Biss that was shown by each performer, adding that this competition ‘marked the highest standard yet’. Group A was won by Amy Biss. She won a BFS Matthew Lynch, who played his own composition, mirror and vouchers. In second place was Haruaka Tango, was given a composers’ prize. There were four Sata who won a voucher from All Flutes Plus and a BFS medal, and in third place was Jennie Tu, who received the June Emerson Wind Music Prize and a BFS medal. Medals were also awarded to Marin Tessier and Charlotte Perkins. A tight class followed, with players as young as twelve dealing with repertoire, as put by Atarah Ben-Tovim, ‘that their heroes would play’, and indeed there was much heroic playing to be found. The winner, fourteen-year-old Luke O’Toole, played with great musicality. Luke is in his first year at Chetham’s School for Music, Manchester, where he studies with Linda Verrier. He won a BFS mirror, Catherine Hare, Luke O’Toole and Ji-Hyun Chang the www.bfs.org.uk magazine 3 pan • flute • News Fiona Paterson Alena Lugovkina medallists, David Smith, Charlotte Ashton, Yae Ram plus a BFS medal, went to Marion Gough. Three Park (at the tender age of eleven) and Kristan Swain. additional prize medals went to David Greenhalgh, The third prize was shared between Vytenis Gurstis Lynne Novis and Jo Coles. The Hunt Edition Prize and Jessica Kabirat, both of whom were given the was awarded to Akiko Kohita. ABRSM Prize and medals. In second place, winning Credit for organising such a wonderful day must an All Flutes Plus voucher and a medal, was Philippa go to Julie Wright, John Rayworth and Anna Munks. Mercer. However, it was Alena Lugovkina’s perform- Thanks must also be given to the vast array of gener- ance of Enescu’s Cantabile et Presto that won through, ous supporters and sponsors of the prizes; to Carla earning her a performance as part of the conven- Rees Dawson for photographing the day; to Arthur tion, a mirror, free entry to the convention and a Haswell for the on-site repairs carried out; and to BFS voucher. the two sensational resident accompanists, Jo Sealey The first ever Needham Piccolo Prize, in memory and Richard Shaw. The final thanks though are to go of the great Liverpool-based player Vincent Needham to the various juries throughout the day, consisting (1856–1916), was won by Fiona Paterson, who of Philippa Davies, Tony Ovenell, Julie Wright and received a stained glass painting and free entry to Christopher Hyde-Smith, all led by the never-tiring the convention. The second prize, the Julie Wright- and wonderful Atarah Ben-Tovim. Needham Prize and a BFS medal went to Debbie Martin. A £50 music voucher and medal were awarded to third-place winner Elinor Buglass. The Founder’s Prize of £25 went to Paula Barda, addi- tional prizes of music were awarded to Sagar Masani and Kim Reilly and medals were awarded to Satoko Aizawa and Matthew Lynch. Ending the evening was the Geoffrey Gilbert Adult Amateur Competition which again revealed the vast numbers of incredibly gifted and musical non-professional flautists. This year’s winner was James Cairns, who won a £100 prize, a mirror and free entry to the con- vention. The second Photographs by Carla Rees Dawson. A selection of images from the prize, £75 and a BFS merit medal, went competition will be available to order James Cairns, centre, with adjudicators (clockwise from top from www.carlareesdawson.co.uk to Kate Osborne. left) Christopher Hyde-Smith, Tony Ovenell, Julie Wright and The third prize, £50 Atarah Ben-Tovim. the 4 pan • flute magazine March 2008 News • The chairman writes… Jubilee Jollies: some notes from the chair Fittingly, the Jubilee coincides with our sixth BFS Convention, voluntarily masterminded again by genius 2008 is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the BFS and, by Trevor, ably backed by Julie Wright’s relentless enthu- wonderful good fortune, almost all the founders are siasm. A feast of fluting: food for body, mind and soul, still with us: Jimmy Galway, Trevor Wye, Simon Hunt, plus a chance to make, or meet again, like-minded Christopher Hyde-Smith, John Rayworth, Susan Bruce friends with all the playing opportunities you could and Edward Blakeman. Only John Francis, who did want; plus a teachers’ symposium and and a piccolo such sterling work to get us started, has gone. symposium—it’s a bargain at £150 for all events, and Our wide mix of Jubilee events has included the students can come at half price. (See the announce- one-and-only Sir James Galway giving an inspiring ments elsewhere in this issue.) and motivating master-class in May, beatboxer Greg None of this would be possible without a lot of input Pattillo’s class in November, Robert Dick’s contempo- from all the members of the Council, the tireless work rary workshop weekend and Chris Norman’s fabulous of our unflappable secretary Anna Munks, our meticu- folk-fluting. lous membership secretary John Rayworth and Rachel The first Needham Piccolo Competition in Misson’s success at keeping the Society in the black. My February revealed tremendous enthusiasm and talent thanks to them all—and also to our editor Robert Bigio, among entrants aged from nine to forty-nine, and whose transformation of our magazine has contributed the Performance Plus Competition brought in many enormously to the international standing of the BFS. new young members. The high standard of playing Atarah Ben-Tovim, MBE, Director, Children’s Classic Concerts reflects the current excellent standard of teaching in Britain, epitomised by Liz Hargest in Ely. The picture below (which, sadly, she cannot see as she is blind) Baltimore, Maryland shows some of her pupils playing from memory while June 1–6, 2008 dancing the Mot Mots from Amos’s Animal Crackers at my Application Deadline April 15, 2008 Barbican Centre concert in October.