From the President - Angela Allen Sherzer
February 2015 Volume 18, Issue 1 From the President - Angela Allen Sherzer Atlanta Flute Fair 2-3 Spring Event 4 Where Are They Now? 4 Proposed New Officers 5 Community News 5 Membership Applications 6-7 Officers & Chairs 8 Newsletter Guidelines 9 Income & Expenses 9 Marketplace 10 Calendar of Events 10 2015 Flute Fair Poster 11 Happy New Year! I hope that you all had a wonderful holiday season and are now ready to take advantage of the exciting upcoming events we have planned for the Atlanta Flute Club! Our next big event is our annual Flute Fair, which will take place on Saturday, February 21st at Georgia Perimeter College-Clarkston Campus. Our guest artist this year is virtuoso flutist, Jasmine Choi. Ms. Choi has served as Principal Flute with the Vienna Symphony, as well as, Associate Principal flute of the Cincinnati Symphony. She has now moved on to a career as a full-time soloist and recording artist. She will present a recital and also conduct a masterclass/ workshop that should be both inspirational and educational. This year, we are offering five very interesting workshops on a wide variety of flute- related subjects; you will surely find several of these that you will want to attend! Our High School and Middle School Honors Choirs will be performing, and everyone is invited to take part in our Flute Choir reading session (don’t forget to bring your flute!). Of course, a visit to our exhibits is a must---it is a great opportunity to try new flutes, purchase music, and browse for other flute-related items. We are also very excited to announce that Atlanta Symphony Orchestra flutist, Todd Skitch, will be featured as Guest Artist at our Spring Event, which will take place on Saturday, May 23rd, at Greater Atlanta Christian School. Please save the date, and watch our website and Facebook page for further details regarding this event! Please keep us informed of your flute related events! If you have an upcoming recital, other news to share, or would like to become more involved with the Atlanta Flute Club, please let us know. Join our Facebook page (search for Atlanta Flute Club), and check our website (atlantafluteclub.org) frequently for updates. I look forward to seeing you at an Atlanta Flute Club event soon! Page 2 February 2015 Volume 18, Issue 1 2015 Atlanta Flute Fair Featuring Jasmine Choi! February 21, 2015 Georgia Perimeter College - Clarkston Fine Arts Building The Atlanta Flute Fair is almost here! We are going to have a wonderful day of concerts, competitions, flute playing and learning. Our Guest Artist is the world famous Jasmine Choi. Ms. Choi has recently left the Vienna Symphony to pursue a full time solo career. She is one of the flute icons and you’re going to love hearing her play and teach. She will present a masterclass in the afternoon and the Guest Artist Recital will be the final event of the fair, (at 5:30p.m.) The day will also feature a flute choir reading session, a mini recital by the 2015 Junior Young Artist winner and the 2015 Honors Choirs concert. The Middle School Honors Choir is conducted this year by Nicole Chamberlain and the High School Honors Choir is under the direction of Cecilia Price. We are delighted to have 4 outstanding workshops this year – “The Magic of Moyse” presented by Cate Hummel, “An Overview of Flute Repair” by AFC member, Alan Horne, “Breathing and Balance” by Andree Martin and “When Tooting Your Flute Is a Pain in the Neck by Gay Lynn Westover and Nicole Chamberlain. There will be exhibits with flutes for sale, flute music and flute accessories throughout the day. You will be informed and inspired by this exciting Flute Splurge. Here is the schedule for the day. It is very different from previous years, so please take note. It would be a shame to miss an event because you were using last year’s plan! We wanted to be sure Ms. Choi had a change to socialize with the members of the audience for her recital, so we put it at the end of the day. Visit www.AtlantaFluteClub.org for the latest information! February 2015 Volume 18, Issue 1 Page 3 2015 Atlanta Flute Fair (continued) Please note this is a tentative schedule. There may be some adjustments in time, so check the website for updates. Tentative Schedule for February 21, 2015: 9:00am - 5:00pm Registration Open 9:00am - 3:30pm Exhibits Open 9:00am - 10:30am Honors Choir Rehearsal 9:00am - 9:55am Flute Choir Reading Session with Kelly McKinney 10:30am - 11:55am AFC Young Artist Competition Finals 11:15am - 11:45am “Flute Maintenance Overview - Alan Horne, presenter 10:30am - 10:55am Reviving Hugo Kauder - Lindsey Leach-Sparks, presenter 11:00am - 11:55am The Magic of Moyse, a Living Legacy - Cate Hummel, presenter 12:00pm - 12:45pm Lunch and visit the Exhibit Hall 12:45pm - 1:15pm Breathing and Balance; Free is the Key! - Andree Martin, presenter 1:20pm - 1:50pm When Tooting Your Flute is a Pain in the Neck - Physical Therapist Gay Lynn Westover & Nicole Chamberlain, presenters 2:00pm - 2:15pm 2015 Junior Young Artist Winner’s Recital 2:20pm - 2:40pm Meet the Artist: Honors Flute Choir Interview Jasmine Choi 2:40pm - 4:00pm Guest Artist Masterclass with Jasmine Choi 3:15pm - 4:15pm Honors Choir Warm-Up rehearsal 4:00pm - 4:15pm Atlanta Flute Club General Meeting 4:15pm - 5:15pm AFC Middle School Honors Choir Concert - Nicole Chamberlain AFC High School Honors Choir Concert - Cecilia Price 5:30pm - 6:30pm GUEST ARTIST RECITAL: Jasmine Choi, flute and Tim Whitehead, piano Page 4 February 2015 Volume 18, Issue 1 2015 AFC Spring Event Features ASO Flutist Todd Skitch Join us May 23, 2015 for our all day Spring event featuring the newest addition to Atlanta Symphony Orchestra flute section Todd Skitch. He will be performing and offering masterclasses in the Clifton Jones Theatre in the Sara D. Williams Fine Arts Center at Greater Atlanta Christian School. Todd Skitch joined the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra September 2013. He is a member of the Atlanta Chamber Players and is currently an Artist-inResidence at Kennesaw State University. Mr. Skitch received degress from University of Toronto and McGill University in Montreal, Canada. His principal teachers were Timothy Hutchins and Nora Shulman. Mr. Skitch has performed with the Memphis Symphony, IRIS Orchestra with Michael Stern; Bellingham Festival of Music; Memphis Chamber Music Society; Tanglewood Music Center; Blossom Music Festival at Kent University, where he received the Maurice Sharp Award for outstanding flute applicant; Spoleto Festival USA; and the National Repertory Orchestra Where Are They Now? Since winning the first Atlanta Flute Club Young Artist Competition, Jeff earned a Master of Music degree from Yale University where he studied with Ransom Wilson. While at Yale Jeff developed an interest in the human voice and how the body creates sound, and how that translates to the flute, which led to a greater interest in singing, opera and opera singers. That interest combined with an overwhelming desire to live in New York, Jeff decided to move away from pursuing flute as a profession and move to New York. He began working in artist management first at Columbia Artist Management and then as an Artist Manager with Zemsky Green Artists, a boutique agency representing many of the most acclaimed opera singers performing today. Transitioning away from artist management, Jeff joined Palm Beach Opera as the Director of Artistic Operations where he was responsible for planning all aspects of the artistic season including casting MainStage performances, the Young Artist Program as well as expanding the presence of Palm Beach Opera throughout the community through educational and other performance initiatives. Asked by PBO to suggest ways to improve the efficiency of the administrative processes of the company, Jeff was introduced to ArtsVision, a robust and highly configurable software application employed by large scale performing arts organizations that addresses all aspects of production, personnel and financial management specifically for the performing arts. With his knowledge of performing arts organizations around the world and the unique issues these organizations face, Jeff was invited to join ArtsVision as their VP of Client Services where he guides clients on how to achieve their business strategy goals and establish effective workflow processes through the implementation of ArtsVision. Jeff lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with his wife, Sara, who is the Director of Arts/Assistant Principal at the Bronx Charter School for the Arts, their dog, a Havanese mix named Georgia, and they are eagerly awaiting the arrival of their first child this spring. February 2015 Volume 18, Issue 1 Page 5 New Board Officers Proposed for 2015-2017 Term At the Gerneral Board Meeting during the Atlanta Flute Fair, we will vote on the new board officers proposed for the next term. Below are the proposed board members: President: Erica Bass Pirtle Vice President: Cecilia Price Secretary: Frankie Cavanah Treasurer: Laura Philpott Be an Active Atlanta Flute Club Member! We Want YOU! Have you felt like you don’t really know anyone in the Atlanta Flute Club? A good way to fix that is to share your talents with the Atlanta Flute Club. We all know you play flute, we have that in common, but what we probably don’t know is that you’re a photographer, a writer, a graphic designer, an organizer, a sales person, a social media wiz, a grant writer, an event planner, a people wrangler, or even have an area of expertise we don’t even know about! Even if you don’t have a super secret talent, let’s face it playing the flute is already a super power, we still need people who can help prep events, work the Flute Fair (WE NEED VOLUNTEERS FOR THE FLUTE FAIR!), fold programs, help locate resources, or just be the muscle to help us set up chairs and music stands. Visit the officers and committee chair page in this newseletter for contact information. It doesn’t have to be a lifelong committment, but we wouldn’t turn that down either! Summerflute 2015 will be held on the campus of Columbus State University at the beautiful Schwob School of Music from May 27-31. This year, the faculty includes Carol Wincenc, Amy Likar, Andrée Martin, and Kelly Mollnow-Wilson. Consider coming to Summerflute before heading off to other flute or orchestra summer festivals! Summerflute is a unique festival experience in that it brings together traditional flute studies and performance opportunities with the study of the body in movement through classes in Body Mapping, Feldenkrais, and Alexander Technique. Designed to bring awareness to tension habits, body mapping is a discipline that trains us to replace our faulty body maps with correct maps in order to rely on our skeletal structure to support our weight and allow for effortless movement. The resulting ease can offer flutists a wider diversity of tone color, a better control of dynamic range, arm freedom, and therefore freer technique, stronger endurance, and better clarity and speed of articulation. Whole body awareness increases an awareness of performance health through injury prevention and aids in reducing performance anxiety. Class participants will explore how, when we move in accordance with our anatomy, our performances gain a depth of expression that is communicated directly to our audiences. For more information please check out the Summerflute website at summerflute.org or email Andrée Martin at martin_andree@columbusstate.edu February 2015 Volume 18, Issue 1 Page 6 Atlanta Flute Club Membership Application / Flute Fair Pre-Registration Membership is valid through December 31, 2015 New Member Renewal (Please complete the entire form to ensure that we have your correct information.) Name: Street Address: City: State: Phone: Fax: Zip Code: I wish to subscribe to the AFC email notification service. I understand that if I do no subscribe I will receive NO notifications of AFC newsletter, events and/or services. signature Please check one of the following: To cut cost I will download my newsletter from www.atlantafluteclub.org I wish to receive my newsletter by U.S. Mail Email Address: Flute Teacher(s): School: Present Musical Status: Professional Orchestra or Ensemble Adult Amateur College Teacher College Student/Graduate School Private or Studio Teacher Freelance Musician High School Student Middle School Student Membership Dues: Please make checks payable to the ATLANTA FLUTE CLUB Full-time student $20 Adult $30 Silver Member $75-$124 (includes free admission to Flute Fair) Gold Member $125-$249 (includes free admission all AFC events) Platinum Member $250+ (includes free admission for member + 1 guest to all AFC events and an invitation to a private reception with the guest artist and AFC Board) Flute Fair: Adult $25 ( $30 after 2/15/2014) Student or Non-Flutist Guest $15 ($20 after 2/15/2014) The ATLANTA FLUTE CLUB is a non-profit organization and is recognized as such under IRS code 501(3)(c). Your contributions are tax deductible. Committees on which you would be interested in serving: (check all that apply) Volunteer Coordinator Publicity and Marketing Flute Fair Hospitality Master-class/Competition Flute Choir Pedagogy Membership Newsletter Please return this form along with your dues to: Nancy Wilson, 3535 Miller’s Pond Way, Snellville, GA 30039 February 2015 Volume 18, Issue 1 Page 7 Atlanta Flute Club CORPORATE Membership Application Membership is valid through December 31, 2015 New Member Renewal (Please complete the entire form to ensure that we have your correct information.) Corporate Name: Contact Name: Street Address: City: State: Phone: Fax: Zip Code: Email Address: Website: I wish to subscribe to the AFC email notification service. I understand that if I do no subscribe I will receive NO notifications of AFC newsletter, events and/or services. signature Please check one of the following: To cut cost I will download my newsletter from www.atlantafluteclub.org I wish to receive my newsletter by U.S. Mail Corporate Membership Dues: $75.00 ________ Corporate membership includes exhibit space at AFC Flute Fair, Flute Fair passes for exhibit personnel, listing on back page of Flute Fair Program, advertising in AFC Newsletter and listing on AFC web site. Please make checks payable to the ATLANTA FLUTE CLUB Please return this form along with your dues to: Jeanne Giager 1122 Berkeley Rd. Avondale Estates, GA. 30002 Page 8 February 2015 Volume 18, Issue 1 Atlanta Flute Club Officers & Committee Chairs President & Young Artist Comp. Coordinator Angela Allen Sherzer 408 Brewster Lane St. Simons Island, GA 31522 912-634-8143 aallen201@aol.com Vice-President Erica Bass Pirtle 1979 Mount Vernon Road Dunwoody, GA 30338 678-469-6303 erica.bass.pirtle@gmail.com Treasurer Laura Philpott 1560 Hwy 138 SW Conyers, GA 30094 404-713-3083 dwphilpott@comcast.net Secretary & Pedagogy Roundtable Lisa Mahoney 3271 Turtle Lake Drive Marietta, GA 30067 770-956-8970 lmahoneyflute@aol.com Immediate Past President & Jr Artist Coord. Tammy Evans Yonce 2409 10th Street #308 Brookings, SD 57006 678-446-6614 tyonce@alumni.indiana.edu Flute Fair Coordinator Kathy Farmer 2406 Stoney Point Road Cumming, GA 30041 770-888-7248 kathyfarmer@mindspring.com Membership & Flute Choir Extravaganza Nancy Wilson 3535 Miller’s Pond Way Snellville, GA 30039 770-972-2589 nwilson24@hotmail.com Pedagogy Roundtable Beverly Bradley 6850 Castleton Drive NW Atlanta, GA 30328 404-255-4190 Btbradley@mycidco.com Flute & Friends Coordinator Alan Horne 2154 Dry Pond Road Monroe, GA 30656 770-267-4747 alain@flutedynamics.com Newsletter & Website Coordinator Nicole Chamberlain 3825 Pin Oak Circle Doraville, GA 30340 404-797-7743 nikki@nikkinotes.com Corporate Liason Jeanne Giager 1122 Berkeley Rd. Avondale Estates, GA 30002 678-378-3608 jgiagerflute@gmail.com Founding Advisors: Anna Ayres Hobgood Frankie Cavanah Melanie Cramer Fuller Kathy Farmer Carl Hall Amy Porter Christina Smith Tony Watson Newsletter Guidelines 1. Newsletter articles must be submitted by e-mail. If possible please submit as a Microsoft Word document. If this is not possible send as a text file. Ads submitted need to be print ready digital files with a resolution of at least 150dpi. 2. Send news articles by email to Nicole Chamberlain at nikki@nikkinotes.com at least one week prior to the newsletter cutoff date. Please indicate on the subject line that this is for the “AFC Newsletter.” 3. Market Place – The AFC Newsletter offers a special advertising section for its members. This is a great way to sell or find a flute, buy music, select a teacher or even advertise your own business. This is how it works: A one-line flute related ad is free of charge. A business card size ad, whether flute related or not costs $20.00 per year to be included in three newsletter publications. For information contact Nicole Chamberlain at nikki@nikkinotes.com Newsletter Submission Deadline: May 2015 Newsletter— April 15, 2014 February 2015 Volume 18, Issue 1 Page 9 Atlanta Flute Club Policy for Email Notifications The email notification is a service for Atlanta Flute Club members to be informed of upcoming Flute Club events,member concerts/events, and performances or masterclasses featuring international/national artists. Members may submit information for publication to membership@atlantafluteclub.org . Please limit your request to basic information and perhaps a link to a website for more details. Your request may be edited as deemed necessary by the club. All flutists may publicize flute related events on our website by contacting nikki@nikkinotes.com and/or by posting on our Atlanta Flute Club Facebook page. Atlanta Flute Club Income & Expenses (August 1, 2014 through December 31, 2014) $7645.80 Beginning Balance: Income: Expenses: Dues and Fees $704.86 Total Income $704.86 New Checks $24.75 Newsletter $31.50 Website Domain 5 Year Fee Total Expenses: ENDING BALANCE: $184.95 $241.20 $8109.46 February 2015 Volume 18, Issue 1 Page 10 AFC Newsletters Online We appreciate your accepting your newsletters online if possible. Please indicate on your membership application whether you need a copy of the newsletter mailed to you by U.S. mail or if you can access it online at our website www.atlantafluteclub.org . Members who have given us their email addresses will receive a notice when each newsletter is available online. Thank you for helping us keep our operating costs to a minimum. All members can have a free ad here! Just email nikki@nikkinotes.com before April 15, 2015! Flute Technician, Missy Mahon. Trained by Eric South. Straubinger Certified. (678)662-2458. CD - Blessed Assurance - Hymns of Devotion and Praise, Kathy Farmer, fl, Susan McEwen, piano, $15. plus shipping. Contact Kathy at (770)888-7248 or www.kathysflute.com For Sale: 3 year old Miyazawa flute with sterling silver head joint; silver-plated nickel silver body, footjoint and key mechanism; off set G key; open holes with traditional French pointed tonearms; drawn tone holes; Straubinger Pads; MZ-7 heavy wall head joint. Contact Gail Hogue at gailhogue@comcast.net February 21, 2015 - Atlanta Flute Fair at Perimeter College, Clarkston Campus in the Fine Arts Building featuring flutist Jasmine Choi! May 23, 2015 - Spring Event - Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Flutist Todd Skitch will be performing and offering masterclasses in the Clifton Jones Theatre in the Sara D. Williams Fine Arts Center at Greater Atlanta Christian School. Financing available! www.jlsmithco.com F l u te s • Headjoints sales@jlsmithco.com • Re p a i rs 800.822.2157 Flutist Jasmine Choi 2015 Atlanta Flute Fair February 21, 2015 exh Georgia Perimeter College - Clarkston Campus www.atlantafluteclub.org Visit online at www.atlantafluteclub.org 3825 Pin Oak Circle Doraville, GA 30340
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