2024 Flute Day

Hosted by: Dr. John Bailey

Saturday, March 23, 2024 · WESTBROOK RECITAL HALL
Deadline: March 18, 2024

Register for Flute Day

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About Flute Day

Flute Day is here again! High school flutists and guest collegiate flutists will perform in morning masterclasses with Dr. John Bailey, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Larson Professor of Music (flute). Requests to play in the masterclasses will be honored as received, with preference given to 11th- and 12th-graders and visiting college flutists. Younger flutists will be selected as space permits. Those selected to play in the masterclasses will be contacted. Everyone else is an auditor, and auditors learn as much or more than selected masterclass performers! There will be a flute choir reading session for all participants (bring your flutes!) and a showcase recital featuring UNL flutists performing flute and piano and flute solo works, followed by a masterclass with our guest artist working with UNL flutists and a chamber music recital featuring the Nebraska Flute Ensembles. Our guest artist, Dr. Joanna Cowan White, performs a 7:30 PM recital.

Special Guest Artist : Dr. Joanna Cowan White

Dr. Joanna Cowan White, originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, has been Professor of Flute at Central Michigan University since 1987. She is principal flutist of the Saginaw Bay and Midland Symphony Orchestras and has recorded with the Powers Woodwind Quintet and Crescent Duo on the Centaur Records, White Pine Music, and Blue Griffin labels. Having served as secretary on the board of the National Flute Association, she has also been on its Performance Health Committee and serves as a reviewer for Flutist Quarterly, for which she has written articles on topics such as borrowed melodies, musician’s focal dystonia, and a profile of Walfrid Kujala. With performance degrees from the University of Southern California, Northwestern University, and the University of Michigan; her many teachers included Janet Woodhams, Patricia Garside, Roger Stevens, Walfrid Kujala, Judith Bentley, and Leone Buyse. Also a poet, White has works in literary and medical humanities journals and a forthcoming poetry collection. At festivals and conferences, she is a frequent flute performer, speaker, and reader of her poetry.

Joanna Cowan White

Schedule:
All events in Westbrook Recital Hall on the UNL campus after Registration:
8:30-9:00 AM Registration
9:00-11:15 AM High School Masterclass with Dr. Bailey
11:30 AM Festival Flute Choir reading session (bring your flutes!)
12:15 PM LUNCH (on your own)
1:45-2:30 PM Mini-clinic and UNL Showcase Recital
2:45-4:45 PM Masterclass with UNL flutists and Dr. White
5:00-6:00 PM Flute Ensembles Concert (including Festival Flute Choir!)
6:00 PM DINNER (on your own)
7:30 PM Joanna Cowan White, guest artist performance

 

For more information, please contact John Bailey at jbailey1@unl.edu