Bard College Music Program presents
Quick jump to :
Past Recital Program | Application Info | Seminar Schedule | Repertoire | Download the brochure (526kb PDF, requires Acrobat Reader)
Click either image below to see a larger version
THE FOCUS OF THE SEMINAR WILL BE THE DEVELOPMENT OF STRUCTURAL AWARENESS, and its emotional counterpart, in contemporary literature. Building from an in-depth study of background forces at work in a Bach sonata, the class will trace similar background forces in present-day repertoire, and explore ways communicating this dynamism in performance. Technical studies will include tone development, breathing, how to practice contemporary harmonies and rhythms, and extended techniques. Each participant will play twice in the seminar — one traditional and one contemporary work — as well as in the closing recital.
A maximum of 12 participants will be accepted. Participation by a diverse group of flutists, ranging from college level to active professional, is welcomed. Past participants have been college students (music majors and others), aspiring professional musicians, professional soloists and orchestral musicians, and adult amateurs. Seminar participants of varying technical ability have each gained new insights into practice techniques, musical interpretation, technical approaches and available repertoire. A “listening room” at St. Joseph’s Villa will have CDs and tapes of new flute works. St. Joseph’s is a picturesque retreat facility overlooking the Hudson River, offering room and three meals for $75 per day. The only guests at the villa, during the dates of the flute seminar, will be the participants and auditors in the seminar. The seminar will be held June 16-20 at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (100 miles north of New York City). On the evening of June 16th, Patricia Spencer will perform a recital at Bard Hall, joined by harpsichordist Frederick Hammond. On the evening of June 20, seminar participants will perform a closing recital program.
JUNE 16 –20, 2008
MONDAY, JUNE 16, 2008
8:00 p.m., Opening recital followed by get-acquainted reception
TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2008
10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., Rehearsals of seminar participants with pianist
7:00–10:00 p.m., Seminar I
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 2008
10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m., Rehearsals of seminar participants with pianist
2:00–4:30 p.m., Seminar II
7:00–10:00 p.m., Seminar III
THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 2008
10:00 a.m.– 1:00 p.m. and 2:30–5:00 p.m., Seminars IV and V
Evening: Informal ensemble readings
FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 2008
10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. and 2:00–3:30 p.m., Seminars VI and VII
Evening: Closing concert by seminar participants
Sonate Andrè Jolivet
Don Hulbert, flute; Nurit Tilles, piano
Narcissus Thea Musgrave
Rebecca Povodator, flute
Density 21.5 Edgard Varèse
Nicole Camacho, flute
Sorrow, Like Pleasure, Creates Its Own Atmosphere Gene Pritsker
Sarah Elia, flute
Sonatina Eldin Burton
Edwin Rist, flute; Hiroko Sakurazawa, piano
Aubade Libby Larsen
Nina Attar, flute
Charanga Michael Colquhoun
Jessica Willis, flute
Andante (from Sonata) Nikita Koshkin
Melissa Sweet, flute; Gregory Dinger, guitar
Voices of Nagasaki Wil Offermans
Nicole Camacho, Debra Kontogianis, Rebecca Povodator,
Melissa Sweet, flutes; Marisa Trees, Jessica Willis, alto flutes;
Patricia Spencer, bass flute; Sarah Elia, Alexander Lissé, flutes;
Joshua Tyler, glockenspiel, congas; Kristin Swanson, claves and
cabasa; Judy Sullivan, cowbell; Marcus Parris, conductor
TO APPLY, send a brief (50-100 words) statement of goals for this class, plus an audition tape or CD, or a letter of recommendation to: Melissa Sweet, Now and Present Flute Seminar, 14 Garden Court, Saugerties, NY 12477. (Ph: 845 246-6195)
Applications must be received by May 10. Fees are $375 for participants, $125 for auditors ($35 per day for auditors). Room and board are $75 per day (includes three meals) at St. Joseph’s Villa, with picturesque grounds overlooking the Hudson River. The only guests at the villa during the flute seminar will be the seminar participants and auditors.
Participants will be notified of their selection by May 20, at which time they will be asked for $50 advance payment to secure their place in the class.
TRADITIONAL REPERTOIRE
* Bach, Sonatas - B Minor, E Major and E Minor
Bach, CPE - Sonata in A Minor
Boulanger - Nocturne and D’un matin du printemps
Debussy - Syrinx
Debussy - Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Doppler - Fantasie Pastorale Hongroise
Griffes - Poem
Hindemith - Sonate
Jolivet - Chant de Linos
Messiaen - Le Merle noir
* Moyse - Tone Development through Interpretation
Mozart - Sonata in G Major, K. 301; Concertos in G
Major and D Major
Prokofiev - Sonata in D Major
Schubert - Introduction and Variations on “Trockne
Blumen”
* Telemann - Methodische Sonaten
CONTEMPORARY REPERTOIRE
Babbitt - None But the Lonely Flute
Beaser - Variations
Berio - Sequenza
Boulez - Sonatine
Carter - Scrivo in vento
Chasalow - Over the Edge (with tape)
Davidovsky - Synchronisms No. 1 (with tape)
Da Costa - Blue-Tune Verses
Dick - Afterlight, Flying Lessons
Fine - Emily’s Images
Ge Gan-ru - Hao
Heiss - Etudes
Higdon - Song, Rapid Fire
Hoag - Thoreau’s Flute
Hoover - Kokopeli, Canyon Echoes
Jaffe - Three Figures and a Ground
Karchin - Fanfare/Pavane
Korde - Tenderness of Cranes
Kreiger - Intimate Exchanges (with tape)
Lang - Thorn
Lee - Western Wind
Martirano - Phleu (with tape)
Maw - Night Thoughts
Musgrave - Narcissus, Orfeo (with digital delay/tape)
Perle - Monody I
Ran - EastWind, Voices
Shatin - Fasting Heart, Gabriel’sWing
Sollberger - Riding the Wind, Quodlibetudes
Stockhausen - Kathinkas Gesang als Luzifers Requiem
Thorne - Sonatina
Tower - Concerto, Snow Dreams
Wolpe - Piece in Two Parts
Wuorinen - Flute Variations II
* Varèse - Density 21.5
* Starred pieces will definitely be covered in the seminar.
Other appropriate repertoire, beyond the works listed, may
be requested.
PATRICIA SPENCER is flutist with the Da Capo Chamber Players. Her performance of Pierre Boulez’s Sonatine, with pianist Linda Hall, for the Look & Listen Festival, was called “sensational” in Musicweb’s “Seen and Heard”. Highlights in her wide-ranging career have included a performance of the same work for the Bard Music Festival, in August 2005; a performance of Joan Tower’s Flute Concerto, in August 2004, for the National Flute Association Convention in Nashville, which drew a standing ovation; a recital in Moscow for the Alternativa Festival, a highly acclaimed premiere of Shulamit Ran’s flute concerto, Voices. As a soloist she has toured both in the US and abroad, including solo performances at the International Computer Music Conference in Beijing, China. An exciting repertoire of pieces has been written for her, including title works of her solo CD,Thea Musgrave’s Narcissus and Judith Shatin’s Kairos (Neuma Records). An earlier CD with pianist Linda Hall, features Boulez’s Sonatine, along with works by Carter, Perle, Korde, Talma, Martirano, Kreiger, and Jaffe. Both CDs have been greeted with rave reviews from Fanfare and The American Record Guide. Ms. Spencer has received awards from The National Endowment for the Arts, the Mary Flagler Cary Trust, and the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, for her solo recordings and commissioning projects. A graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory, where she was a student of RobertWilloughby, Ms. Spencer continued her studies with Marcel Moyse, John Wummer, and Josef Marx. She teaches flute and chamber music at Bard College and Hofstra University. The Da Capo Chamber Players is resident ensemble with the Composition Program of the new Bard College Conservatory of Music.
“The performance [of Stockhausen’s KATHINKAs GESANG]
was the tour de force of technique, emotion, and spirituality
that the piece requires; it will stand as one of the highlights
of the musical season.”
—RICHARD DYER, THE BOSTON GLOBE
"A sensational reading of Boulez’s Sonatine"
—BRUCE HODGES, MUSICWEB’S SEEN AND HEARD I NTERNATIONAL
