Fall Newsletter 2006

Dear Students and Parents,

Another summer has come and gone, and it is with great enthusiasm that I would like to welcome you all back to another fabulous year of flute music! It’s time to dust off your flute cases and start practicing, for we have an exciting year ahead to look forward to!!

NEW AND EXCITING!!

This year looks to be the busiest and most exciting yet. With recitals in December and June, and a brand new flute choir (pending enough interest!), there are plenty of exciting things happening. I also have a new teaching blog that you can check regularly for updates and information. You can find it at coachhousemusic.blogspot.com then click on the right hand side on Coach House Flute! You can also find all of my contact information there, should you need to contact me for any reason.

LESSONS AND PAYMENT

Lessons will begin the week of September 11th for all private students, and the week of September 18th for all SCS students. Fall semester lessons will end December 21st. Winter/Spring semester lessons resume January 8th and continue until June 22nd. I will send out the recital dates as soon as they become available.

All private lessons (non SCS students) are to be paid for with post-dated cheques, dated for the first of each month. Please bring cheques for September to June to your next lesson.

CANCELLATION POLICY

This year I am initiating a cancellation policy. All lesson times will be charged for. All lessons cancelled by the teacher will be made up. All lessons cancelled by the student for reasons of illness or family emergency will be rescheduled if a mutually convenient time can be arranged. Please try to inform me of a cancellation at least 24 hours before the scheduled lesson time.

Wishing you all a wonderful year ahead,
Happy Fluting!!!

Calgary Regional Summer Band Workshop

Every year I look forward to going back to Calgary to teach at the Calgary Regional Summer Band Workshop. Now that another awesome year has been completed, I can hardly wait to go and teach again next year!!

E BAND MATERIALS

Okay everyone in E BAND!! Here is, FINALLY, your updated list of various books we used, and recordings we listened to! Please feel free to e-mail me if you have any questions!

A Trevor Wye Practice Book for the Flute

We used examples from books 1, 2 and 6. If you don't own these already, I'd recommend purchasing the edition that has all of the books combined into one method book.

Marcel Moyse - Tone
-De La Sonorite
-24 Petites etudes melodiques
-Tone Development Through Interpretation

Marcel Moyse - Technique
-Etudes et Exercices Techniques pour la flute

Taffanel et Gaubert
Grands Exercices Journaliers de Mecanisme
(If you don't have this yet- you should!! If you want to save some $$ you can just get a smaller 'paper back' edition, with just the technical exercises)

James J. Pellerite
A Modern Guide to Fingerings for the Flute

Robert Dick
-The Other Flute
A Performance Manual Of Comtemporary Techniques
-Tone Development Through Extended Techniques
-Circular Breathing for the Flutist

Other books I like to use that we didn't have time for in class!!
Marcel Moyse
-Scales and Arpeggios 480 Exercises for the Flute
-Daily Exercises for the Flute

Andre Maquarre
-Daily Exercises for the Flute

Geoffrey Gilbert
- Technical Flexibility fof Flutists

Recordings!!

Listening to other flute players play is one of the most important things we can do. Listening to soloists, chamber ensembles and orchestras- the more we listen, the more we learn!!!! Listen, Listen, Listen!!!

Ian Clarke- Within...

Emmanuel Pahud- (all of his recordings are excellent)

Barthold Kuijken- Solo pour la flute traversiere (baroque flute extrordinaire!!!)

Lorna McGhee- Taheke, Krutzen/McGhee Duo

George Crumb- Voice of the Whale



Thanks to everyone of my students for another incredible year!! You are all wonderful and inspiring! I hope you all had an awesome concert. Have a great year, and see you next August!!