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advanced* flute students will come together for a week to play in flute
choir and quartets, learn orchestral excerpts, sightread, and play in master
classes with some of the region's outstanding professional artists.
We will also learn about the importance of correct position, embouchure, alternate fingerings, instrument maintenance, the Baroque flute and other subjects of interest to all enthusiastic flutists! |
SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA |
Want to learn more about the flute and play in ensembles with other outstanding flutists without traveling halfway across the country? Join us at the Intensive! Directed
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* By advanced, we include students of all ages who can competently play literature at the level of difficulty of a Mozart Concerto. That would be "Grade 3" on the Flute World website. Use their "Flute Music" search feature to check the difficulty level of your current piece. |
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The Flute Fling is designed for intermediate flutists (June 22-25, 2009).
| Dates | Place | Sample Schedule | Tuition | Registration |
Auditors:
Auditors are welcome for the master classes. See below for times
and fees.
Dates:
Monday, June 15, through Friday, June 19, 2009.
Place: The
program will be held at Unity-Church Unitarian, 732 Holly Avenue, St.
Paul, MN.
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Monday through Thursday, June 15th through 18th
9:30 Warmups/Technique
9:45
Flute choir rehearsal
10:45
Break
10:55 Excerpts class
11:30
Lunch break
12:00 Quartet
rehearsals
12:50 Break
1:00 Master class with guest artists
2:30 End of day
Friday, June
19th
2:00 Special subject to be
announced
3:00 Special subject to be
announced
4:15 Break
4:30 Dress rehearsal
5:45 Dinner
Break
7:00 Concert – Family and Friends
invited!
Tuition:
$275 plus $20 for
materials
Auditors: $ 20 for one day or $90 for all week (M-Th: 1:00-2:30; Fri.: 2:00-4:15)
Polly Meyerding,
a native of Saint Paul, Minnesota, earned her Bachelor degrees in
Flute Performance and Music Education at the University of Minnesota and
the Master of Music degree and Performer's Certificate at the Eastman School
of Music in Rochester, New York. She has studied with many
outstanding flutists of our era, including Thomas Nyfenger, Julius Baker,
Bonita Boyd, Julia Bogorad-Kogan, Sidney Zeitlin and Alexa Still.
Polly has performed in the Spoleto USA Festival in South Carolina; the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy; the Schlosse Spiele Festival in Heidelberg, Germany; and has toured in France with a professional flute choir. Locally, she has played with the Minnesota Orchestra, Minnesota Opera, VocalEssence (formerly Plymouth Festival Orchestra), Bach Society, Minnesota Dance Theatre, Minnesota Composers Forum, Symphony of the Lakes, Dale Warland Singers, Evita, Schubert Club, Thursday Musical, and numerous other large and small ensembles. She and her husband, flutist Russell Dedrick, perform together as the Dedrick Flute Duo, and with cello as the Monarch Trio. The Arabesque Trio is made up of harpist Andrea Stern with Polly on flute and cello.
Currently the President of the Upper Midwest Flute Association (UMFA), Polly teaches flute and conducts the Falcon Flute Choir at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. She also maintains a teaching studio in her home and is the creator and director of the Summer Flute Intensive and Flute Fling in St. Paul. She has conducted the Junior and Senior High Honors Flute Choirs, as well as the Flute Choir Reading Session at various UMFA Flute Fests. Polly has been a member of the flute faculty at the 2006 and 2007 Lutheran Summer Music Programs in residence at Gustavus Adolphus College.