Twelve 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!

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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 by 
Polly Meyerding

* 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.

June 15 - 19, 2009

Our eighth summer!


Previous summers' guest artists include:  Adam Kuenzel , Wendy Williams,  & Roma Duncan Kansara (MN Orch.),   Julia Bogorad-Kogan & Alicia McQuerrey (SPCO), Immanuel Davis (Univ. of MN), Michele Frisch (MN Opera),   Linda Chatterton (recitalist & chamber musician),  Janis Weller (McNally-Smith College), and Russell Dedrick      (Monarch Trio).

The Flute Fling is designed for intermediate flutists (June 22-25, 2009).  
Dates Place Sample Schedule Tuition Registration
 

The Summer Flute Intensive is designed for advanced flute students of all ages .

          Auditors:  $ 20 for one day or $90 for all week (M-Th: 1:00-2:30; Fri.: 2:00-4:15)

Contact Polly to register:

651-776-1780
Polly Meyerding, Linda Chatterton, Tim Lane, flute choir camp, flute choir, summer flute camp, summer flute, Flute Fling, summer music camp, music camp, flute concertPolly 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.

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