Friday March 16, 2007
UNCW Flute Festival: Flute Workshops
Friday, March 16, 2007 / 4pm / Cultural Arts Building Recital Hall
Registration and Flute Workshop 4pm - 6pm
Mary Jo White, director
Flute workshops are free and open to all high school flute students. Students must register on Friday, March 16 and are expected to attend all workshops on March 16 and 17, as well as the rehearsal and the final performance on Sunday, March 18.
Mary Jo White, Assistant Professor of Flute at UNCW, conducts free flute workshops for local high school students from 4-6 pm on Friday, March 16 and 1 – 5 pm on Saturday, March 17. The weekend will culminate in a collaborative Flute Ensembles Concert at 4 pm on Sunday, March 18 in the Cultural Arts Building Recital Hall. The concert will feature participating high school flutists along with faculty and students from UNCW’s Department of Music.
In addition to performing in the concert, participating students must also attend a final rehearsal from 2 – 4 pm on Sunday. For more information please contact Mary Jo White at 910.962.7727 or whitemj@uncw.edu.
MARY JO WHITE, director
Originally from North Carolina, Mary Jo White returned to this area several years ago and is now the Assistant Professor of Flute and Theory at UNC-Wilmington and principal flutist of the Wilmington Symphony. An active performer throughout the region, Dr. White also plays regularly with the UNCW Faculty Woodwind Quintet and other faculty chamber groups. In November of 2005, she presented a lecture-recital on the flute music of Albert Roussel at the national College Music Society conference in Quebec City. She was the 2006 winner of the National Flute Association Performers Competition and will play at the national convention in Pittsburgh in August, 2006.
Before coming to Wilmington, she was the Flute Instructor at Boston College and a freelance flutist in the Boston area where she performed with Hyperprism (20th Century Ensemble in Residence at Boston College), the Emmanuel Church Bach Orchestra, the French Library Chamber Players, Underground Composers, and others. Her degrees include a Bachelors in flute performance from East Carolina University, a Masters in flute performance from Michigan State University, and a doctorate in flute performance from Boston University where she studied with Doriot A. Dwyer. She performed as a soloist with the orchestras at all three schools. Her prior positions include Assistant Professor of Flute at Central Michigan University and Instructor of Flute at Truman State University. She was also the Principal Flute for the Alma and Traverse City Symphonies in Michigan, and Second Flute/Piccolo for the Lansing Symphony.
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