Saturday, January 19, 2008 from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm
Bliss Hall, Youngstown State University

Christina Jennings, Flute
Special Guest Artist

The Flute Festival registration begins at 8:30 am.  The day will include a full recital, two-hour masterclass, and lecture with Ms. Jennings.  A junior-high masterclass will be offered as well as the popular flute ensemble reading sessions.  The lunchtime concert will feature local ensembles and there will be a flute choir concert featuring the Dana Flute Ensemble and other area flute choirs. Exhibitors from around the country (Volkwein’s, Flute Specialists, J. L. Smith, Motter’s Music and more) will have booths offering flutes, music, and flute-related items for sale throughout the day.  Whether you are a flutist of any age or perhaps just a flute-enthusiast, the 15th Dana Flute Festival promises a fun day not to be missed!

For more information, contact Dr. Kathryn Thomas Umble at the Dana School of Music: 330-941-1831 or email kaumble@ysu.edu.  Please see schedule and registration form below.  Parking will be available in the Wick parking deck (M-1) directly south of Bliss Hall.  Please ask at the gate for a guest parking pass for the Flute Festival.  The Dana Flute Festival is sponsored by Volkwein’s, the Friends of Music, the Dana School of Music, and Youngtown State University’s College of Fine and Performing Arts.

Schedule of Events

• 8:30 am – 9:00 am    Registration
• 8:30 – 4:00 pm    Exhibits open
• 9:00- 9:30 am Techniques and Show Tunes Reading Session in Recital Hall
• 9:00 – 9:45 am Intermediate to Adv. Flute Ensemble Reading Session in Bandroom
• 10:00 – 11:00 am Flute Ensemble Concert in Recital Hall
• 11:15 – 12:00 pm Special Warm-up Class for Everyone with Christina Jennings in Recital Hall
• 12:15 – 12:45 pm   Lunchtime Flute Choir Concert in Bandroo
• 1:00 – 2:50 pm   Guest Artist Recital: Christina Jennings, flute and Robert Satterlee, piano – Recital in Recital Hall
• 2:00 – 4:00   Christina Jennings Masterclass in Recital Hall
• 2:15 – 2:45 pm Junior High Masterclass with Pamela Murchison in Bandroom
• 2:50 – 3:30 pm  Beginners Flute Ensemble Reading Session in Bandroom

About the Artists

Flutist Christina Jennings is praised for virtuoso technique, rich tone, and command of a wide range of literature featuring works from Bach to Zwilich. The Houston Press declared: “Jennings has got what it takes: a distinctive voice, charisma, and a pyrotechnic style that works magic on the ears.” The first flutist in fifteen years to win the Concert Artists Guild International Competition, other honors include First Prize at the Houston Symphony Ima Hogg Competition and the William C. Byrd Competition. In 2007 Musical America listed her as “an artist to watch.”  Highlights of the 2007-2008 season include performances with the Takács String Quartet, a performance of the Christopher Rouse Flute Concerto with the Spokane Symphony, a collaboration with Juthro Tull, and Philadelphia performances of Pierre Boulez’s Le marteau sans maître. Active as a concerto soloist, Ms Jennings has appeared with the Utah and Houston Symphonies, Orchestra 2001, Park Avenue Chamber Orchestra, Flint Symphony, Orchestra de Camera (Mexico), and Pro Musica (UK). Recent chamber music festivals include Strings in the Mountains (CO), Cascade Head (OR), OK Mozart (OK), Chamber Music Quad Cities (IA), and the Bowdoin International Festival (ME). As broad-gauged in her musical pursuits as she is in her repertoire choices, Ms. Jennings is Principal Flute with the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra (Houston), collaborates with pianist Lura Johnson, and enjoys mixing disciplines through projects with David Parsons Dance Companies and members of Pilobolus. In addition, she is the founder of Oklahoma City’s Brightmusic Series. Chamber music partners have included So Percussion, the Brentano and Avalon Quartets, soprano Lucy Shelton, and cellist Colin Carr. Christina Jennings can be heard in works by Alec Wilder alongside jazz great Marian McPartland in a shared CD for Albany Records. Also on Albany Records is a disc featuring Ms. Jennings as soloist in Shulamit Ran’s flute concerto Voices with the Bowling Green Philharmonia. Of the recently released Jennings-Johnson Duo CD, the American Record Guild declared: “Jennings is an extraordinary musician, with facile technique, a soaring tone, and a natural sense of phrasing that is often absent from flute playing.”In great demand as a teacher, Ms. Jennings is Assistant Professor of Flute at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and on the summer faculty of the Texas Music Festival. Trained in the Dalcroze Eurhythmics method, Christina’s teaching incorporated movement and dance. In recent seasons she has presented master classes at The Juilliard School, Rice University, University of Wisconsin Madison, the Peabody Institute, the Longy School of Music, and the flute associations of Seattle, Utah, and Texas. She received her Bachelor and Master’s degrees at The Juilliard School, and her principal teachers include Carol Wincenc, Leone Buyse, George Pope, and Jeanne Baxtresser. This coming May she will host "The Panoramic Flutist Seminar" with Leone Buyse in Boulder.

Pianist Robert Satterlee has a reputation as an accomplished and versatile solo recitalist and chamber musician.  Recent engagements include appearances on the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts in Chicago, San Francisco's Old First Concert Series, the Music Teachers National Association national conventions and the Quad Cities Mozart Festival.  He has performed in Sweden, Holland and Kenya, and has been heard in radio broadcasts nationwide, most notably on Minnesota Public Radio.  His new music activity includes a premier of a solo work by Frederic Rzewski, and his avid interest in chamber music has led him to collaborate with members of the Chicago, London, Philadelphia and Detroit Symphony Orchestras in chamber music performances. Satterlee teaches at the Interlochen Arts Camp in the summer. He holds degrees in piano from Yale University, Peabody Conservatory, and the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music.

Kathryn Thomas Umble is assistant professor of flute at Youngstown State University and has served on the faculties of Bowling Green State University and Grove City College. Dr. Umble holds degrees from the University of Michigan, Bowling Green State University, and Michigan State University and was awarded the Prix d'excellence for Outstanding Musicianship from the Fontainebleau School of Music, France, which she attended on full scholarship.

Umble is principal flute with the Warren Philharmonic Orchestra and piccolo with the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra and has performed principal flute with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra and the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra. She has presented recitals in Europe and throughout the United States, including venues such as Alice Tully Hall and Symphony Space, New York. Umble performed for the Milhaud Society at the Cleveland Institute of Music with members of the Cleveland Orchestra, the Bowling Green State University Concert Series, and on recital series at the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art. She performed in recital at the 2006 National Flute Association Convention in Pittsburgh. Dr. Umble has also served as a National Flute Association competition judge and flute pedagogy panel member. She conducted the Dana Flute Ensemble in a full concert performance at the 2005 OMEA Conference and the 2006 National Flute Association Convention.