EVENTS
Too often, African-American compositions and players are underrepresented in classical music. The APO’s first concert of 2023 breaks new musical boundaries with the performance of Movements for Flute and Orchestra. Featuring flutist, Brian Dunbar and composer Carlos Simon.
The NMSO welcomes flutist Brian Dunbar as he performs the new work Movements for Flute and Orchestra written for him by composer Carlos Simon, the Sphinx Medal of Excellence recipient in 2021, and the current Composer-in-Residence for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. This concerto is significant in expanding the repertoire for solo flute and orchestra, and also because it is a work commissioned by a Black flutist and written by a Black composer. The concerto explores the movements of life through four separate sections. The orchestra performs Joseph Schwantner’s emotional and moving New Morning for the World: “Daybreak of Freedom” featuring excerpts from the speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. Brian Dunbar will join the Crane Wind Ensemble in Hosmer Hall at SUNY Potsdam to perform Joel Puckett’s “The Shadow of Sirius” for Flute and Wind Ensemble.
Rhapsody in Blue has captivated listeners since its premiere nearly a century ago. Audiences still love it for its freshness and fusion of styles. Copland’s Lincoln Portrait accompanies some of Lincoln’s best-known speeches, including the Gettysburg Address. The premiere of Francine Trester’s A Walk in her Shoes conjures the memory of key women in our city’s history.
Boston Landmarks Orchestra | Christopher Wilkins, conductor
Brianna Robinson, soprano
Carrie Cheron, mezzo-soprano
David Coleman, piano
George Chadwick Jubilee from Symphonic Sketches
William Grant Still Symphony No. 2 ‘Song of a New Race’
George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
Priscilla Alden Beach City Trees
Francine Trester A Walk in Her Shoes*
Aaron Copland Lincoln Portrait
*World premiere
The Landmarks Orchestra forms a concert band for the first time. Beginning with English masterpieces, the music moves across the pond to the States. In addition to well-loved Sousa marches, American influences range from jazz to “Amazing Grace.” Composer Omar Thomas’ Come Sunday marks the central role of the Hammond organ in the Black church.
Boston Landmarks Orchestra | Christopher Wilkins, conductor
Gustav Holst Second Suite for Military Band
Steven Stucky Funeral Music for Queen Mary (after Henry Purcell)
Omar Thomas Come Sunday
Ralph Vaughan Williams Folk Song Suite
William Grant Still Animato: Humor from Afro-American Symphony
Frank Ticheli Amazing Grace
John Philip Sousa The Free Lance
Sousa Semper Fidelis
We’re pleased to invite you to the 2021 NFA Convention: Variations on a Dream. This year’s convention will highlight the variations we take as flutists in carving out our own creative and career paths in today’s musical landscape.
The 2021 Virtual Convention is the full 2020 convention planned for Dallas, TX, dropped onto an online platform. All your favorite NFA convention features will be included: the opening orchestra, reading sessions, performances, panels, workshops, lectures, late-night cabaret, opportunities to network, access to exhibitors showcasing the best instruments and supplies in our field, and more. We've also built in some of the elements from last year's popular Summer Series, such as a series of affinity spaces and morning warm-ups to start things off each day.
Partners from Boston’s dance community explore connections between music, movement, and wellbeing. Ellington’s “river ballet” portrays a human life, flowing from its source to the ocean beyond. Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances rock and sway with unbounded vitality, in the composer’s final orchestral work.
Boston Landmarks Orchestra | Christopher Wilkins, conductor
Peter DiMuro/Public Displays of Motion
Jean Appolon Expressions
Urbanity Dance
Boston String Academy
Bedřich Smetana Dance of the Comedians from Bartered Bride
Camille Saint-Saëns The Swan from Carnival of the Animals
Sergei Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances
Samuel Taylor-Coleridge Danse nègre
Edward “Duke” Ellington The River
Arturo Márquez Danzón No. 2
Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony begins with the most famous notes in history. The symphony moves from despair to joy as if tracing a “hero’s journey.” In America, the journey of Black artists has shaped our national sound. American music grew from the spirituals, blues, R&B, and the dance tunes George Gershwin heard in Harlem.
Boston Landmarks Orchestra | Christopher Wilkins, conductor
Sirgourney Cook, soprano
Adrian Anantawan, violin
George Gershwin Strike Up the Band Overture
Florence Price Concert Overture No. 2
William Grant Still Spirituals: A Medley
Nkeiru Okoye I Am Harriet Tubman, Free Woman
James P. Johnson Drums
Jules Massenet Thaïs: Méditation
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67
Join us for the 2021 Umoja Flute Institute. This innovative series of workshops, performance, educational and professional development opportunities takes place virtually from July 19th-30th. Find out more at https://www.ufinstitute.com/
Announcing the Chicago Flute Club 2020-2021 "Fluting with the Stars" Virtual Series! In response to the global pandemic, we have put together a cast of Flute Stars who will amaze and inspire you monthly with live virtual masterclasses, workshops, and conversations via Zoom.
Some of the finest flutists, pedagogues, and artists from around the globe will help connect and motivate you as flutists and musicians.
The "Stars" include: Paul Edmund-Davies, Anders Ljungar-Chapelon, Ransom Wilson, Jennie Oh Brown, Jennifer Grim, Marina Piccinini, Keith Underwood, Raimundo Pineda, Brian Dunbar, Paula Robison, Nicola Mazzanti, and Michel Bellavance. Truly extraordinary!
For more information on this workshop and how to register to receive the Zoom ID and password please visit www.chicagofluteclub.org
Let’s Talk: Join Black flutists for a live conversation concerning systemic racism, allyship, and the flute community. (Meghan Bennett, James Miller, Brian Dunbar, Akilah Kidd)
Celebration Series: an evening concert series
Meghan Bennett, Shantanique Moore, Sarah Howard-Carter, Adam Eccleston
Flute Around the World (Daniel Pardo Performance)
Terry Andrews, Ceylon Mitchell
James Miller, Julietta Curenton, Kim Scott
DeShaun Gordon King, Tyler Martin, Shania Rush
North Texas Flute Professor Concert (Shauna Thompson, Julee Kim Walker, Terri Sanchez, Amy Thiemann Leal, Charlotte Daniel, Carolyn Keyes)
Brice Smith, Brittney Trotter, Coreisa Lee, Akilah Kidd
Brian Dunbar, Adam Sadberry, Eric Lamb
Lisa Garner Santa, Rachel Woolf, Judy Dines, Aralee Dorough, Leon Buyse
Dr. Brian Dunbar will perform a solo recital at the International Low Flutes Festival in Urayasu, Japan as the 2018 Alto Flute Competition, First Prize Winner.
A joyous Christmas tale about one young boy’s transformation when visited by the three magi on their way to see the baby Jesus. Join the cast after the performance for cookies, cider, and a traditional sing along of carols.
Recital to include works by Jake Heggie, Pierre Sancan, Cesar Franck, Coleridge Taylor Perkinson, and Adolphus Hailstork in collaboration with Keilor Kastella, piano.
An outlandish telling of the classic fairy tale where Prince Charming is TRANSFORMED, a Fairy Godfather saves the day and the golden rule is King! This incredible cultural experience is FREE for kids.
Featured Guest Artists: Sophie Doche, Kyle Melton, Keturah Heard, Bella Mallow, Zachary Frank, Stephen Hobe, and Jonathan Harris.
The Rapides Symphony Orchestra’s annual Pops Concert, featuring singers from the Shreveport Opera.
Transforming Artistry - Salt Lake City, Utah
Join the Cultural Outreach Committee for a series of performances, panel discussions, and Youth Flute Day! This year, the COC will be premiering Inipi Alowan “Sweat Lodge Song” for flute choir by William Linthicum-Blackhorse.
Dr. Brian Dunbar, flute - guest artist
The New Music on the Bayou Summer Festival is a chance for contemporary composers to work with profession performers during the rehearsal process and to have their new works performed by professional ensembles and musicians in an intense four day festival. The festival features concerts at traditional and non-traditional venues.
Louisiana Tech University | Ruston, LA | University of Louisiana at Monroe | Monroe, LA
Uptown Campus
Dixon Performing Arts Annex
Recital Hall, Room 152
At a woodcutter's house on the edge of the forest, Hansel and Gretel play while their parents are out. Their mother returns and accidentally knocks over the milk jug that contains the last sustenance in the house. Furious, she sends both children out into the forest to look for strawberries. Their father comes home to find them missing, and warns his wife about the dangers of the witch in the forest. They set out in search of them. Meanwhile Hansel and Gretel have become lost, and go to sleep guarded by angels. In the morning they wake up to discover a house made of gingerbread in the vicinity. They soon come across the owner – the witch – who proceeds to turn Gretel into a servant and starts fattening Hansel for the oven. Just before she can place him there, the children turn the tables and shove her in instead. They free the other child-victims (who have become gingerbread-children) in time for their parents to arrive and lead them in a hymn of thanksgiving.
Tickets are Required
Tickets will go on sale in Spring 2019.
For more information on this event, please visit https://liberalarts.tulane.edu/departments/music
Uptown Campus
Dixon Performing Arts Annex
Recital Hall, Room 152
At a woodcutter's house on the edge of the forest, Hansel and Gretel play while their parents are out. Their mother returns and accidentally knocks over the milk jug that contains the last sustenance in the house. Furious, she sends both children out into the forest to look for strawberries. Their father comes home to find them missing, and warns his wife about the dangers of the witch in the forest. They set out in search of them. Meanwhile Hansel and Gretel have become lost, and go to sleep guarded by angels. In the morning they wake up to discover a house made of gingerbread in the vicinity. They soon come across the owner – the witch – who proceeds to turn Gretel into a servant and starts fattening Hansel for the oven. Just before she can place him there, the children turn the tables and shove her in instead. They free the other child-victims (who have become gingerbread-children) in time for their parents to arrive and lead them in a hymn of thanksgiving.
Tickets are Required
Tickets will go on sale in Spring 2019.
For more information on this event, please visit https://liberalarts.tulane.edu/departments/music
Dr. Brian Dunbar will be hosted by the faculty at LA Tech to present masterclasses, open forum discussions, and performances for the flute students of Dr. Shayla Blake at Louisiana Tech University, in Ruston, LA.
Pierrot Lunaire, Arnold Schoenberg’s avant-garde masterpiece from 1912, is a surrealistic fantasy performed by the characters of the Italian commedia dell’arte.
Choreography: Rebecca Allen
Music: Arnold Schoenberg
Soprano: Phyllis Treigle and New Resonance Chamber Orchestra
Diversity Your Repertoire: Works for Auxiliary Flutes
Dr. Brian Dunbar and pianist, Keilor Kastella, will be presenting recital of works written for auxiliary flutes with and without accompaniment.
The communication platform IMPAR – Initiatives, Meetings and Publications on Artistic Research – was created to publicize activities and disseminate publications relating to Artistic Research. This platform aims to establish international relations with other agents worldwide, through a range of activities. The conference will take place in collaboration with the University of Aveiro, Institute of Ethnomusicology and Centre for Studies in Music and Dance.
Join the Low Flutes community for the 2018 International Low Flutes Festival in Washington D.C.. Featuring guest artists, presenters and an Alto Flute Competition. Brian has been selected as one of six finalists in the Alto Flute Competition.
The Acadiana Symphony Orchestra performs selections by G.F. Handel, P. Tchaikovsky, I. Berlin, L. Andersen and others.
Guest Artists: Roddie Romero & Hub City All Stars, Choral Acadienne
The LPO celebrates the season with special help from New Orleans’ own band of "Ordinary Men with Extraordinary Moves" – the 610 Stompers – and special guest local artists.
Conductor: Constantine Kitsopoulos
The LPO celebrates the season with special help from New Orleans’ own band of "Ordinary Men with Extraordinary Moves" – the 610 Stompers – and special guest local artists.
Conductor: Constantine Kitsopoulos
The Acadiana Symphony Orchestra performs selections by G.F. Handel, P. Tchaikovsky, I. Berlin, L. Andersen and others.
Dr. Brian Dunbar will present a masterclass for the flute students of Dr. Andrea Loewy at the University of Louisiana Lafayette.
The City of New Orleans' annual Book Festival is bigger than ever this year, as the city kicks off it's celebrations for the Tricentennial! Join us for a concert full of family favorites, including something new! The city has commissioned our very own David Anderson to compose music to accompany What the Sleepy Animals Do at Audubon Zoo, a children's book written by local authors Ryan and Grace Murphy.
Fireworks will follow the performance! Free and open to the public.
