The Festival 2009

Since then, he has performed in numerous concerts throughout Europe, Asia, and North America, giving recitals, playing chamber music, or performing as a soloist with orchestra in prestigious concert halls, such as the Salle Pleyel and the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris, the Vigado in Budapest, the Alice Tully Hall in New York, the Taïpei Arts Center, the Palau de la Musica Catalana in Barcelona, the Hamarikiu Hall in Tokyo, the Wigmore Hall in London, the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, La Fenice in Venezia, under the direction of conductors such as Leonard Bernstein, Tibor Varga, Laurent Petitgirard, or Yoram David. He is also invited to participate in numerous festivals, among which the "Lanaudière" in Canada, the "Sion" festival, the Budapest Spring Festival, the "Midem" in Cannes, and the Berlioz Festival. Jean Ferrandis plays chamber music with outstanding artists, such as Jean-Philippe Collard, Henri Demarquette, Ivry Gitlis, Jean-Marc Luisada, Emile Naoumoff, Marielle Nordmann, Gérard Poulet, Caroline Sageman, Dominique de Williencourt.

In parallel to his engagements as a concert artist, he is professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. He regularly teaches Master Classes in Japan, the United States and Korea.In 1998, he was elected "Artist in residence" by the Lotos Club, in New York. He also leads a career as orchestra conductor, with ensembles such as the Saint Petersburg Camerata, or the Saint Christopher Chamber Orchestra of Vilnius. His recordings include pieces by Honneger and D’Indy, as well as Mozart’s Complete Flute Concertos, with Marie-Pierre Langlamet (Harp Solo from the Berliner Philarmonik). He recorded a CD of Schubert’s "Sonatinas" and "Arpeggione" with the pianist Emile Naoumoff for the label La Follia Madrigal and a CD of C.Ph.E Bach’s concertos with the Saint Christopher Chamber Orchestra of Vilnius.

In 2006, Jean Ferrandis was invited to the NFA (american flute convention) in Pittsburgh, giving there masterclass and concerts. He notably performed for a gala concert in the Heinze Hall with an audience of more than 3000 flutists.

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NZ Listener “…Attractive works and performances. Playing of deft sensitivity, full of proportion, equilibrium, expressive contouring and lyrical affection. ...” MusicWeb International. This period also marks the halfway point on the journey towards the complete recordings of the works for piano and orchestra by Beethoven's longstanding friend and student, Ferdinand Ries. Uwe conducted volume three with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and volume four with the Bournemouth Symphony in June 2008.

Grodd, a Naxos Recording Artist, won First Prize, in 2000, at the Cannes Classical Awards, for the 'Best 18th Century Orchestral Recording' with his CD of Symphonies by J B Vanhal conducting the Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia from Hungary. Further distinctions followed such as 'Editor's Choice' by British Gramophone Magazine in May 04 and February 08 for works by Hummel.
From 1998 until 2002, Uwe was Artistic Director of the INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL NEW ZEALAND and in 1998, before an audience of 250,000, he appeared as flute soloist in ‘Symphony Under the Stars’ with the Auckland Philharmonia.

An avid supporter of contemporary music of all genres, Uwe has given many first performances including, in 2002, conducting the premier season of the multi-media opera GALILEO, with music by John Rimmer and libretto by Witi Ihimaera. Uwe Grodd is Associate Professor of Flute and Conducting at the University of Auckland. His reputation as an inspiring teacher is well documented by his students' international performances and prizes.

A graduate of Mainz University, Germany, Uwe Grodd studied with teachers of international repute, including Manfred Schreier, Andre Jaunet and Werner Peschke. He attributes his major musical growth to the guidance of two of Europe's finest musicians: Robert Aitken and Maestro Sergio Celibidache.
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She is a founding member of the Naumburg Award-winning New Millennium Ensemble, a member of the virtuoso woodwind ensemble Windscape, the chamber ensemble Andalucian Dogs and is the flute soloist of the Bach Aria Group. Winner of an Avery Fisher Career Grant, she was the first wind player chosen to participate in the Chamber Music Society Two program. She performs regularly at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, the Spoleto Festial USA, Music from Angel Fire, and the Brandenburg Ensemble. She received two Grammy nominations in 2003 for her recording of Osvaldo Golijov's Yiddishbbuk. Her recent performances include collaborations with Jaime Laredo, Peter Serkin, Dawn Upshaw, David Shifrin, Ransom Wilson, the Tokyo String Quartet, and the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio. She has appeared on Live from Lincoln Center and A&E's Breakfast with the Arts. Ms. O'Conner is professor of flute and head of the wind department at Purchase College Conservatory of Music and is on faculty at Manhattan School of Music and at the Bard College Conservatory of Music.

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She has received awards from the Royal College of Music in London, English Speaking Union, Countess of Munster Trust, Aspen Music Festival and was twice a fellow of the Tanglewood Music Center and the recipient of their Chamber Music Award. A prize winner from the Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition in London, Lisa-Maree made her London Wigmore Hall debut in 2003 with Jane's Minstrels - a contemporary music ensemble she had the honor of travelling with to the USA and Scandinavia in addition to many Festivals including Harrogate, Spitalfields, Aldebrugh, Brighton amongst others.

She has also been invited to teach and perform at the Dartington International Music School with this ensemble. In addition to performing with many of the orchestras in London for over a decade, Ms Amos was a Live Music Now artist and a member of several small ensembles that performed nationwide in Festivals and Concert Series. After relocating to the USA, Lisa-Maree freelanced with a number of ensembles, and became a founding member of the Los Angeles Flute Quartet with whom she enjoyed the chamber music circuit, travelling throughout the West Coast of the USA, recording, broadcasting and commissioning new works. They were the winners of several grants and performed twice at the National Flute Association conventions, for the American Composers Forum and were a featured ensemble in Chamber Music America as well as recording their own CD, "Above and Beyond". Along with her husband, Peter Sheridan as the Married Flutes, they have recorded a CD entitled "Lovebirds", and have also commissioned many new works, and received critical acclaim for their performances and recordings from London to New York.

In April 2008 Lisa-Maree was appointed Principal Flute of Orchestra Victoria based in Melbourne, Australia, and enjoys a variety of musical activities from recording, chamber ensemble and large orchestral performances and working with the Australian Ballet and Opera Australia. In addition to her orchestral work, Ms Amos has been added to the casual staff of Melbourne University, teaches privately from her home, and holds an annual weekend course in Melbourne for training in audition technique, "Flute Audition Success". Ms Amos has recorded for NMC, BMIC, Innova records, live recordings for BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM in London, and has broadcast in over 60 stations across the USA for many classical music stations and programs. www.FluteAustralia.com

"Of note throughout the program were standout performances by principal Lisa-Maree Amos, flute." Sabine Kortals - Denver Post (Jul 19, 2005).

"Sheer golden sound - the flutist Lisa-Maree Amos was outstanding" Richard Dyer - Boston Globe - Bernard Rands "in the receding mist".

"Finely played by Lisa-Maree Amos in an altogether excellent concert" Michael White -Independent on Sunday - Aldeburgh Festival, England - Anthony Payne "1940's Childhood".

"The second half of the program brought a stunning performance of Claude Debussy's Sonate for Flute, Viola and Harp. Flutist Lisa-Maree Amos brought magic to the Boulder Theater with crystalline playing" Colorado Daily - Debussy Sonate.

"With graceful accompaniment from pianist Richard Berent, Amos and Sheridan deliver smooth performances with controlled dynamics, balanced timbres and sincere expression". - Lovebirds Blair Sanderson - Allmusic.com (Sep 13, 2005)

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As a répétiteur David has worked with, John Owen-Edwards (Gilbert and Sullivan Company), Fraser Goulding (The Opera School Wales, Swansea City Opera, Gilbert and Sullivan Company, Opus 1, Opera Box), Martin Merry (Opera Osuna, Seville), Stephen Barlow (State Opera of South Australia), Paul McCreesh (Music in the round, Sheffield), Kent Nagano (ABC Classics), Michael Lloyd (British Youth Opera), Peter Robinson (State Opera of South Australia, BYO and Raymond Gubbay Ltd – Albert Hall, Nicolas Cleobury (British Youth Opera), English Touring Opera as MD for the education project, ICE (nominated for a Royal Philharmonic Society Award), The Minotaur Music Theatre Company as MD for the New English Version of The Barber of Seville and English National Opera (Baylis and Opera Works Programme).

His recital work includes Deborah Norman (soprano), Donald Maxwell (Baritone), Daniel Parkin (Flute), Sarah Fox (soprano), Roland Wood (Baritone), Sylvia O'Brien (soprano), Joshua Ellicot (tenor), and 'The Sirens', with performances in St John's Smith Square (London), Chichester, Buxton and Wexford Festivals, National Concert Hall (Dublin), Oxford Lieder Festival, Florence (Italy), Seville (Spain) as well as accompanist to 'Voiceworks' (Adelaide) in Stuttgart, Wroclaw and Warsaw. David has recently returned from Australia where he gave broadcasts for ABC Classic FM and at the Festival and Conference of Accompanists.

David is a Britten-Pears young artist, a Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now artist and a member of the Lost Chord Project. He is also in demand to work with children of all ages and abilities across the UK giving concerts and workshops, as well as performing to sufferers of Dementia and Alzheimer's. His educational projects have been broadcast by BBC Radio Scotland and the ABC Classic FM in Australia. Hide Full Profile

His outstanding teaching ability sees him in demand at the University of Melbourne, Monash University and Presbyterian Ladies' College where he teaches the youngest of beginners through to tertiary level students. He frequently conducts masterclasses and workshops and adjudicates competitions both throughout Victoria and interstate. He is a regular guest for the Victorian Flute Guild and the South Australian Flute Society. His entrepreneurial skills initiated the highly successful Melbourne Flute School which has inspired and motivated many flautists.

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She has been President of the NSW Flute Society and a Board Member of the Australian Flute Society, for whom she produced the bi-annual national flute magazine Flute Australasia for 5 years. In 1993 Carolyn was accepted into Indiana University in the USA to further her flute studies with Peter Lloyd. She also studied baroque performance practice with Eva Legene and Stanley Ritchie in the Early Music department.

Since her return in 1995 she has held the full time positions of principal flute and piccolo with Phantom of the Opera, Beauty and the Beast, ShowBoat, Man of La Mancha, Sunset Boulevarde, South Pacific and Titanic as well as being a member of the orchestra for Australian Idol, which included recording Anthony Callea's number one Australian single 'The Prayer' in 2005. She has been a lecturer in Flute, Aural and Harmony at the Wesley Institute of Ministry and the Arts and has taught sight – singing skills at the Sydney Children's Choir. Carolyn is the owner and General Manager of a specialist percussion business called Optimum Percussion and is also a part-time postgraduate student researching baroque performance practices at the University of Newcastle. She is an examiner for the AMEB, a popular adjudicator and freelance flautist and currently performs in several chamber groups including a classical trio called Opus, and a jazz ensemble In Good Company. She has also been a member of the Proms Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House since 2000.

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Geoffrey has held a number of the country's most coveted flute positions, as Associate Principal Flute in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and for many years appeared as Principal Flute in the Australian Chamber Orchestra. He has been a concerto soloist with most of Australia's leading orchestras and in 1993 undertook his first major tour as a soloist for the ABC. In 2002 he gave the Australian premiere of the Christopher Rouse Flute Concerto with the Adelaide Symphony orchestra. He has played with many of Australia's leading contemporary music groups such as AZ Music, ACME, the Seymour Group, Flederman and the Sydney Alpha Ensemble. During 1995 he toured Europe as Guest Principal Flute with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra as well as releasing his third solo compact disc, Spinning, featuring contemporary Australian works, many of them commissioned especially for him. Other recordings include the complete Mozart flute quartets with the Australia Ensemble (awarded 'recommended recording' by the British 'Good CD Guide') and a duo recital with leading Australian harpist Alice Giles, 'Enchanted Dreams... Exotic Dances'. During 2005-6 Geoffrey was a guest artist at the Australian National Academy of Music in Melbourne.

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While in America Bridget won several competitions including the New York Flute Club Young Artists Competition and the Artists International Award, resulting in debut recitals at New York’s CAMI and Carnegie Halls in 1995 and 1997 respectively. She was placed 3rd in the Tilden Prize, a flute competition judged by the late Jean Pierre Rampal. In 1998 she was a semifinalist in the International Flute Competition at Markneukirchen in Germany.

Bridget performs regularly with leading NZ musicians in solo and chamber music concerts throughout the country. She plays with harpist Carolyn Mills in the duo Flight. She has released two CD’s with pianist Rachel Thomson: Syrinx; French music for flute and piano which was released in 2003 and Taurangi; a double CD of NZ flute and piano music which was released in 2006. Both CD’s have received widespread critical acclaim. Bridget is actively involved in the performance of new music and is a co-founder of the contemporary ensemble, STROMA.

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In 1998, Lisa travelled to the United Kingdom to participate in International Flute Courses with William Bennett and Michael Cox and again studied with Michael when he visited Adelaide in 2001. She also toured the South Pacific in 1999 with the Australian Youth Orchestra.

Lisa has been a prizewinner in Adelaide Eisteddfods from 1993–1996 and has also won the David Cubbin Prize (1997), Allans Prize and ZONTA Award (1997). Lisa has been awarded distinctions for both AmusA and LmusA diplomas of the Australian Music Examinations Board.

Prior to her appointment with the ASO, Lisa performed extensively with the orchestra as a casual member from 1997 onwards. She has performed with the Adelaide Chamber Orchestra, the Adelaide Philharmonia Orchestra, the STATE OPERA of South Australia, the Adelaide Art Orchestra, Co-Opera and the Adelaide Youth Orchestra – for which she was also a soloist.

Lisa has also spent much of her professional life as a flute teacher (both privately, as she does currently, and in several Adelaide schools). She has also been a flute tutor for the Adelaide Youth Orchestra, State Music Camp and the Elder School of Music. Lisa has also been an active member of the Flute Society of South Australia for the last ten years.

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Leigh has performed extensively throughout Europe, North America and Australia as both soloist and chamber musician, including concerts at Australia House in London, the Royal Academy of Music, the Mozarteum in Salzburg and concerto engagements with many Australian orchestras. In 2007 he undertook an extensive tour of the United States and Canada where he gave lectures on and performed the solo piano music of Robert Muczynski. Most recently he performed before a crowd of 25 000 as soloist with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra at the 2008 'Symphony under the Stars'.

His international reputation as an associate artist has led to collaborations with such luminaries as Thomas Reibl, lecturer in viola at the Salzburg Mozarteum; Michael Cox, principal flautist with the BBC Symphony Orchestra; Daniel Gaede, ex-concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; London flautist Wissam Boustany; New York violinist Charles Castleman; Swedish cellist Mats Lidstrom; and British pianist Mark Gasser, to name just a few. Other significant international collaborations have included performance and studies with Andrew Ball at the London Royal College of Music; Sophie Cherrier at the Paris Conservatoire; New York-based pianist Lisa Moore and English composer Peter Maxwell Davies. In June 2002, Leigh traveled to the Orkney Islands to perform a concert of Maxwell Davies' works in the presence of the composer.

Locally, Leigh maintains a fruitful relationship with the composers' collective 'The Firm' and has had several works written for him as a result. In 2006 he was their performer in residence, performing a highly acclaimed and demanding cycle of six concerts, causing The Adelaide Review to remark "…few have as magical touch as Harrold. Every phrase glowed with a radiant intensity that has become his hallmark". He is a founding member of The Kegelstatt Ensemble – a flexible, ever-changing chamber group dedicated to performing masterworks for non-standard groups of instruments which was awarded a 2006 'Oscart' for Best New Local Group. He is also a recording artist for ABC Classics.

In between studying for a Ph.D. in piano performance and working at the Australian National Academy of Music in Melbourne, Leigh finds time to go on long walks, read voraciously, write musical articles and programme notes, and drink lots of (decaf) coffee.

He holds two University medals - one for Music and one for Applied Science.

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In 1992 Elizabeth attended International Flute Conventions in London and Paris, inspiring her to direct her own summer schools in Adelaide and Darwin. Elizabeth has been on the staff of many National Music Camps for Youth Music Australia and she will direct her ninth State Music Camp in Adelaide in July 2007.

In 1999 and 2005, Elizabeth took several of her tertiary flute students to participate in masterclasses in London, Paris and Basel. The master teachers were William Bennett, Kirsten Spratt, Michael Cox, Susan Milan, Sophie Cherrier, Philippe Bernold, Felix Renggli and Paul Edmund-Davies. Elizabeth has written about the 2005 experiences and masterclasses in the current Flute Talk issues 2006/2007.

Elizabeth was recently appointed Associate Professor. She continues her passion for teaching, with many of her former students playing and teaching professionally both nationally and internationally. In June 2006, Elizabeth was awarded an OAM for her services to flute music and for the mentoring of young musicians.

In 1992 Elizabeth attended International Flute Conventions in London and Paris, inspiring her to direct her own summer schools in Adelaide and Darwin. Elizabeth has been on the staff of many National Music Camps for Youth Music Australia and she will direct her ninth State Music Camp in Adelaide in July 2007.

In 1999 and 2005, Elizabeth took several of her tertiary flute students to participate in masterclasses in London, Paris and Basel. The master teachers were William Bennett, Kirsten Spratt, Michael Cox, Susan Milan, Sophie Cherrier, Philippe Bernold, Felix Renggli and Paul Edmund-Davies. Elizabeth has written about the 2005 experiences and masterclasses in the current Flute Talk issues 2006/2007.

Elizabeth was recently appointed Associate Professor. She continues her passion for teaching, with many of her former students playing and teaching professionally both nationally and internationally. In June 2006, Elizabeth was awarded an OAM for her services to flute music and for the mentoring of young musicians.

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She has also performed with the Munich Symphony, North West German Philharmonic, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, Melbourne Philharmonic Orchestra and the Australian Entertainment Orchestra. She has played in pit orchestras for the Royal Ballet, English National Ballet, Australian Ballet, Queensland Ballet, Simon Gallagher and co, Budapest based 'Operettvilag', the Broadway Touring Company/Stuttgart, Opera Queensland and Opera Australia, among others.

Karen performed as a Concerto Soloist with the Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sunshine Coast Sinfonia and the Balmain Sinfonia.. She has also performed in the Queensland Orchestra Players Chamber Music Concert Series and has been a guest artist with the Southern Cross Soloists, Armenian String Virtuosi and Topology. She performed as a guest artist at the Darwin International Guitar Festival in 1999. She is Solo Flute and Vocalist with the cabaret ensemble of the Queensland Orchestra, X-Collective.

Karen has a great love of pop, rock, jazz and other modern styles, and has played in back-up orchestras and ensembles, with well known performers from these genres, such as Il Divo, The Ten Tenors, Tommy Emmanuel, Grace Knight, Julie Anthony, Tommy Tycho, Simon Gallaher, Jon English, Marina Prior, Rhonda Birchmore, Donny Ray Evins, Jackie Love, Don Lane, Katie Noonan, Tyrone Noonan, Todd McKenney, Kate Miller-Heidke, Donald Cant, Tony Barber, Andy Firth, William Barton, Sirens of Song and Kerin Bailey.

She is an Examiner for the Australian Music Examinations Board in Queensland and Lecturer in Flute at the University of Southern Queensland. She has presented flute workshops throughout Queensland, as well as in New South Wales and the Northern Territory for the Australian Youth Orchestra, Sydney Flute Festival, NSW Flute Society, Education Queensland (Musically Outstanding Students programme), Queensland Flute Guild, 12th Australian Flute Convention in Coffs Harbour, Darwin Youth Music Camp, Grafton Artsfest, University of New South Wales Music Department, Central Queensland University, the McGregor Summer School/University of Southern Queensland and the Queensland Summer Flute Festival.

Karen is in demand as an Adjudicator and has worked in this role at the Toowoomba Eisteddfod, Gold Coast Eisteddfod, Queensland Flute Challenge, James Carson Competition, New South Wales Flute Society Eisteddfod, the Sunshine Coast Eisteddfod, Redlands Eisteddfod, University of Queensland Music Students' Society Wind Performance Prize, the Allans 'Jazzin' Up the Mall' competition and the Australian National Band Championships.

Karen is a Doctor of Musical Arts candidate at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, researching the topic of Injury Prevention and Management for Flutists. In 2008, she presented on her DMA topic at the 36th Annual National Flute Association Convention in Kansas City, USA and at the 2nd Australian Society for Performing Arts Healthcare Conference in Melbourne.

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As Guest Principal, she has performed with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Norddeutscherundfunk Radio Philharmonie Hannover, the Kammerakademie Potsdam, the Australian Opera and Ballet, Adelaide Symphony and Queensland Orchestras; and has played with Early Music ensembles such as: Das Neue Orchester Koln, the Leipzig Chamber Orchestra, Neues Bachisches Collegium Leipzig and the Heidelberger Symphoniker, working with conductors such as Christopher Hogwood, Phillipe Herriweghe and Christoph Spering.

Sally has performed as soloist on modern flute, baroque flute and piccolo with orchestras including the Klassische Philharmonie Bonn, the Dortmund Philharmonic Orchestra, Neues Rheinisches Kammerorchester and the L'Accademia Filarmonica Verona. She was finalist in the Leonardo de Lorenzo International Flute Competition in Italy, won 2nd Prize in the Friedrich Kuhlau International Flute Competition in Germany and was the recipient of the Ian Potter Foundation Cultural Award, the German Government Scholarship and the Queen's Trust Prize.

She gained her Bachelor of Music Degree as a student of Geoffrey Collins at the University of Sydney and completed her Postgraduate Study in Germany, studying with Prof. Andrea at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover and Prof. András Adorjan at the Hochschule für Music und Theater München; gaining both her Artist’s and Soloists’s Diplomas with excellence. She began her position of Lecturer of Flute at the Newcastle Conservatorium of Music in 2007 and has been a Guest Lecturer for the Royal Irish Academy of Music Dublin, the Australian National Academy of Music and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Her great love of chamber music has led to performances with guitarist Anthony Field,pianists Clemens Leske and Gabriella Pusner, early music ensembles and eclectic combinations involving dancers and visual artists.

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