Programme Director: Trevor Wye
Events Coordinator: Julie Wright

British Flute Society 7th International Convention
19-22 August, 2010 at the Royal Northern College of Music

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For Convention Leaflet including the Provisional Programme - Clickhere

Provisional List Of Performers
(Please note that the BFS Reserves the right to change the programme details without notice)

Recitals: Adrianne Greenbaum; Aisling Agnew and Matthew McAllister (Guitar); András Adorján; Philippe Barnes; William Bennett; Jean-Louis Beaumadier piccolo; Andra Bohnet; Jan Boland and Douglas Worthen with Red Cedar Chamber Music; Rachel Brown and Małgorzata Wojciechowska baroque flutes; Katherine Bryan; Silvia Careddu; Samuel Coles; Paul Edmund-Davies; Andy Findon; Marcello Gatti - traverso; Marco Granados; Sarah Jackson piccolo; Alena Lugovkina; Stewart McIlwham piccolo; Gareth McLearnon; Lisa Nelsen and Eleanor Turner (flute/harp) ‘Aquilae’; Emmanuel Pahud; Peter Sheridan contrabass and subcontrabass flutes; Scottish Flute Trio: Laura Bailie, Janet Larsson and Ruth Morley with Joji Hirota, shakuhachi; Elizabeth Walker baroque flute.

Presentations: Rachel Brown: On starting the baroque flute; Francesca Arnone, lecture recital; Mary Lee Cochran: Overcoming Performance Anxiety; Mihoko Watanabe: Mei revisited; Henry Brandt’s Angels and Devils soloist William Bennett; Andy Findon; Svetlana Kiktevich; Julie Koidin on Latin Choro; Steve Rowley, Tabourers Society: Pipe and tabor; Douglas Worthen: lecture on Mozart; Gergely Ittzés: unusual flute sounds; Rebecca Dunnell: Mozart’s flute and harp concerto; Eimear McGeown: workshop on Irish music; Tomomi Matsuo; Mike Mower; Andra Bohnet; Patrick Williams: The legacy of Philippe Gaubert; Clare Southworth; Trevor Wye (60 Variations for 50 Flutes); Kate Hill; ''Jazz! with Gareth Lockrane & Ross Stanley; The Suzuki flute with Cristina Crespo; Alan Watson - The Biology of Musical Performance; Nicolas Duchamp (playing Gaubert's Lot flute, No. 1986) with commentary by Mdme. Yvette Poite-Gaubert and a Gaubert exhibition of memorabilia; Niall O’Riordan Flute Yoga and Late Night Relaxation; Marcello Gatti (baroque and renaissance flutes); Greg Pattillo; Soon-Mi Jung; Atarah Ben Tovim; Rachel Brown; Arthur Haswell

BFS Presentations: Ayre Flutes: Emma Price, Missy Mills, Katharine Carter, Holly Cook, Jennifer Raven, Kathy Batchelor, Anna Thomas, Marielle Way;

The Nicholson Trio: Rachel Pritchard, Amy Campbell, & Gemma Hawkins

On The Other Hand?...  Andy Findon; Gergely Ittzés; Steve Rowley: Pipe and tabor; Alexandra Grot, piccolo; Magnum Trio from Japan.

A  Look at Our Past: Andra Bohnet  Talk and Recital; Robert Bigio Rudall Carte; Carla Rees, R & Carte Alto flute solos; Steve Rowley. Tabourers Society: Pipe and tabor

Fresh faces, Fresh Music: Unji Chung; Lukasz Dlugosz; Alena Lugovkina; Zsuzsa Vámosi-Nagy; Halit Turgay; Alexandra Grot; Kayoko Minamino; Elżbieta Woleńska; and Roderick Seed.

Flute Choirs: Angeleita Floyd; Mia Dreese; Atarah Ben-Tovim, Anne Hodgson  and Julie Wright

Flute Ensembles: Quintessenz: Anna Garzuly, Ute Günther, Gudrun Hinze, Bettine Keyßer and Christian Sprenger; Concert Lumiere: Hikaru Watanabe, Maiko Sekimoto, Makiko Saji, Noriko Fukuda; Ringo Chan and Hong Kong Flute Centre Orchestra; The Magnum Trio: Kazuhiro Kaji, Yuuya Kanda, Jun-ichirou Taku,   Flautissimo

BFS Winners: Jessica Kabirat; Holly Melia, Taylor MacLennan

Pianists: Richard Shaw and Timothy Carey

Conductor: Matthew Lynch

Resident Repair Technician: Arthur Haswell

BFS AGM

Saturday 21 August 2010

at the RNCM, Manchester

The British Flute Society

Annual General Meeting 2010

Saturday 21 August 2010 at 8.30 am

The Annual General Meeting of The British Flute Society will be held during the BFS Convention at 8.30 am on Saturday 21 August 2010 in the Lecture Theatre at the Royal Northern College of Music, 124 Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9RD

 AGENDA
1.           Apologies for absence
2.           Minutes of the AGM held on 17 May 2009 to be approved
3.           Matters arising from the above minutes

4.           Election and re-election of council members
5.           Reports

6.           Future projects
7.           Announcement of new council members

8.           Questions and comments from the floor

Election and Re-election of Council Members

Council Nominations are required for the following posts:

Legal Adviser

Membership Secretary

Council Members to serve for three years

The deadline for nominations has now passed and an election for general council members will be held during the AGM. Members of the BFS who will not be able to attend the AGM may submit a postal voting form. Postal voting forms should be sent to the Secretary (address below) to arrive no later than 9 August 2010.

Please click here for information about the council election candidates

Please click here to download a postal vote form

Postal votes should be sent to arrive no later than 9 August to: Anna Munks, BFS Secretary, 27 Eskdale Gardens, Purley, Surrey  CR8 1ET.

Telephone and fax: 020 8668 3360. Email: secretary@bfs.org.uk