Announcing our AGM Day 2021

We’re excited to announced our AGM Day 2021, taking place later this month! Join us for a day packed with interesting sessions, inspiring performances and the chance to connect with other players.

When: Sunday November 28, 10am - 5pm
Where: Zoom
Price: Tickets are £7.50 for BFS members and £10 for non-members; the 12pm AGM session is free to attend.

PROGRAMME:

10am - How to Create a Great Video Performance

Led by Carla Rees, this session will share expert tips and advice for creating a video performance, particularly how to get the best sound when recording your flute. Carla will be joined by Simon Hall, who will be sharing his technical expertise as a recording engineer and educator. An invaluable session if you’re thinking about entering our Competitions in 2022!

Carla Rees is an innovative flute player, composer, arranger, improviser and teacher. She combines an international performing career as a soloist, chamber musician and recording artist with academic roles as Music Programme Leader at the Open College of Arts, Professor of Low Flutes & Contemporary Flute at the Royal Academy of Music and visiting teacher of flute at Royal Holloway University.

Simon Hall spent many years as a “classic” portfolio musician, combining work as a music producer, recording engineer, composer and bass trombone player with teaching, education and academia. He is currently Head of Music Technology, as well as Interim Vice Principal, at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, UK.

11am - Performances and Catch Up with the 2021 BFS Competition Winners

Watch specially created video performances by our 2021 Competition winners. Hosted by Lisa Nelson, find out what they’ve been up to since winning the competition and any tips they have for a prize winning performance!

12pm - AGM session

Join us free for the BFS AGM meeting 2021. Please note this session will be run via a separate Zoom link.

1pm - Lunch

2pm - Lea Pearson - Body Mapping

Rockstar Warm Ups! - Have you ever noticed how comfortable rock stars are in using their bodies, yet classical musicians tend to have a lots of physical tension? Join Lea for some fun movement activities that will get you playing like a rockstar! (don’t forget to bring your flute!)

A leader in pedagogy, Lea Pearson trains teachers to help students prevent tension and pain, and to centre the body in learning.  Author of Body Mapping for Flutists: What Every Flute Teacher Needs to Know about the Body, Lea is a DMA, Ohio State, Fulbright Scholar, and Licensed Body Mapping Educator.

3.15 pm - Rachel Wolffsohn from the OHMI Trust - Adapted Instruments

The OHMI Trust is a charity that works to remove the barriers to music-making faced by people with physical impairments. Virtually all musical instruments are unplayable to any reasonable standard without ten highly dexterous fingers. As a result, thousands of people are excluded from music-making. The OHMI Trust strives for full, undifferentiated, participation in musical life for disabled people of all ages through the creation and provision of adapted musical instruments and enabling apparatus.

In this session Rachel Wolffsohn, OHMI's General Manager, will explain more about some of the ground-breaking instruments and apparatus that OHMI has sourced and developed, particularly those that are relevant for flautists.

3.45pm - Teachers’ Tea and Chat

Following the session from the OHMI Trust, there will be chance to grab a cuppa (or drink of your choice!) and catch up with other teachers.