Flute
As well as composing and teaching I also play the flute. Mostly I specialize in contemporary music, especially music since 1945, but I also play other genres. I continue to freelance as a performer and improvisor. I have a Masters degree in flute performance from SUNY Buffalo where I studied with the late Cheryl Gobbetti Hoffman. Recent performances have included more improvisatory settings with performers such as Mark Adam and Daniel Heikalo, as well as in Halifax and on various concerts at Acadia University. I continue to freelance where and when time permits. During my masters degree I performed in master classes with Robert Dick, Peter Lloyd and Mathias Ziegler. My final masters recital included the works of Salvatore Sciarrino and Pierre Boulez. I've performed several solo recitals including a concert of all Canadian composers at the 2005 Pantasmagoria flute festival, and I competed as a soloist in the 2005 Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition in Amsterdam.
I've written extensively for the flute. WARNING! Gustnadoes Ahead for solo flute and CD was commissioned for the 2008 National Flute Association Convention. Raga Cha was premiered by the London Flutes in England and has since been performed numerous times throughout Europe and North America. Other works include Disturbances of Circadian Rhythm and Lumière Immobile for flute and computer (Max/MSP); Rain, Straight Ahead, both for solo flute; Three Duets for flute and marimba; Distant Voices I and II for flute and piano; "Cross-Talk" for flute ensemble; and "Lachrymose" for solo piccolo. For my Ph.D. dissertation I wrote The Winds of Winter for solo flute and chamber orchestra.
Sample Repertoire
Robert Aitken – Plain Song
Jurriaan Andriessen – Pastorale D'été
C.P.E. Bach – Sonata in A minor
C.P.E. Bach – Hamburger Sonata in G major
J.S. Bach – Sonata in A minor
J.S. Bach – B minor sonata
J.S. Bach – 6 Suites for Cello transcribed for flute
Harrison Birtwistle – Duets for Storab
Luciano Berio – Sequenza
François Borne – Fantaisie Brillante (on themes from Bizet's Carmen)
Michelle Boudreau – La Chasse Caribous 2003 for solo flute, speaker and tape
Pierre Boulez – Sonatine
Ton Bruyèl – Serene
Elliott Carter – Scrivo in Vento
C. Chaminade – Concertino, Op. 107
C. Debussy – Syrinx
Robert Dick – Fish are Jumping
Franco Donatoni – Midi
Georges Enesco – Cantabile et Presto
Rudolf Escher – Air pour charmer un lézard
Brian Ferneyhough – Cassandra's Dream Song
Anthony Genge – grey and white for solo flute
Marco Grando – Two Venezuelan Etudes
H. Górecki & C. Rouse – Valentines
Jacques Hétu – Aria (1976)
Paul Hindemith – Acht Stücke
Heinz Holliger – (t)air(e)
Jacques Ibert – Aria
Willem Jeths – Dwaallicht (for flute, tape art object and poetry)
André Jolivet – Chant du Linos
André Jolivet – Cinq Incantations
André Jolivet – Concerto
Sigfrid Karg-Elert – Sonata in F# minor
Theo Lovendie – Strands
Marin Marias – Les Folies d'Espangne
Olivier Messiaen – Le Merle Noir
W.A. Mozart – Flute Quartet in D major
W.A. Mozart – 6 sonatas
Carl Nielsen – Concerto
Astor Piazzolla – Tango Etudes
Chan Ka Nin – Piao
Salvatore Sciarrino – All'aure in una lontanza
Salvatore Sciarrino – Hermes
Salvatore Sciarrino – Come vengono prodotti gli incantesimi?
Salvatore Sciarrino – Canzona di ringraziamento
Salvatore Sciarrino – Veneré che le grazie la fioriscon
Salvatore Sciarrino – L'orizzonte luminoso di aton
Salvatore Sciarrino – Fra i testi deicati alle nubi
Murray Schafer – Sonatina
Franz Schubert – Variationen über: "Trockne Blumen"
Rodney Sharman – Arsis and Thesis
Rodney Sharman – Towards White 1983 for solo flute and tape
Harvey Sollberger – Quodlibetudes
Harry Somers – Etching: The Vollard Suite 1969 for solo flute
Paul Steenhuisen – Toneland Security 2005 for solo bass flute
Toru Takemitsu – Air
Toru Takemitsu – Itinerant
Toru Takemitsu – Voice
GP Telemann – Twelve Fantasias
Barry Truax – Steam 2001 for solo alto flute and tape
Edgard Varése – Density 21.5
Peteris Vasks – Sonate
Antonio Vivaldi – Concerto in C minor
Charles Wuorinen – Flute Variations 1
Etudes and Studies
Joachim Anderson – 24 Studies, op. 15
Theobald Boehm – 12 Studies, op. 15
Eugène Bozza – 14 Études: Arabesques
Chopin – 22 Etudes op. 10 & 22 (Robert Stallman)
Robert Dick – Circular Breathing for the Flutist
Robert Dick – Flying Lessons 1 and 2
Robert Dick – The Other Flute
Karg-Elert – 30 Caprices Op. 107
Marcel Moyse – 20 Exercises et Etudies, De La Sonorite, Exercices Journaliers, Tone Development Through Interpretation
Niccolo Paganini – 24 Caprices (Jules Herman & John Wummer)
Gary Schocker – 10 Etudes