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CURRENT STUDENTS:
Ben Smolen (Specialist) Principal Flute, Battle Creek (MI) Symphony
Seth Morris (DMA2) First Prize 2010 Myrna Brown Competition, Denton, TX; First Prize, 2010 Solo Competition, Flute Society of Kentucky
Kat Standefer (BM3), winner 2010 NFA Masterclass Competition, Anaheim, CA
Katie Leung (BM4), 2010 Austrian American Society of Delaware Scholarship for six weeks study at the Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg, Austriak
Michael Avitabile (BM2), First Prize, 2010 Erv Monroe Young Artist Competition, SEMFA (MI); Finalist 2010 Byron Hester Competition (Houston) & Finalist 2010 Lansing Musicale Richardson Award for Woodwinds (Michigan)
Amanda Galick (BM2), Third Prize 2010 Erv Monroe Young Artist Competition, SEMFA (MI).
Kelly Zimba (BM3), 2nd prize, 2010 Mt. Lebanon Keynotes Scholarship Competition, Pittsburgh; 2nd Prize Pittsburgh FLute Club Competition

FORMER STUDENTS
Kelly Sulick (BM2004) 2010 NFA Young Artist Competition, Second Prize and Prize for the best performance of the commissioned work. Principal Flute, Evansville (IN) Philharmonic, Instructor, Univ, of Evansville
Sarah Frisof (DMA2009) Newly appointed Prof. of Flute Univ. of Texas at Arlington; Semi-finalist 2009 Kobe Competition in Japan; 2nd Prize, 2008 NFA Young Artist Competition
Elise Shope (BM2009) Substitute Second Flute, NY Philharmonic; Manhattan School of Music Orchestral Training Program
Nicole Esposito (MM2003), Assistant Professor of Flute, University of Iowa
Frieda Chan (MM2003)piccoloist, Coeur D'Alene Symphony and Washington Idaho Symphony.

Before you decide, see if you can play:
Scales 3 octaves up to D - chromatics, thirds in every key, whole tone scales
Taffanel-Gaubert #1,4, 5, 6, 12 memorized

Have you looked at the following?
Bach 24 Studies
Andersen etudes, Berbiguier etudes
Telemann Fantasias
Handel Sonatas
Mozart Concerti
Major French conservatoire pieces (Faure, Enesco, Ganne, Gaubert, Taffanel)
Poulenc, Hindemith Sonatas - learn some of those if you haven't already.

Once you get here, we start with Berbiguier, Altes, then Karg-Elert Caprices.

Please look at the UM list of excerpts (below) and start learning them and memorizing them in that order.

Don't be overwhelmed. Think of it as a journey and only go as far as you feel comfortable.

DMA APPLICANTS: The fully funded position for the flute DMA was won by Seth Morris (BM; U of Kentucky, MM; New England Conservatory) There will not be another fully funded position open until 2012. Candidates are still invited to apply without scholarship.

Learn more from listening!
UMS Concerts, Michigan Chamber Players, Faculty recitals –

Perform concerts for the oureach program and make a difference in the lives of others while reaching your performance goals.

Perform in Studio class --- solo and flute groups and chamber groups

Write an article for Flute Talk Magazine

Give a lecture/demonstration to the studio class

Give a recital with another flutist off campus

Work with UM student composers

Help with UM Flute Club

Make a summer audition tape in January and send it to several orchestra and chamber music festivals and flute masterclasses (see UM flute studio website)

Take an orchestral audition for a local/state orchestra within 100 miles

Enter Competitions – NFA Masterclass, Orchestral & YA, WAMSO, Frank Bowen, Myrna Brown,

Order Flute Talk magazine and NFA Flutist Quarterly and keep in touch with more opportunities! Sign up on the studio door.

Be a Wolverine!

THE WORLD IS WAITING FOR YOU!!!

Some of the etudes and Tone Studies used in the Flute Studio at the University of Michigan.

24 Selected Studies of J. S. Bach
Published by Southern Music

Altes
Celebre Method Complete (Vol. 1)
Celebre Method Complete (Vol. 2)
Twenty-six Selected Studies

Andersen
Op. 15 Twenty-four Etudes
Op. 21 Twenty-four Studies
Op. 30 Twenty-four Etudes
Op. 33 Twenty-four Etudes
Op. 37 Twenty-six Small Caprices
Op. 41 Eighteen Studies
Op. 60 Twenty-four Grand Studies (vol. 1)
Op. 60 Twenty-four Grand Studies (vol. 2)
Op. 63 Twenty-four Technical Etudes (Vol 1)
Op. 63 Twenty-four Technical Studies (Vol.2)
OpPost/One Hundred Posthumous Studies

Berbiguier
Eighteen Etudes

Bitsch
Douze Etudes

Boehm
Twelve Etudes Op.15 (M. Moyse)
Twenty-four Caprices Op.26

Bozza
Quatorze Etudes Arabesques
Dix Etudes sur des Modes Karnatiques

Chopin/ Moyse, M
Twelve Studies

Czerny/ Moyse, M.
Twenty-five

Furstenau
Six Etudes (M. Moyse)
Exercises Op.15 (M. Moyse)
Twenty-six Exercises Op.107 (v.1) (M. Moyse)
Twenty-six Exercises Op.107 (v.2) (M. Moyse)

Genzmer
Neuzeitliche Etuden (Vol. 1)
Neuzeitliche Etuden (Vol. 2)

JeanJean
Etudes Modernes

Karg-Elert
Thirty Caprices Op. 107

Koehler
Op. 33 Fifteen Easy Melodic Exercises (Book 1) Op. 33
Twelve Moderately Difficult Exercises (Book 2)
Op. 66 Twenty-five Romantic Etudes
Op. 75 Thirty Virtuoso Etudes (Book 2)
Op. 93 Twenty Easy Melodic Progressive Studies (Book 1)

Moyse, M
Etudes et Exercises Techniques
Twenty-four Melodious Studies with Variations
Forty-eight Studies of Virtuosity (Vol. 1)
Forty-eight Studies of Virtuosity (Vol. 2)

Moyse, M. / Wieniawsky
Ten Etudes

Paganini
Twelve Etudes & Caprices

Piazzolla
Six Etudes Tanguistiques

Everyone comes prepared to lessons with a tape recorder or a mini-disc recorder. This will be your greatest investment. Tape yourself practicing, your lessons, your orchestral excerpts etc. When the time comes to make a tape for competitions and summer festivals, there will be no surprises. You will be used to hearing yourself and you will have survived the normal depression that comes with taping yourself! Taping your lessons keeps me with you throughout the week and able to remind yourself what I said, your assignments for the week and how you improved! Don't look for immediate improvement after every lesson. Just know that you've grown and matured a little bit each time.

Keep a Flute Notebook! Transcribe onto paper what you feel is most important from your tapes. Also I can use this to write exercises in and you can use it to take notes in Studio Class.

STUDIO CLASS: Mondays 4:40-6:30 in Stearns Bldg. Up the hill. This is a great 2 hours of dialogue, hearing others play and getting to play in masterclasses with our featured flute guests.

Everyone will get a FOCUS SHEET to begin the year. This will bring YOUR ideas and technical desires to the forefront of your mind and then you can bring it to me for review at your first lesson. After we spend some time analyzing where and how you want to improve your playing we can leave the focus sheet, returning to it and the end of the semesters to see what has been addressed and what still needs work. I like to work on the entire flutist, not just tell you how to play a certain phrase a certain way and, write it in your part, only to be forgotten in the next piece!

We will start a repertoire list. Pieces you have played and then pieces you want to play. After that I can add certain pieces that will be required by me for your level of playing. You are allowed to borrow music and CD's from me after you have checked to see if the library has what you need. Freshman: You, more than likely, will spend time with me on basics according to your needs. The repertoire blitz will come later!

INSTRUMENTS: There is one silver Muramatsu Flute, one Powell piccolo, two alto flutes, a Bass flute and a Baroque flute for your use in school. Priority is given to the ensembles first, then recitals, then outside gigs last.

LEARN THE FOLLOWING PIECES in the following groups for preparation for auditions of any kind.

Mozart Concerto in G
Mozart Concerto in D
Nielsen Concerto

A
Debussy Prélude a l'apres-midi d'un faun
Mendelssohn Incidental Music from A Midsummer Night's Dream
Brahms Symphony #4
Beethoven Leonore Overture #3
Ravel Daphnis et Chloé

B
Bach "Aus Liebe will mein Heiland sterben" from St. Matthew Passion
Dvorak Symphony #8
Prokoffiev Peter and the Wolf
Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphosis
Strauss Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks

C
Stravinsky Firebird Suite
Brahms Symphony #1
Beethoven Symphony #4
Bach Badinerie from Orchestral Suite #2
Strauss Salomé

D
Prokoffiev Classical Symphony
Rimsky Korsakov Capriccio Espagnol
Ravel Bolero
Stravinsky Petroushka
Bizet Entr'acte from Carmen

E
Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherezade
Stravinsky Le Rossignol
Beethoven Symphony #3 Eroica
Saint-Seans Voliére from the Carnival of the Animals
Rossini William Tell Overture

F
Bartok Concerto for Orchestra
Shostakovich Symphony #5
Ravel Mother Goose Suite
Gluck Menuet and Dance of the Blessed Spirits from Orpheus
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde

G
Dvorak Symphony #9 New World
Dukas Sourcerers Apprentice
Smetana The Moldau
Franck Symphony in D
Tchaikowsky Symphony #4

JUST FOR FUN technical stuff check out:

Schumann Symhony #1 Spring
Bernstein Porgy and Bess
Bernstein Candide Overture
Stravinsky Rite of Spring
Copland Appalachian Spring
Prokoffiev Romeo and Juliet Suite
Bach B minor Mass

Second Flute Excerpts

A
Dvorak Symphony #9
Medelssohn Symphony #4
Prokofiev Classical Symphony
Ravel Daphnis
Smetena The Moldau

B
Bartok Concerto for Orchestra
Debussy Prelude to Afternoon of a faun
Britten Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra
Ravel Mother Goose
Strauss Till Eulenspiegel

C
Tchaikovsky Symphony #4
Bizet L'Arlesienne Suite #1 (Minuetto)
Ravel Alborada Del Gracioso
Berlioz L'Enfance du Christ
Bach Magnificat

D
Shostakovich Symphony #5
Brahms Symphony #2
Ravel Le Tombeu de Couperin
Tchaikovsky Dance of the Mirlitions (Nutcracker) 3RD FLUTE

Piccolo Excerpts

Vivaldi Piccolo Concertos especially C major RV. 443
Sousa Stars and Stripes forever both in D major and Eb major

A
Bethoven Symphony #9
Tchaikovsky Symphony #4
Ravel Bolero
Rossini Semiramide
Shostakovich Symphony #6

B
Bartok Concerto for Orchestra
Prokofiev Lt Kije
Berlioz Minuet and Dance of the Sprites from Faust (pic 1)
Ravel Daphnis
Ippolotov-Ivanov Caucasian Sketches Procession of the Sardar

C
Rossini La Gazza Ladra
Ravel Mother Goose
Shostakovich Symphony #8
Mahler Symphony #2
Stravinsky Firebird

D
Rimsky Korsakov Scherazade
Shostakovich Symphony #9
Brahms Variations on a Them by Hayden
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde
Britten Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

E
Mahler Symphony #1
Berlioz Symphony Fantastique
Stravinsky Petrouchka
Shostakovich Symphony #10
Ravel Concerto in G
Tchaikovsky Nutcracker (Dance Chinoise)

Additional OPERA Piccolo
Mozart Magic Flute Act2 #13
Puccini Suor Angelic Offstage solo
Ponchielli La Gioconda Act 1 #4
Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire "Der Mondfleck"
Wagner Gotterdammerung Prelude to Act 1