Fall Flute Festival

Thanks to everyone for an outstanding festival!

The South Carolina Flute Society held its first Flute Festival in Greenville, SC on December 1, 2007. Tadeu Coelho was the featured guest artist. In the morning he conducted a two-hour masterclass with seven participants. Dr. Coelho also helped to judge the afternoon's competitions, in which players from around the Southeast competed in the final rounds for three pre-college competitions. In the Junior division, Deborah Dahlhausen placed first. In the Clinic division, McKenzie Rickman placed first. No first-place winner was announced for the Senior division, but Blair Francis and Becky Thompson tied for second place.
 
Wendy Cohen, Martha Kitterman, and Angela Massey held All-State workshops to address performance issues in the required All-State solos. Joy Sears gave a presentation on flute maintenance and repair. Erinn Frechette provided some valuable tips at her Audition and Competition Preparation workshop. Martha Kitterman led the flute choir in a reading session, and the ensemble performed several selections for the closing meeting.
 
Coming up in March, the South Carolina Flute Society will host a flute festival at USC in Columbia, SC. The event is scheduled for March 21-22, 2008, and will include a collegiate-level competition and masterclass with Brad Garner.

Guest Artist

Tadeu Coelho 

Tadeu Coelho currently teaches at the North Carolina School of the Arts. He has served as associate professor of flute at the University of Iowa from 1997-2002, as assistant professor of flute at the University of New Mexico from 1992-1997, and as visiting professor at the Ino Mirkovich Music Academy in Croatia.

An active soloist and master class clinician, Coelho has performed in halls across the United States, Canada, France, Italy, Germany, Slovenia, Serbia & Montenegro, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Russia, Australia, Japan, Korea, China, and his native Brazil. He has recorded and commissioned works by contemporary composers, including Steven Block, Lawrence Dillon, Lawrence Fritts, Eduardo Gamboa, Todd Harris, Joaquin Gutierrez Heras, Richard Hermann, Steve Ledbetter, David McHugh, Ronald Roseman, and Michael Weinstein among others. Dr. Coelho is devoted to the publication and propagation of Latin American music and he has written numerous articles as well as published several works of Latin American composers.

Mr. Coelho can be heard in several solo recordings; he has been featured in national and international magazines, and he has taught at important learning centers around the world. Tadeu Coelho is a Miyazawa artist and performs on a platinum instrument.

Mr. Coelho will serve as a judge for the South Carolina Flute Society’s first competition, and will conduct an afternoon master class. Members of the Society are also invited to attend his concert with the Bob Jones University Wind Band on Friday, November 30 at 7:30 PM in Rodeheaver Auditorium on the university campus. This concert will feature Stephen Bulla’s Rhapsody for Flute and Band, Briccialdi’s Carnival of Venice, and the first modern performance of Charles Kurth’s Bobolink Polka for piccolo and band.

*Funded in part by a grant from the Metropolitan Arts Council, which receives funding from the City of Greenville, BMW Manufacturing Company, LLC, Michelin North America, Inc., and the South Carolina Arts Commission with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John and Susan Bennette Memorial Arts Fund of the Coastal Community Foundation of SC.