Passion Flute: For the first time, three innovative teachers and virtuosic performing artists come together to present a 4-day, high-energy “Passion Flute” Seminar. Enhance your individual skills through innovative workshops and master classes. Explore your artistic personality through creative foundations and fundamentals, morning warm-ups, repertoire development, stage presentation, flute choir/ensembles and more.
Angeleita Floyd
UNI Professor of Flute and author of The Gilbert Legacy, is a dynamic musician, conductor, and highly respected educator. Most recently, she was a featured artist at the 2007 National Flute Association Convention in Albuquerque, NM, where she directed the Professional Flute Choir, judged the preliminary round of the Young Artist Competition, coordinated the Musical Tribute to Charles DeLaney, and presented an innovative workshop, “Toys for Tooters—Tips for Fluters.” Dr. Floyd is in high demand as a guest artist, teacher and conductor at international flute festivals throughout the United States, South and Central America and Europe.
As a student of the eminent English flutist Geoffrey Gilbert (BM—Stetson University) and American flutist Charles DeLaney (MM, MMEd, DM—Florida State University), Floyd wrote the highly acclaimed text The Gilbert Legacy: Methods, Exercises and Techniques for the Flutist and founded Winzer Press Publishing. Floyd has toured in duo performances with American guitarist Stephen Robinson and served as principal flute of the Waterloo/Cedar Falls Symphony.
In 1996, the Floyd/Robinson Duo released their first compact disc (Lakeside Records) entitled Under the Influence, featuring works by Piazzolla, Rodrigo, Schlossberg, and Latin-American folk tunes. Dr. Floyd was a member of the highly acclaimed Northwind Quintet, whose compact disc, The Essential Northwind Quintet, was released in 1992. She is a contributing author to Flute Talk Magazine, The Flutist Quarterly, NACWPI Journal, and the NFA Pedagogy Anthology. As an active performer and presenter at the National Flute Association Conventions, Dr. Floyd has served in major positions including President (1998-2000), Program Chair (Orlando, 1995), Board of Directors, Young Artist Competition Coordinator, and High School Soloist Competition Coordinator. From 2003- 2004, Dr. Floyd was a visiting professor of flute at Örebro University and Ingesund Musikhögskola in Sweden.
Dr. Floyd attributes her passion and joy for making music to her mother, along with Geoffrey Gilbert (BM—Stetson University), Charles DeLaney (MM, MMEd, DM—Florida State University), Jean-Pierre Rampal (International Summer Institute, Nice, France), Trevor Wye (PDL—1993), and William Bennett (Master Classes and Concerts since the 1980s). Return to seminar home
Jill Felber
Hailed for her “beautifully finished performances” by The Detroit News and praised by Musical America for her “handsome performance,” Jill Felber has performed solo recitals, chamber music and concertos on four continents and has held residencies in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia, Mexico, France, Switzerland, Italy, Great Britain, and the United States. An enthusiastic promoter of new music, Felber has inspired many composers to write solo and chamber works for her and is currently engaged in many commissioning projects. She has premiered more than 300 works for the flute and has released world premiere recordings for Centaur Records, CRI, and Neuma Records.
Holding degrees from the University of Michigan and Bowling Green State University, Felber has taught on the faculties of Ohio University, Capital University, and Wright State University. She is currently Professor of Flute at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Principal Flute with the Santa Barbara Grand Opera. Return to seminar home
Claudia Anderson
Claudia Anderson’s brilliance and originality as a solo performer (“Flute playing of the highest echelon” — New York Concert Artists Guild; “Vast range of sonorities” — Giornale di Sicilia) have graced audiences throughout the U.S., Europe, and Brazil. A Fulbright scholar to Italy, Dr. Anderson was subsequently principal flute of the Orchestra del Teatro Massimo in Palermo. After returning to the U.S., she was Solo Piccolo for ten years with the Cedar Rapids Symphony and is presently Principal Flute with the Waterloo/Cedar Falls Symphony.
Receiving degrees from the Universities of Michigan, Massachusetts, and Iowa, Dr. Anderson is a guest artist and clinician at many colleges and music series around the country; she is exclusively a Miyazawa artist and also performs with flutist Jill Felber in the innovative duo ZAWA! (www.zawa.org; www.miyazawa.com), described by critics as "electrifying" and "mesmerizing." Their CDs ZAWA! and ZAWA!2 have been released on the Neuma and ZAWA!Music labels.
Equally at home in both the standard and contemporary repertoire, Dr. Anderson has commissioned and arranged works for solo and duo format. Her solo CD American Flute was awarded five stars by Classical Pulse Magazine in 1995. She and oboist William McMullen recently released a CD on Centaur Records (2005), Duos for Flute and Oboe; according to the American Record Guide: "The collection is a fine one," and repertoire is "played with zest." Her recent chamber initiative, New Prairie Camerata — a core ensemble of flute, violin, and harp based in Grinnell, Iowa — links performance with history and architecture by presenting concerts in nontraditional spaces, showcasing local gems, and stimulating community participation.
Faculty positions include Grinnell College (currently), Universities of Iowa and Northern Iowa, Ithaca College, and the University of California at Santa Barbara. Dr. Anderson teaches on the summer artist faculty of Rocky Ridge Music Center for the Young Artist Seminar and Junior Student Seminars and serves as Program Director for the Junior Seminars. Return to seminar home
Sean Botkin
Pianist Sean Botkin began studying the piano at age five with his mother, making his first orchestral appearance four years later with the Honolulu Symphony where he studied with Ernest Chang. Reactions to Mr. Botkin's performances typically are expressed with phrases such as "multidimensional talents", "superb musicianship", and "beautiful and rare musical experience".
Mr. Botkin has had great success in prestigious international piano competitions, and has won many awards, including: William Kapell International Piano Competition, Cleveland International Piano Competition, World Piano Competition in Cincinnati, Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, Busoni International Piano Competition, Dong-A International Music Competition of Korea, International Music Competition of Japan and Washington International Competition.
Mr. Botkin received his Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School, studying with Martin Canin, and also spent an additional two years there in the Professional Studies program. While at Juilliard, he received the Gina Bachauer Scholarship and also performed the Bartok 2nd Piano Concerto with the Juilliard Symphony at Alice Tully Hall, conducted by Carl St. Clair.
Mr. Botkin received his Artist Diploma from Indiana University at South Bend where he was part of the adjunct faculty and a member of the Alexander Toradze Piano Studio. Mr. Botkin has traveled extensively across Europe and America performing with Maestro Toradze and the Studio, most notably at the prestigious Salzburg Festival (Austria), Ruhr Klavier Festival (Germany), Ravenna Festival (Italy), Wigmore Hall (England), Stresa Festival (Italy), and the Gilmore Festival (Kalamazoo, MI), where he also performed for the National Public Radio program "Performance Today". In February 2004, Mr. Botkin gave masterclasses in Saint Petersburg, Russia and performed Mozart's D minor Piano Concerto with the Klassika Orchestra.
Recent engagements include a performance of the Rachmaninoff 3rd Piano Concerto in Costa Rica with the University of Northern Iowa Symphony, a two-week concert tour in the country of Georgia with the Toradze Piano Studio, Burleske in D minor by Richard Strauss with the Bogota Philharmonic Orchestra in Columbia, and Beethoven's Choral Fantasy at the University of Northern Iowa.
Mr. Botkin is currently Assistant Professor of Piano at the University of Northern Iowa. Return to seminar home