April 9th 8:45 - 2:30, Saturday Online
8:45 - 9:00: Meet the Guest Artist - A Conversation with Guest Artist Gareth McLearnon
9:00 - 9:45: Workshop One - De-mystifying Great Tone with Gareth McLearnon
10:00 - 10:45: Workshop Two - The Whistle-stop Tour of Extended Techniques with Gareth McLearnon
11:00 - 11:15: GPFS Member Annual Meeting
11:15 - 1:15: Masterclass with Gareth and four performers
1:30 - 2:30: Young Artist Competition Winner Performances
De-mystifying Great Tone: An approach to explore the brass-tacks methodology and techniques of creating a great tone on your flute. Clear instructions, innovative approaches, surprising ideas, useful analogies, and even some controversial myth-busting to be had in this fully interactive session! Have your flutes out and ready to test throughout the class! (While muted!)
The Whistle-stop Tour of Extended Techniques: A seat-of-your-pants, rapid-fire, Flutes Out exploration of TWENTY of the most common extended techniques for the flute - ranging from the conventional to the innovative to the downright STRANGE. Thanks to Zoom and the MUTE function - you can happily squeak, honk and splurt your way through the class without fear! Just maybe have a cloth close at hand to give your computer screen a wipe!
Masterclass with Gareth and four selected performers will be conducted after these workshops. More details to come! Listen in, enjoy and learn about the performers' pieces and his feedback on learning and performing them.
