Monday, October 5, 2020 9-11 am PDT

FLUTE MASTERCLASS WITH JULIEN BEAUDIMENT

PROGRAM

Caprice No. 24

Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840)

Joseph Loi

Danza de la Mariposa

Valerie Coleman (b. 1970)

Abby Simpson

Sequenza I Luciano Berio (1925-2003)

Fauna Buvat

Meet Today’s Guest Artist After holding the position of principal flute of the prestigious Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel, Julien Beaudiment is today principal flute of the Orchestre de l'Opera National de Lyon and professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon. He has also held the same position with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Great Britain. It is currently the only french musician to have held this position in a British Orchestra and one of the too few to do the same in an American Orchestra. Originally from La Rochelle and Bordeaux, he crossed the English Channel at the age of 18 to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with Paul Edmund-Davies and Averil Williams. He subsequently entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de music de Paris, where he won the first prize of flute and chamber music in the class of Sophie Cherrier, Vincent Lucas, and Michel Moraguès for chamber music. He learned from great flautists such as Maxence Larrieu, Jacques Zoon, Joshua Smith, Ransom Wilson, Vicens Prats and Benoît Fromanger. His years in London and Los Angeles will have permanently marked and influenced his life both personally and musically. His solo career is developing rapidly out of the Conservatoire de Paris. He plays as a soloist at major international concert halls as well as at renowned festivals, such as the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Khumo Art Hall and the Art Center in Seoul, the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan and the Tokyo Casals Hall, the Philharmonie in Essen, the Ljubljana philharmonic hall, the Palau de la Musica in Barcelona, the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels , the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Opéra National de Lyon, the Opéra National de Montpellier, the Bilbao Opera, the Beijing National Center for the Performing Arts, the Chicago Symphony Center, the Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles, the Albert Long Hall in Istanbul, accompanied by the Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Lyon, the Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy, the Orchestre Symphonique de Cannes, the Stuttgart Kammerorchester, the Varna Philharmonic Orchestra the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie am Rhein, the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, the Seoul Gangnam Philharmonic, the Chicago Philharmonic, the Marrinsky Orchestra... From the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles to the Suntory Hall in Tokyo, passing threw the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Royal Albert Hall in London, he plays in the most beautiful halls in the world with the Orchestra Simon Bolivar of Venezuela, the Estonian Festival, the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields , the Hallé Orchestra, the Beijing Opera Orchestra, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Orchestre National de Bordeaux, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the NDR Orchestra in Hamburg, under the direction of Gustavo Dudamel, Esa Pekka Salonen, Sir Colin Davis, Paavo Järvi, Christoph Eschenbach, Michael Tilson Thomas, Edo de Waart , Vladimir Jurovski, Kirill Petrenko, Evelino Pido, Robin Ticciati, Charles Dutoit, Semyon Bychkov, Christian Zacharias, James Conlon, Sir Roger Norrington, William Christie, Philippe Jordan, Ivan Fischer, Louis Langrée, Thierry Fischer, Emmanuel Krivine, Manfred Honeck, Thomas Hengelbrocht, Raphael Frühbeck de Burgos, Leonard Slatkin, Susanna Maliki... and musicians such as Joshua Bell, Murray Perahia and Itzhak Perlman, as well as the composers John Adams, Peter Eötvös, Matthias Pintscher , and the Hollywood star John Williams. A chamber music enthusiast, he is a prize winner of the international competition of Barcelona for duo sonata with the pianist Laetitia Bougnol. He also performs next to musicians such as Lawrence Foster, Emil Tabakov, Karl Heinz Steffens, Jonathan Stockhammer, Enrico Onofri of Il Giardino Armonico, Stefano Montanari, Antal Szallai, Eric Crambe, Guillaume Sutre, Sarah Nemtanu, Raphaël Oleg, Françoise Gnéri, Tasso Adamopoulos, Hartmut Rhode, Adrien Boisseau, Fabrice Pierre, Marie-Pierre Langlamet, Anaïs Gaudemard, Christine Icart, Isabelle Moretti, Kyung Hee Sutre, Lluis Claret, Richard Hardwood , Jérôme Pernoo, Raphael Christian, Hervé Nkaoua, Florent Boffard Simon Zain, Didier Puntos, Roberte Mamou, Denis Pascal, Célimène Daudet, Ishiro Nodaira, Jean-François Zygel, Oliver Triendl, Ariane Jacob, the jazzman Antoine Hervé, the members of the Vienna Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Munich Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio, the Psophos and Diotima quartets, the flutists Emmanuel Pahud, Philippe Bernold, Michel Moraguès, Sophie Cherrier, Maxence Larrieu and Rachel Brown. He has accompanied the choreographers Régine Chopinot and Benjamin Millepied playing Bach as a soloist, and expanded its activities by recording at Abbey Road in London with the pop star Sarah Brightman, in South Korea for the national Korean TV KBS, or in the studio during his American years in Los Angeles for the series "Doctor Who" and "Battle Star Galaktica", as well as working with the actors Seth Macfarlane and Julie Andrews, the pop stars John Legend, Antony and the Johnsons, and Ruben Blades.

Teaching occupies a prominent place in his agenda. After having been the artistic deputy of José Daniel Castellon's flute class at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne in Switzerland, it is today the teacher of the flute class of the Cnsm in Lyon, where he succeeded his illustrious predecessors, Philippe Bernold and Maxence Larrieu. He is also a visiting professor at the Pole Supérieur de Musique de Bordeaux, as well at the "Talent Music Masters" of Brescia in Italy. He teaches every summer at the Nice International Summer Academy in France, as well as at the Orford Music Academy in Canada, the Cagliari International Music Academy in Italy and at the San Francisco Flute festival, and at numerous masterclasses throughout the world, in North America (Colburn School of Music in Los Angeles, Vanderbilt University, Manhattan School and Juilliard School in New York, Montreal University...) in Europe (Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, Ljubljana Conservatory, Conservatorio Superior de Musica de Valencia, Conservatorio Superior de Musica de Granada in Spain, the Haute École de Musique de Genève, the Daniel Baremboim foundation in Seville...), and Asia (conservatories and universities in Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, Bangkok, Beijing Central Conservatory and Shanghai Music Academy. Meet Today’s Performers Joseph Loi is a currently a sophomore at Cal State Fullerton, and a student of Professor Jean Ferrandis. He has performed in masterclasses for Leone Buyse, Viviana Cumplido Wilson and Jean Ferrandis. Prior to becoming a student of Jean Ferrandis, he was a student of Karen Lundgren at the Colburn School's CSPA program, where he performed the Taffanel Quintet with the Colburn Honors Quintet on live radio. As a soloist, he has premiered composer David Benoit's "Great Wall" for solo flute and piano. In his spare time, Mr. Loi enjoys collecting CDs and is currently eyeing Vilde Frang's recording of the Enescu Octet. Abby Simpson is a versatile flutist, piccoloist, and music educator. She has experience as an ensemble player in orchestras and wind bands, in traditional classical ensembles and commercial ensembles, and as a soloist. Abby graduated Summa Cum Laude from Belmont University in May 2016 with a Bachelor of Music in Music Education, with an emphasis in Flute Performance. In May of 2018, she graduated with a Master of Music in Flute Performance from Arizona State University. Abby won First Prize in the 2019 National Flute Association Piccolo Orchestral Audition Masterclass Competition. Abby currently holds the position of Piccolo/2nd Flute in the Symphony of the Southwest orchestra, and is the Flute and Oboe Teaching Artist at the Arizona School for the Arts.

Young passionate musician, Fauna Buvat begins the flute alongside Franck Edouard, at the Mâcon conservatory. She continued her studies at CRR de Lyon, in the class of Frédéric Berteletti and then in the class of Jean-Marc Boissière at CRR d'Aix en Provence. Since 2015, Fauna has been a student at the CNSM de Lyon in the classes of Julien Beaudiment, Emmanuelle Reville and Gilles Cottin.

Music is the strongest driving force in her life, and recent opportunities of freelancing, amongst numerous orchestras in France (orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon, l’Orchestre National de Lyon, l’Orchestre Victor Hugo de Besançon, l’Opéra de Montpellier), have once again confirmed and strengthened her passion for orchestral work. She also participated in the Master Music Course of Japan academy and in the Mediterranean youth orchestre. Chamber music holds a special place in her musical journey: for instanceI, had the chance to put together Pierrot Lunaire by Schöenberg, the entire of the Mozart quartets, various sonatas for flute and piano, as well as wind quintet repertoire. Encounters with dancers at the Conservatoire National Supérieur of Lyon, have allowed her to work alongside dancers, exploring the field of the human body and of improvisation, fields which are not really explored as part of the traditional curriculum in French conservatories. Taking part in several residency workshops based on and around the subject of improvisation and also posture, have opened for Fauna new areas of reflection and sensation. Finally, being someone who is very sensitive to transmission and communication, she teaches her instrument at the Tassin Music School.

Meet Our Course Coordinator Rena Urso enjoys a flourishing career as a freelance orchestral and chamber musician all over California. In addition to being on the faculty at the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music at California State University Long Beach and California State University Stanislaus, she is the Second Flutist of the Oakland Symphony and the Oregon Coast Music Festival Orchestra. She previously held Piccolo positions and toured extensively with the New York City Opera National Company and San Francisco Opera’s Western Opera Theater. Rena performs frequently with many of the orchestras throughout California including the San Francisco Opera, Pacific Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Monterey, Marin, Santa Rosa, Berkeley, Modesto, and California Symphonies, Carmel Bach Festival, and Festival Mozaic. She has also performed with the Seattle Symphony, American Ballet Theater, Bolshoi Ballet, Mark Morris Dance Group, Hawaii Symphony, and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. A versatile musician who records for video games, television, radio, and film, Rena has also performed with the National Tours of Wicked and Phantom of the Opera. As a Licensed Body Mapping Educator (ABME), Rena presents workshops and masterclasses all over the world, as well as the course she created at CSULB, Body Mapping for the Performing Artist. Her popular monthly column in The Flute View covers a myriad of topics related to injury prevention and musician wellness. Rena is also a RYT-200 certified yoga teacher and certified meditation teacher. During the unusual time of COVID, Rena has participated in many virtual performances and teaching collaborations including an outstanding new resource for the piccolo, Practice with the Experts; Piccolo Edition, the immensely popular weekly workshops, Practice the Piccolo, and a regularly occurring series of workshops, Crafting the Beautiful Etude, focusing on Use of Self as it applies to the study and performance of standard flute etudes. In Fall 2021, the dynamic new online International Piccolo Academy will launch. This extraordinary new resource will contain performance and instructional videos as well as a variety of other helpful tools presented by some of the finest piccolo players and pedagogues from all over the world. Rena is delighted to be a part of this team and the exciting and unique adventure for the piccolo, as a teaching and performing artist, with contributions focusing on Body Mapping for piccolo players. An active member of the National Flute Association, Rena regularly performs at the annual conventions, serves as an adjudicator for various competitions, and is a member of the NFA’s Performance Health Committee. Rena is a Course Coordinator for California State University Summer Arts with her biennial flute course, The Complete 21st Century Flutist, taking place again in July 2021 at California State University Fresno. She has been a guest artist at the Iowa Flute and Piccolo Intensive summer courses and is a frequent guest artist at the International Piccolo Festival in Grado, Italy. A native of Detroit, Michigan, Rena received her Bachelor of Music from Wayne State University, and her Master of Music with honors from California State University Long Beach. She is extraordinarily grateful for her mentors; Robert Patrick, Clement Barone Jr., John Barcellona, Anne Zentner, and her father, Santo Urso. For more information about Rena, please visit: www.renaurso.com

Caprice No. 24 - Niccolò Paganini