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This 3½ day symposium will focus on the study and performance of significant solo and ensemble passages for piccolo in the symphonic literature, as well as important concerti and solo literature for the piccolo. Piano accompaniment will be provided for most of the orchestral excerpts and all the solo classes. Performers select excerpts and solos from the IPS repertoire list to play in class and receive suggestions from the artist-teachers regarding their performance. Other works may be brought in as well. Special topics which focus on issues specific to the piccolo will also be presented by the artist-teachers during the symposium. Performers are chosen by audition. Prospective performers must submit a high-quality recording (cassette, CD, or DAT) that includes excerpts from at least five orchestral works from the IPS repertoire list, as well as a complete movement of any piccolo solo from the IPS repertoire list. The recording, IPS application, and a résumé of training and experience should be sent to: IPS 2009, UNO Music Department, 6001 Dodge St., Omaha, NE 68182. Applications are processed as they are received, and performers who are accepted will be billed for the performer's fee. Early submission is advisable. The POSTMARK deadline for performer applications is 3/01/09.

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2009 IPS Schedule

Thursday, June 11, 2009

12:00-1:15pm	Sign In (UNO Strauss PAC Lobby)
1:15-1:30pm	Welcome and introductions (PAC 105)
1:30-2:45pm	Workshop Session: "Stars and Stripes" with Nan Raphael (PAC 105)
3:00-6:00pm	Solo class #1 (Recital Hall) 3:00-4:30 will be participants performing "Golden Age" piccolo solos. 4:30-6:00 will continue with contemporary piccolo repertoire.
6:00-7:00pm	Dinner (on site)
7:30-9:00pm   9:00-10:00pm	Piccolo Artist Recital featuring music for piccolo and band with Nan Raphael, Christine Beard and the Nebraska Wind Symphony (Recital Hall). Music by Eric Richards, Eugene Damare, Paul Gennin, Alan Stephenson, Singer and more! Individual practice time - optional (PAC practice rooms)

Friday, June 12, 2009

8:15-9:15am	Morning warm-up with Nan Raphael (PAC 105)
9:30-12:00pm	Orchestral excerpts class #1 (PAC 105)
12:00-1:00pm	Lunch (on site)
1:00-2:15 pm	Workshop Session with Jean-Louis Beaumadier (PAC 105)
2:30-5:30 pm	Solo class #2 (Recital Hall)
5:30-6:30 pm 6:30-7:30 pm	Dinner (on site) Individual practice time - optional (PAC practice rooms)
7:30 pm   9:00-10:00 pm	Piccolo Artist Recital featuring Lois Herbine. program TBA (Recital Hall). Music by Mike Mower, Elliott, Dehnhard, Hallman, Paradies and Daugherty. Individual practice time - optional (PAC practice rooms)

Saturday, June 13, 2009 - EXHIBITORS on site today!!!

8:15-9:15am	Morning warm-up with Lois Herbine (PAC 105)
9:30-12:30pm	Solo master class #3 (Recital Hall)
12:30-1:30pm	Lunch (on site)
1:30-2:30pm	Workshop Session: Historical piccolo presentation with Stephanie Kocher sponsored by the National Music Museum – PAC 131
2:45-4:45pm	Orchestral Excerpts Class #2 (PAC 105)
5:00-6:15pm 6:15-7:15pm	Workshop Session with Lois Herbine, topic TBA (PAC 105) Dinner (on site)
7:30-9:00pm   9:00-10:00pm	Piccolo Artist Recital featuring Jean-Louis Beaumadier, program TBA (Recital Hall). Music by Andersen, Rabboni, Donjon, Reichert, Janacek, Milhaud, Poulenc, Auric, Donatoni and Damare. Individual practice time - optional (PAC practice rooms)

 

Sunday, June 14, 2009

8:15-9:15am	Morning warm-up with Jean-Louis Beaumadier (PAC 105)
9:30-11:30am	Orchestral excerpts class #3 (PAC 105)
11:30-12:30pm	Guest artist recital with Kate Prestia Schaub: “New Music for Piccolo” (Recital Hall). Music by Daniel Dorff, Stephen Kujala, Robert Cronin, Ken Benshoof and Daniel Kelley.
12:45-1:45pm	Lunch (on site)
1:45-2:45pm	Workshop Session: “Making Time for Piccolo in the Lesson Curriculum” with Christine Beard (PAC 105)
3:00-4:30pm	Solo class #4 - Dress Rehearsal for IPS participant performers (Recital Hall)
5:00pm 7:00 pm	Final IPS Participants Recital (Recital Hall) IPS Picnic

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Click HERE to download the official 2009 IPS repertoire list. (You will need Acrobat Reader to view this file).

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A total of 15 performers and an unlimited number of auditors will be accepted for IPS 2009. All IPS applicants will be notified of their acceptance no later than March 15, 2009. The balance of tuition (minus the deposit) will be due by May 1, 2009 for all applicants. Failure to pay the balance will result in forfeiture of the performer's spot which will be offered to an alternate.TUITION - Performers $450, Auditors $300 (deposit will go towards this total). The tuition also includes the cost of meals (lunches and dinners) from June 11-14

HOUSING - All participants and auditors will be housed in apartment-style dorms on the UNO campus at the rate of $50/person per night. NOTE: Reservations must be made through IPS prior to May 25, 2009. Also, if you wish to share a room with another IPS participant, please contact IPS at info@piccolosymposium.com prior to this deadline. Additional hotel options in the university area can be found HERE. (Please make reservations EARLY, as we are competiting with the College World Series during this time!)

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FLYING INTO OMAHA:

Most connections into Omaha will go through either Chicago (ORD), Minneapolis/St. Paul (MSP), St. Louis (STL), Memphis (MEM), or Denver (DEN).

The following airlines all provide service into Omaha's Eppley Airfield:

As an alternative, IPS participants might also check into flights to Lincoln, NE (LNK) to see if a significant savings can be made. Although about 45 min away, there is a shuttle service available to get passengers to/from Lincoln's airport to Omaha.

DRIVING TO OMAHA:

From Des Moines, IA - Omaha is located approximately 135 miles southwest of Des Moines following I-80 west.

From Kansas City, MO - Omaha is located approximately 188 miles northwest of Kansas City following I-29 north to I-80 west.

From Minneapolis, MN - Omaha is located approximate 381 miles southwest of Minneapolis following I-35 south to I-80 west.

From Chicago, IL - Omaha is located approximately 476 miles due west of Chicago following I-88 west to I-80 west.

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JEAN-LOUIS BEAUMADIER began his studies of flute with Joseph Rampal at the academy of Marseilles, and continued in Paris at the Higher National Academy with Jean-Pierre Rampal. Soloist of the National Orchestra of France for twelve years, he became thereafter - thanks to its abundant discography (Great Price of the Academy Charles Cros), with his concerts in Europe, the United States, the Far East, and with his collection for the piccolo with the Billaudot Editions - one of the whole first representatives of the flute-piccolo in the world. Jean-Pierre Rampal had this to say about him: “Jean-Louis was my father’s pupil before becoming mine. Endowed with marvelous technique, he stood out thanks to his winning personality and his developed artistry. He gladly specialized in the repertoire for the petite flûte and it is a joy to hear him dream and turn pirouettes: he is the Paganini of the piccolo.”

LOIS HERBINE is flutist and piccoloist with Orchestra 2001. She has performed with the new music ensemble since 1988 and has recorded on bass flute, flute and piccolo on their "Music of Our Time" series for CRI. Her first solo CD of premiere recordings for piccolo entitled "Take Wing" was released October, 2004 on the Crystal label with assistance from the Leeway Foundation. Ms. Herbine has performed with Peter Nero's Philly Pops since 2000 and acted principal for the Pops' sold out inaugural season at the Kimmel Center. Her flute and piccolo have been highlighted in orchestral soundtracks for specials on HBO and TNT and in weekly television and radio theme music. Ms. Herbine is a regular contributor to Flute Talk and has just completed an article on the comparative pedagogy of the legendary flutist William Kincaid and oboist Marcel Tabuteau for this magazine as well as a lecture transcript for The Flutist Quarterly. She earned her BM from the New School of Music, Philadelphia, receiving the school's highest honors in performance and academic achievement. In her final year she won the Philadelphia Musical Society's solo competition and was granted a debut solo recital at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. A native of the Philadelphia area, she studied with Ellen Finks, Nancy Metroka, Frank Versaci, Deborah Carter, John Krell, David Cramer and Kazuo Tokito. In the summer of 2000, Ms. Herbine was invited to give a solo performance for the Republican Governors' Association at the Republican National Convention. She has performed or recorded premieres by Vincent Persichetti, Gunther Schuller, David Finko, Daniel Dorff, Andrea Clearfield, Peter Schickele, Gwyneth Walker, David Loeb, Sophia Gubaidulina, Michael Daugherty and Bernard Hermann, among others.

NAN RAPHAEL is currently active as a clinician, guest soloist nationwide and recording artist with the Washington Winds. Nan was solo piccoloist with the U.S. Army Field Band from 1979 to 2003 and was a featured  soloist with the Band on several major tours in the U.S. and abroad. Nan has been a member of the Prevailing Winds, a quintet whose credentials include performances at the Kennedy Center, The Smithsonian Resident Associates, numerous radioshows and other concerts around the Greater Washington, DC region. Ms. Raphael has also performed numerous solo recitals on flute and piccolo around Washington, DC as well as having subbed for the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, Fairfax and Alexandria Symphony Orchestras. She has a strong interest in promoting the piccolo as a solo instrument, resulting in the establishment of Duo 8VA and the publishing of several articles for Flute Talk Magazine, the Washington Flute Society Newsletter and Band World Magazine as well as a book of piccolo solos and technical passages from the symphonic band repertoire. In 1991 and 1998, Ms. Raphael was a participant in the Professional Flute Choir for the National Flute Conventions in Washington, DC and Phoenix, AZ. She was also a winner of the Convention Performer’s Competition for the NFA’s 1998 convention on Phoenix, AZ.  Ms Raphael has been  an adjudicator for the  Newly Published Music  and Piccolo Artists Competitions for the National Flute Association. In 2000, while serving as program chair for the Mid-Atlantic Flute Fair, she initiated a piccolo artists competition to be held every three years. She has served on the Board of Directors for the Washington Flute Society and the Piccolo Committee for the National Flute Association. In August 2002, Ms. Raphael premiered a solo written specially for the US Army Field Band’s appearance at the National Flute Convention in Washington, DC and in 2003, released her first CD of music for piccolo and piano titled “Short and Sweet”.  Her second solo CD  Hands Across the Seas was released in November 2007 and a third for two piccolos- Piccolo Four Hands was released in December 2007.

Described by critics as “masterful” and “evocative,” flutist CHRISTINE ERLANDER BEARD is constantly in demand as a soloist, chamber artist, and clinician. Quickly achieving international recognition as a performer and advocate for the piccolo, she has performed extensively across the U.S. and Europe. She has appeared on the program on six of the previous seven conventions of the National Flute Association (2002, 2004-2008), and in 2008 was invited to lead piccolo sessions at the 2008 British Flute Society International Convention in Manchester, England. In addition to her active performance schedule, Christine is the Roy Seaman Piccolo Artist for Gemstone Musical Instruments and in that role has presented piccolo clinics and lecture-recitals at state music conferences and flute festivals across the U.S. Her pedagogical articles and columns have been published in Flute Talk, the Flutist Quarterly, Flutewise, and The Instrumentalist, and her website, PiccoloHQ.com, is widely recognized as a leading resource for piccolo information. Dr. Beard earned her MM and DMA in flute performance from The University of Texas at Austin. She is on the faculty at the University of Nebraska at Omaha as Associate Professor of Flute and Coordinator of Woodwind Studies. Her debut CD, Souvenirs: 21st Century Works for Piccolo is scheduled to be completed in 2009. For more info, visit www.piccoloHQ.com

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Read the article about the 2007 IPS which was published in the May/June 2008 edition of Flute Talk magazine HERE

(Above) Nicola Mazzanti leads a morning warm-up session.

"The clinicians were fantastic! I will be taking home many new ideas for playing and teaching."
- Stephanie Kocher, Professor of Flute, University of South Dakota (performer)

"As many times as Nicola can come back would be amazing!"
- Leigh Anne Kreykes, graduate student at UNO (auditor)

(Above) Nicola Mazzanti and Lois Herbine both offer suggestions to Shannon Abels during a solo repertoire class.

"Lois helped me reach a new level in my playing! She has great charisma and uses it both in her teaching and performance."
- Evie Johnson, flute major at University of South Dakota (performer)

(Above) The participants continued discussions after the sessions ended.

"Lois Herbine, Christine Beard, and Nicola Mazzanti were the most giving and passionate clinicians/performers on the piccolo of our time. I gave them 3 days of my life - they gave me a lifetime of piccolo teaching, style, and pedagogy."
- Abraham Gonzalez, professional woodwind doubler from Corpus Christi, TX (auditor)

(Above) Lois Herbine works with Kate Bergman during an orchestral excerpts class.

"The clinicians were friendly, encouraging, informative, and passionate about teaching. I look forward to coming back next year!"
- Holly Robbins, recent graduate of Columbus State University in GA (performer)

(Above) IPS artists for 2007: Christi Zuniga (collaboarative pianist), Nicola Mazzanti (artist/teacher),
Christine Beard (artist/host), Davide Zannoni (composer in residence), and Lois Herbine (artist/teacher).

"I loved the cooperative nature of the instruction. A very supportive community atmosphere was established and sustained through the symposium."
- Nancy Nourse, Canada (auditor)

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