HONORS FLUTE CHOIR 2013 GENERAL INFORMATION The 2013 Honors Flute Choir will rehearse and perform at the Ohio University s Flute Fest 2013 on Saturday, March 23, 2013 in conjunction with the Ohio University Honors Clarinet Choir/Gala. This performance event invites talented high school flutists from around the region to perform high level flute choir repertoire under the direction of Alison Brown Sincoff, Associate Professor of Flute. They will also participate in an exciting day of masterclasses and guest performances, with visiting artist Jan Gippo, piccoloist with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra from 1972-2008. (see SCHEDULE OF EVENTS below) HOUSING AND MEALS All events for the Honors Flute Choir will take place on March 23, 2013, so hotels are not necessary. Should you wish to stay overnight, here is a list of hotels in Athens: Hampton Inn (740) 593-5600 Holiday Inn (740) 592-4640 Ohio University Inn (740) 593-6661 Super 8 (740) 594-4900 Days Inn (740) 593-6655 Budget Host Inn (740) 594-2294 Lunch is on your own, and there are many excellent restaurant and fast food choices located on Court Street; a commercial street within walking distance to Robert Glidden Hall (event location). A pizza party will conclude the day s festivities at 6:30pm. ELIGIIBILITY/SELECTION Any high school flutist is eligible to audition. The Honors Flute Choir 2013 will be comprised of approximately 10-20 flutists selected from live and recorded auditions. APPLICATION/FEES Students interested in auditioning for the Honors Flute Choir 2013 must complete an application (download here) and submit a $5 check payable to Ohio University School of Music. If selected, students should submit a final fee of $30, again in the form of a check payable to the Ohio University School of Music, to reserve a spot in the Honors Flute Choir 2013. This fee will also include the pizza party and a festival memento.
AUDITION SITES/DATES/TIMES Following the receipt of the application form auditions times will be sent via email. Every effort will be made to accommodate requested audition times, but the earliest applications will receive preference. The $5 application fee can be paid on site. Indicate preferred location and time on application: Date and City Location Time Tue, Oct 16, 2012 Cincinnati Lakota West High School, 8940 Union Center Blvd, West Chester, after 3pm OH 45069 Saturday, January 12, 2013 Dayton Christina Condon Studio afternoon TBD, Columbus Grove City High School, 4665 Hoover Road, Grove City, OH, 43123 after 6pm TBD, Cleveland/Canton Location TBA Time TBA Sat, Nov. 3, Athens Ohio University, School of Music, 550 Robert Glidden Hall, Athens, OH 45701 4-7pm. RECORDED AUDITIONS Students unable to take a live audition are encouraged to submit a compact disc containing the required selections (see AUDITION INFORMATION below) with their application form. Please do not edit your recording! Selections should be performed continuously. Please clearly mark the recording with your name, grade, school, email address, phone number, and ordered titles of selections including composer, title of piece, and title of movement, if applicable. Indicate on what type of auxiliary instrument selections are performed if applicable. The application and compact disc must be received by February 25, 2013. AUDITION INFORMATION Flutists should play a portion of a prepared solo or etude that demonstrates both lyrical and technical ability (approximately 3 minutes), and a 2-octave chromatic scale (3-octaves is preferable) beginning on a note of the student's choice (slurred ascending, staccato descending). A solo from the class A list of the OMEA contest list is recommended. Sight reading may be asked. Students are also encouraged to audition on the auxiliary instruments (Piccolo, Alto Flute and Bass Flute). Audition requirements for the auxiliary instruments are the same as for the flute. Live auditions will be led by Prof. Sincoff, Dr. Rischin and Dr. Andrew Trachsel, Director of Bands at Ohio University.
AUDITION RESULTS Audition results for both live and recorded auditions will be emailed to students by March 1, 2013. Students accepted who would like to participate in the Honors Flute Choir must submit their acceptance form and $30 fee by March 8, 2013. Upon receipt of the acceptance form and fee, students will receive their music and additional information via email by March 11, 2013. OHIO UNIVERSITY HONOR BAND AUDITIONS High school students accepted into the Ohio University Honor Band, to take place Nov 29-Dec 1, 2012, can simultaneously be considered for the Honors Flute Choir 2013 or the Honors Clarinet Choir. Just check on your application form that you auditioned for the Ohio University Honor Band. SCHEDULE FOR OU FLUTE FEST 2013 Both participants and non-participants are welcome to experience this educational and inspirational day located on the beautiful campus of Ohio University. Featured guest, Jan Gippo, will lead masterclasses in piccolo and Alison Sincoff will lead classes in flute and conduct the Honors Flute Choir 2013. All events will be held in the School of Music s Robert Glidden Hall. Piccolo masterclass particpants, should also contact Professor Sincoff for application details and submission by February 25, 2013. All applications will be reviewed and approximately 6 participants will be selected to perform by March 15, 2013. 8:30am. Registration for all flutists (Glidden Hall Lobby) 9:00am. High School Masterclass with host, Alison Sincoff (Room 472) 10:05-11:45am. Piccolo Masterclass with guest, Jan Gippo (Recital Hall) 10:45am.-noon Honors Flute Choir Rehearsal (Room 494) Noon LUNCH on Court Street 1:00pm. Host Recital featuring Alison Sincoff, flute, Rebecca Rischin, clarinet, and Gail Berenson and Youmee Kim, pianists (Recital Hall) 2:00pm. Honors Flute Choir Rehearsal (Room 494) Additional Class (TBA) for non-honors Flute Choir participants (Room 472) 3:30pm. Feature Recital: Jan Gippo, piccoloist and Jane Carl, clarinetist, with Gail Berenson and Youmee Kim, pianists (Recital Hall) 4:45pm. Festival Picture and Finale Dress Rehearsal (Recital Hall) 5:30pm. Grand Finale Concert featuring the Honors Flute and Honors Clarinet Choirs and Guests (Recital Hall) 6:30pm. Pizza Party! For further information, please contact Alison Brown Sincoff (740)707-5849 (cell) or the School of Music (740) 593-4244.
ABOUT ALISON BROWN SINCOFF and featured guest, JAN GIPPO Alison Brown Sincoff, Associate Professor of Flute, joined the Ohio University faculty in September 1997 and was named the Ohio University School of Music s Outstanding Teacher of the Year in May of 2009. Professor Brown Sincoff frequently performs with colleague, Gail Berenson (piano), as founding members of the Ohio University Lyric Duo, and Athenia, a wind trio featuring the collaborations of additional faculty at Ohio University Dr. Michele Fiala, oboe and Dr. Matthew Morris, bassoon. A featured soloist in a CD recording of Joel Puckett s The Shadow of Sirius with the Ohio University Wind Symphony and Dr. Andrew Trachsel, director, is due to be released this December (2012). Professor Brown Sincoff has also recorded Henk Badings Concerto for Flute and Wind Ensemble under the direction of Dr. John Climer, a past director for the OU Wind Ensemble (2001). In 2009, a performance of Lukas Foss Renaissance Concerto for Flute and Orchestra with the Ohio University Symphony Orchestra, Steven Huang, director, was also a highlight of Professor Brown Sincoff s campus performance engagements. She thoroughly enjoys working with the School of Music s talented faculty. On a national level, Professor Brown Sincoff collaborates with university flute studios throughout the United States. She has performed at the National Flute Association s Flute Convention, has served as a competition adjudicator, and is currently a member of the Board of Directors for the organization. Additional music conference appearances include the Collegiate Band Directors National Association s North Central Division Conference, the International Double Reed Society, Music Teachers National Association, the National Association of Teachers of Singing, and Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society. Select flute festival invitations include the Arizona Flute Festival, Central Ohio Flute Association s Flute Festival, Flute Society of Kentucky Flute Festival, Northeast Ohio Flute Association s Flute Festival, and the West Virginia University Flute Fling. In 2003, Professor Brown Sincoff performed George Crumb s An Idyll for the Misbegotten for amplified flute and three percussion at the University of Dayton s Contemporary Music Festival. George Crumb was the featured composer in attendance for this festival. In 2002, she collaborated with the Eastman Conservatory s Ying Quartet as a part of a two-week summer chamber residency in the state of Montana. In 2003, Professor Brown Sincoff traveled to Argentina to perform and present master classes as a part of a faculty exchange program with Ohio University and the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo in Mendoza and the Conservatorio Nacional de Música y Artes Escénicas of Buenos Aires. Professor Brown Sincoff returned to Mendoza in 2011, at the invitation of Pablo Salcedo, as a festival performer and clinician for World Flutes Festival III. Laureate of several national and international competitions, including: first prize of the 1995 National Flute Association s Orchestral Excerpts Competition (Orlando); first prize of the 1996 NFA s Piccolo Artist Competition and third prize of the Young Artist Competition (New York); and semifinalist in the 1999 Myrna Brown Flute Competition (Dallas). In July of 1997, Professor Brown Sincoff was one of two Americans selected to perform at the 4 th International Flute Competition in Kobe, Japan. Professor Brown Sincoff maintains frequent engagements as a substitute orchestral and chamber musician with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Ballet MET, Columbus Chamber Society, ProMusica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Opera, Cincinnati Ballet, West Virginia Symphony, and Dayton Philharmonic.
Professor Brown Sincoff completed doctoral studies in flute performance from the University of Cincinnati s College-Conservatory of Music. She holds the Master of Music degree from the University of Nebraska- Lincoln, and the Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Illinois. Her principal teachers were Bradley A. Garner, Jack Wellbaum, John Bailey, Alexander Murray, and her father, Robert H. Brown. Ms. Brown Sincoff performs on a 10k Brannen Brothers flute and a Wm. S. Haynes piccolo. Jan Gippo has been Piccolo/Flutist of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra since 1972. A graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, he has taught at Webster University since 1980, been on the faculty of the University of Missouri- St. Louis, and presented recitals and master classes throughout the United States and abroad. As Director of Winds at Webster University, he is a founding member of the Webster Wind Quintet and the Webster Chamber Players, and was the originator of the course, The Practical World of Music Business. He is also the owner/publisher of Meridian Publishing LLC that publishes the Gaubert Suite for flute and piano and piccolo works, Spindrift, Broughton Concerto fro Piccolo and Loeb Preludes VOL. III. Mr. Gippo also serves as Principal flute for the Bach Society of St. Louis. He is the music director of From the Garden-LIVE! a live radio chamber music broadcast program on Classic 99-KFUO FM, where he has hosted international figures in the classical music world including Garrick Ohlsson, Anne Akiko Meyers, Emmanuel Ax, Joseph Silverstein, and Leonard Slatkin. In August of 2002, Mr. Gippo was elected Chairman of the International Conference of Symphony and Opera Musicians, ICSOM. This organization represents 52 major orchestras of the United States and over 5000 musicians. Founder of the Piccolo committee of the 5,000-plus member National Flute Association, Jan has helped raise over $120,000 to commission 15 new works for the instrument. He has served on the board of directors for the National Flute Association. In addition, he has been co-chair of the St. Louis Symphony s orchestra committee and is an author, contributing editor, and editor-at-large of Flute Talk Magazine, and Instrumentalist publication. He is a member of the Board of the St. Louis Cathedral Concert Series and is the managing director of the Union Avenue Opera Theater. At the International Conference of Symphony and Opera Musicians meeting in August of 2002, Mr. Gippo was overwhelmingly elected Chairman. Looking Forward to Meeting You!!