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November 6-7
2010 Flute Master Class with
Yamaha Performing Artist and Clinician Tracy Harris.
Guest Artists Dr. John Barcellona
and Mary Karen Clardy.
St. Nicholas Ranch and Retreat Center in Dunlap, CA
Also featuring: Svetlana Harris, Piano
Wendy LeBlanc, Harp | Todd Harris, Composer
Play Level: Intermediate to Professional
Ages: Age 12 to Adult
Focus: Baroque, Romantic, Classical, Contemporary
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Flute Master Class With Tracy Harris
Class Information:
This exciting two-day master class features master classes with Yamaha Performing Artist and Clinician Tracy Harris with world renowned guest artists. The class also includes orchestral excerpt classes, performance practice classes, flute choir classes, ensemble practice classes, flute and harp classes and much more, all offered in a nurturing, supportive environment. Yamaha Prizes are awarded each year to the top three performers. A special Gala Concert will be open to the public on the last evening of the class, and includes all members of the class, as well as the Guest Artists, Piano, and Harp.
The class is open to intermediate to professional level students, 12 years of age to Adult. Auditors are most welcome, however, space it limited to 25 performers and 45 auditors! Please contact us for more information and how to apply for the 2010 Tracy Harris Flute Masterclass.
If you are ready to apply now, click here to fill out our application.
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Contact Information
Contact us via Mail:
Mrs. Sandra Harris
Class Treasurer
P.O. Box 3326
Visalia California, 93278
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E-mail: TracyHarrisFlute@Yahoo.com |
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| Wendy LeBlanc: Class Administrator |
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Ms. Harris is well known for her expressive, rich tone and superb interpretation of flute music. She combines "liquid technique, endless tone colors and the soul of a seasoned artist leaving audiences breathless with her profound and moving interpretations" of the great composers from all ages. Among her many professional venues, Tracy has played on PBS with members of Sting, soloed at NFA conventions and recorded for Disney Films. In addition, Tracy has soloed with or held principal chairs in dozens of orchestras such as The Santa Barbara Symphony, Pacific Coast Chamber Orchestra and the Santa Maria Symphony and has performed in numerous chamber groups and mixed ensembles. In addition, Ms. Harris has played on National Public Radio with her sister-in-law, gold-medal winning Concert Pianist Svetlana Rudikova-Harris, and also with her sister, fellow New-England Conservatory trained Harpist Wendy Harris-LeBlanc in their award winning group The Wyndfall Trio. The Wyndfall Trio performs internationally and holds master classes and clinics all over the country performing with seasoned guest artists on flute, piano and harp. Ms. Harris has most recently performed in a world premiere work at the 2010 NFA convention. She has also performed with John Barcellona, Chris Caliendo, and Bruce Kiesling. Ms. Harris will be giving master classes in Texas, New York and Washington in 2011.
Ms. Harris is a passionate educator and advocate for the musical youth in our country and is a highly sought after clinician for Yamaha; giving performance workshops and clinics throughout the country. Ms. Harris founded the popular Tracy Harris Flute Boot Camps providing flute clinics throughout the year to hundreds of aspiring flutists as a free service to young flutists throughout Central California. In addition to her lectures and solo performances, Tracy makes time to perform in or sponsor many benefit concerts to assist both local and national charitable organizations and causes. She regularly lends her talents to local performance groups and organizations including; local symphonies, wind ensembles and musical organizations from PBS, TKMEA to the Tulare County Symphony. Ms. Harris gives flute clinics to numerous flute sections throughout the state and is a highly sought after judge for county and state competitions such as CBDA.
Tracy also founded and is the Artistic Director for the Wyndfall Chamber Music Series giving five concerts per season and the WyndFall Flute Orchestra with over fifty flutists, two concert harps, piano and cello, and she is the flute/piccolo lecturer at the Wyndfall Conservatory of Music where she maintains a thriving private studio in Central California and as a result of her individualized approach with each student, Ms. Harris' students regularly win county/state band and orchestral competitions of all kinds. Ms. Harris also conducts her own series of renowned flute master classes including the annual Tracy Harris Flute Master Class in its 8th year as of 2010. Each year musical luminaries from throughout the country are invited to teach and perform with students selected from around the world. Among Tracy's guest artists: Yamaha Performing Artists and Clinicians Jim Walker and Mary-Karen Clardy, Muramatsu Artist Dr. John Barcellona and Miyazawa Artist Tadeu Coelho.
Tracy has studied with some of the world's greatest masters of the flute. After being awarded a performance scholarship Tracy attended the famous Music Academy of the West with legendary flutist and teacher Dr. Julius Baker, himself a Yamaha Artist, who was so taken with Tracy's abilities that he invited her to attend the Juilliard School of Music when she was just sixteen. Next, she attended the prestigious New England Conservatory of Music in Boston where she studied with renowned flutist and conductor Claude Monteux, son of conducting titan Pierre Monteux, and has performed in Master Classes with such wonderful artists as James Pellerite, Jean-Pierre Rampal and one of her mentors Julius Baker. Ms. Harris also studied with Jill Felber at the University of California in Santa Barbara, and has also studied with Jim Walker and Ann Zentner. Besides her music degree which she received with high-honors, Ms. Harris has received numerous awards and honors from such organizations as The National Society of Arts and Letters, The Santa Barbara Foundation, The Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation, the American Scandinavian Foundation, the New England Conservatory of Music, and The Edith Pillsbury Foundation.
Yamaha Instruments Ms. Harris currently performs on:
- C Flute - A custom 892H Julius Baker Model sterling silver flute with 14k gold-plated keys and the headjoint is a "K" cut and is 14k gold.
- Piccolo - YPC-81R with a wave style headjoint.
- Bass Flute - YFL-B441
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About Dr. John Barcellona, "The Flute Doctor"
Professional Recording Artist and Professor of Flute,
Muramatsu Performing Artist: Guest Artist 2010
Dr. JOHN BARCELLONA is Professor of Flute and Director of Woodwind Studies at California State University Long Beach, and flutist with the internationally acclaimed Westwood Wind Quintet (recordings on Columbia, Crystal and WIM labels). The Quintet is currently recording the 24 complete wind quintets by Anton Reicha – a 12 CD set on Crystal. He has recently recorded a CD of Chrisopher Caliendo’s trio music with the Caliendo Trio:Christopher Caliendo-guitar and Ian Flatt-cello. An active freelance musician in southern California, he has played Principal Flute with the Pacific Symphony and many international ballet companies. His solo album, Is this the way to Carnegie Hall? (with Calvin Smith – horn) was nominated to the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for a Grammy award. John is a former member of the Moyse Duo with pianist, Louis Moyse. He has been a Muramatsu Performing Artist for over 25 years. He has written a regular column in Flute Talk magazine entitled, “The Flute Doctor”. This is the first time the magazine has run a complete flute pedagogy series of articles. John Barcellona received his Bachelor of Music from the Hartt School of Music, Master of Arts from California State University Long Beach, and Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Southern California.
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Mary Karen Clardy: International Soloist, Chamber Artist , Author, and Teacher, Guest Artist 2010
Mary Karen Clardy, Professor of Flute at the University of North Texas, appears throughout the United States, Great Britain, Europe, the Far East, and South America as a soloist, chamber artist and teacher. A frequent performer for the NFA, including Boston, Dallas, Denver, New Orleans, Orlando, Phoenix, San Diego, St. Louis, Seattle, Washington, D. C., and Los Angeles, she has also appeared twice at the British Flute Society’s international conventions. Ms. Clardy’s newest recording on the EPR Label (Solos and Sonatinas) features the world premier recording of Steven Harlos’s Sonata Rubata, and she recorded a solo recital of American music for the BBC’s Radio 3, including works of Copland, Liebermann, and Barber. Renowned as a teacher, she regularly gives master classes at home and abroad, including Shanghai’s Conservatory of Music, London’s Royal and Trinity Colleges; Conservatorio da Venizia and Boccherini Institute in Italy; and Oberlin, Yale, and Manhattan Schools. By invitation of the Ministry of Culture, she has taught in Taiwan’s Summer Music Institute, and her students have been prize-winners in competitions throughout the world, including Rampal., NFA, MTNA, Markneukirchen, and Flute Talk. Ms. Clardy’s three books available from European American are in multiple reprint, and her edition of Altès Daily Exercises, published by Leduc, is available for the first time separate from the Complete Method. Recent publications include Classic Duets 2 and Classic Solos for Flute from Universal Edition and Fauré Melodies, Volumes 2 and 3 from Leduc. 2006 scheduled appearances include tours to Brazil, Asia, and Flute!™ Events in California, Colorado, and Texas.
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Resident Composer for the Tracy Harris Flute Master Class: Todd Harris
(Click on this link for samples of Dr. Harris's recent musical and literary work.)
Students will have the opportunity to learn a new piece by a contemporary composer who will interact with the student performers and help them to understand the composer’s viewpoint.
Dr. Todd Harris has written music and poetry since his childhood. He lives and works in California, with his family and wife, Svetlana, a Russian Concert pianist. Dr. Harris is a commissioned composer and a research scientist, Director/Physicist at the Pacific Institute For Advanced Studies. He is completing his book on Sonology. His poems have been published in numerous books. Dr. Harris has pioneered in the development of contemporary composition. He developed the Modular Tonal system of composition and has written ten major piano concertos and several orchestral and chamber works using his new system. His works have been performed by major artists and concert orchestras.
Mr. Harris received his B.A. in Physics and Music from the University of California at Santa Barbara where he studied with composer Peter Fricker. He received his PhD. in Music and Literature from Sussex University in England.
Dr. Harris was awarded grants from the Edith Pillsbury Foundation for work on his Modular Tonal System and its application through his Piano Concerto #1. Mr. Harris is registered as a composing member of the Santa Barbara Chapter of the National Federation of Music Clubs. He is also a member of Sigma Pi Sigma, the National Physics Honor Society, and is listed in "Young Community Leaders of America."
In the recent notes written for the premieres of his works in Visalia’s Fox Theatre
Harris Speaks about his Sonology Theory:
"The purpose of all of my theory is to provide the modern composer with a compass, to guide him and to ensure that he will not be left unguided when he wanders from the familiar world of tonality to the new families of notes that make up today’s aesthetic. Modulation is controlled by new and more complete rules, and its underlying principles reborn into the world of modern consonances and dissonances. The New World of today’s sound is as unfamiliar and unexplained as the sounds of Bach’s time, before counterpoint was truly formalized - where formally there were no guides through the wilderness of note mixes which were undefined by traditional or conventional means, Bach brought order and rules to work in his sonic world. Centuries later, faced with a new sound crisis, Schoenberg spoke of his rules as providing an emancipation for dissonance. Today I speak of rebirth and salvation and even re-incarnation of modulation. Our new freedom comes in a time of post-post chromatic, and serial practice. I go beyond but include memes such as traditional scales and church modes. My theory explains musical anomalies of the past, while providing directions for the future. It explains, using recent advances in Brain theory, the discovery of what makes something sonorous versus chaotic or discordant. This understanding gives the composer the ability to govern and control his materials so that he can retain sonorousness without losing personal identity. There is no sacrifice of personal uniqueness - these rules are not stone-dwelling. Rather, the uniqueness will simply sound more controlled and less haphazardly experimental. Composers will understand how to shape their Modulations so that they become a matter of inclusion, and where exclusion is necessary to preserve a desired direction of motion."
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Staff Accompanist for the Tracy Harris Flute Master Class: Concert Pianist, Svetlana Rudikova-Harris
Svetlana "Lana" Harris' performances have been described as "outstanding" and "magical". She has been featured as a concert pianist, choral conductor, composer, vocal music arranger, and vocal accompanist in over 160 concerts in Russia, its adjoining countries such as Ukraine and Georgia as well as the United States. Mrs. Harris has lived in the United States for over 9 years and is well versed in Western pedagogical techniques. Mrs. Harris graduated with the Highest Honors from the Krasnodar Academy of Arts and Culture in Krasnodar, Russia, with a Masters Degree in Piano Performance, Piano Accompaniment and Choral Conducting in 1990. Mrs. Harris served as assistant chairperson of the Opera department in the Academy as well as Chairperson of the Vocal Accompaniment Department. Mrs. Harris has performed with such renowned artists as Alexander Malinin, Concert Pianist with the Moscow Conservatory of Music, Sergei Dorensky, Concert Pianist with the Moscow Conservatory, Natalia Kirichenko, Concert Soloist and Chief of the Vocal department of the Krasnodar Academy of Music. Mrs. Harris is the winner of many competitions, both national and international and has received various gold medal awards for outstanding performance. Mrs. Harris has held the position of staff accompanist for the College of the Sequoias music department and is a highly sought after vocal and instrumental accompanist. She is also the accompanist for Yamaha Performing Artist Tracy Harris and is the pianist in the award winning Wyndfall Trio. Mrs. Harris has played with the Santa Maria Symphony and the Tulare County Symphony among others.
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Staff Accompanist for the Tracy Harris Flute Master Class: Concert Harpist-Wendy Leblanc
Wendy LeBlanc is an accomplished and award winning concert harpist and currently concertizes extensively with her award winning trio called "Wyndfall" performing with her sister Tracy Harris, Yamaha Performing Artist and Concert Flutist, and her sister-in-law Russian concert pianist Svetlana Rudikova-Harris.
Ms. LeBlanc combines extensive experience as a soloist, duo with flute, orchestral, show and chamber musician, performing in concert halls and private venues across the country as well as for hundreds of special events and festivals. As an accomplished soloist and orchestral musician, Wendy has performed concertos or has held principal chairs with many different ensembles including: Coastal Valley’s Symphony Orchestra, the Pacific Coast Chamber Orchestra, the Santa Maria Symphony, the Santa Ynez Valley Orchestra, Santa Barbara Harp Ensemble, the Prisms New Music Ensemble, the Music Academy Symphony Orchestra, the Santa Barbara Opera Theater, the Lompoc Performing Arts Society, the Town and Gown Chamber Music Series at the Faulkner Gallery, and the Tulare County Symphony Orchestra to name but a few. In addition, Wendy has made recordings with the Pacific Coast Chamber Orchestra and the PCPA Theaterfest and is currently recording with the Wyndfall Trio.
Ms. LeBlanc was invited to attend the Juilliard School of Music when she was just 15, and attended the prestigious New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. She is also a graduate of the famous Music Academy of the West. Ms. LeBlanc has won many local and national honors including; winner of the National Society of Arts and Letters grant competition, winner of the Pillsbury Foundation scholarship competition three years in a row, winner of the UCSB Music Affiliates award, the Music Academy of the West scholarship award, the New England Conservatory of Music scholarship award, and the UCSB Music Affiliates award, to name a few. Wendy is also a member of the Golden Key National Honors Society, and is also a member of the prestigious 3000-member American Harp Society.
Ms. LeBlanc studied harp with master teachers including Ann Hobson-Pilot, renowned recording artist and principal harpist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops. Ms. Leblanc also studied with Suzanne Balderston, master harpist, recording artist, composer, and author of numerous books on harp instruction, and master harpist Mary Jane Barton, a professional RCA studio recording artists and Los Angeles Philharmonic performer. Ms. Barton studied under the world-renowned harpist and composer Carlos Salzedo and played under the baton of Leopold Stokowski of the historically renowned NBC orchestra.
Ms. LeBlanc is also a harp instructor, and currently teaches in her private studio in Tulare County. In addition, she owns her own retail business dedicated to the beauty, elegance and long history of the harp called CraftyHarp. Ms. LeBlanc designs all of the original artwork in the Gallery and personally manufactures exclusive gifts and crafts for the harp and music industry. www.CraftyHarp.com.
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Master Class Location and Accommodations (2010)
St. Nicholas Ranch and Retreat Center is a conference and retreat center located in Dunlap, California, 40 miles east of Fresno. Rolling hills, ancient oaks, a small lake, an apple orchard and an olive grove provide gorgeous natural surroundings.
Nestled on 230 acres of what was once a working horse ranch, the lodges, meeting spaces and recreational facilities provide for very comfortable accommodations surrounded by rugged landscape.
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