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I’m really excited to announce that Northern Westchester Flutes has been invited to perform at the National Flute Association Annual Convention in Washington, DC, this summer!! Back in 2009 (the convention was in NYC), we were selected to perform during a lunchtime lobby concert. That was an incredible experience and we are really pumped to once again be involved in such a great annual celebration of our instrument.
I thought it would be cool to document the process leading up to the convention for all my students, to see how a piece comes to fruition.
Alexander Murray is being honored at the convention this summer with a NFA Lifetime Achievement Award. As it happens, two members of NWF studied with him: Alice Avouris and myself. Each year there is a tribute concert at the convention dedicated to those receiving the Lifetime Achievement awards; Pat Zuber and Leslie Timmons are organizing the one for Alexander. Alice and I have been emailing with them for a couple of months now as they plan the works being performed. I learned that Robert Dick has worked with Alexander in recent years, which makes perfect sense: they both share a quest to better the mechanical structure of our Boehm-model flute. Once Robert got involved in the program, he asked if there was a flute choir that could accompany him on his piece “Air Alight”, and voila!, we got the invite. We can’t wait for August!