Join Dr. Eftihia Arkoudis, Music Business & Entrepreneurship lecturer at University of Florida, as she presents her workshop “Your Career Begins Now!” which aims to encourage young professionals to shift to an entrepreneurial mindset and take inspired action that will allow them to put together the building blocks of their career while still pursuing their music studies. Tampere Flute Festival members will have the chance to attend a series of six (6) online events with masterclass teachers and artists Anni Kallioniemi, Noemi Gyori, Josephine Olech, Dr. Julee Walker, Karin Bonelli, and Dr. Eftihia Arkoudis.

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The flute trio 3Pirouetten has been invited to perform during the biannual and prestigious award ceremony of the Walter Hasenclever Preis in Aachen, Germany. The Walter Hasenclever Literature Prize helps keep alive the legacy and significance of Walter Hasenclever in German literature and supports contemporary authors who write in his spirit. In 2023, the recipient of the prize is Norbert Sheuer. Rainer Berger, Eftihia Arkoudis, and Daniela Mars will be performing original works by German composer and flautist Rainer Berger for flute, alto, bass, and contrabass flute.

51st ANNUAL NATIONAL FLUTE ASSOCIATION CONVENTION “BEYOND BORDERS”

More hands make lighter work! This panel will address sustainable ways to structure your flute club, flute choir, or other arts organization. Explore structures of diverse groups, learn about how to find resources for 501c3 organizations, and discuss strategies to help prevent burnout in leadership roles. Panelists: Hilary Janysek, Eftihia Arkoudis, Ben Carlee, Maeve McGonigal, Delandria Mills, Heather Neuenschwander. Room 228 AB.

Full 2023 Schedule

CRS presents the award-winning contemporary flute ensemble BETA Quartet, who will perform a program featuring the world premiere of "Where We Come From" by Detroit-based saxophonist/composer Marcus Elliot, a piece commissioned by BETA Quartet. "Where We Come From" is a 4-movement work that centers around the Divine Feminine theme and demonstrates the power, beauty, and grace that embodies female energy and Mother Nature.

Described as "chamber music at its finest" by Kenneth Tse and "unique and virtuosic" by Barbara Siesel, BETA Quartet is an award-winning ensemble comprised of flutists Eftihia Arkoudis, Tatiana Cassetta, Alyssa Schwartz, and Meg Brennan.

The concert will take place in the award-winning White Room at CRS. Please note that the venue is accessible only via a flight of stairs and is not wheelchair accessible. Proof of vaccination is not required but the wearing of masks is encouraged. If not sold out, tickets will also be available at the door for cash only.

Marcus Elliot is a saxophonist, composer, improviser, and educator based in Detroit, Michigan. Marcus is a 2020 Kresge Artist Fellow, awarded by Kresge Arts in Detroit. He is the current director of the University of Michigan's Creative Arts Orchestra. His compositions and improvisations have been described by the New York Times as "convincing and confident, evolved in touch and tone...", and the Detroit Free Press has said, "Marcus Elliot represents next generation of jazz". Elliot leads and co-leads many different Detroit based bands including the Marcus Elliot Quartet, Clockwork, Balance, Beyond Rebellious, and Lanula. Elliot performs in the Shigeto Live Ensemble. He is a Fellow of the Geri Allen Gathering Orchestra. He co-founded the nonprofit Polyfold Musical Arts Collective. Elliot is the director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's Civic Jazz Ensembles. Elliot received his master's degree in improvisation from the University of Michigan.

https://www.marcuselliotmusic.com

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CRS (CENTER FOR REMEMBERING & SHARING) is a spiritual healing and art center founded in 2004 by the writer/lecturer/spiritual counselor Yasuko Kasaki and artist Christopher Pelham. Our mission is guided by A Course in Miracles (ACIM). ACIM says that recognizing that you and your brother are actually one is the only way to experience peace. The mission of CRS is to promote the awareness that limitless creativity lives within each of us. We train minds to recognize the light in themselves and others and provide them opportunities to share their inner vision through the healing and creative arts. Since its founding CRS has provided numerous residencies and performance and exhibition opportunities to artists from all over the world. Currently, CRS is a multi-year sponsor of M³ (Mutual Mentorship for Musicians), a platform created to empower, elevate, normalize and give visibility to women, non-binary musicians and those of other historically underrepresented gender identities in intersection with race, sexuality, or ability across generations in the US and worldwide, through a radical model of mentorship and musical collaborative commissions.

https://crsny.org

The WVU Chamber Players, made of up of the School of Music's outstanding performing faculty, presents this concert of two works: Prokofiev's "Quintet Op 39," for oboe, clarinet, violin, viola, double bass and Kurt Weill's "Little ThreePenny Music," a setting for instruments of the portions of Weill's "Threepenny Opera," which includes the famous "Mack the Knife!”

Rainer Berger, Eftihia Arkoudis, and Daniela Mars re-unite for a summer tour in the states of Trier-Saarburg and Nordrhein-Westfallen in Germany. The concerts will feature contemporary works by German composer and flautist Rainer Berger alongside works composed by J.S. Bach and arranged for flute trio by Rainer Berger in an instrumentation that uses the flute, alto, bass, and contrabass flute.

Program

Original works by Rainer Berger

laufmaschendrahtlos for flute and alto flute

60mm for two bass flutes

signs of spring for alto and bass flute

Haus Kraut & Haus Bau, Pirouetten (mvmt 1-3), Wasser Werk (mvmt 1-2), Happy Birds for flute, alto flute and bass flute

Original and arranged works by J.S. Bach

Partita in A minor, BWV 1013 for unaccompanied flute

Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565,

Organ Sonata No.2 in C minor, BWV 526

Badinerie from Orchestral Suite No.2 in B minor, BWV 1067

arranged for flute, alto/bass, and contrabass flute

Rainer Berger, Eftihia Arkoudis, and Daniela Mars re-unite for a summer tour in the states of Trier-Saarburg and Nordrhein-Westfallen in Germany. The concerts will feature contemporary works by German composer and flautist Rainer Berger alongside works composed by J.S. Bach and arranged for flute trio by Rainer Berger in an instrumentation that uses the flute, alto, bass, and contrabass flute.

Program

Original works by Rainer Berger

laufmaschendrahtlos for flute and alto flute

60mm for two bass flutes

signs of spring for alto and bass flute

Haus Kraut & Haus Bau, Pirouetten (mvmt 1-3), Wasser Werk (mvmt 1-2), Happy Birds for flute, alto flute and bass flute

Original and arranged works by J.S. Bach

Partita in A minor, BWV 1013 for unaccompanied flute

Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565,

Organ Sonata No.2 in C minor, BWV 526

Badinerie from Orchestral Suite No.2 in B minor, BWV 1067

arranged for flute, alto/bass, and contrabass flute

Rainer Berger, Eftihia Arkoudis, and Daniela Mars re-unite for a summer tour in the states of Trier-Saarburg and Nordrhein-Westfallen in Germany. The concerts will feature contemporary works by German composer and flautist Rainer Berger alongside works composed by J.S. Bach and arranged for flute trio by Rainer Berger in an instrumentation that uses the flute, alto, bass, and contrabass flute.

Program

Original works by Rainer Berger

laufmaschendrahtlos for flute and alto flute

60mm for two bass flutes

signs of spring for alto and bass flute

Haus Kraut & Haus Bau, Pirouetten (mvmt 1-3), Wasser Werk (mvmt 1-2), Happy Birds for flute, alto flute and bass flute

Original and arranged works by J.S. Bach

Partita in A minor, BWV 1013 for unaccompanied flute

Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565,

Organ Sonata No.2 in C minor, BWV 526

Badinerie from Orchestral Suite No.2 in B minor, BWV 1067

arranged for flute, alto/bass, and contrabass flute

Rainer Berger, Eftihia Arkoudis, and Daniela Mars re-unite for a summer tour in the states of Trier-Saarburg and Nordrhein-Westfallen in Germany. The concerts will feature contemporary works by German composer and flautist Rainer Berger alongside works composed by J.S. Bach and arranged for flute trio by Rainer Berger in an instrumentation that uses the flute, alto, bass, and contrabass flute.

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Program

Original works by Rainer Berger

laufmaschendrahtlos for flute and alto flute

60mm for two bass flutes

signs of spring for alto and bass flute

Haus Kraut & Haus Bau, Pirouetten (mvmt 1-3), Wasser Werk (mvmt 1-2), Happy Birds for flute, alto flute and bass flute

Original and arranged works by J.S. Bach

Partita in A minor, BWV 1013 for unaccompanied flute

Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565,

Organ Sonata No.2 in C minor, BWV 526

Badinerie from Orchestral Suite No.2 in B minor, BWV 1067

arranged for flute, alto/bass, and contrabass flute

Rainer Berger, Eftihia Arkoudis, and Daniela Mars re-unite for a summer tour in the states of Trier-Saarburg and Nordrhein-Westfallen in Germany. The concerts will feature contemporary works by German composer and flautist Rainer Berger alongside works composed by J.S. Bach and arranged for flute trio by Rainer Berger in an instrumentation that uses the flute, alto, bass, and contrabass flute.

Purchase Tickets

Program

Original works by Rainer Berger

laufmaschendrahtlos for flute and alto flute

60mm for two bass flutes

signs of spring for alto and bass flute

Haus Kraut & Haus Bau, Pirouetten (mvmt 1-3), Wasser Werk (mvmt 1-2), Happy Birds for flute, alto flute and bass flute

Original and arranged works by J.S. Bach

Partita in A minor, BWV 1013 for unaccompanied flute

Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565,

Organ Sonata No.2 in C minor, BWV 526

Badinerie from Orchestral Suite No.2 in B minor, BWV 1067

arranged for flute, alto/bass, and contrabass flute

Join Colombia-based flutist, Carmen Marulanda, in an interactive workshop exploring musically stimulating new resources for low flute players. Carmen will introduce her practice books, Traversuras for Flute and Piano + Play-Along Collection published by Liliflute Music; a book series that provides progressive work on sound, intonation, and phrasing.

Dr. Eftihia Arkoudis has been invited to perform as a guest artist for the Music at Penn Alps Summer Series in Grantsville, MD. The highlight of the recital will be the world premiere of a work commissioned by Music at Penn Alps and dedicated to Dr. Arkoudis as part of the 4th Annual Music at Penn Alps Chamber Music Commission. Composer Mr. Zach Gulaboff Davis has been named the winner of the chamber music commission competition and is partnering with Dr. Arkoudis to create a work for flute, bassoon, and piano. Mr. Gulaboff Davis is also a winner of the 2020 Flute New Music Consortium Composition Competition.

MUSIC AT PENN ALPS

SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: EFTIHIA ARKOUDIS

PROGRAM

“To Greet the Sun” for Solo Flute                                                                  Katherive Hoover (1937-2018)

First Sonata for Flute and Piano                                                                    Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959)

I. Allegro Moderato

II. Adagio

III. Allegro Poco Moderato

Joseph Yungen, Piano

Crosswind: A Concerto Grosso for Three                                                       Zach Gulaboff Davis (b. 1991)

For Flute, Bassoon, and Piano

*World premiere*

André Januário, Bassoon

Joseph Yungen, Piano

Brief Intermission

Au-delà du Temps for Two Flutes and Piano                                                  Yuko Uebayashi (b. 1958)

I. La lumière lointaine de nuit (The distant light of the night)

II. La lumière dansante (The dancing light)

III. La lumière blanche (The white light)

IV. La lumière tournante dans le rêve (The rotating light in the dream)

Alyssa Schwartz, flute

Joseph Yungen, Piano

Grand Polonaise in D major for Flute and Piano, Op. 16                   Theobald Boehm (1794-1881)

Joseph Yungen, Piano

A recital celebrating the career of WVU School of Music Professor David Taddie will be held on Wednesday, April 13, at 8 p.m. in the Falbo Theatre at the Canady Creative Arts Center. The concert will feature original works composed in the time span of Taddie's 30 year career, including two world premieres, performed by WVU faculty, alumni, and guest artists.

I have the honor of participating in the world premiere of “Ghost House (Robert Forst)” for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble and “Category 5 (Echoes)” for live electronics, violin, flute, alto flute, and piccolo.

BETA Quartet will be premiering 20 new fanfares dedicated to all ICU workers around the world. We will be partnering with the Society of Critical Care Medicine and will be accepting donations, 100% of which will go to SCCM. The event is sponsored by Fairmont State University and Jon Cummings. The performance will be in-person and also live-streamed on Facebook and YouTube - click here.

If donating to this purposes aligns with your mission, consider doing so at https://bit.ly/3IFQnAO

Works to be performed:

Fanfare by Evgenios Anastasiadis; With Hope by Jessica Atwell; Fanfare for Healthcare Workers by Ron Baptiste; Listen Up by Rainer Berger; Frontline Fanfare by Brennen Blotner; Like a Phoenix by Manuel Carranza; I See You by Owen Davitt; Nascent Fanfare Within the Halls of an ICU by Leif Kristian Ericson; Acclaim by John Gibson; Fanfare for the Unflinching by Amanda Herold; Fanfare for the Selflessness by Vorapon Mathawaphan; BETA Fanfare by Sofia Mavrogenidou; A Fanfare for Heroes by Brent Olstad; Fanfare for the Unappreciated by Anthony Panebianco; Fanfare for the Caring by Stephanie Rempel; Fanfare for the ICU Workers by Livio Segnini; Brothers and Sisters by Alessandro Spazzoli; Here Comes the Heroes by Marcos Stuardo; I quattro Balcani o I quattro vulcani by Evangelia Velli-Kosma; Merci by Raphaelle Zaneboni

Performing with the Black Diamond Philarmonic on Saturday, December 4 at 8 PM, at the Monongalia Arts Center in Morgantown, WV. The concert “Nachtmusik” will feature works by Gaetano Donizetti, Roger Peterson, a world premiere by Kyle Simpson, and Mozart.

PROGRAM:

Sinfonia for double wind quintet
Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848)

In Dreams
Roger Peterson (b. 1976)

Along the New River Gorge*
Premier by Kyle Simpson (b. 1980)

Serenade no. 12, K. 388/ 384a
W.A. Mozart (1756 - 1791)

For more information: https://www.blackdiamondphil.com/concerts.html

Rainer Berger, Eftihia Arkoudis, and Daniela Mars, members of the 3Pirouetten ensemble perform live at the LVR Freilichtmuseum Kommern, in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

The concert is free and open to the public and the ensemble will perform Haus Kraut, Haus Bau, Pirouetten, and Wasser Werk for flute, alto flute, and bass flute.

All works were written during the first pandemic lockdown in Germany in 2020 and are inspired by baroque music, the rhythms of eletronic dance music, and the techniques of beatboxing.

Rainer Berger, Eftihia Arkoudis, and Daniela Mars, members of the 3Pirouetten ensemble perform live at the Burghaus & Villa Kronenburg in Dahlem, Germany.

The concert is free and open to the public and the ensemble will perform Haus Kraut, Haus Bau, Pirouetten, and Wasser Werk for flute, alto flute, and bass flute.

All works were written during the first pandemic lockdown in Germany in 2020 and are inspired by baroque music, the rhythms of eletronic dance music, and the techniques of beatboxing.

BETA Quartet performs virtually at the 2021 Southeast Michigan Flute Association Flute Ensemble Festival as one of the featured artists for this annual event. The group will present a selection of works from their sophomore album, such as “Umoja” by Valerie Coleman, “Flock” by Flutronix, “Little Suite of Mythological Beings” by Anze Rozman, “Payadora” by Julian Plaza, and “Constellations” by Kurton Harrisson III.