Summer 2011 Dates: June 15-22, 2011
Base price: $1,740.00 plus transcontinental air. 8 days – 6 nights; 1:10 free sponsor package and Travel insurance
(**estimate: LAX or DEN – LHR total cost =$3,270.00 per person)**
Air fare is bid through AdvantEdge Tours—official agent for Dramart Productions, and based on destination city to London.
The Dramart World Flute Tour is a customized trip and can be adjusted as per sponsor request. Additional dates for November, Thanksgiving break 2010 and 2011 are available.
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2011 World Flute Tour London UK/Scotland
2011 Summer Dates: June 15-22, 2011
Call W L Whaley: 720-226-8082
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8 Days - 6 Nights Program Highlights
DAY 1 - arrival into London, transfer to hotel, welcome meeting, familiarization, dinner, Workshop in hotel with Melissa Lotspeich, Dramart Flute Tour Representative
DAY 2 - London Tour, Albert Hall, Shakespeare's Globe, dinner, West End Theater Show
DAY 3 - Masterclass Workshop with Wissam Boustany, St Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, dinner, West End Theater Show
DAY 4 - Coach to Manchester, Masterclass with Peter Lloyd , dinner, relax
DAY 5 - Coach to Edinburgh, Edinburgh Castle, Holyrood, dinner, group performance
DAY 6 - Flute Workshop with Ruth Morley, coach to York, dinner and York Walking Tour
DAY 7 - York Minster visit then coach to London for return flight
Master Classes with Wissam Boustany, Peter Lloyd and Ruth Morley
24 hour Dramart representative with tour
Coach transfers and tube passes included
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Peter Lloyd
Peter Lloyd, former principal flute with the London Symphony, studied at the Royal College of Music, London and with Fernand Caratge and Jean-Pierre Rampal in Paris, as well as lessons and masterclasses with Marcel Moyse and Geoffrey Gilbert. He held principal flute positions in the Scottish National, Halle, and BBC Philharmonic Orchestras before joining the London Symphony in 1967. He is a member of the Barry Tuckwell Wind Quintet, the London Virtuosi and the English Taskin Players, groups with whom he tours extensively. Recently released is his recording of French music to add to albums of wind quintets and concertos by Siegmeister and John Williams and he has taken part in hundreds of orchestral recordings with the London Symphony and smaller groups. He has taught in Scotland, the Guildhall School in London, University of Indiana and is presently teaching at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. He also gives masterclasses and recitals throughout Europe and the Far East.
WISSAM BOUSTANY - FLUTE
Profile
Wissam Boustany has established an international career as a concert artist and teacher touring South and North America, Europe and the Middle/Far East. In 1995 Wissam Boustany founded the initiative Towards Humanity which uses music as a catalyst to support humanitarian projects on an international scale (further information available).
One of only a few flutists to have launched a successful career as an international soloist, Wissam Boustany is a performer who inspires audiences with his energetic and communicative music-making. His flute has taken him on numerous tours to Europe, the Middle-East, Far East, USA and Latin America, where he continues to present many concerts, master-classes and workshops. He embraces a wide repertoire, and has developed a keen interest in introducing the music of today within the context of imaginative program planning, which combines the innovative with the traditional. Amongst the composers who have written for him: Beat Furrer, Alun Hoddinott, Simon Holt, Tarek Younis, Carl Witt, Houtaf Khoury, Bushra el-Turk and Boghos Gelalian. He has also given the world premieres of Paul Reade's Concerto, Houtaf Khoury’s Mirror of Eternity, Walid Howrani's Life Cycle, Peter Cowdrey's Land of the Prophets and Carl Witt’s This Invisible World. As an orchestral musician, Wissam Boustany was closely associated with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in the early 1980s, with whom he appeared as soloist on the award winning Deutsche Grammophone recording of 'Il Viaggio a Rheims'. Four solo CDs are currently also available: Wandering Winds, Sounds from Within, Vivaldi’s Children and Mirror of Eternity.
Born in Lebanon, Wissam Boustany began his musical studies in Beirut with his stepfather. He moved to Britain in 1977 where he studied at Chetham's School of Music & the Royal Northern College of Music. He has received many awards, notably the Silver Medal in the 1982 Madeira International Flute Competition and (in the same year) the woodwind prize in the Royal Overseas League Competition. He was also the Silver Medallist in the Shell/LSO Competition and won the 2nd prize in the woodwind section of the first 'BBC Young Musician of the Year'.
Wissam’s experiences of the war in Lebanon have greatly influenced his outlook on both Life and Music. In 1995 he founded Towards Humanity, a multi-decade international initiative working with musicians and charities, helping communities who suffer from the tragedies of war. This project was inaugurated in February 1995 at the Royal Albert Hall, London. In 1997 he was awarded a knighthood by the Lebanese government (Chevalier de l’Ordre du Cedre) in recognition of his music and peace work. On 3rd February 1998 he was presented with the Crystal Award at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Wissam continues to use his music as a powerful healing force to open the doors of inspiration between people and nations, and help us reflect on our common humanity. Wissam stood down from Trinity College of Music in summer 2009, where he had taught for ten years, to take up his new role as Chairman of the British Flute Society and concentrate on his recital tours.
RUTH MORLEY trained at The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama with David Nicholson, and at The Royal Northern College of Music with Peter Lloyd. She has won prizes from the Hattori Foundation, Soroptamist International, Wingate Scholarships and has broadcast for Radio 3, Radio Scotland and been a featured artist on Classic FM. She has worked with many chamber groups including The Edinburgh Quartet, The Hebrides Ensemble, and from 2002 to 2006 she worked extensively with the Paragon Ensemble. She has performed all over the UK, France and Germany including at The Edinburgh International Festival, Musica Nova, Edinburgh Harp Festival, St Magnus Festival, Le Weekend, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Ken, Cubed at The Traverse as well as concerts in Warsaw and Leipzig. Ruth teaches at the RSAMD and is director of the Scottish International Flute Summer School.
Melissa Lotspeich
Selections from Melissa (click to listen):
Ian Clarke: The Great Train Race
J S Bach: Partita in A minor, movement III: Sarabande
Lowell Liebermann: Sonata Op. 23, movement II: Presto energico
melissa.lotspeich@gmail.com Dramart World Flute Tour Representative
Biography: Admired for her unique sound, fast articulation and fluid technique, flutist Melissa Lotspeich is celebrated for her multi dimensional career of performance and pedagogy. Ms. Lotspeich has been invited to play in several different orchestras and ensembles in Colorado, such as the Colorado College Summer Music Festival Orchestra, Greeley Philharmonic, Longmont Symphony, Denver Philharmonic, as well as the professional Denver Municipal Band. For the last five years, Ms. Lotspeich has been a member of Waves of Peace, a duo for flute and Japanese koto, and has performed throughout Colorado and Wyoming. These opportunities are a wonderful supplement to the ensemble demands at the University of Colorado, where she is working to finish her doctoral degree. In addition to her blossoming performance career, Ms. Lotspeich has been teaching privately for nearly twelve years. Her students enjoy frequent master classes with guest artists, group classes, and recitals. Beyond the private studio, Ms. Lotspeich has worked with several high school programs, and has been particularly dedicated to Pomona High School, where she has been on staff for the last nine years. At the various schools, Ms. Lotspeich is sought after for her pedagogic tactics in working with the flute fundamentals in a group setting, and has been hired repeatedly to give clinics.
Ms. Lotspeich is currently working towards a Doctorate of Musical Arts at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she studies with Christina Jennings. In addition to Ms. Jennings, Ms. Lotspeich has studied with Pamela Endsley, Peter Lloyd, Michelle Stanley, Maralyn Prestia, Bonnie Graham, Elizabeth Singleton, Alexa Still, and Kenichi Ueda. Additionally, Ms. Lotspeich has played in numerous masterclasses given by flutists such as William Bennett, Trevor Wye, Leone Buyse, Ian Clarke, James Pellerite, Baroque flutist Steven Preston, and Koichi Ito.
Amongst her numerous achievements throughout her career, Ms. Lotspeich recently won the Bruce Ekstrand Memorial Competition in 2009. This prestigious competition is open to all graduate students at the University of Colorado. With the scholarship awarded from this competition, Ms. Lotspeich was able to travel to Scotland to further her studies in flute at The Scottish International Flute Summer School. During this course, Ms. Lotspeich studied privately with Ian Clarke and Wissam Boustany, and also attended classes given by Ruth Morley.