SUMMERFLUTE: music - movement - mind
What Every Flutist Needs to Know About the Body, the Alexander Technique and the Feldenkrais Method®
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Summerflute
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June 28-July 2, 2010 Summerflute returns to San Rafael, California in 2010 (check back in July 2009 for more info!) |
Summerflute
2009 lite
August 11-12, 2009
Studios
353
(353 West 48th Street 2nd Fl., New York, NY 10036)
The annual summer master class moves to New York City in 2009 for a condensed session with teachers Lea Pearson, and Liisa Ruoho.
In a fun, creative and supportive atmosphere, flutists have an unprecedented opportunity to learn through the combination of the Body Mapping course, What Every Flutist Needs to Know About the Body, evening master classes with artist teacher Liisa Ruoho, and private lessons with teachers trained to observe body use.
The Body Mapping course allows flutists the opportunity to learn how to organize their bodies freely around a musical intention. Through lectures, discussion and active participation, students learn that the quality of movement affects the quality of the musicianship.
Lea Pearson's recent book, Body Mapping for Flutists: What Every Flute Teacher Needs to Know About the Body has received extensive praise from teachers and students alike and is now being translated into Chinese and Japanese. A recipient of the D.M.A. degree from The Ohio State University, she was a 1998 Fulbright Scholar at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, where she studied with Liisa Ruoho. Formerly a performer with the South Bend Symphony, she holds a B.A. degree from Hampshire College and an M.A. from Stanford University. She has taught flute at Hillsdale, Heidelberg and Centre Colleges and at The Ohio State University. Her teachers have included Katherine Borst Jones, Frances Blaisdell and Doriot Anthony Dwyer. Lea is a certified Andover Educator.
Liisa Ruoho is known throughout Europe as a consummate performer as well as a brilliant teacher. She presents concerts throughout Europe almost monthly, and is a regular teacher at several master classes in Greece, Iceland and Finland. At the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland, Liisa is a Flute Professor, Director of the Wind Department, and Vice-Director of the Orchestral Instruments Department. Her Academy students receive 2 hours of private lessons every week, as well as weekly Body Mapping, pedagogy and performance classes. Formerly an assistant to Severino Gazzelloni in Italy, she studied with Gazzelloni and with Aurele Nicolet. Her personal study of the Alexander Technique revolutionized both her playing and teaching, and for over 40 years she has taught flutists how to use their original instrument - the body. She now presents workshops throughout Europe and is designing a joint Body Mapping course with the Sibelius Academy and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Summerflute 2009 course schedule:
Tues. August 11 from 9-5
Wed. August 12 from 9-2
Tentative schedule (subject to change):
Tues. August 11
9-1 - Body Mapping Class
1-2 - Lunch Break
2-5:30 - Liisa Ruoho Master Class
5:30-7 - Dinner Break
7-9 pm Private lessonsWednesday August 12
9-11 - Body Mapping class
11-12 - Liisa Ruoho Master Class
12-1 - Lunch Break
1-2 - Liisa Ruoho Master Class
2:15-6:15 - private lessons
Performers: Body Mapping Course, Masterclass performance for Liisa Ruoho, 1 private lesson with Lea or Liisa (up to 10 people accepted) $350
Participants - attend Body Mapping Course and Liisa's masterclass $325,
1 private lesson with or Lea or Liisa (up to 8 people)
Auditors - attend course and masterclass, no private lesson $275
Download
this application
(in pdf format) and mail it to:
Lea Pearson
3085 Kenlawn Street
Columbus Ohio 43224
USA
Please include a deposit of $150. Make your check payable to Amy Likar Masterclass.
Application
Deadline: extended to July 1, 2009.
(Performer, Participant and Auditor spots still available!)
What
is Body Mapping?
Who should attend Summerflute?
What about room and board?
What about 2010?
Can non-flutists attend Summerflute?
The body map is one's self-representation in one's own brain. If the body map is accurate, movement is good. If the body map is inaccurate or inadequate, movement is inefficient and injury-producing. In Body Mapping, one learns to gain access to one's own body map through self-observation and self-inquiry.
The student carefully corrects his or her own body map by assimilating accurate information provided by kinesthetic experience, the mirror, models, books, pictures, and teachers. One thereby learns to recognize the source of inefficient or harmful movement and how to replace it with movement that is efficient, elegant, direct, and powerful based on the truth about one's structure, function, and size.
Body Mapping was discovered by William Conable, professor of cello at the Ohio State University School of Music. Conable inferred the body map from the congruence of students' movement in playing with their reports of their notions of their own structures. He observed that students move according to how they think they're structured rather than according to how they are actually structured. When the students' movement in playing becomes based on the students' direct perception of their actual structure, it becomes efficient, expressive, and appropriate for making music. Conable's observations are currently being confirmed by discoveries in neurophysiology concerning the locations, functions, and coordination of body maps in movement.
Body Mapping is the conscious correcting and refining of one's body map to produce efficient, graceful, coordinated, effective movement. Body Mapping, over time, with application, allows any musician to play like a natural.
Barbara Conable, the founder of Andover Educators, is now retired from
her career as an internationally renowned teacher of the Alexander Technique.
What Every Musician Needs to Know about the Body, her book and her course,
are informed by the insights of F. M. Alexander, as well as other Somatic
disciplines and current findings in the neuroscience of movement.
Who should attend Summerflute?
Ages: all ages - best for high school and up
Levels: intermediate-advanced
Repertoire focus: Performer's choice. Body Mapping focus.
Room and board will
not be provided this year. You will need to make accommodations on your
own.
Summerflute will return to San Rafael, California in July 2010 in full strength with Body Mapping, Feldenkrais, Alexander Technique. Please check back in summer 2009 for 2010 dates and more info.
Can non-flutists attend Summerflute?
All musicians are welcome to attend Summerflute as Participants or Auditors. Every year we have a few non-flutists who attend the full course as Partipants and Auditors. In the past, we have had violinists, singers and even a harpsichordist attend as Participants.
For more information contact:
Lea Pearson
614 353-7259
leapearson@mac.com