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
2008
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2008
Teachers
Ginger Beringer is both a Feldenkrais Practitioner and CranioSacral Therapist and has been working with people for twelve years. With a background in yoga and meditation she is particularly interested in how we can apply awareness and the conscious use of attention to the various activities of our lives in order to gain greater freedom, pleasure and mobility. She has worked with artists, musicians, athletes and people with a variety of musculoskeletal complaints. She currently teaches and runs a private practice in Berkeley, Ca.
Robert Britton graduated as an Alexander teacher in 1978. In addition to his private practice in San Francisco and Marin County, he has taught the Alexander Technique to musicians at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music since 1984. He served as chairman of the American Society for the Alexander Technique from 1997 to 1999. He has helped train Alexander Technique Teachers for 16 years, and teaches at the Alexander Educational Center in Berkeley. He regularly teaches in Berlin at the Ausbildungszentrum für F.M. Alexander-Technik Berlin, as well contributing to the well being of the international Alexander Technique Affiliated Societies, and the Annual Members Meeting of the Affiliated Societies. He is also a faculty member of the Bay Area Summer Opera Training Institute. Bob can be reached via his website.
Constance Clare-Newman is certified by the American Society for the Alexander Technique (AmSAT). With a first career in training dressage horses and riders and a second career in performing and teaching modern dance, she is well acquainted with the needs of athletes and performers. She recovered from chronic pain and injury with the help of the Alexander Technique. During her career in Dressage, she competed at FEI-levels, (Federation Equestrian International) in the United States and Europe. As a dancer, she performed professionally and taught with Anne Bluethenthal & Dancers and Purple Moon Dance Project. Constance completed a three-year Alexander training program in San Francisco with Frank Ottiwell, (1600 hours of study) and has since helped hundreds of students bring less effort and more ease into their activities. Constance has a private practice in Oakland and San Francisco, teaches classes for actors at A.C.T. and Academy of Art University in San Francisco and gives specialized workshops for equestrians, actors, musicians and for employees in the workplace.
Marianne Constable is a certified Feldenkrais practitioner, having completed Dennis Leri's training in summer 2005. She volunteers as a Feldenkrais practitioner at various clinics and is available for private lessons in Berkeley. She has practiced Tai Chi for over 20 years and has a strong interest in movement and philosophy. She holds a Ph.D. and teaches in the humanities at Berkeley. Marianne can be reached at (510)848-9268.
Amy Likar, President and Trainer for Andover Educators, was one of the first people certified by Barbara Conable to teach Body Mapping. She is also an AmSAT certified Alexander Technique teacher having completed her training with Frank Ottiwell at the Alexander Training Institute of San Francisco. She has presented Body Mapping and Alexander Technique workshops at colleges and music schools throughout the United States and in Europe, including, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the Juilliard School and the Army School of Music in addition to numerous conferences such as MTNA, Medical Problems of Performing Artists Symposium in Aspen, and the National Flute Association. As a professional flutist, Amy is a member of the Oakland East Bay Symphony and freelances with other groups in the Bay Area of California. She and Miles Graber released a solo CD in November of 2005 and released a live album with soprano Jenni Cook in October of 2006. Amy holds M.M. and D.M.A. degrees in flute performance from The Ohio State University and a B.M. in Music Education and Performance from Kent State University. Her flute teachers include Martha Aarons and Katherine Borst Jones.
Janet Lott is a member of the American Society for the Alexander Technique and a graduate of the Alexander Technique Institute under the direction of Frank Ottiwell. Her teachers include Mr. Ottiwell, Robert Britton, former president of AmSAT, Rosemarie Earle, and Simone Biase. Janet is a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts with an MFA in Dance. She founded and directed her own contemporary dance company, Janet Lott and Dancers. Ms. Lott served on the movement studies/performing arts faculty of the Naropa Institute (now Naropa University) for ten years and the Dance Faculty of the University of Colorado for six years. A second–generation practitioner of Contact Improvisation, Janet teaches Yoga, Meditation, and Argentine tango in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Europe.
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.
Stacey Pelinka is a guild-certified Feldenkrais(r) Practitioner and a professional flutist. She teaches Feldenkrais throughout the Bay Area, and works regularly with musicians, chronic pain patients, and people with disabilities. As a flutist, Stacey enjoys exploring how Feldenkrais' ideas clarify her own musical performance and that of her students. She plays principal flute with San Francisco Opera's Merola Program productions, and second flute with the Santa Rosa Symphony and the Midsummer Mozart Festival. She plays chamber music, mostly contemporary, with the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, the Worn Chamber Ensemble, and the Blueprint Festival. Stacey attended Cornell University and the San Francisco Conservatory, where she studied with Timothy Day.
Kari Prindl graduated in English from Oberlin College in 1987 where she also studied modern dance and the cello. After Oberlin, Kari moved to San Francisco to be a part of the vibrant dance community and for a very brief period, held the belief that she could fly. When this supposition proved untrue and caused a severe back injury, Kari decided that she really needed to learn how to walk before she learned how to fly. As luck would have it, she met Frank Ottiwell of the Alexander Training Institute in San Francisco and enrolled in a three year training program with him, during which time she both healed her back and, indeed, learned how to walk. Kari graduated from ATI-SF in 1992 and has had a private practice in San Francisco ever since. She revels in working with performers of all ages and has, also, been teaching at the Community Music Center since 1993 and at the American Conservatory Theater since 2000.
Elisabeth Reed was born and raised in Chapel Hill, NC and now lives in Oakland, CA. She teaches viola da gamba, baroque cello, and ensembles at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the University of California at Berkeley and at Mills College. She performs with many local and national early music ensembles including the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, the Novello String Quartet, Wildcat Viols, and the improvisational group, MOTOR. A graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts, the Oberlin Conservatory, the Eastman School of Music, and Indiana University's Early Music Institute, she can be heard on the Virgin Classics and Focus recording labels. She is a Guild certified practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method of Awareness Through Movement and Functional Integration with a particular interest in the issues facing musicians and performers. Elisabeth can be reached at SoundBodies@gmail.com or (510)866-3964.
Liisa Ruoho is known throughout Europe as a consummate performer as well as a dedicated teacher. At the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland, she gives her students 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 30 years she has taught flutists how to use their original instrument - the body. She now presents Body Mapping workshops throughout Europe.
Sandra Seefeld recently retired as Associate Professor of Flute at Miami University after 30 years. She has concertized throughout Europe and the U.S. A founding member of the Miami Wind Quintet, and she severed as principal flutist of the Ensemble Instrumental du Festival d'Echternach of Luxembourg and has performed as principal flute with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic and the Whitewater Opera Company. With six recordings to her credit, Sandy spent a sabbatical in Finland studying with Liisa Ruoho and performing throughout the country. Her teachers have included Robert Cole, Walfrid Kujala, Jack Wellbaum and Joseph Mariano.
Our collaborative pianist:
Miles Graber received his musical training at the Juilliard School, where he studied with Anne Hull, Phyllis Kreuter, Hugh Aitken, and Louise Behrend. He has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1971, where he has developed a wide reputation as an accompanist and collaborative pianist for instrumentalists and singers. He has performed with numerous solo artists, including Itzhak Perlman, Sarah Chang, Cho-Liang Lin, Camilla Wicks, and Axel Strauss. Mr. Graber currently performs frequently with violinists Christina Mok and Mariya Borozina, clarinettist Tom Rose, flutist Amy Likar, and the trio MusicAEterna. Miles and colleague Arkadi Serper comprise the two-piano team Scorpio Duo.
Mr. Graber has been associated with such ensembles as San Francisco Chamber Soloists, Midsummer Mozart, the Oakland-East Bay Symphony, the California Symphony, the Santa Rosa Symphony, Oakland Lyric Opera, Berkeley Opera, Opera San Jose, and the San Francisco Camerata. He has accompanied master classes by such artists as Midori, Joseph Silverstein, Nadia Salerno-Sonnenberg, Pamela Frank, Alexander Barantchik, James Galway, and Lynn Harrell. He has been a frequent performance accompanist and chamber player with members of the San Francisco Symphony, the San Jose Symphony, The Berkeley Symphony, the California Symphony, the Santa Rosa Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, the Oakland-East Bay Youth Orchestra, and the UC Berkeley Symphony. He is principal pianist for the Bay Area chapter of the National Association of Composers USA, an organization that sponsors and promotes performances of new works by contemporary composers. He is active as a teacher and chamber music coach, and he is on the faculties of the Crowden School in Berkeley and the San Domenico Conservatory in San Anselmo. In addition, he regularly coaches and accompanies students of the Young Musicians Program at UC Berkeley. He is currently a staff accompanist and chamber music coach in the Preparatory Division of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.