Flute Force will perform February 6. 2014 in Rudder Theatre at 7:30 pm.
Student Tickets: $5
General Admission: $10
Flute Force is the first professional flute quartet in the United States, having made its New York debut in 1983 as winner of the Artists International Competition. Based in New York City, this award-winning group is made up of four of New York City’s most active and versatile flutists: Rie Schmidt, Wendy Stern, Sheryl Henze, and Elizabeth Brown. Throughout their long history, they have commissioned and premiered more than twenty-five new compositions for the flute quartet and have served as a model for flute quartets throughout the country. Flute Force has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Chamber Music America, the New York State Council on the Arts, and Meet the Composer. The group has performed extensively in the United States and Canada. Highlights of past seasons have included performances at Yale University, Dartmouth College, Johns Hopkins University, the Universities of Tennessee, Florida, Washington, Iowa, Missouri, and Pennsylvania, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Merkin Concert Hall, and the National Flute Association’s annual conventions in Minneapolis, Los Angeles, New York, and Atlanta.
Flute Force has collaborated in concerts with renowned flutists Julius Baker and Paula Robison and with the percussion ensemble Nexus. The group also appeared on American Public Radio’s St. Paul Sunday Morning, WQXR, WNYC, and on New York and New Jersey public television. Flute Force has recorded on the CRI, VAI, and Innova labels. Flute Force was also included on a Windham Hill release entitled Mozart Variations and on Wish List, a recording of the most popular segments from St. Paul Sunday Morning. Excerpts used in the HBO series Sex and the City.
Elizabeth Brown, Sheryl Henze,* Rie Schmidt, Wendy Stern
FLUTE FORCE
Featuring Lothar Osterburg
Poems, Songs, and Dreams:
Music for Diverse Flutes, Theremin, and Stop-motion Animation
- Poem in December (2011) Marty Regan (b. 1972)
- Elizabeth Brown, shakuhachi,
- Wendy Stern and Rie Schmidt, flute
- Kathleen Nester, alto flute
- Jacob’s Ladder (2007) Richard Arnest (b. 1950)
- Quartet for Diverse Flutes (1987) Peter Bacchus (b. 1954)
- Intermission
- A Bookmobile for Dreamers (2013) Elizabeth Brown (b. 1953)
- A Meet the Composer Commission
- Video and models by Lothar Osterburg
- Performed by Elizabeth Brown, theremin, with Flute Force
