This year's NY Flute Fair hosted by New York Flute club took place the 29th of February, a special day of a leap year. 

I co-led a youth roundtable with fantastic educational leader Amy Appleton, who is a visual artist herself and also the director of Marquis Studio. The purpose of this even is to hear about the voices of the youths, what they hope to see more, what they are interested in, and what are their goals in general. 

We started with M&M games to share a little bit about ourselves. Then we broke down youths and their parents to different groups, to hear about what they hole to see in the next year of flute clubs. not surprisingly, they all want to find the regular ensembles to participate in, and to find the same level players to play together; surprisingly, some kids say they want to know more about the "different sizes of flutes" and explore "the history of flutes". I'd say, we cannot underestimate the kids. They have the same interests as adults. 
Parents also want some young professionals to be their kids' mentors. 

We ended up with some improvisation games where I learned from Dan Trahey's workshop last year. It was a great experience to learn from the youths. 

Now, more for the contemporary music. For the notes above the regular three registers: C''''- F'''' fingerings. 
The fourth Octave on the Flute by Marta Munoz
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Also, refer to Jenniffer Cluff's quite comprehensive website: www.jennifercluff.com/fingering.htm
#reviewing the East Wind by Shulamit Ran, and the (E)crit by Holliger. 

A few years ago, The Notation is Not the Music became very popular then (like around 2014), so I bought the book. Then I decided to translate this book in Chinese to benefit my fellow flutists in Taiwan, also in China. 

The original plan was to publish it. But I found out this book might be too difficult for the general public because it involves too many aspects. Even I, as a musicians of over 20 years, still feel I need to sit down in a coffee shop and take notes on it in order to digest the information. This book also best benefit the flutists (of course! Mr. Barthold is a flutist) who know all the wind methods and intermediate techniques/musicality with some extent. 

So I told my publisher that I am not going to publish it. Before I reconsider it, I might just post it here. I still want this to benefit some wind players... ! 

I am so happy to share the flutes and recorders to the 4th grade students in Ridge Street School in Newark! I played the soprano recorder, alto recorder, baroque flute, classical flute, and modern flute. They liked the modern flute, baroque flute, and alto recorder the most. You can tell from their faces that they were amused.  
I wish to do these educational visits more, and will be my focus in the future! 

#NJPAC RAMP faculty

As organizing my files, I figured I never allow access to my dissertation that I wrote years ago. It is going to be outdated soon since the list was compiled until 2015! if anyone is interested in reading and playing the updated list of contemporary music, please download the profile below, and let me know your comments! 

In this year's summer break, I decide to start a new project- a flute recital in September 18th at 1 pm, at New Jersey City University. After two years' intense Baroque instruments trainings in The Juilliard. The first time I will pick up a recital played on all modern flute. I will be playing: 

W. A. Mozart: Flute Concerto in D Major                                               
H. Dutilleux: Sonatina for flute                                                                       
 Y. Yun: Etude No. 5 Allegretto  for flute solo                                                     
N. Paganini: Capriccio NO. 21, Op.1 for flute solo                                                   
O. Messiaen: Regard sur l’Enfant-Jesus: Par Lui tout a ete fait for piano solo 
S. Barber: Canzone for flute and piano, Op. 38a                                                             
 
SungHo Henry Yang/ Piano 

It is my pleasure to reunite with old colleague from UW-Madison when we met 5 years ago, it was hard to believe we could meet in the east coast after 5 years and we happen to be around the same area. He is now on the faculty of NJCU and JCC on the Palisades. He will be the pianist to perform together in this concert. 


The first timer of Isang Yun, I found myself spent so much energy on thinking what to do with the extended techniques. I found a quite useful link:  
By Dr. Brian Dunbar
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