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The 2006 Iowa Flute Festival Presents COLLABORATION Featuring Leone Buyse, Guest Artist Flutist Saturday April 15, 2006 Hosted by the University of Iowa School of Music and supported by the Eastern Iowa Flute Association, and Powell Flutes Click here to download a registration form for the Iowa Flute Festival
About the Artist Leone Buyse relinquished her principal positions with the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops in 1993 to pursue a more active solo and teaching career after 22 years as an orchestral musician. A former member of the San Francisco Symphony and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, she has appeared as soloist on numerous occasions with those orchestras and also with the Boston Symphony, the Boston Pops, the Utah Symphony, and l'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. She has performed with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players throughout Europe and Japan, with the Tokyo, Juilliard, and Muir String Quartets, in recital with Jessye Norman and Yo-Yo Ma, and at many festivals, including Aspen, Sarasota, Norfolk, and Sitka,. The only American prize winner in the 1969 Geneva International Flute Competition, Ms. Buyse has presented recitals and master classes across the United States and in Canada, The Netherlands, Japan, and New Zealand. Her solo recordings appear on the Crystal, Boston Records, and C.R. I. labels and she may be heard as solo flutist on recordings of the Boston Symphony, Boston Pops and the San Francisco Symphony for the Philips, Deutsche Grammophon, RCA Victor, and Sony Classical labels. With her husband, clarinetist Michael Webster, she co-founded the Webster Trio, which has recorded for Crystal, and the Japanese label, Nami. Ms. Buyse is the Mullen Professor of Flute and Chamber Music at Rice University and has also taught at the University of Michigan, the New England Conservatory, Boston University, the Tanglewood Music Center, and as a visiting professor at the Eastman School of Music.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
For information about this festival, contact the coordinator at Directions to Voxman Music BuildingFrom the north, east, or west via I-80From I-80, take the Dubuque Street exit (#244). Go south on Dubuque Street to the first traffic light, turn right on Park Road. You will immediately cross the Iowa River; the Iowa Center for the Arts is visible on your left. Take the first left onto Riverside Drive. The first parking lot entrance is the School of Music, turn left into the parking lot. There is metered parking on the southeast side of the parking lot. Voxman Music Building is the white, two-story building to the northeast. From the south via Highway 218Take the Melrose Street exit off 218. Follow Melrose to the fourth stop light; turn left onto Highway 6 (a major intersection, also called Riverside Drive) Immediately get into right hand lane. Just past the stop light at Iowa Ave, veer right, continuing on Riverside Drive (there is a stop light here for traffic continuing on Highway 6, no stop for traffic continuing on Riverside). Turn into the parking lot on the right side of the road marked Iowa Center for the Arts, Music Building, Clapp Hall (about one block past River Street). There is metered parking on the southeast end of the parking lot. Voxman Music Building is the white, two-story building to the northeast. From the west on Highway 6Turn left off Highway 6 at Rocky Shore Drive (the first traffic light after you pass First Ave in Coralville). Rocky Shore will make a right turn and become Park Road. Follow Park Road about 3/4 mile until you reach Riverside Drive. Turn right onto Riverside. The nearest airport is the Cedar Rapids Airport, 25 miles north of Iowa City. |
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