Woodwinds Faculty
Claudia Anderson - flute (YAS,
JSS1
JSS2,
Junior Sessions Program Director)
Claudia Anderson’s brilliance and originality as a solo performer
(“Flute playing of the highest echelon” – New York
Concert Artists Guild; “Vast range of sonorities” – Giornale
di Sicilia) have graced audiences throughout the U.S., Europe and
Brazil. A Fulbright scholar to Italy, Ms. Anderson was subsequently
principal flute of the Orchestra del Teatro Massimo in Palermo.
After returning to the U.S., she was solo piccolo for ten years with
the Cedar Rapids (IA) Symphony and is presently principal flute with
the Waterloo/Cedar Falls Symphony in Iowa.
Receiving degrees from the Universities of Michigan, Massachusetts and Iowa, Dr. Anderson is a guest artist and clinician at many colleges and music series around the country; she is exclusively a Miyazawa artist and also performs with flutist Jill Felber in the innovative duo ZAWA! (www.zawa.org; www.miyazawa.com). Equally at home in both the standard and contemporary repertoire, Dr. Anderson has commissioned and arranged works for solo and duo format. Her unique programming and performing styles were influenced by an early background of extensive contemporary music performance and her years of playing opera in Italy. Her work with Jill Felber of ZAWA! reflects the drama/theatricality of new music and the operatic stage, with their unconventional staging, lighting and costumes. Another recent chamber initiative, New Prairie Camerata--a core ensemble of flute, violin and harp based in Grinnell--links performance with history and architecture by performing in nontraditional spaces that showcase local gems and stimulate community participation.
Faculty positions include Grinnell College (currently), Universities of Iowa and Northern Iowa, Ithaca College and the University of California at Santa Barbara. Her recorded solo and duo performances can be found on the Centaur, Neuma and CRI labels. Her solo CD, American Flute (Centaur, 1994), was awarded five stars from Classical Pulse in 1995. Duo CDs include ZAWA! (Neuma, 2001), ZAWA2 (ZawaMusic, 2006) and Duos for Flute and Oboe (Centaur, 2005) with Rocky Ridge colleague William McMullen.
Jerome Greyson Fleg has played as a freelance, chamber, and orchestral clarinetist throughout the United States, Europe and South America. He is currently principal clarinet of the Wyoming Symphony, Boulder Chamber Orchestra and the Antero Winds, and plays clarinet/bass clarinet with the Central City Opera. Mr. Fleg has toured as the principal clarinet with the Mantovani Orchestra and has played with the Colorado Symphony, Greeley Philharmonic, Ft. Collins Symphony, Gettysburg Symphony, and Columbia Symphony Orchestra. His performances have included many venues such as Carnegie Hall, and he has worked with many musicians such as Grammy award-winning composer Marvin Hamlisch.
Mr. Fleg is currently on the faculty of the University of Wyoming. He has presented master-classes and clinics throughout the country and abroad at places such as the University of Kansas, Iowa State University, Archipelago Summer Festival and Carleton College. Jerome has been featured as an adjudicator in competitions such as the National MTNA Competition, Aurora Symphony Concerto Competition, and Colorado Youth Symphony Concerto Competition. He holds Bachelor’s degrees in clarinet performance and music education from the Peabody Conservatory and a Master's degree in clarinet performance from the University of Northern Colorado. His principal teachers have included: Bil Jackson, Andy Stevens, Mark Nuccio, Steven Barta, Dan Silver and Bill Welty.
As a member of the Antero Winds (wind quintet), Mr. Fleg won 1st Prize in the Plowman Chamber Music Competition and silver medal in the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. The group has also participated residencies with the Aspen Music Festival and the FESNOJIV Youth Orchestra Program in Venezuela. This ensemble has recently performed in New York, Minnesota, and Venezuela and has upcoming concerts in Canada, New Mexico, and throughout Colorado. The Antero Winds have been described as “an inspiring young quintet of young musicians that exude energy.”
Mr. Fleg has received awards such as the 1st place in the University of Northern Colorado Orchestra Concerto Competition, “Best Should Teach” silver award from the University of Colorado, Dean's Scholarship from the University of Northern Colorado, and the "Martha and William Bill" Memorial Prize at the Peabody Conservatory. Also an avid conductor, Mr. Fleg is the conductor of Colorado Youth Symphony's Philharmonia Wind Ensemble, assistant conductor of their Philharmonia Orchestra, and has served as conductor for the Archipelago Music Festival.
William McMullen - oboe (
YAS, JSS1, JSS2)
William McMullen, professor of oboe at the University
of Nebraska, LincolnUniversity of Nebraska - Lincoln, is principal oboe with the Lincoln Symphony Orchestra and oboist in the Moran Woodwind Quintet. McMullen has appeared as soloist with the Lincoln Symphony Orchestra and the Nebraska Chamber Orchestra in performances of the Strauss, Mozart and Vaughan-Williams concertos. He is a frequent recitalist throughout the United States with pianist, Catherine Herbener, and has performed at IDRS conventions in Utah, Florida, Arizona, Wisconsin, the Netherlands, Australia and Banff, Canada. As a member of the Moran Woodwind Quintet he has toured extensively throughout the Midwest and in 1992 the quintet was nominated for NPR’s Lucian Wulsin Award for Best Regional Performance, Small Ensemble. The quintet has recorded four CD’s on Crystal Records; a collection of contemporary quintet music titled “Postcards From the Center” and three CD’s of the complete quintet repertoire of German composer Theodor Blumer. His most recent CD, “Duos for Flute and Oboe” with flutist Claudia Anderson, was published in 2005 by Centaur Records, and contains duets by Jacob, Migot, Ginastera, Bozza, Muczynski, Musgrave and Serebrier. His CD “Twentieth-Century British Music for Oboe and Piano” with pianist Catherine Herbener was released in 2002 by Crystal Records and includes works by Bennett, Howells, Jacob, Berkeley and Rubbra. McMullen is on the faculty of Rocky Ridge Music Center, a summer music festival in Estes Park, Colorado. He received his D.M.A. and M.M. degrees from The Juilliard School.
David Shea currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Clarinet at
Texas Tech University, and is also principal clarinet in the Abilene
Philharmonic and Lubbock Symphony Orchestras. He has earned degrees from
the Oberlin Conservatory (BM), the University of Illinois (MM) and Indiana
University (DM). His teachers have been Howard Klug, Lawrence McDonald,
Eli Eban, James Campbell and Ronald Phillips.
Shea has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Brazil and Chile. As a member of Trio Montecino, he recently toured in Belgium, Germany, and the United States to promote the release of their second CD, Nuevo Sonido: Latin- American Trios, which is available on the Eroica Classical Recordings label (http://www.eroica.com/triomont-music.html). Shea has performed at the International Clarinet Association Clarinetfests in Chicago, Columbus, Salt Lake City, Atlanta and Kansas City, as well as the OU Clarinet Symposium, University of Montevallo Clarinet Symposium and most recently, at Klarinetstage, Belgium. Shea was a finalist in the Boosey and Hawkes North American Clarinet Competition and was a concerto competition winner at the Oberlin Conservatory and the Colorado Springs Summer Music Festival.
In addition to his solo and chamber music performances, Shea has performed as an orchestral musician with the Indianapolis Symphony, Fort Wayne Symphony, Columbus Philharmonic, Champaign-Urbana Symphony and the Sinfonia de Camera. He has also been involved in numerous CD recording projects for Crystal, Naxos, Delos, Opus One, Indiana University Recordings and Hal Leonard Productions where he worked with such artists as Eugene Rousseau and the Indiana Clarinet Trio.
As a teacher, Shea has given master classes throughout the US and South America. He has been invited twice to teach as a sabbatical replacement at the prestigious Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. He has also participated in a Big 12 Fellowship grant with Dan Silver at UC-Boulder, where innovative teaching pedagogies were discussed and demonstrated during week-long residencies at both campuses. In 2005, Shea was awarded the Texas Tech University President's Excellence in Teaching Award, and most recently, was inducted into the Texas Tech University Teaching Academy.
David Shea is a Buffet-Crampon USA Performing Artist and is the Texas State Chair for the International Clarinet Association.Kaori Uno - bassoon ( YAS, JSS1, JSS2 - Adjunct)
Kaori Uno is currently pursuing her Artist Diploma in Bassoon Performance at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She received her Master of Music degree at University of Colorado at Boulder, and graduated from the Aichi Prefecture University of Fine Arts and Music in Japan as one of four outstanding graduating seniors in the class of 2003. Her principal teachers include Yoshiyuki Ishikawa, Ryohei Nakagawa, Yoshiaki Aotani and Yoshiyuki Nakanishi.
Kaori has performed nationally and internationally as both soloist and chamber musician, earning many awards and much recognition including the Honor Competition at the University of Colorado (2004 and 2007), fifth of 137 bassoonists at the 24th Japan Wind and Percussion Competition in 2007, and a finalist in the Tsuyama Japan International Double Reed Competition in 2003.
Kaori was a member of the Arundo Winds, the award-winning graduate woodwind quintet at the University of Colorado, from 2004-2008. While she was a member, Arundo won first prize in the Plowman Chamber Music Competition and a silver medal in the wind division of the 2006 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. In 2008 the Arundo Winds was a semifinalist of "Le Concours International de Musique de Chambre de Lyon" in France. Also they participated outreach programs at Venezuela in 2006. In the summer of 2008, former Arundo members formed the “Antero Winds” as a professional woodwind quintet based in Boulder, CO. Their upcoming recitals include a New York City debut in January ‘09, Carleton College in Minnesota in May ’09, and many outreach concerts and recitals in Colorado. For more information, please visit www.anterowinds.net
Kaori participated in the National Repertory Orchestra, Aspen Music Festival and School, Kyoto International Music Student Festival, and the Colorado Mahler Fest Orchestra. As a member of the Japanese Double Reed Society bassoon ensemble, she performed at the conference of the 2001 International Double Reed Society in West Virginia. Kaori has also performed in a bassoon octet at the fifth Tokyo Double Reed Festival in 2002.