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Wendy Rolfe Historic Flutes Workshop

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Wendy Rolfe, Professor at the Berklee College of Music will present a workshop and master class on historic performance practice. The class is free and open to the public as supported by UA Flute Studies.

Wendy Rolfe is one of the United States' leading performers on historical and modern flutes. She has just released the recording, “Images of Eve”, with pianist Deborah DeWolf Emery and Brazilian guest artists. Ms Rolfe was featured in the cover article in “Flute Talk Magazine” in November 2012. In March 2012, she lectured, taught and performed at the Universidad de los Hemisferios, in Quito, Ecuador, as a Fulbright Program Senior Specialist in American Music. Ms Rolfe has also toured the USA with a Solo Recitalist Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, presenting her unique "A Journey Through Music History with the Flute". This program illuminates musical history with flutes from her own collection, including an 1818 Claude Laurent crystal flute. She is featured on Gothic Recording’s “Trio Sonatas of J.S. Bach”, with Christa Rakich.Ms Rolfe was a Tanglewood Fellow and has also performed at the Waterloo, Monadnock, and Buzzards Bay Festivals and the Boston Early Music and Connecticut Early Music Festivals. In June 2013, she returned as guest artist and professor at the Festival Internacional Festival de Flautistas en el Mitad del Mundo, in Quito Ecuador. Ms. Rolfe has also performed and taught at the International Flute Festival in Lima, Peru, the Flautas de Caribe Festival in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and at the International Summer Festival in Brasilia, Brazil. She has performed at the BBC Proms Festival in London, England, and the Festival Casals in San Juan, Puerto Rico.Professor of Flute at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, Ms. Rolfe has also taught at Amherst and Mt. Holyoke Colleges. She earned the D.M.A, and M.M. from the Manhattan School of Music with Harvey Sollberger, and the B.M. from the Oberlin Conservatory with Robert Willoughby. She also studied with Marcel Moyse, Lois Schaefer, Janice Smith, and Thomas Nyfenger, and performed in master classes with Jean-Pierre Rampal and Barthold Kuijken.The class is free and open to the public as supported by UA Flute Studies.