Orchestral Repertoire - Flute

1 Credit.

The development of orchestral performance skills for flutists with particular emphasis onstandard orchestral flute solos and how they are traditionally performed for today’s ensemblesand conductors, with focus on orchestral audition preparation and the developmentof skills unique to this setting and the demands of this repertoire: employing various stylesof articulation to enhance ensemble playing, learning methods for tuning under differentcircumstances and techniques for projection, exercising improved self-perception andunderstanding, developing knowledge of some acoustic phenomena of other orchestralinstruments, practicing observation as a method for honing one’s own performance skills,applying the laws of nature to the process of creative interpretation. We frequently coverstandard excerpts which apply to the entire flute section or parts thereof. Usually the classincludes one Mock Audition per semester. Students practice building listening, observation,and teaching skills as a part of offering support and feedback to colleagues. They willbecome familiar not only with how to audition but also with how to adjudicate auditions.