Flute Festival 2008 - Gallery

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South West Flute Festival review by Jackie Waddle South West Flute Festival organisers welcomed Ian Clarke and Tim Carey back to Sterts Arts Centre, Cornwall, in May this year. The weekend festival was hosted by Devon based flute choir, Flute Cocktail. The two days consisted of inspiring workshops, masterclasses, concerts and the all important flute socialising that enables flute enthusiasts to exchange ideas, find out about other events, browse through music and try a range of instruments courtesy of Just Flutes, Croydon. One particularly useful workshop explored creative inspiration and various paths towards stimulating an individual artistic voice in our playing. The focus was on colours, textures, images and words, especially poetry and descriptive text. An interesting exercise in this workshop examined doodling. Everyone knows how to doodle; we’ve all done it whilst on the telephone or waiting for an appointment. The whole group were given pencils and paper and doodled for a few minutes. Once they had started they found themselves unable to stop. It had unleashed a dormant area of creativity and works of art were shaped. Ian talked about doodling in the same way with our flutes. Small children certainly doodle with their flutes, but we seem to lose the link to experimental creativity in adulthood. The exercise reminded us that we need to use our imaginations and break out of our inhibited adult moulds where we are tied to rigid form. It is important to think outside the box of notation and depict a scene or paint a picture with our music. Concerts for the weekend included Ian and Tim on the Saturday evening with a programme enriched by three of Ian’s compositions: Zoom Tube, Touching the Ether and the spine-tingling Orange Dawn. It also included the sonata for flute and piano by Otar Taktakishvili, illustrating sensitive and ingenious fast-moving movements. Sunday evening’s mini concert featured Ian’s creation, Within, for seven flutes, performed by Ian with festival attendees and a truly brilliant performance of Bach’s Sonata in E Major by Pasha from Just Flutes. It concluded with the beautiful and poignant story of The Sound of Music, played by 6 flute players from Flute Cocktail known as Flutaholics. Flute Cocktail would like to thank Jonathan Myall and Pasha Mansurov from Just Flutes, the BFS and West Devon Borough Council for their support of this event.
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