NPD MASTERCLASS Series – The Flute, with Wendy Hymes
About this Webinar –
Designed for music educators, our Masterclass Series offers an extensive array of insights and instructional strategies aligned with established pedagogical practices for individual woodwind, brass, and string instruments. This webinar will focus on the flute and piccolo. The content includes these areas:
- Tone/Sound
- Intonation
- Articulation
- Teaching Materials
- Solo Repertoire
- Equipment
- Listening and Style
- Playing in an Ensemble
- Practice Tips
Our Presenter –
Dr. Wendy Hymes is known for her definitive interpretations of standard repertoire from the Baroque era to 20th-century composers as well as new music. A passionate advocate for intercultural music, her solo CD, African Art Music for Flute, features music for flute by composers from Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda and South Africa. She also directs the Intercultural Music Initiative Chamber Players, a mixed ensemble dedicated to performing music by diverse composers and serves on the National Flute Association’s Pedagogy Committee. Abroad, she has enjoyed performing at the 50-years of independence celebration in Accra, Ghana in 2007, Africa Sings Festival in Lome, Togo, the Festival for African and African American Music, and the International Symposium Festival for new Intercultural Music at the University of London. In the US, Dr. Hymes has been featured performer at numerous National Flute Association Conventions, and performs with many ensembles including Chamber Project St. Louis, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Winter Opera, the Union Avenue Opera, and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.
Her recordings include Spiritual Fantasy on the Albany label with organist Lucius Weathersby and Rhapsodies and Dances for Wind Quintet by Fred Onovwerosuoke, released in 2017 after a debut performance at the National Flute Association. Dr. Hymes holds BA, MM and DMA degrees in flute performance, music theory and arts administration from Principia College, Indiana University and Louisiana State University, respectively. Her principal flute teachers are Marie Jureit-Beamish, Jacques Zoon and Katherine Kemler. Dr. Hymes loves teaching students and has served on the Music Faculties of Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Jefferson College in Missouri, Louisiana State University and Arkansas State University where she served as Director of the Fowler Center. She teaches flute at Lindenwood University as well as at her private teaching studio. She currently serves on the National Flute Association’s Pedagogy Committee. MORE…
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– for Optional PD Credit
Receive TWO HOURS PD credit for this video. An 80% score or better will result in a Certificate of Completion emailed to the address you provide. Those scoring less than 80% will be allowed to retake the quiz. In order to do so, you’ll need to register in the quiz with an alternate email.
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Contact – for more information on Wendy Hymes or to send her an email, go to info@wendyhymes.com
The following are supplementary materials mentioned in the webinar:
- Double-Tonguing Exercise/Rubank
- Wendy’s Cool Flute Video Links
- Piccolo Alternate Fingerings
- Suggested Solo and Ensemble Repertoire List
- Wendy’s Flute Warm-up Materials
- Recommended Method Books
- Flute 101: Mastering the Basics – Louke and George
- Rubank Elementary Method for Flute – A.C. Petersen
- Rubank Intermediate Method for Flute – A.C. Petersen
- Rubank Advanced Method Vol. 1 for Flute – Gower and Voxman
- Rubank Advanced Method Vol. 2 for Flute – Gower and Voxman
- Practice Book For The Flute Book 1 Tone (book/cd)
- Trevor Wye – Practice Book for the Flute – Omnibus Edition Books 1-6
- Recommended Flute Solo Repertoire
- Amazing Solos for Flute and Keyboard – Harrison
- Amazing Solos for Flute and Piano – Harrison
- 40 Little Pieces in Progressive Order (Louis Moyse Flute Collection)
- Solos for the Flute Player: With Piano Accompaniment – Moyse – Pub G. Schirmer
- Solos for Flute – 36 Repertoire Pieces with Piano Accompaniment Paperback – Peck
- Disney Solos for Flute – Hal Leonard
- Recommended Flute Duet Repertoire
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- Ten Things that Every Band Director Should Know About Flutes – Part 1
- Ten Things that Every Band Director Should Know About Flutes – Part 2
- How to Keep Instruments OUT of the Shop and IN Your Students’ Hands – THE FLUTE – Conn-Selmer