What is Floot Fire?

Floot Fire is a weeklong flute workshop dedicated to educating and inspiring young musicians. Floot Fire Austin combines an informal, comfortable, and supportive atmosphere with teaching, performance, and artistic standards of the highest caliber. Our flexible daily schedule includes: performance class, electives, chamber music, flute choir, recitals, and of course practice!

Guest Artist & Clinician Jennifer Keeney, University of Houston

On Thursday all students will attend a clinic with Ms. Keeney entitled 25 Creative Practice Recipes for the Flute. Spice up your practice and flute playing! Create meaningful music for all the notes you play.  This is an interactive class using your fun-damentals to create new recipes for practice, to learn with less effort, greater efficiency and more imagination. For more information on Ms. Keeney visit her website at www.jenniferkeeney.com

Registration  click here for online registration

Registration opens on January 9, 2011.  Deadline for regular registration is June 4, 2011 and tuition must be included. A $25 fee will be charged for late registration between June 4 and June 21. Tuition fees are 100% refundable until June 4; 50% refundable until June 11; and nonrefundable after June 11. Supply costs and late fees are nonrefundable. 

Grand Finale Concert

The Grand Finale Concert is Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 6:30 p.m. at Triumphant Love Lutheran Church. The concert is free and open to the public.  Students will perform a class flute choir piece, a chamber ensemble, elective class music and a mass flute choir piece with all stsudents performing in-the-round style.  A reception will follow.

Solo Performance Class

In performance class students will work on musical interpretation, tone, stage presence, relaxation techniques, and much more! Students can choose to play two different solos or two contrasting movements of the same solo.    Students provide their own piano parts. Unaccompanied works are acceptable.

Flute Choir & Chamber Music

The Allegro & Vivace classes will each learn a flute choir piece for the final concert.  Each class will combine with the faculty for a mass flute choir piece (in-the-round style) for the concert.  Each day,  classes will divide into smaller chamber ensembles to learn repertoire for the concert.

Faculty Recitals

Faculty recitals take place daily at 1:30 p.m.  They are free and open to the public.

Electives  

Two elective periods allow students to choose courses of study that interest them most. Please see class descriptions below for more information. Elective classes are open to all age levels unless otherwise indicated. Specialty instruments will be provided, Irish Flute is at an additional cost.

Electives session 1 (choose one class)

What Every Flutist Needs to Know about the Body ($30 additional fee for book) Discover ways to alleviate pain, avoid injury, and improve technique.                                           

           For more information on this class visit  Dr. Clark’s website www.movewellplaywell.com

Beginner Piccolo (HS only, limit 8) **  Learn how to play the piccolo.  Please let us know if you can provide your own piccolo.

Orchestra Studies (HS only)**  "Meet" the composers who have written some of the most beautiful solos ever written for the flute!  Select, prepare and play a solo from a famous orchestral excerpt with some very special accompanists!                                                              

Rhythms of Your Life (MS only) Have fun learning tips and tools to celebrate the rhythms of your life!  From simple subdivision and keeping a steady pulse to understanding complex rhythms, this class will help you read and perform challenging rhythms with ease and confidence.

Big Flutes (limit 8) **  Take a break from music in the stratosphere and explore the wonder world of alto and bass flutes.

Electives session 2 (choose one class)

Extended Techniques (HS only) Learn new techniques to add to your flute experiences. We will cover flutter tonguing, multi-phonics, harmonics and more!

Beginner Piccolo (MS only, limit 8) **  Learn how to play the piccolo. Please indicate on the registration form if you can provide your own piccolo.

Baroque & Jazz Improvisation** Study, play and perform Baroque style ornamentation and voice leading patterns in a class "mystery piece".  Simultaneously, listen, groove and learn how to improvise in  the modes of an awesome Jazz solo while you are accompanied by your peers!  

Rhythms of Your Life (HS only) Have fun learning tips and tools to celebrate the rhythms of your life!  From simple subdivision and keeping a steady pulse to understanding complex rhythms, this class will help you read and perform challenging rhythms with ease and confidence.

Irish Flute ($15 additional fee for Penny Whistle)** Learn to play the Penny whistle with Irish style!  You will own the penny whistle to take home and impress your family all year.

** Classes that may perform at Finale Concert

Eligibility

Students of all levels of proficiency are eligible to participate. Students should have played flute at least one year. There are two flexible levels of classes:

• Allegro: for flutists who have played 1+ years
• Vivace: for flutists entering grades 9 and above

A Presto class may be added to divide high school participants if enrollment allows.

What to Bring? 

Flute Two solos with piano parts (unless unaccompanied), Pencils, 3 ring binder, Wire stand, Daily lunch, Bottled water

Tuition

$285 for the week

Scholarships

Some need based scholarships are available. Please call Lori Chester Maillart 512-218-1067 for more details.

Meals and Parking

         Students should bring a sack lunch and bottled water. Parking is free.  For safety reasons, students are not permitted to leave campus during the day.

Schedule

Tuesday 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Wednesday-Friday 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Saturday 9:30 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. which includes the Grand Finale Concert

Sample daily schedule

9:30-11:00 Allegro or Vivace Classes and Solo Performances

11:00-11:45 Elective 1

11:45-12:30 Elective 2

12:30-1:30 lunch, friendship and practice (for safety reason, students must remain on campus)

1:30-2:00 Faculty Recital

2:00-5:00 Allegro or Vivace Classes and Solo Performances;

Flute Choir (each class will learn a flute choir piece & play a part in the mass flute choir);

Chamber Music (each class will divide into 3-4 Chamber Ensembles)

5:00-5:30 game time in Allegro and Vivace classes