Carnegie Hall Master Class: Orchestral Woodwinds
Free
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36
Igor Stravinsky — The Firebird Suite
Demarre McGill, principal flutist of the Seattle Symphony, hosts a program of video highlights from master classes for wind players, including two alumni of Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America. Flutist Karl-Heinz Schütz and clarinetist Daniel Ottensamer from the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra respectively share musical insights about selections from Brahms’s Symphony No. 4 and the 1919 version of Stravinsky’s The Firebird Suite. Bassoonist Simon Van Holen from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra also coaches a young musician through a passage from Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4.
Want to know more? Throughout the episode, McGill will be responding to questions submitted on Facebook and YouTube.
The broadcast will take place at 2pm Eastern / 11am Pacific.
Streaming link will be posted shortly. More information here: https://www.carnegiehall.org/calendar/2020/11/11/carnegie-hall-master-class-orchestral-woodwinds-0200pm
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About Demarre McGill
One of the world’s leading flutists, Demarre serves as Principal Flute of the award-winning Seattle Symphony as well as Associate Professor of Flute, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. His many appearances span the continent and include concerto, recital, chamber festival, and National Flute Society Featured-Artist engagements.
As an educator, Demarre has performed, coached, and presented master classes in South Africa, Korea, Japan, Quebec, and throughout the United States; appeared as speaker and performer at the 2018 League of American Orchestras Conference with his brother, clarinetist Anthony McGill; and has served on the faculties of the National Youth Orchestra of the United States, the National Orchestral Institute (NOI) at the University of Maryland, the Orford Music Festival, and Summerfests at the Curtis Institute of Music.
Mr. McGill is a graduate of Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School.
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