Create, Perform
and Be Inspired...
19th-24th August 2012
Image courtesy of Altus Flutes, Japan
Musicians
Michael Cox
Michael Cox is recognised as one of the most important British flautists with an international career as soloist and chamber musician. He is principal flute of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Academy of St Martins in the Fields and a former member of the Britten Sinfonia and the London Mozart Players. He is a passionate teacher giving classes all over the world, and brings his unique curriculum to the Oxford Flute Summer School. Michael is professor of flute at the Royal Academy of Music and a visiting consultant at the Royal Northern College of Music.
Kate Hill
Kate Hill is co-principal flute with the English Chamber Orchestra and principal flute of the English Classical Players and the Guildford Philharmonic. Her freelance musical activities are widespread, encompassing orchestral playing, concerto performances, chamber music and recording. Kate played with the chamber group The Haffner Wind Ensemble of London for about twenty years: when the Britten Sinfonia was formed the Haffners became the wind section where she was principal flute for over ten years. Former professor of flute at the Royal Northern College of Music and Chethams School, Kate is now a professor of flute at the Royal Academy of Music.
Samuel Coles
Samuel Coles was educated at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and at the Paris Conservatoire winning the Premier Prix in 1987. His many other awards include first prize in both the Scheveningen International Flute Competition in Holland and the National Flute Association Young Artists Competition in San Diego and 2nd Prize in the Jean Pierre Rampal Competition 1987. He has played guest principal with the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Opera de Paris, Orchestra de Radio France,and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. He has performed as a soloist with the Orchestre de Paris, the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, the Residential Orchestra of the Hague and the English Chamber Orchestra, with whom he recorded all the Mozart Concertos under the direction of Sir Yehudi Menuhin. He is the principal flute in the Philharmonia Orchestra and in September takes up a teaching position at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
Katherine Kemler
Katherine Kemler is the Charles and Mary Barré Alumni Professor of Flute at Louisiana State University, flutist with the Timm Wind Quintet, and a regular visiting teacher at the Oxford Flute Summer School. Dr. Kemler has recently returned from a concert tour of Australia where she performed three solo recitals and taught eight masterclasses in such venues as the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the Elder Conservatorium of Music in Adelaide, the Victorian Flute Guild in Melbourne, the University of Western Australia, and the Academy of Music in Perth. She has recorded 4 CDs; the most recent is of contemporary works entitled 'Lipstick'.
Janet Way
Janet Way founded the Oxford Flute Summer School with her colleague Clive Conway in 1986. A major prize winner at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, she has had a long career both as a player and teacher. Her own teachers were William Bennett, Geoffrey Gilbert and Marcel Moyse. She lectures on the art of teaching at the Royal Academy of Music and is a former diploma examiner and mentor for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music and manager for Oxfordshire Music Service.
Katie Alcock
Katie spent her formative flute years as a pupil of Janet Way, and has continued to benefit from over 20 years' association with Oxford Flute Summer School. She has played in masterclasses with many great teachers, including William Bennett, Peter Lloyd and Jeanne Baxtresser. Whilst a student of Oriental Studies at Cambridge University, Katie continued her musical development, playing with the University Orchestra and giving frequent recitals. She has particularly enjoyed exploring the repertoire for flute, soprano and piano. Katie then spent a year at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama training in music therapy and now combines regular solo, orchestral and vocal performances with her work as a music therapist for Warwickshire County Music Service. Katie's varied role at the Summer School has included administrator, tutor and ensemble leader, as well as giving occasional workshops on music therapy and Japanese folk music.
Caroline Hobbs-Smith
Caroline combines a teaching career with life as a freelance flautist, conductor and arranger. She began learning flute at the age of 13 and went on to study at Wits University in South Africa with Leslie Sheills and later in London at the Royal College of Music with Graham Mayger and Susan Milan where she gained her M.Mus degree. She played for many years with the National Symphony Orchestra of South Africa and later moved to the UK where she has been resident for the past 7 years. She has had extensive teaching experience at the S.A. National School of the Arts and Wits University and currently works for the Oxfordshire Music Service and Abingdon School.
Clive Conway
Clive Conway was co-founder of the Oxford Flute Summer School. While still contributing to Oxford Flute Summer School in a consultative role his highly successful and innovative business, Clive Conway Celebrity Productions now occupies most of his time.