A few days ago I had the pleasure of accepting the invitation of the Haynes Flute Company to fly to Boston, tour their new flute factory, and try out their various flutes, all in celebration of the 125th anniversary of the founding of this historic company.  The oldest continuously operating flute company in the world, Haynes has always been renowned for the quality of their instruments and the lyrical, silky sound they possess.  I am happy to report their new flutes build on these strengths; I found them…

How wonderful to be done with classes and have time to reflect on the last year's performances and inspirations, and think about what would be the most fun and insipiring to perform this next year!  A couple of commissions are in the works; it's thrilling to be a part of the creation of new repertoire, though our role as performers is of course incidental to the composers.  It looks like we'll have another exciting Inspirare Duo concert (with Gail Lehto, clarinet) in September, then hopefully my faculty…

We had a terrific time at the CD release party; thanks to everyone who came out!  If you missed the big event and would like to buy a CD, please contact me... we have a few CDs left over.

It's tempting to rest after the culmination of a year's worth of working getting the CD out and then the big release, but there's always something new to look forward to.  Performances at the Lancaster American Music Concert, Hilliard Davidson High School, and the Chamber Jazz Concert of Chick Corea's Three Quartets…

I have a new-found respect for everyone out there maintaining and updating their own websites- it's a time-consuming and frustrating process to learn how to do all this!  When we would really rather be making music... Once it's all set up, I know it will be worth it; that sustains me.  Enjoy the audio clips from my new CD, Waltz into Madness, that I have spent the last 3-4 hours posting!