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Welcome to my
homepage! I
hope to provide
some useful
links for the
new music
enthusiast,
and sites of
interest for
flutists.
Please email me
if you know of
webpages which
should be
included in this
collection.
In addition, I
am including
some sites
related to stuff
I like that has
nothing to do
with music at all.
Thanks for
visiting!
Please feel free
to contact me for
more information
on classes and
performances.
UPCOMING CONCERTS:
February 3, 2pm
Pappoutsakis
Competition
Finals. NEC
Brown Hall.
February 6, 8pm
Ralph Shapey
in Jordan Hall.
February 7, 7pm
On Sarah Bob's
New Gallery
Concert Series:
Gandolfi's
"Geppetto's
Workshop"
with Alison
D'Amato, piano.
See link to right.
March 8, 4pm
Millard
Auditorium
West Hartford
Music for
Bassoon and Flute
March 30, 8pm
Carter/Bach
St Botolph Hall
NEC
April 2, 8pm
Brandenburg
Concertos with
the NEC Bach
Ensemble
April 24, 8pm
Berio Serenata
No. 1 with the
NEC Wind Ensemble
Above is a glass
engraving of
Euterpe, the
Greek muse whose
symbol is the
flute. The
engraving was
done by John
Hutton. Check out
the Euterpe link
to the right for
more information
on the muse!
THE STUFFY, OFFICIAL SOUNDING BIO: Alicia DiDonato, flutist and piccoloist, is currently a student of Fenwick Smith at the New England Conservatory. In May of 2001, she completed a three year fellowship with the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, FL. Originally from Stoneham, Massachusetts, Ms. DiDonato is a winner of numerous competitions, including the 1999 Frank Bowen Competition and the 2001 New England Conservatory Wind Ensemble Concerto Concerto Competition. (Hear her perform Berio's Serenata No. 1 on April 24th, 2002 at NEC!!) She has performed as soloist with orchestras across the country, most recently with the New World Symphony in a performance of Christopher Rouse's flute concerto, and with the Santa Fe Symphony in a performance of CPE Bach's G Major concerto. She has been a featured artist with the Emerson String Quartet and has participated in the Aspen, Norfolk and Tanglewood music festivals. She has collaborated in chamber music with Paula Robison, Jim Walker, and Aldo Abreau; orchestrally, she has performed under the batons of Seiji Ozawa, Claudio Abbado, James Conlon, Donald Runnicles, Zdenek Macal, Robert Spano, Reinbert deLeeuw and Michael Tilson Thomas. An active recitalist and advocate for new music, Ms. DiDonato has presented programs in Boston, New York, Miami, and Hartford, as well as in St. Petersburg, Russia as a part of that city's Musical Spring international festival. In August of 2001, she was a performer in the Costa Rica Music Festival, earning praise from La Nacion's music critic for her "tonos lisos." She has premiered a number of compositions, including Jennifer Higdon's "Autumn Music." Additionally, Ms. DiDonato is committed to outreach and educational activities and maintains a private studio. Ms. DiDonato has studied with John Wion, Nadine Asin, Samuel Baron, and Joshua Smith. She received her BM from the Hartt School as a member of its 20/20 program and attended New England Conservatory's preparatory school while in high school. She holds a minor in Foreign Languages and Cultures from the University of Hartford. The Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinal has described her playing as "wistful...fluent and full of tone, even in the most demanding passages." The Boston Globe declared her chamber music performances "full of skill and wit." To contact Ms. DiDonato, please click on the email link to the left!
Stuff and People I Like/Love/Admire/Dream About
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since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
my blood approves,
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all the flowers. Don't cry
-- the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says
we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis
e.e. cummings
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