Masterclass -A Warm-Up that Works

Laurel Zucker, virtuoso flutist, will give a Masterclass in Nashville, TN. on August 13 at 8 A.M. at The Opry Hotel in Governors Ballroom South for The National Flute Convention. Bring your flutes and get ready for an energising morning of the best technical advice on the market today.

(PRWEB) July 26, 2004 -- Laurel Zucker, internationally -known Cantilena Records recording artist of 26 critically acclaimed CDs will be giving a Flute Masterclass - A Warm-Up That Works to all flautists of every level. Ms. Zucker is recognized throughout the world as the next up and coming flute Virtuoso Flutist! Laurel Zucker Flutist is described by Gramophone Magazine 2003 "as polished and gratifying as Galway and Rampal. In fact, Zucker's interpretations are splendid all around. Her tone is airy and sweet, her virtuosity graceful!"
    
In August 2003 book "101 Inspirational Stories from the World's Best Flute Players" published by WindPlayer Magazine, Laurel Zucker is featured along with James Galway, Ian Anderson etc..
    
Fanfare Magazine refers to Ms. Zucker 'as a forceful advocate for 20th century music" and when she was awarded the prestigious Aaron Copland Fund for Music from The American Music Center in NYCity to record her 1997 CD Take a Walk on the Wilder Side, Fanfare Magazine stated "this disc fills an important niche in American music as well as the flute literature."
    
With 26 Cantilena Records releases as of Fall 2004, Ms. Zucker is heard regularly on every U.S., Canadian, European, Israeli, Satellite classical radio station. As a recital soloist, concerto soloist, chamber musician and orchestral player, Laurel Zucker has perfomed numerous times in the grand halls such as Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Kennedy Center, Metropolitan Museum in NYCity, Mondavi Center etc...
    
As a concerto soloist Ms. Zucker has performed critically acclaimed performances with the Sumara Symphony Orchestra of Russia, Erkel Chamber Orchestra of Budapest, The American Symphony Orchestra of NY, Orchestra of NY, Sacramento Philharmonic, Gold Country Orchestra, Sutter Creek Orchestra, Camellia Symphony Orchestra, Arlington Philharmonic etc...
    
As a chamber musician she has performed with the Marlboro Music Festival & Tour, Tangelwood Music Festival, Harvard Chamber Player, Twin City Concert Series, UCDavis Chamber Plyers, UCBerkley Chamber Players, FENAM Festival, Sacramento Chamber Players, Music in the Mountains Festival, Chamber Music Alive!, Music Fest of Arizona, AIM Festival in Graz Austria, CHIPUM Festival in Peruggia Italy, Grand Teton Festival, FAME Festival in NJ, International Festival in Russia, Fountainbleau Festival in France, Manteca Kindred Arts Series, National Flute Conventions, Artist in Residence at North Carolina School of the Arts, Artist in Residency at Texas Women's College in Denton Texas, Arts Alive! Public Television Show, etc...
    
During the last 10 years Ms. Zucker was asked to be an Virtuoso Flute Artist representative of major flutemakers - Miyazawa Flutes, Powell Flutes, Straubinger Flutes and others.
    
In August 2000 Dr. Bernard Frischer, Director of the UCLA Virtual Reality Laboratory, requested use of three Cantilena Records CDs featuring Laurel Zucker, for a documentary film presenting a 3D computer model of the Early Christian Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore of Rome. This film was created and shown for the AUREA ROMA SHOW for Romes' Jubilee Year and at the request of the Vatican, City of Rome and The Italian Ministry of Culture. The film played continually from December 2000 to April 2001 in an English and Italian version in Rome at the Palace of Exhibitions, the largest, major Roman facility for temporary exhibitions. the music from the Zucker Cds playing continuously on all three floors of the Palace of Exhibitions for the other art exhibits as well.
    
Since 1988 Ms. Zucker is Professor of Flute at California State University in Sacramento where she has received numerous Awards: The Presidents Award for Creative and Scholarly Activity 1997-08; the CSUS Research & Creativity Awards for 1998-99 and 2000-01; Faculty Sponsor for the Faculty Endowment fund Scholarly & Creative Activity Award 1998; Professional Promise Award 1989. In 2000 Professor Zucker was nominated for the Outstanding Teaching Award by her flute majors at CSUS and in Spring 2000 was nominated by President of CSUS, Donald Gerth for the prestigious Wang Family Excellence Award.        
        
Laurel Zucker received a scholarship to The Juilliard School where she received her BM in 1978 for Flute Studies with Samuel Baron. She received a MA in composition with honors from New York University. Ms. Zucker also attended new england Conservatory of Music from 197375 where she studied with Paula Robison; and privately with Marcel Moyse.
"I'll try not to turn this review into an advertisement for the California State University Sacramento flute studio, but after listening to Laurel Zucker's performances here, I make no promises." The Davis Enterprise Winters Express 2004 David M. Meyers

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