PROGRAM OF STUDY : WOODWIND

The Bowdoin International Music Festival will offer its extraordinary woodwind program again in 2008 under the direction of Igor Begelman. Two six-week full-tuition fellowships will be awarded in each of the woodwinds. Additional non-fellowship positions may be available in flute and clarinet. Applicants interested in the wind fellowship positions must be available for all six weeks.  The program will provide intensive study of the woodwind and mixed-ensemble chamber music repertoire. Participants will receive chamber music coachings, wind repertoire classes, performance and technique masterclasses with visiting coaches, and coachings with festival faculty. Fellows will also perform in each of the festival concert series.  Students selected for this program tend to be over the age of 21.

Visiting coaches for 2008 are: Benjamin Kamins, bassoon; Katherine Needleman, oboe; Eric Ruske, horn; and Christina Smith, flute. 

Individual players and pre-formed woodwind quintets are invited to apply. In the case of pre-formed groups, each group member must apply individually and be accepted to a studio for their instrument. The group will be coached together, but members will be treated as individuals for the purpose of scholarship and housing assignments.

Performance

Three to six student concerts are presented each week, with virtually every student performing at least once. These concerts are open to the public and provide a forum for acquiring skills and insights vital to an artist's maturity. Digital recordings of all student concerts are available to students.

Students may also have opportunities to work with faculty members and guest artists, play in the festival orchestra (there are 1 or 2 orchestral concerts each season) and in the community concert series program, which offers off-site performance opportunities in the Brunswick area.

Woodwind faculty list and bios

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