Flûtée
Professional Flute Quartet




Flûtée 10-1-06
Flûtée
(2006)
:  Mary Anderson, Pam Rowe, Tess Miller, and Kim J. Teal

Flûtée, a professional flute quartet in mid-Michigan, is comprised of flutists who individually perform in such professional ensembles as the Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra, the Midland Symphony Orchestra, and the Saginaw Eddy Concert Band. This award-winning ensemble was founded in 1987 by Mary Anderson and Kim J. Teal and has performed throughout the United States. They were a featured professional ensemble at Michigan Flute Festivals in 1993 and 1994 and were winners of the National Flute Association's 1994 Chamber Music Competition, becoming the first Michigan ensemble and flute quartet to win. They were also featured performers at NFA Conventions in Kansas City (1994), Chicago (1997), and Columbus, OH (2000, where they gave the world premiere of Children of the Wind.) Flûtée has also been named to the Saginaw News' annual list of top ten artistic events in mid-Michigan several times. From 1991-2007 Flûtée was also a Professional Artists in Residence Ensemble at Saginaw Valley State University .

The quartet is known for its varied styles of musical performance, playing everything from classical to jazz on various combinations of piccolo, Eb soprano, C concert, Bb flûte d'mour, alto, and bass flutes, and has been featured on WCMU-FM (CMU), WUCX-FM (Delta College), and WFBE-FM radio and TV stations. Flûtée has presented numerous master classes in flute ensemble performance at schools throughout mid-Michigan and also presents children's programs such as The Snow Queen, A Carnival of Animals, and Flûtée: In the News.

Flûtée is also recognized for its continuing efforts to expand the literature for flute quartet through its commissioning of new music and arrangements of existing music that utilize all  the members of the flute family. Some of Flûtée's newly commissioned works include Floris, A Gaelic Offering, Legends From the Greenwood, and Children of the Wind by Catherine McMichael, Voices From Between Worlds, The Snow Queen, Chinese Dragons, and That Picture My Imagination Has Painted by Nancy Faber, A Flûtée Celebration by Ricky Lombardo, Three Spirituals for Soprano and Flute Quartet by Ken Bellen, Aviary Adventures by James Hill, and Flourish, Meditation and Dance by Jeff Whitmill. Flûtée has also commissioned numerous jazz arrangements by Tony Rongo, arrangements of show tunes by Kevin Cole, and has also composed and arranged  numerous flute trios, quartets, and quintets themselves.


Flûtée Programs:
  • Festive Flûtée (Music for fun and celebration)
  • Flûtée: Women's Work (Music by women composers)
  • Thoroughly Modern Flûtée (20th Century music)
  • Flûtée and All That Jazz! (Various styles of jazz with and without our backup jazz band)
  • Flûtée's Broadway Encores (Show tunes for flute quartet, singers and piano - Depends on availability of singers and pianist)
  • Flûtée Goes to the Symphony (Symphonic music arranged for 4 and 5 flutes)
  • Flûtée Toot Suites (Musical suites from various time periods and styles)
  • Flutes On Vacation (Music for summertime)
  • Classically Flûtée (Music by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, etc.)
  • Flûtée Fancies (A potpourri of Flûtée favorites)
  • Flûtée - The Commissioned Works, Part 1 (Music written by Catherine McMichael specially for Flûtée)
  • Flûtée - The Commissioned Works, Part 2 (Music written by Nancy Faber specially for Flûtée)
  • International Flûtée (A musical tour of the world)
  • Flûtée: Myths, Legends and Fairy Tales (This title speaks for itself!)
  • Flûtée: In The News (A program based on the news: weather, sports etc.)
  • Flûtée: Stained-glass Reflections (Music for Easter)
  • Flûtée's European Grand Tour (A musical tour of Europe)
  • Flûtée: La Primavera! (Music celebrating "all things spring")
  • Flûtée: Bridging the Centuries (Our salute to the changing centuries)
  • Flûtée's Guide to the History of Music (The history of music from a flutist's "biased" perspective!)
  • Elementally Yours, Flûtée (Music about earth, wind, water & fire)
  • Flûtée's American Pastimes (Music about American pastimes)
  • Operatic Flûtée (Music from the opera for flute quartet)
  • Flûtée Celebration! (A potpourri of our favorite commissions, including the title piece written for us by Ricky Lombardo)
  • Flûtée: Baroque & Blues (Music from Bach to Bolling)
  • Flûtée Impressions (a 35 minute program of original music by Nancy Faber with narration and a slide show of paintings by Impressionist painters such as Monet, Manet, Delacroix, & Renoir)
  • Flûtée: Something Old, Something New... (Features performances on modern, historic, and ethnic flutes)
  • Celtic Flûtée (Music of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales)
  • Flûtée's Golden Age of the Flute (Music written for flutes between 1685 and 1735)
  • Flûtée: For the Birds (Music about birds, with which flutes have been synonymous throughout the ages)
  • Flûtée: For Flutists by Flutists (Music written for flute quartet by flutist composers)
  • A Flûtée Christmas (Music for Christmas)

Flûtée's Programs for Children:Swan
  
    A Carnival of Animals: Creatures of Fur, Feather, and Fin As Portrayed in Words & Music

  
A program featuring popular children's poems and music about animals.

   The Snow Queen
    Hans Christian Anderson's classic story, with original music by Nancy Faber, and story
   adaptation by Barbara Anderson.



Flûtée is also available to teach workshops or masterclasses in flute ensemble performance and to perform for formal and informal concerts, recitals, weddings, receptions, church services, and as guest soloists with orchestras, bands, and choirs.


For further information contact Flûtée member Kim J. Teal at:
  kjt at glis.net
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Please be sure to include the words "Flute Quest" in the subject line.)



Flûtée and All That Jazz Concert        Flûtée in 1991
Flûtée and All That Jazz! concert.                                  
Flûtée in 1991.




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