Elise Blatchford, guest flute
Jacob Coleman, piano
Repertoire to be announced
About the Artists
Elise Blatchford (guest flute)
A flutist who embraces the independent, experimental, and the DIY, Elise Blatchford is a professor, a member of the City of Tomorrow wind quintet, and a frequent soloist and recitalist. Her solo playing has been hailed for its “superb command of color and nuance” by the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Ms. Blatchford is the Assistant Professor of Flute at the University of Memphis Scheidt School of Music. With the contemporary music wind quintet the City of Tomorrow, she has won a gold medal at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and toured across the U.S.
Ms. Blatchford’s willingness to take risks has extended to multidisciplinary performance art at the Next Wave Festival at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), touring with the amplified cello rock band Portland Cello Project, and arranging and performing an entire album by singer-songwriter Mirah with her partner Leander Star.
Also at home in the traditional orchestra world, Ms. Blatchford has performed with the Oregon Symphony, the Memphis Symphony, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and the YOA Orchestra of the Americas. With YOA, she toured extensively throughout South America, the Caribbean, and mainland China, made an appearance at Carnegie Hall with Valery Gergiev, and recorded with Philip Glass.
A dedicated and inventive pedagogue, Ms. Blatchford has given master classes at New England Conservatory, San Francisco Conservatory, Williams College, Longy School of Music, and Skidmore College, among many others. She completed degrees in flute performance at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the San Francisco Conservatory.
Elise Blatchford loves coffee, penguins, yoga, and weird independent radio stations.
Jacob Coleman (piano)
Jacob Coleman earned his bachelor’s in piano performance from the University of Georgia Hugh Hodgson School of Music with Richard Zimdars, his master’s in collaborative piano from the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance with David Riley, and his D.M.A. in Collaborative Piano at The University of Texas at Austin with Anne Epperson.
While at the University of Georgia, Coleman was a Presser Scholar and recipient of the UGA Liszt Award. As a graduate teaching fellow at the University of Oregon, he was named Outstanding Graduate Collaborative Pianist for 2009. In 2012, he was a collaborative piano fellow at the Music Academy of the West, where he worked with Jonathan Feldman.
Coleman has participated in master classes with artists such as Gil Shaham, Ransom Wilson, Frank Cohen, Lynn Harrell, Angela Hewitt, Donald McInnes, and Warren Jones. He has served as staff at the Astoria Music Festival and faculty at the University of Georgia Summer Music Workshop.
He spends his summers in upstate New York as staff pianist at the esteemed Meadowmount School of Music.
Cost: Free
For more information contact:
Sarah Slover
(812) 855-9846
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