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Duo Tour and TMEA

2/18/2015

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This past week I traveled to Oklahoma and Texas with my friend Ann Bradfield for a few performances and masterclasses. We made stops at the University of North Texas (Denton), Northeastern State University Woodwind Day (Tahlequah, OK), Stephenville High School and Tarleton State University (Stephenville, TX) before heading down to San Antonio to present at the Texas Music Educator's Association Convention. It was a great time, and thanks to everyone that came out to see us! 
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Performing at Northeastern State University
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Patricia Surman and I
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(l-t) Mike Childs, me, Ann Bradfield
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class at Northeast Eastern State Woodwind Day
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TMEA Clinic 2015
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Different Worlds Tour

9/19/2014

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The past week, AVIDduo performed our Different Worlds program and gave lectures and masterclasses at Northeastern State University, Millersville College, and Lafayette College! We were delighted to perform on the Old Wood New Sounds concert series as well which had amazing wine pairings by The Vineyard at Grandview. After our tour, we spent a few days in New York visiting the Yamaha Atelier, seeing some amazing art exhibits, and visiting old friends! 
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Lecturing at Northeastern State University
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With Old Wood New Sounds Artistic Director Kate Umble
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Lecturing at Millersville College
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Performing in the Jazz Lab at NSU
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Performing BAAYAMI: From the Sky by Mark Oliveiro
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With composer Kirk O'Riordan, who wrote Leonardo's Sketchbook for us in 2011!
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With Patricia Surman, who hosted us at NSU!
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AVIDduo in Times Square!
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Mu Phi Epsilon International Competition

8/2/2014

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Last week I traveled to Sacramento, CA to compete as a finalist in the MPE Int'l Competition. Although I did not win the grand prize, it was a terrific experience and I met some truly wonderful people. It was a great time, and I was fortunate enough to come home with a cash prize! 
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AVIDduo Educational Tour

6/5/2014

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Two weeks ago, AVIDduo met up in Dallas, TX to prepare for our Educational Tour sponsored by Music-1st. We gave performances and presentations on contemporary music to students at fourteen different schools in the area followed by a recital at Rock & Bach Performing Arts School in Frisco. 
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Myers MS - Denton ISD
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Denton HS - Denton ISD
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Carroll MS - Southlake - Carroll ISD
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Dowell MS - McKinney ISD
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Liberty HS - Frisco ISD
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Roach MS - Frisco ISD
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Pioneer Heritage MS - Frisco ISD
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with Caryle Jones from Music-1st
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with Laura and Paul Hollenbach, owners of Rock & Bach
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with composer Sam Melnick
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Cockrill MS - McKinney ISD
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Calhoun MS - Denton ISD
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Richland MS - Birdville ISD
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Maus MS - Frisco ISD
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Wakeland HS - Frisco ISD
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Johnson MS - McKinney ISD
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Nichols Elementary - Frisco ISD
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with Chris Viens and Andre Yanniello from Music-1st
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Thanks to Andre Yanniello for the tune-up!
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Tennessee Visit

3/4/2014

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Last weekend, I visited Tennessee Tech University and University of Tennessee - Knoxville with the lovely EunHye Grace Choi. It was a joy to be in Tennessee, to perform, and to teach the talented students there. Many thanks to Phil Barham and Allison Adams for having us out! 
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TMEA

3/3/2014

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I traveled to San Antonio, TX recently to attend the 2014 Texas Music Educators' Association Convention. It was a fantastic time spent catching up with friends and enjoying Mexican food on the Riverwalk in gorgeous 70 degree weather. I had an absolute blast and am so thankful to the many people that attended my session Start your beginner saxophones... the RIGHT way! If you were not able to make it or you did not get a handout please email me and I will be happy to pass one along to you!  
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AVIDduo @ TMEA!
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(l-r) Noelle Fabian, Chris Viens, me, Caitlin Schmidt, Eric Andress, Jessalyn Bernhard
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A great turnout for my session!
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View from my 24th floor hotel balcony.
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Seoul, South Korea

8/29/2013

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I have finally returned home from a 2 1/2 week trip to Seoul with Brittany Primavera. The first week in Seoul, we taught a week long camp with our friend Jinhee Yeo, which I wrote about here. As I am still jet lagged and awake in the middle of the night, I thought I would take this time to post a few pictures from the second half of our trip! 

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Korean Folk Village
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Traditional dance and music
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At the Korean National Museum
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River that runs through Korean Folk Village
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These supposedly ward off ghosts
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Practicing my Hangul. This says "Kyle Hutchins"
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View from Namsan Tower!
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Performing with the Jae Young Presbyterian Choir
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Namdaemun Market
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My view from the beach!
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Yeongdeungpo, Seoul
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Yeongdeungpo, Seoul
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Jinhee Yeo, Brittany Primavera, and myself at Korean Folk Village
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Amazing view from Jinhee's apartment!
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View of Seoul from Namsam Tower
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Jae Young Summer Camp

8/19/2013

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Last week, Brittany Primavera and I (AVIDduo) traveled to Seoul, South Korea to teach and perform at the Jae Young Summer Camp in Yeongdeungpo, Seoul. It was a pleasure for us to be reunited with our old friend Jinhee Yeo, who organized the camp and brought us there to teach with her. The three of us were the primary teachers for this week-long camp of sixty kids age 4-11 working on speaking English, learning about American customs and culture, and music! Each day centered around a theme and had a variety of activities associated with the theme. Monday was Hello and Experience Day; Tuesday was Color and Movie Day; Wednesday was All About the U.S.; Thursday was Music Festival; and Friday was Outdoor Sports Day. In addition, each day, we worked to teach the kids how to sing a variety of songs in English, as well as common proverbs/quotes to practice speaking. Brittany, Jinhee, and I had a blast teaching and making music with the children, as well as performing for them! At the end of the camp, we had a nice graduation ceremony where the students sang their songs for their parents, were awarded certificates of completion, and then Brittany, Jinhee and I performed for them as well. We are already looking forward to next year! 
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July 4th in NYC

7/17/2013

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Earlier this month I took a road trip from the Mini-Apple to the Big Apple with some friends to see sights and celebrate America's birthday. In addition to seeing one of the largest firework displays in the country, I got to finally go to the MoMA, which was probably the highlight of the trip for me. As a lover of art, I wanted to share some awesome pieces I got to see, as well as some other neat pictures I took! 
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Outside MoMA
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"Revolving" by Kurt Schwitters.
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"The Empire of Light, II" by Rene Magritte
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"Street Chick" by Claes Oldenburg
On the evening of July 4th, we went to watch the firework show over the Hudson River where there were multiple barges shooting off the fireworks. Although the show was fantastic (and definitely the largest I have seen), there were almost too many people standing shoulder to shoulder for me to enjoy myself.
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From the net... SO many people
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Broader view of the show from the net
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Empire State Building
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9/11 Memorial
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Chicago
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Turns out NY is not that big, as we ran into Chris Reza by chance in Times Square right after he got out of playing a gig. What are the odds of that?! Be sure to listen to the piece he wrote for AVIDduo here.
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Collection of works by Van Gogh, Picasso, Pollock and Warhol
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"The Rope Dancer Accompanies Herself With Her Shadows" by Man Ray

Although I was slightly disappointed with the surrealist works on view, they did have a decent collection of Rene Magritte pieces that were just fantastic. There was also a room completely dedicated to the DADA movement, which was particularly interesting to me. The Schwitters and Man Ray pieces above are of that movement. In fact, I have performed Schwitters' Ursonate on several occasions, so it was very interesting to see some of his material art on view. The main exhibition at MoMA during my visit was the work of Claes Oldenburg. There were several exhibits containing works from his various periods, including a giant mouse head with hundreds of tiny knick-knacks on display as well as giant, stuffed fabric foods. I did not particularly like most of his stuff, with the exception of his early work which was collectively called "The Street." I was not allowed to take any pictures of those works, but I snagged some that I liked off the MoMA website.

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"Poster Study: New Media, New Forms I" by Claes Oldenburg
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View of the show from where I was standing
Here are a couple other pictures I took from around the city! All around, it was an enjoyable trip, including going to Chicago and Philly, but I am definitely glad to be back in Minneapolis!
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Freedom Tower
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Philly
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My friends Cait, Brett and I in Times Square
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World Saxophone Congress

8/10/2012

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Now that it is a few weeks after my trip to Europe, I thought I would take some time to post pictures! Overall, it was a great time! I had the opportunity to meet and reconnect with some wonderful people and hear many excellent performances.
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A few days before my flight to Scotland, I found out that there was a SNAFU with my hotel reservations, and of course St. Andrew's was completely booked up for the Congress by this point, which led me to use CouchSurfing.org to find other accommodations. I was lucky enough to find some local university students in St. Andrews who let me crash with them for the duration of the Congress. It was a fantastic experience meeting them and their friends, getting a little of the local culture in, and saved a little money to boot. Plus the walk to the events was considerably less than if I stayed in the hotel. It was absolutely fantastic, and I would definitely use CouchSurfing.org again in my travels. 
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with my awesome hosts Alaric and Darren
My entire week at the Congress, I saw less than 30 performances, even though there were hundreds happening. It would be interesting to know how many saxophones were in that town during that week :). 
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Outside St. Leonard's Chapel, where my recital took place.
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with the Excelsior! Trio
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with Carina Rascher
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Opening Gala Concert
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with saxophonist and composer Andy Scott. I will be giving the North American Premiere of his concerto Dark Rain later this year!
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with my great friend, fellow UNT alum, MPE sister, and BG-USA Marketing and Product Specialist Jessica Watts!
One of the very cool things I learned about at this Congress was a new instrument called the Karlax. Philippe Geiss did a lecture and demonstration over the instrument which was very interesting! It is not a wind instrument, but rather completely digital. It has many buttons, is motion sensored, and even twists in the middle, all of which can be programmed to do virtually anything you like. I recommend checking this thing out. You can visit the Karlax website here. During the lecture, I had the pleasure of going up on stage to try the instrument out. It was programmed to manipulate the video from Jacob TV's Garden of Love while Cliff Leaman played the saxophone part. 
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My recital took place on Thursday July 15th in an amazing medieval chapel that was several hundred years old. You can take a virtual tour of the space here. I performed the world premiere of Mark Oliveiro's new piece Bayaami: From the Sky which I wrote about in a previous blog post. I also performed a wonderful little piece titled Monologo en Tiempo de Joropo by Colombian composer Carlos Gonzalo Guzman-Munoz. A little over a year ago, my wonderful AVIDduo partner Brittany Primavera traveled to South American to teach and perform in Le Ceja, Colombia and the area. She was encouraged (read: harassed) to bring back some Colombian saxophone music with her, and this was undoubtedly one of my favorites. I have since gotten to know Carlos a little bit, and he is a great person and composer and I am delighted to have had the opportunity to give his piece its first performance outside of Colombia! If anyone is interested in performing either of these piece, please contact me and I will put you in touch with the right people :)
Aside from the week long saxophone extravaganza, St. Andrew's was a pretty awesome town! 
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view of the North Sea from atop St. Rule's Tower
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residence of the Principal of St. Andrew's where Dr. Rousseau had his 80th birthday celebration
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ruins of St. Andrew's Cathedral
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view from the tower in another direction
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the ruins of St. Andrew's Castle
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pretty decent view of the whole town
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Oh, Scotland. Known for their music and their fashion.
An all around great time. I wish I had gotten to see more of Edinburgh, but after the last day of the Congress I flew to Prague, CZ where I met up with Brittany for AVIDduo shenanigans... More on that to come.   
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