ClubFC Presents
Flute Practice Toolkit Workshop
Live Zoom Event | Thursday, November 9 | 6:30PM ET
--
Join ClubFC and Dr. John Ranck as he walks us through his Practice Tool Kit with assistance from Dr. Ronda Ford. Leave with a new set of tools to help you practice any piece. There will be live participation from pre-selected participants and time for questions.
--
John Ranck played principal flute with the Melrose Symphony Orchestra for a decade. He also played in the pit orchestra of the Franklin Performing Arts Company musicals and second flute/piccolo for their annual Nutcracker production. An adjunct flute professor at Northeastern for several decades, he continues to teach privately. Assistant Director of the Composers’ Conference’s Chamber Music Workshop for more than a decade, he also served as President of the Pappoutsakis Memorial Fund, which presents the annual Pappoutsakis Flute Competition.
His teachers include Thomas Nyfenger (Doctor of Musical Arts), Samuel Barong (Master’s Degree in Flute Performance), and Fred Schroeder (Bachelor of Music in Flute Performance), and non-degree study with Robert Dick, András Adorján, and Henry Zlotnik. In addition to his Practice Toolkit, his other publications include Nutcracker Piccolo Pointers and Shall we Dance: or finger choreography for Jeanjean's Études Modernes.
His second undergraduate degree is in Slavic Literature, which came in handy for his translation of composer Nicolai Tcherepnin's memoirs for the Tcherepnin Society and is proving helpful in his research on Joseph Guillou, a flutist who taught at the Paris Conservatory and spent the last part of his life St. Petersburg, Russia.
--
Dr. Ronda Benson Ford is currently the instructor of flute at Shorter University, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and the Cadek Conservatory of Music.She is the principal flutist with the UTC Orchestra and previously performed with the Topeka Symphony and many other orchestras. She has toured with the International Flute Orchestra to Japan, Italy, and Hungary. Ford has had articles published in the peer-reviewed Flutist Quarterly journal and Flute Talk magazine. Dr. Ford has performed at National Flute Association Conventions, Regional FluteFestivals, and College Music Society regional conferences. Her teachers have included Dr. John Bailey, Dr. Danilo Mezzadri, Kyril Magg, Alexander Murray, Max Schoenfeld, and Dr. Carolyn Brown
Leave a comment