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"SUCCESS"---------------------
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends;
to appreciate beauty,
to find the best in others;
to leave the world a bit better,
whether by a healthy child,
a garden patch,
or a redeemed social condition;
to know that even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
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I love Albert Schweitzer! "There are two forms of refuge from the miseries of life: Music and Cats." ~ Schweitzer
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________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Some of my favorite composers: Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Debussy, Faure, Ravel, Hindemith, Mozart, Telemann, Vivaldi and many others.__________________________________________
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Carol Lynn Alban - Flutist (C Flute, Alto Flute, Piccolo), Composer, Singer-Songwriter. Carol Alban is an active performer and teacher based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the principal flutist with the Bay Area Chamber Symphony. Carol is also an experienced studio musician. Her flute playing can be heard on pianist Brian Kelly's latest CD "Afterplay" which is receiving rave reviews and is currently 3 on the New Age Charts at New Age Reporter. Her playing can also be heard on the recently released CD by Inza Bamba "House of Bamba" (see blog) that includes the amazing playing of bansuri player Ravichandra Kulur who tours with Ravi Shankar and Anoushka Shankar. Carol has recorded with many other artists including Chilean guitarist/vocalist Rafael Manriquez on his highly- acclaimed "Amistades" album with Quique Cruz. She has performed at various Jazz and Folk Music Festivals and was a featured performer at the 2008 World Flute Fest Concert at Carnegie Hall in New York. She has performed at other notable venues including Yoshi's Jazz Club in Oakland, Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, CBGBs, the Blue Note Jazz Club and Tavern on the Green in New York. _____________________________________________________________
The 2008 WORLD FLUTE FEST CONCERT www.worldflutefest.com
was a benefit for I.D.A. (In Defense of Animals) www.idausa.org and took place at Carnegie Hall in New York City on Saturday, September 27th.
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2008 WORLD FLUTE FEST Concert at Carnegie Hall
Featured Flutists:
Carol Alban, Silver Flute
Robert Dick, Silver Flute, Bass Flute
Marco Granados, Silver Flute (Jazz, Venezuelan)
Skip Healy, Irish Wooden Flute
Ann Licater, Native American Flute, World Flutes
Bassam Saba, Middle Eastern Ney Flute
James Nyoraku Schlefer, Japanese Shakuhachi
Nancy Tyler, Silver Flute
Fluteville
The San Francisco Flute Quartet
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Other Performers at the 2008 World Flute Fest Concert:
Pianists: Taylor Eigsti, Matt Herskowitz, Elaine Kwon
Guitarists: Bert Lams, George Cole
Percussionists:
April Centrone (frame drum), Neil Ochoa (percussion)
Paradiso: Didgeridoo
Harish Raghavan: Upright Bass
Alvenson Moore, Baritone
and Jacquelyn Familant, Soprano
Websites: www.worldflutefest.com
www.myspace.com/worldflutefest
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Music runs in Carol Alban's family and her musical ancestry includes the Norwegian virtuoso violinist and composer, Ole Bull. He was often known as the "Nordic Paganini". He played an instrumental role in the career of Grieg and was an exponent of Norwegian folk music. His composition, Saeterjenten's Sontag can be heard on Carol's myspace music player.
Carol also composes concert and film music. Recently her music was used in the documentary about the parrot trade, "Wild Beauty Betrayed" and in the short film "Annie's Secret" which was recently submitted to film festivals. The song, "Down in the Delta" which she co-wrote with lyricist/vocalist Alvenson Moore was used in the film "Character is Destiny" (Dreamweaver Films) and Carol composed the soundtrack for "Goodbye, My Love". The title track was co-written with lyricist/vocalist Alvenson Moore. Alvenson and Carol are currently writing a musical and recording solo albums.
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Carol organized and performed at a sold out benefit concert for Christopher Rodriguez which was held at Yoshi's World Class Jazz Club in Oakland, California on March 24th, 2008. Christopher is a ten year old boy who was recently shot while taking a piano lesson and is now paralyzed from the waist down. You can check out myspace.com/benefitconcertinfo for more information about the event. You can read about Christopher here: www.christopherrodriguez.org __ Featured performers at the benefit concert were Matt Herskowitz, Kai Eckhardt, Narada Michael Walden, John Santos, Frank Martin, Jose Neto, Anton Schwartz, Hamed Nikpay, George Brooks, Keith Terry, Alvenson Moore, Tina Glenn, the Baguette Quartette, the Fluteville Flute Choir, Carol Alban, Nancy Tyler, Suellen Primost, Savannah Lack and other members of the Bay Area Chamber Symphony, 10 year old sensation Gabi Wilson and other guest performers. The event was emceed by KCSM 91.1FM DJ Jesse "Chuy" Varela.
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The Jazz Benefit for the Birds that Carol organized on Jan. 1st was a tremendous success. Much needed money was raised for the International Bird Rescue and Research Center www.ibbrc.org They rescued and rehabilitated many of the birds impacted by the devastating Cosco Busan oil spill in the San Francisco Bay. The cast of performers included Grammy-nominated pianist Matt Herskowitz, Carol Alban and other members of the Bay Area Chamber Symphony, Kenny Washington, Laurie Antonioli, the San Francisco Flute Quartet, and many others.
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Carol was a featured flutist at the 2007 WORLD FLUTE FEST.
Other featured performers were Ravichandra Kulur (internationally-acclaimed bansuri player from India who tours with Ravi Shankar and Anoushka Shankar), Skip Healy (Irish wooden flute and fife player), Philip Gelb (shakuhachi) with Pauline Oliveros (award-winning avant-garde composer and accordionist), Kai Eckhardt (world renowned bassist (John McLaughlin Trio, Summit, Garaj Mahal), Roger Glenn (Jazz Legend- plays flute, sax, clarinet and vibes), Stephen Schultz (renowned Baroque flute player with Philharmoni Baroque Orchestra, and Professor at Carnegie Mellon University), the San Francisco Flute Quartet, the Fluteville Flute Choir, Nancy Tyler, Antonia David, Ann Licater and others. Featured flutists also performed with the Bay Area Chamber Symphony. See festival website: www.worldflutefest.com
For more info: worldflutefest@aol.com
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Benefit Concert for the Animals - Thurs., August 2nd, 2007
Classical Benefit Concert (and raffle) for the Animals, with all proceeds going to support IDA's campaigns. This special performance featured flutist and composer Carol Alban and other members of the Bay Area Chamber Symphony, as well as a rare appearance by internationally-acclaimed pianist Sandro Russo from Italy.
The concert was held at the Chapel of the Chimes, a beautiful building filled with skylights, stone-carved archways and stained-glass windows in Oakland's Piedmont neighborhood. IDA president Elliot M. Katz, DVM will also give a brief talk about IDA's latest efforts to help animals as an introduction to the concert. The program included music by Chopin, Liszt, and Rachmaninoff, as well as new works by Demetrius Spaneas (with tango dancers!) and the premiere of "Volcanic" for piano, two organs and orchestra composed by Carol Alban.
This concert is one of a series that Carol Alban has organized for IDA's benefit. Each one has brought great pleasure to audiences and attention to IDA's campaigns.
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JAMES GALWAY MASTER CLASS NEWS!! Carol Alban was on the Advisory Board for the recent James Galway Master Class in Napa, California. What a great day! Sir James was very entertaining and shared many helpful tips with us. Carol performed with flutist Nancy Tyler (the Alban Tyler Duo) in the Atrium concert. Carol also had the pleasure of assisting Lady Galway in the Teen Flute Master Class. At the last minute Carol was enlisted as the page turner for accompanist Miles Graber. ______________________________________________________________
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March, 28 2007 at 8pm
Renee Weiler Concert Hall
46 Barrow Street, NYC, New York 10014
Virtuoso violinist Mary Rowell (Ethel String Quartet) and the amazing pianist Geoff Burleson performed music by the following composers: Carol Alban, Eve Beglarian, Alexandra du Bois, Amy Kohn, Shulamit Ran, Barbara White, and Julia Wolfe. ________________________________________________________________
April 1st Benefit Concert for I.D.A. (In Defense of Animals)
Carol organized another benefit concert for I.D.A. with the Bay Area Chamber Symphony. Special guests Gerry Litton (pianist), Bryn Jimenez (mezzo), Jennifer Lien (soprano) and singer/songwriter Jeff Suits and pianist/singer-songwriter Mary Fineman . Program included music by Alban, Bach, Bizet, Delibes, Beethoven and world premieres of orchestral pieces by Demetrius Spanaes and Michael Land who were both in attendance. It was a wonderful concert that garnered two standing ovations!!________________________________________________________________
Carol had the pleasure of being in the packed house at the Flea Theater in New York City as her compostion "Elegy" was played at the 2006 Tribeca New Music Festival. It was stunningly performed by violinist Mary Rowell. See more info about the event including New York Times Review here: http://www.nyae.org/Pages/page4.html ________
Also in May, 2006 Carol performed at the infamous CBGBs with troubador Hans York. See photo in slideshow!
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Check out IDA! They do wonderful work for our animal friends! ________
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~Some Past Performances~----------------- September 12th, 2005 Concerned about the plight of the victims of Hurricane Katrina, Carol contacted the Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco about holding a benefit concert to raise money for them. Cantor Roslyn Barak graciously organized the star-studded concert which included performances by San Francisco Symphony Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, Frederica von Stade, Wesla Whitfield and Mike Greensill, flautist Carol Alban, grammy award-winning cellist Emil Miland, members of the San Francisco Symphony and DAVKA, featuring violinist Daniel Hoffman. Over $16,000 was raised for hurricane relief efforts. Carol Alban's latest composition for solo flute, "Elegy" (which she dedicated to the hurricane victims) had its premiere performance at the Sept. 12th benefit concert and was very well received. "That was beautiful!" said Michael Tilson Thomas (after hearing Carol perform it at the concert). On October 15th, 2005 another Katrina benefit was held at the Julian Morgan Center for the Arts. Carol Alban was asked to perform at this event that included all kinds of entertainers including the hilarious Will Durst and the poignant Anne Galjour. Much fun was had and much needed money was raised! She has organized and performed in numerous concerts at the majestic Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland including the Tsunami Relief Concert which featured performances by Carol Alban with Miles Graber (piano), Patti Weiss (violin) , Daniel Hoffman with Klez-x, Dylan Snodgrass (piano), Nancy Tyler (flute), soprano Katya Roemer, Francis Lockwood (piano), Philip Gelb (shakuhachi) and Katrina (Katie") Wreede (violist and former member of the Turtle Island Quartet). Other past performances include Petchitecture, a very special fundraising event for PAWS (Pets Are Wonderful Support) at the Gift Center in San Francisco, many gallery receptions including the Martin Lawrence Gallery Receptions for Chagall's Circus Suite and the Ali Golkar Show, Chochmat HaLev in Berkeley, the Fort Mason "Photo SF" International Photography Exhibition (for the Stephen Cohen Gallery) etc. Carol Alban has performed at many music festivals including Bach & Beyond, the Berkeley Free Folk Festival, the Piedmont Jazz Festival and the Oakland New Music Festival.
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Carol Alban provides elegant live music for all kinds of events (weddings, parties, receptions, special events etc.) and performs in several ensembles including the Alban Trio and the Alban Tyler Flute Duo. Carol Alban has been a member of the National Flute Association and the New York Flute Club and is the founder/director of the Fluteville Flute Choir and San Francisco Flute Quartet and Trio. She maintains an active teaching studio in the East Bay. You can contact her at carolalban@aol.com
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LONDON, June 24 (Reuters) - People have been making music for more than 35,000 years, judging by prehistoric bird-bone flutes excavated in southwest Germany. Researchers said on Wednesday they had found a five-hole flute made from the radius bone of a griffon vulture and two fragments of ivory flutes in a cave in the Swabian Jura mountains. The flutes are at least 5,000 years older than any previous confirmed archaeological examples of musical instruments. "These finds demonstrate the presence of a well-established musical tradition at the time when modern humans colonised Europe, more than 35,000 calendar years ago," Nicholas Conard of Tuebingen University and colleagues reported in the journal Nature.
(Reporting by Ben Hirschler, editing by Elizabeth Fullerton) Reut13:01 06-24-09
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Hi Carol, what's cookin? Hope all's well in the bay area. Working on the new cd. Whew! lots of work, but I hope the finished product will be to peoples liking.Due out in late summer, early fall. Thinking of jazzin Grofe's Grand Canyon Suite. That should be a challenge. Very best wishes, Mike.
"Ole Bull's Saeterjentens Sondag" is so beautiful! Marvelous playing, Carol! Looking forward to hearing more soon. Thanks for the blog comment, and have a great weekend!
