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Howdy, & thanks for visiting Rachel's flute page. Rachel is a flutist with the Austin Symphony Orchestra, piccoloist of the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra (MI), & a private teacher to many talented flute students in the Austin area. Originally from Houston, she started playing the flute when she was 11. She received a Bachelor of Music from the University of Houston & a Master of Music from the University of North Texas, both in flute performance. She also received a post-graduate diploma from the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University in Chicago. She taught privately for 10 years around Houston, Dallas, & Chicago. She has been a prize winner & finalist in flute competitions such as the National Flute Association Orchestral competition, Mid-South Young Artist Competition, & the Myrna Brown Artist competition. She was also alternate for the NFA Young Artist competition. In the summers, she has played with the Texas Music Festival, Henry Mancini Institute (CA), & the International-Festival Institute at Round Top (TX). She was a flutist with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago in' 05-06, & has played piccolo with the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra (IA) in '06-07. She has been a finalist/semi-finalist in orchestral flute & piccolo auditions for the Chicago, Saint Louis, Grant Park, Oregon, & Phoenix symphonies.

Rachel plays on a Powell flute with a David Williams headjoint, & a Hammig piccolo.

STUDENTS IN THE AUSTIN AREA, I am currently accepting flute students in the Austin area, including the Round Rock, Pflugerville, & Leander Independent School Districts for the summer, & am also considering openings for the '08-09 school year. You can send me a message here, &/or visit my website for more info.

Photographers in Austin or Houston, I am very interested in having some professional flute pictures taken. Feel free to contact me here if interested, & please leave a link to your website!

Repertoire:
Classical; Symphonic, Chamber Music; Woodwind quintets, Woodwind trios; Flute & Strings; Flute and Piano, Flute solo

Enough seriousness (& talking about myself in 3rd person, haha). I also love playing the piccolo... you can hear it in the Firebird Suite & Verdi Requiem on here. I have grown fond of the instrument, even though it hurts my ears sometimes *grin* (I DO wear earplugs religiously, if anyone's wondering). I started playing picc in high school for marching band, as many do. I can play the oboe proficiently (I've played it since high school), & can teach it as well. I was quite the typical band nerd in high school... you know, the kind of student that was ALWAYS practicing, or caught playing on different instruments when she wasn't practicing her "real" instrument. What can I say, band was my life. I particularly loved the french horn & would probably be playing that if I hadn't played flute. I was also in choir in high school & sang soprano. In college, I picked up the guitar & bass guitar as diversions from classical music, no thanks to having MTV in my dorm room (hey, they actually played videos at the time in the mid & late 90s!). I also studied bassoon & saxophone, but I have since had to keep focus on my flute. So anyway, I made this page to fill a void of classical musicians on here at the time... but there are many more now ;-) I'd love to talk to other classical nerds like myself. I'm one of the most atypical classical musicians you'd meet, but I'm as serious as they come (as far as practicing, not my personality). I am sort of a classical musician by day & a rocker by night. I love rock, particularly 80s post-punk & new-wave, 90s grunge & alternative, goth rock, EBM/industrial, & modern indie rock. I love bands like The Cure, Depeche Mode, Echo & the Bunnymen, Placebo, Clan of Xymox, Radiohead, New Order, Doves, XTC, Kasabian, The Libertines, VHS or Beta, Franz Ferdinand, Covenant, Project Pitchfork, Melotron, & too many more to list. On a related note, if you like similar type of music, please check out my rock band (no, I don't play flute in it cuz I do need some type of diversion):
The Rainy Thursdays

Which Classical Music Composer Are You?

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Salzburg 1756 - 1792)
A musical prodigy as a child, Mozart began composing at age six. His talent took him across Europe where he performed in front of royalty. In his teenage years, Mozart was fired by his commissioner, the Archbishop of Salzburg, and he decided to become a freelance composer. Mozart and his wife were both spendthrifts, which caused them both financial problems. Mozart died in poverty at age 35 and was buried in a common cemetary. His gravesite is unknown to this day.
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