Seventeen local high school students honed their craft as flutists at Slippery Rock University, Feb. 22-23, as part of the annual Honors Flute Ensemble. The high school flutists participated side by side with the SRU Flute Choir members and attended masterclasses, workshops and rehearsals, before performing in a culminating concert.
Guest artists included Alyssa Schwartz, professor of flute and musicology at Fairmont State University, and Ebonee Thomas, assistant professor of flute at the University of Texas at Austin’s Butler School of Music. There was also a eurhythmics workshop with Stephen Neely, director of the Carnegie Mellon University Marta Sanchez Dalcroze Training Center.
High school flutists who attended included:
- Raegan Andrews from Harbor Creek High School.
- Olivia Bradley-Fricke from Franklin Regional High School.
- Cara Campbell from Armstrong High School.
- Rogan Cavanaugh from Trinity High School.
- Emma Chapman from Grove City Christian Academy.
- Cadence Durnell from Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School.
- Maddie Glesius from Avon Lake High School in Ohio.
- Lena Grossman from Neshannock High School.
- Hayley Gruber from Hopewell High School.
- Megan Hayes from Slippery Rock High School.
- Mara Ilko from Ambridge High School.
- Maggie Kennon from Franklin Regional High School.
- Sydney Rovnan from Pine-Richland High School.
- Morgan Tatar from Fort LeBoeuf High School.
- Claire Walton from University High School in West Virginia.
- Gracie Zagorski from West Mifflin High School.
- Ava Zannikos from Franklin Regional High School.
More information about SRU music programs is available on the department’s webpage, including a link to the music ensembles page with information about the Flute Choir.
