The Florida Flute Association
48th Annual Membership Convention
January 26, 27, and 28, 2024
LOCATION: Orlando Airport Marriott Lakeside
7499 Augusta National Drive, Orlando Florida
To attend any part of the convention, including exhibits, all flute players of any age or level, active or retired, must register as a 2024 FFA member and pay the convention fee. (2024 Membership and Convention registration available at a later date)
SEPARATE FEES AND SEPARATE FORMS REQUIRED TO ATTEND:
2023 Adult Annual Membership Fee $30, Convention Fee $65.
2023 Student Annual Membership Fee $10, Convention Fee $40.
Guests are NON flute players and must be a guest of a convention attending member.
2024 Guest Artist
Bart Feller
We are pleased to announce Bart Feller as our 2023 Guest Artist!
Bart Feller is the Principal Flute of the New Jersey Symphony, New York City Opera, and Santa Fe Opera Orchestras. He has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Bargemusic, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Mr. Feller has also appeared as a concerto soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the Jupiter Symphony.
He is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, where his teachers included Julius Baker and John Krell; he has also worked extensively with Keith Underwood.
Among the summer festivals he has participated in are the Marlboro Music Festival, OK Mozart International Festival, Colorado College Chamber Music Festival, Napa Valley Chamber Music Festival, and the Grand Teton Music Festival.
Mr. Feller is Professor of Flute at Rutgers University/Mason Gross School of the Arts and teaches in the Pre-College Division of The Juilliard School.
Our 2024 Florida Guest Artists
Muller Flute Studio, established in 2012, is owned and operated by Mrs. Angela Muller, a flutist with over 25 years playing experience.
Mrs. Muller holds a Bachelors degree in Music Education from the University of Northern Colorado and a Masters of Music from the University of Denver.
Ms. Angela has experience in many areas of music education. She is a former high school band and chorus director for both Duval County Public Schools, FL, and Clear Creek County, CO. She has also taught general music to grades K-12 and holds a Kinderflute Teacher’s Certificate. Her private teaching experience has ranged from beginners to adults and Ms. Muller’s students consistently progress and continuously earn high ratings in competitions and win auditions.
Mrs. Muller currently performs on flute in the First Coast Wind Ensemble and on piccolo with the First Coast Flute Choir in Jacksonville, Florida. Ms. Angela founded the First Coast Flute Choir in 2014 and is currently the music director for the ensemble. Past performance groups include the Lamont Symphony Orchestra, the Lamont Wind Ensemble, the Aurora Symphony, the Colorado Cowboy Community Band, the University of Northern Colorado’s Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble. Mrs. Muller has served in the CO Army National Guard’s 101st Band playing piccolo, flute, and directing.
Marie Schwartz is a flutist with decades of experience in orchestral performance, chamber ensemble performance, private instruction/masterclasses, and composition. She is well versed in playing different flutes, though she specializes in the piccolo, and has collaborated with many composers to premiere many new works on both instruments.
Marie is currently the Principal Flutist of Orchestra Delray and the Conductor and Principal Piccoloist of the South Florida Flute Orchestra.
She has performed with internationally acclaimed musicians, including Sir James Galway and Chicago (the rock band), and has performed with the Boca Symphonia (including the inaugural and subsequent Boca Festival of the Arts performances) and the Palm Beach Symphony.
She has made numerous appearances at the FFA conventions, and in 2023, she performed her first composition, “Lanai Bird” for piccolo solo. As Principal Flutist and Co-founder of her NY woodwind quintet, 4 Winds & A Horn, Marie made lifetime alliances with composers, who wrote woodwind quintets and a flute concerto for her. She can be heard on the “Turn of the Century” CD with composer Jerry Rizzi, who was her first composer collaboration.
Marie’s extensive experience in both musical performance and marketing prior to living in Florida, including collaborating with composers, co-founding a woodwind quintet, creating a chamber concert series, a symphony orchestra, and a youth concerto competition, inspired her to become a co-founder of the South Florida Chamber Ensemble (SFCE) in 2011.
Marie follows her passion of extending classical music to students of all ages by maintaining an active international private studio. Her students and her children continue to claim prestigious achievements and performance opportunities in the musical world.
Marie’s flute teachers include Mindy Kaufman, Andrew Lolya, Herbert Levy, and Gerri Brioso. Masterclasses and performances with Jean-Pierre Rampal and Sir James Galway have also inspired her.