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.
( 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
Angela Muller is a professional flutist and pedagogue with over 30 years of playing experience. Originally from Denver, Colorado, she currently resides in Jacksonville, FL. Ms. Muller has appeared as a soloist with several ensembles including the First Coast Wind Symphony in their tours of Austria and France. A specialist on auxiliary flutes, she often performs on piccolo and alto flute in addition to the concert flute. Ms. Muller, along with Heather Davidson, are the founding members of the Étoiles Binaire Duo specializing in Classical, Jazz, and Pop genres.
Ms. Muller has appeared as a soloist for the Jacksonville Chamber Music Society and has collaborated in orchestras for numerous operas and musicals in Florida and Colorado. Her past collaborations include the First Coast Opera, UNF Opera, Aurora Symphony Orchestra, the Lamont Symphony Orchestra, the Lamont Wind Symphony, the 101st CO Army National Guard Band, and The Original Cowboy Band (Idaho Springs, CO). Angela is the principal flutist (Julie Badger Endowed Chair) for the First Coast Wind Symphony and the founder and executive director of the First Coast Flute Choir, an ensemble consisting of community members that perform regularly in Northeast Florida.
Angela Muller holds a Bachelor of Music Education from the University of Northern Colorado and a Master of Music with an emphasis in flute and conducting from the University of Denver. Her primary flute teachers were Michelle Batty-Stanley, Sylvia Greenfield, and Pamela Endsley. Her conducting teachers include Dr. Joseph Martin, Dr. Lawrence Golan, Dr. Catherine Sailer, and Dr. Richard Mayne. Masterclasses and performances with Marco Granados, Eric Whitacre, Brian Balmages, Jack Stamp, and several others have inspired her to become a lifelong learner.
Mrs. Muller has an extensive background as an educator and a conductor. She is frequently requested as a clinician at many of the Northeast Florida schools. Ms. Angela has taught music in the public schools at all levels, focusing on band, chorus, and general music. Ms. Muller has served as the Guest Conductor for the Jr. Honors Flute Choir (FFA) and presented pedagogical topics several times at the Florida Flute Association’s Annual Convention. She is one of three Guest Artists on the bill for the 2024 Florida Flute Convention and will also present a session that weekend. In addition to performing with various ensembles, Angela owns and operates the Muller Flute Studio, a private instruction studio for learners of all ages and levels.
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.