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Biography: Cheryl Gobbetti Hoffman, flutist

Cheryl Gobbetti Hoffman is a member of the University at Buffalo's music department faculty and a former member of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. While these are distinguished credits on any resume, they don't begin to suggest Gobbetti Hoffman's originality, both as a music administrator and a programmer. As a champion of her chosen instrument she has organized a flute advocacy group with the whimsical name of Who-o-o-osh, and in her faculty position she's founded a large ensemble that performs under the name Plosion…", writes the Buffalo News. Since the year 2000, Cheryl Gobbetti Hoffman & Friends performances have been noted for "exuberant performance" and "wild and wooly playing", presenting 'new & used' chamber music in high-profile, yet intimate, concert settings. Committed to exploiting the sonorous and interpretive possibilities of contemporary flute voice, fostering challenging musical collaborations in varying ensemble instrumentation and performer roster, leading educational masterclasses and workshops, and commissioning new works-Gobbetti Hoffman's performances in concert venues including New York's Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Cooper Union, and Merkin Hall as well as Visiting Artist and Recital Series throughout the United States and Canada have been thusly characterized: "Emerging as a superb soloist…Played like a natural… her characteristically colorful sound and incisive phrasing always lead to insightful and highly personal interpretations… In the most bravura performance of the evening, Gobbetti pushed flute technique to the limit …" While a tenured musician and Board Director for the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Ms. Gobbetti-Hoffman was a member of its Artistic Advisory Committee; a co-founding artist of the Beaufluvian Players and co-founder for New & Used Music and the Niagara Frontier Flute Association, she has also served as generous teaching artist for the Western New York Institute for the Arts-in-Education, Board Director for Young Audiences of Western New York, Inc., and popular, if eclectic, program host for Western New York and Southern Ontario's classical music radio station WNED-FM. As a student, Cheryl earned a scholarship to the Manhattan School of Music; Michael Tilson Thomas invited her into the professional orchestral world and mentored her perusal of the symphonic repertory. Advanced private studies and international master classes with the likes of Julius Baker, James Galway, Thomas Nyfenger, Aurele Nicolet, Jean-Pierre Rampal, William Bennett, and Peter Lloyd further informed her concept of flute voice and performance; intensive chamber music studies were mentored by Mischa Schneider of the Budapest Quartet, members of the original Cleveland Quartet, and pianist/composer Leo Smit. A survivor of breast cancer, Cheryl Gobbetti Hoffman embraces the musical life for inspiration as well as sustenance. For more information, visit www.music.buffalo.edu
Contributed by: Cheryl Gobbetti Hoffman
Contributor e-mail: gabbycheer@aol.com
Contributor organisation: University at Buffalo, Department of Music

Biography: Bill McBirnie - Jazz Flutist

Bill McBirnie is a jazz and Latin flute specialist based in Toronto, Ontario who has studied with distinguished Canadian flutist and composer, Robert Aitken, and Cuban charanga legend, Richard Equez. Bill is known for his superior technique on the entire family of flutes (from bass flute to piccolo). He is also recognized as an accomplished improviser, notably in the bebop, swing and Latin idioms as illustrated by his recordings as a sideman with Junior Mance, Irakere and Memo Acevedo. He has produced two of his own Extreme Flute projects and, most recently, a straight-ahead acoustic jazz recording under his own name featuring The Mark Eisenman Trio entitled, "Nature Boy" (No. 4 in Jazz.FM91's Top 40 line-up for 2003). Bill has also been chosen Flutist of the Year by the Jazz Report Awards, nominated as Instrumentalist of the Year at the National Jazz Awards and, more recently, declared a winner of the U.S.A. National Flute Association's triennial Jazz Flute Masterclass Competition.
Contributor e-mail: billmcb@idirect.com

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