2024 ARTISTS
SARAH BRADY
Called “enchanting” by the Boston Globe, flutist Sarah Brady is sought after across the country as a soloist, chamber musician, and master teacher. An avid promoter of new music she has premiered and recorded new music from many of today’s top composers. Her solo, chamber and over 50 orchestral recordings can be heard on the Albany, Naxos, Oxingale, Cantaloupe and BMOP/Sound music labels. As a leading interpreter of contemporary music, she was invited to read and record new music commissioned by Yo Yo Ma for his Silk Road Project at Tanglewood.
Principal flute with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Odyssey Opera, Sarah often performs with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, Boston Ballet, and Boston Lyric Opera. As a chamber musician she has been described as “clairvoyantly sensitive” (New Music Connoisseur), and has collaborated with the Fromm Players at Harvard, the Firebird Ensemble, the Radius Ensemble, Boston Musica Viva, The Talea Ensemble, Callithumpian Consort, Sound Icon, NotaRiotous and the Cortona Collective.
In competition she was awarded second place in the National Flute Association 2006 Young Artist Competition, where she also won an award for the best performance of the newly commissioned work by Paul Drescher. She has been a Semifinalist in the Myrna Brown Competition Flute Competition, Heida Herman Woodwind Competition, Eastern Connecticut Young Artist Competition, and twice received second place in Boston’s prestigious Pappoutsakis Flute Competition. As a soloist Sarah enjoyed a sold out debut at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall with pianist Oxana Yablonskaya. Awarded a full tuition scholarship to the University of Connecticut, Sarah went on to receive a Masters of Music as well as an Artist Diploma from the Longy school of Music where she was a student of Robert Willoughby. Sarah is Associate Professor of Flute Association as well as the Director of the Classical Contemporary Music Program at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. For more information about recordings or concerts, please visit: www.Bradyflute.com
JOEL FABELO
Cuban flutist Joel Fabelo Gonzalez has developed his musical style by embracing diverse musical landscapes from the classical music repertoire to Latin-American Jazz & Cuban rhythms. Joel has performed and taught around the globe in countries throughout, Africa, Asia, Europe including the United States. His musical style combines the Classical Academic School with the Latin and Afro-Cuban rhythms.
He currently performs throughout Miami with his band, is director of a music program for a Non-Profit private school and provides private lessons for beginners through college students to help them achieve their musical goals.
ILONA KUDINA
Ilona is a diverse artist and strong leader with her own voice. She holds both a Diploma in jazz/contemporary flute performance from Berklee College of Music, and also a Master of Music degree in classical flute performance from the Latvian Academy of Music.
For many years Ilona was a member and later the president of the Baltic American Society of New England in Boston, MA, where she managed and produced many successful concerts. Ilona served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts. She is an educator with more than 20 years of experience.
In addition to Ilona's CD “On The Bridge” and CD “Amber Flute Quartet”, her latest CD “Nothing But Illusion”, showcases her jazz flute style. Joining Ilona on flute, alto flute, piano and vocals are: Billy Hart, drums; Greg Hopkins, trumpet; Vardan Ovsepian, piano; Akili Jamal Haynes, bass; and Don Hunerberg, sound producer.
TYLER MARTIN
Tyler Martin joined the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra in the 2021-22 season and is a substitute flutist for the Houston Symphony and Houston Ballet. He has performed with the symphony orchestras of Chicago, Seattle, Fort Worth, Omaha, and Missouri and worked with esteemed conductors like Cristian Marcelaru, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Teddy Abrahms, Michael Stern, Eun Sun Kim, Dame Jane Glover, Patrick Summers, and Larry Rachleff. He is a prize winner of numerous competitions, including the Houston Flute Club, New York Flute Club, Austin Flute Society, and National Flute Association’s Orchestral Audition Competition. Additionally, he was a semi-finalist in the 2021 Young Concert Artists international auditions. In 2019, he was awarded Honorable Mention in the Boston Woodwind Society Flute Competition.
This past summer he attended Spoleto Festival USA, the National Repertory Orchestra, and was on faculty for the 2022 Virtual Flute Music Festival. An avid performer of new and contemporary music, he performs with Houston’s new music collective Musiqa and is the dedicatee of works for flute and piccolo written for him by composers Joy Guidry and Alex Berko. He has been featured as a guest artist at the 2020 National Flute Association Convention and gave a nationally broadcast solo recital and interview as a 2022 Young Artist in Residence for American Public Media’s Performance Today.
Tyler received a Bachelor of Music degree from DePaul University’s School of Music, and Master of Music degrees from both the New England Conservatory of Music and the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. His principal teachers include Alice K. Dade, Mark Sparks, Paula Robison, and Leone Buyse.
Tyler plays on a handmade 10K Powell Flute with a 19.5K Powell Lumina headjoint and a Powell Signature Piccolo with a Mancke Kingwood Headjoint.
LEA PEARSON
Award-winning Master Teacher Dr. Lea Pearson has been training students, performers, and teachers in innovative techniques for over 30 years. Dr. Pearson holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in flute performance, a Master’s Degree in flute from Stanford University, and was a Fulbright Scholar at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.
One of the first Licensed Body Mapping Educators in the world, Dr. Pearson authored the acclaimed book Body Mapping for Flutists: What Every Flute Teacher Needs to Know About the Body. She has helped thousands of musicians recover their ability to play with joy and ease through her sold-out workshops and master classes.
Her influence among flute teachers is legendary. Guiding international performers from Brazil to China, Dr. Pearson has taught at London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the US Air Force Band, and more than 100 colleges, conservatories, military bases, conferences, camps, and festivals around the globe.
With a career as an active performer, college teacher, and a Kennedy Center Teaching Artist, Dr. Pearson applies her expertise to solving the music industry’s hidden secret: the pain and anxiety caused by traditional methods of instruction.
ADAM WORKMAN
Raised in Vergennes, Vermont, flutist Adam Workman moved to Boston in 1998 to pursue his love of music. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Flute Performance from the Boston University College of Fine Arts where he studied with Marianne Gedigian, Jacques Zoon, and Linda Toote. He also received considerable guidance from Jonathan Landell, Court Gettel, Louis Moyse, Steven Finley, James Walker, and Paula Robison. Adam has appeared in orchestral, chamber, and solo performances throughout the country, and can be heard with the Boston-based Commonwealth Chamber Players and the Fensgate Chamber Players. His solo CD, “Tribute: Past, Present, Future” was released under the Azadmusico label.
Sought after as a teacher and coach, Adam has had students accepted at The Peabody Conservatory, The Yale University School of Music, The Longy School of Music, and The NYU School of Music. Formerly on faculty at the Boston Flute Academy, he has also coached the flutists of the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra and has taught masterclasses at Boston University College of Fine Arts, Eastman School of Music, Yale School of Music, Peabody Conservatory of Music, New England Conservatory, Berklee College of Music, Interlochen Arts Academy, University of Georgia Athens, University of Missouri, University of Akron, Hartt School of Music, and The Kennedy School in Berlin, Germany, among others. Adam currently maintains a private studio at Flutistry Boston.
In addition to his artistic pursuits, Adam has held high-level roles at major companies in Boston including ViaCell, Inc, The Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, Biogen Idec, and was also Director of Classic and Amadeus Flutes at the Wm. S. Haynes Flute Company. With this unique background in both the creative and corporate worlds, Mr. Workman founded Muddy River Creative, an Arts Consulting firm, in 2004 (which later developed into Flutistry Boston). As such, he has made various contributions to the work of Marianne Gedigian, Paula Robison, Steven P. Finley, FluteFX, Charles Villarrubia, The Wm. S. Haynes Flute Company, Yesterday Service Music, The National Flute Association, The University of Texas at Austin, and SonyBMG Records. Adam has proudly served as a member of the Board of Directors for the James Pappoutsakis Memorial Flute Competition since 2007.
Recognized for his repair skills by the Vermont Guild of Flute Making, Mr. Workman was trained in flute repair by master flutemakers Steven P. Finley (FluteFX and Wm. S. Haynes), Jonathan Landell, Muramatsu Flutes, Lillian Burkart, David and Joel Straubinger and is a Muramatsu & Straubinger Certified Repair Technician.
EILEEN YARRISON
Dr. Eileen Yarrison was the first flutist to receive a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Nebraska. (She also majored in German at University of New Hampshire and attended the Goethe-Institute in Blaubeuren, Germany.) Highlights of her teaching career include standing in for each of her teachers at her three collegiate alma maters while they went on sabbatical leaves, teaching and conducting at the Summer Youth Music School of UNH, and making a "standing-room only" pedagogical presentation at the 1996 National Flute Association convention.
Eileen has performed in the flute sections of the Omaha and Lincoln Symphony Orchestras of Nebraska, the Altoona Symphony, Centre Country Chamber Orchestra, and Music at Penn's Woods Festival Orchestras of Pennsylvania. When not performing, she teaches flute to students of all ages, holding positions at Gordon College and the Hamilton-Wenham Elementary Music program. Since 1997, Eileen has led this ensemble of professional and semi-professional flutists in several world premieres, two commissions, and three CD recording projects, including Points of View and A Falls House Christmas.