Andrew Downes - Fantasia for Alto & Bass Flute Solos with 5 Part Concert Flute Choir Accompaniment

Fantasia for Alto & Bass Flute Solos with 5 Part Concert Flute Choir Accompaniment

Instrumentation

Alto & Bass Flute Solos with 5 Part Concert Flute Choir Accompaniment

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Commissioned by Margaret Lowe for the ´Birmingham Flute Commission´ and premiered on l8th April 1999, at a special Flute Day at Birmingham Conservatoire, by soloists Clare Southworth and Gary Woolf and the Birmingham Flute Ensemble, conducted by Carol Kniebusch Noe.
First American performance by the James Madison University Flute Choir of Virginia, directed by Carol Kniebusch Noe, in the Wilson Hall of James Madison University, on 31st March 2000. Performed by the Massachusetts High School Flute Choir, directed by Danielle Boudrot, in April 2000. Recorded for CDs by both of these American flute choirs.  Subsequent performers of this work include the West Michigan Flute Orchestra in their Fall Concert, November 2003.