2025 Flute Day
Hosted by: Dr. John Bailey
Saturday, April 5, 2025 · WESTBROOK RECITAL HALL 119
Application deadline for masterclass participation: March 28, 2025
About Flute Day
Flute Day is here again! High school flutists and guest collegiate flutists will perform in a morning masterclass with Dr. John Bailey, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Larson Professor of Music (flute) and guest artist, Dr. Eileen Yarrison. Requests to play in the masterclasses will be honored as received, with preference given to 11th- and 12th-graders and visiting college flutists. Younger flutists will be selected as space permits. Those selected to play in the masterclasses will be contacted. Everyone else is an auditor, and auditors learn as much or more than selected masterclass performers! There will be a flute choir reading session for all participants (bring your flutes!), a guest recital featuring flute chamber works, and a final flute choir concert featuring Lincoln’s own Coro di Flauti and the Flute Day Festival Choir!
Special Guest Artist : Dr. Eileen Yarrison
Eileen Yarrison was the first flutist to receive a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Nebraska. She also holds a MM from The Pennsylvania State University, and a BM from the University of New Hampshire. She is principal flute of The Orchestra on The Hill (Ipswich, MA), and has performed in the flute sections of the Orchestra of Indian Hill (Littleton, MA), the Omaha and Lincoln Symphony Orchestras (Nebraska), the Altoona Symphony, Centre Country Chamber Orchestra, and Music at Penn’s Woods Festival Orchestras (Pennsylvania). Dr. Yarrison serves on the faculty of Gordon College and Salem State University, works with the young flutists of the Beverly, Salem, and Hamilton-Wenham school systems, and maintains a private studio at her home on the North Shore. She enjoys coaching flutists of all ages and at all places on their music-making journey. She is nationally known for her work conducting flute ensembles and has conducted festival ensembles in San Diego for the National Flute Association, in Washington, DC, for the Mid-Atlantic Flute Festival, and for the International Low Flutes Society.
She is the conductor of the Me2/Boston Flute Choir, which is a member of the Me2/Orchestra family, the world’s only classical music organization created for individuals with mental illnesses and the people who support them. Along with clarinetist Bill Kirkley and saxophonist Amy McGlothlin, she is a member of Triage, a contemporary woodwind chamber music ensemble. Triage has performed for the US Navy Band Sax Symposium, NASA (North American Saxophone Alliance, The International Clarinet Society, the Flute New Music Consortium, and the Flute Society of Washington. Dr. Yarrison was awarded the Ruby Sword of Honor by the international women’s music fraternity Sigma Alpha Iota for her work with the Eta Phi Chapter at Penn State University.
UNL Flute Day 2025 Schedule, Westbrook Recital Hall
Saturday, April 5, 2025
| 8:30 | Registration (Room 130) |
| 9:00-9:30 AM | Warm-ups with special guest, Dr. Eileen Yarrison |
| 9:30-11:00 AM | Masterclass for high schoolers with Dr. Bailey / Dr. Yarrison |
| BREAK | |
| 11:15-12:00 | Flute Choir Reading Session with Dr. Yarrison |
| LUNCH (on your own) | |
| 1:00-1:30 PM | Performance and Interview with current UNL flutists (what’s being a music major really like?) |
| 1:30-3:15 PM | Mini-Pedagogy topics (20 minutes each) with Dr. Yarrison
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| BREAK | |
| 3:30-4:00 PM | Solo and Chamber Flute Recital with Dr. Yarrison and Dr. Bailey |
| 4:00 PM | Final Recital with Lincoln’s Coro di Flauti and the Flute Day Festival Flute Choir |