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Celebrating 50: Photos From Some of the Very Special Events at the NFA’s 2022 Chicago Convention
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Celebrating 50: Photos From Some of the Very Special Events at the NFA’s 2022 Chicago Convention

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Celebrating 50: Photos From Some of the Very Special Events at the NFA’s 2022 Chicago Convention
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Raimundo Pineda leads the Opening Flute Choir Rehearsal
Celebrating 50: Photos From Some of the Very Special Events at the NFA’s 2022 Chicago Convention
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Low Flutes prepare to take the stage before the Opening Flute Choir Concert
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Competitions Coordinator John Lane
Celebrating 50: Photos From Some of the Very Special Events at the NFA’s 2022 Chicago Convention
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Executive Director Jenny Clarke
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Past President Jonathan Keeble and Vice President Rebecca Johnson
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Interns Lexi Brouillard and Tiffany Ragan also checked people in
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Our Equipment Intern Jy checks people in for the Gala Awards Dinner
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Cheryl Lawson and composer Jennifer Higdon
Celebrating 50: Photos From Some of the Very Special Events at the NFA’s 2022 Chicago Convention
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Cathy Collins Herrera and Enrique Herrera
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Carol Dale and Diane Boyd Schultz
Celebrating 50: Photos From Some of the Very Special Events at the NFA’s 2022 Chicago Convention
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President Penny Zent and Vice President Rebecca Johnson
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President Penny Zent and Executive Director Jenny Clarke
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Gala Awards Dinner

The annual dinner honored 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award recipients Ransom Wilson and Karl Kraber and Distinguished Service Award recipient Nancy Clew.

Celebrating 50: Photos From Some of the Very Special Events at the NFA’s 2022 Chicago Convention
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Fritz Kraber accepts his Lifetime Achievement Award
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Ransom Wilson accepts his Lifetime Achievement Award
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Penny Zent with John Bailey who accepted the Distinguished Service Award for Nancy Clew, who joined the celebration virtually
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Julie Maisel
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Celebrating Ransom Wilson
Celebrating 50: Photos From Some of the Very Special Events at the NFA’s 2022 Chicago Convention
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Students, friends, and family celebrating with Fritz Kraber
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Vice President/President-Elect Jennifer Grim and Lifetime Achievement honoree Fritz Kraber
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President Penny Zent, Vice President Rebecca Johnson, and Vice President/President-Elect Jennifer Grim
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Congratulations to our numerous competition winners!
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Three of the C.R.E.A.T.E. Project Competition finalists,Emlyn Johnson, Megan Maiorana, Lindsay Leach-Sparks, with coordinator Michelle Stanley
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Jazz Artists Competition winners Joe Anderies, Sheila del Bosque Fuentes, and Leszek Wisniowski with Competition Coordinator Gwyn E. Jones
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Piccolo Artists Competition winners Ester Esteban Solana, Sarah Miller, and Erica Vogel with Janet Kinmonth and James Keefe of Keefe Piccolos
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Leonard Slatkin and Demarre McGill

Backstage at the Gala Concerto Concert, which featured Slatkin leading the Chicago Philharmonic in the world premieres of Jennifer Higdon’s The Light That We Can Hear and Thea Musgrave’s Piccolo Play for piccolo and string orchestra. It also included Miguel del Aguila’s Malambo, Carl Reinecke’s Concerto for Flute and Orchestra, and Christian Lindberg’s The World of Montuagretta, performed by Valerie Coleman, Jennifer Gunn, Kersten McCall, Demarre McGill, and Sharon Bezaly.

Celebrating 50: Photos From Some of the Very Special Events at the NFA’s 2022 Chicago Convention
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Demarre McGill, Jennifer Higdon, and Valerie Coleman
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Chicago Philharmonic Executive Director Terell Johnson, Valerie Coleman and Aaron Goldman
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Piccoloist Jennifer Gunn (right), backstage
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Kersten McCall and Leonard Slatkin
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Happy 50th NFA!

The 50th Anniversary Party celebrated the Golden Anniversary Award winners and past presidents, with music by Nestor Torres and friends and a specially-commissioned piece by James Lee III

Celebrating 50: Photos From Some of the Very Special Events at the NFA’s 2022 Chicago Convention
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50th Anniversary Party
Celebrating 50: Photos From Some of the Very Special Events at the NFA’s 2022 Chicago Convention
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50th Anniversary Party
Celebrating 50: Photos From Some of the Very Special Events at the NFA’s 2022 Chicago Convention
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Nestor Torres and his band
Celebrating 50: Photos From Some of the Very Special Events at the NFA’s 2022 Chicago Convention
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Penny Zent and Chicago Philharmonic Executive Director Terell Johnson
Celebrating 50: Photos From Some of the Very Special Events at the NFA’s 2022 Chicago Convention
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Golden Anniversary Awards performance with conductor George Pope
Celebrating 50: Photos From Some of the Very Special Events at the NFA’s 2022 Chicago Convention
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Program Chair Aaron Goldman makes the 50th Anniversary official, while President Penny Zent looks on
Celebrating 50: Photos From Some of the Very Special Events at the NFA’s 2022 Chicago Convention
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4 3 Executive Director Jenny Clarke
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11 12 President Penny Zent and Vice President Rebecca Johnson
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The Golden Anniversary Awards recipients

Kaori Fujii, Katherine Saenger, César Vivanco Sanchez, Cathy Herrera, Luciano Carrera, Marie Jureit-Beamish, Ellen Kaner, and Jammie Phillips. (Not present: Mia Dreese and Celso Woltzenlogel.)

Celebrating 50: Photos From Some of the Very Special Events at the NFA’s 2022 Chicago Convention
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2 2 Low Flutes take the stage at the Opening Flute Choir Concert
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4 3 Executive Director Jenny Clarke
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11 12 President Penny Zent and Vice President Rebecca Johnson
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23 21 Emlyn Johnson, Megan Maiorana, Lindsay Leach-Sparks, and Michelle Stanley
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Program Chair Aaron Goldman, Marina Piccinini, and Leonard Slatkin
Celebrating 50: Photos From Some of the Very Special Events at the NFA’s 2022 Chicago Convention
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4 3 Executive Director Jenny Clarke
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11 12 President Penny Zent and Vice President Rebecca Johnson
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Cathy Collinge Herrera, Luciano Efren Carrera Galarza, Penny Zent, and Jenny Clarke joined by representatives of the Ecuadorian Embassy
THE FLUTIST QUARTERLY
Fall 2022 - Volume 48, No. 1
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