San Francisco Flute Festival
Viviana Guzman, Artistic Director
Concerts in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Rome, Venice
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December 28, 2012 By
I started the San Francisco Flute Festival for several reasons. First, I had been so impressed by the way Matej Zupan and Salvatore Lombardi ran their flute festivals in Slovenia and Milan respectively, that I thought someday I would like to return the favor and ask them to come to San Francisco to perform for us. I’m feeling more and more called to start looking for reasons to keep me more at home rather than touring 95% of the time like I used to.
So in 2010, I decided to embark on producing the 1st San Francisco Flute Festival. I invited Matej Zupan (Slovenian Radio Symphony Orchestra) as well as Bulent Evcil (Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra), Timothy Day (San Francisco Symphony) and Robin McKee (San Francisco Symphony) to join us in our inaugural event. We held it in an oceanfront venue near my house in Half Moon Bay which was both charming and inspiring.
The event turned out to be so successful that we were thrilled to be able to launch the 2nd San Francisco Flute Festival this year, this time presented at the San Francisco Conservatory near the Civic Center in downtown San Francisco. Our guest artists included Gary Schocker, Mario Caroli, Christina Jennings, Nicole Esposito, Linda Lukas (San Francisco Symphony) 6 flute choirs, and San Francisco local flutists Areon Flutes, Carol Alban, Rebecca Kleinmann, Lars Johannesson, Pamela Ravenelle, Teresa Orozco, Gail Edwards, Ai Goldsmith.
The event would not have been possible without the generous sponsorship of our Corporate Members, Linda Shum, Diane Sangster and the amazing Sue Rupp whose attention to detail and diligent work help launch us from a one day festival to a two day festival. We had twice as many participants and attendees and loads of fun was had by all.
Viviana Guzman and Gary Schocker play Schocker 
Mario Caroli plays Bach 
Just Another Flutist, Joanna Tse’s review of the SF Flute Festival 
Christina Jennings plays Caprice Variations 
Nicole Esposito plays FLASH 
10 Holiday Flute Gift Ideas for the Flutist in Your Life
December 12, 2011 By
Viviana Guzman proud owner of a Fluterscooter Bag
1. Gift the sensational Fluterscooter Flute Bag!
2. Gift a Skype Lesson or Business of Music Internet Coaching via PayPal from the following: a) Viviana Guzman twitter@FluteQueen, b) Lisa Schroeder twitter@SchroederFlute, c) Alexis Del Palazzo twitter@sensibleflutist
Bettine Clemen-Ware
3. Gift a flute repair session, always necessary! a) Anne Pollack in NYC. Her website is Your Fluteworks b) Lori Lee in San Francisco c) Joan Sparks’ Flute Pro Shop in Willmington, DE
4. Gift Flute Holiday Music: a) Bettine Clemen-Ware’s Angel’s Noel b) Fluterscooter’s Holiday Treasures
Greg Pattillo's 3 Beats for Beatbox Flute
5. Gift original music by our favorite flutists: a) Gary Schocker I found a Sheet Music Plus page with several of his charming works here b) Greg Pattillo released his 3 Beats for Beatbox flutes this year and can be ordered here.
Gary Schocker will be performing at the SF Flute Festival 2012
6. Add to the flute collection by gifting exotic ethnic flutes: a) For a Native American Indian Flute, the best quality for a good price, I think are Odel Borg’s High Spirits Flutes, b) For Bansuri Flutes check out the Joshua Geisler Bansuri Flute c) Purchase a Penny whistle at your local music store usually for under $20.
Christina Jennings will be performing at the SF Flute Festival 2012
7. For the budding toddler flutist, gift Barbara Siesel’s Green Golly and Her Golden Flute CD. Charming, original, and perfect stories for your little ones set to the beautiful flute playing of Barbara Siesel. Listen to sound samples and order from CD Baby here. My 4 year old niece loves this recording!
8. Books written by flutists: a) Book of poetry, Love Soliloquies by Viviana Guzman b) Practice Books by Trevor Wye c) Scale Studies by Meerenai Shim
Paula Robison
9. Gift Favorite Flute Recordings: a) Paula Robison (her album, “The Holy Land” is my personal favorite) Preview it here. b) Check out the Italian Artful Mastery of Mario Caroli’s discography here c) Take a listen to Christina Jennings’ beautiful records on Amazon here d) For Gary Schocker’s Amazon discography click here. e) Order my own Viviana Guzman Classical, Latin, Flamenco, Meditation and Tango CD’s from Amazon here. FYI, Mario Caroli, Gary Schocker, Christina Jennings and I will be performing at the San Francisco Flute Festival on June 16 & 17, 2012!
Viviana Guzman will be performing at the SF Flute Festival 2012
10. A Golden Gift Opportunity: 24K Altus Handmade Flute. As price of gold continues to rise, investing in a golden flute would seem to be a wonderful investment. The 24K Altus Flute is a gem with soaring sounds from the warm high register and lush low register. A golden opportunity indeed! Visit AltusFlutes.com
Trevor Wye is an Altus Artist
Mario Caroli will be performing at the SF Flute Festival 2012
