Ariel performs as part of the CU wind symphony, featuring Jeff Scott’s “Sacred Women” and the world premiere of Connor Abbott Brown and Derrick Spiva Jr.’s “Code Switch Mixtape”.
Ariel joins clarinetist Carolyn VaderWerf for her junior recital at CU Boulder. They will perform with three other CU undergraduate students as a woodwind quintet. Featuring Valerie Coleman’s “Umoja”.
Ariel performed works for solo flute, and flute + electronics. Featuring performers Anoushka Divekar, clarinet and Dr. Suyeon Kim, piano. Works by Yuko Uebayashi, Chen Yi, Elizabeth Brown, and Nathalie Joachim.
Ariel will conduct the premieres of two senior thesis compositions. Drake Rutherford’s Piano Concerto, a one movement, ragtime and Broadway-inspired work, will feature Derek Sharman as piano soloist. The program will also include Vibrations of Magnetic Hearts, Jack Gaffney’s new piece for chamber orchestra.
Ariel attended the Consummate Flutist 2019 with faculty members Alberto Almarza, Lorna McGhee, Soo-Kyung Park, Leone Buyse, and special guest Jeanne Baxtresser. Ariel performed in masteclasses with Almarza, McGhee, and Buyse.
Ariel performed in masterclasses for Marianne Gedigian and Ulla Miilmann at the 2019 Iowa Flute Intensive.
Ariel joined trombonist Kenny Ross for his first master’s degree recital at CU Boulder. Mr. Ross presented a fantastic variety of modern trombone works, and the two arranged and performed Villa-Lobos’ “Bachianas Brasilieras no. 6”, originally for flute and bassoon, on flute and bass trombone.
From the CU Presents website: “The Symphonic Band, which is comprised of 70 of the finest wind, brass and percussion performers on campus, performs a variety of outstanding works written for band.” The ensemble joins the CU Concert Band. Both ensembles worked with Spring 2019 guest composer James Stephenson and composer/clinician Kevin Walczyk in preparation to perform the composers’ works.
Ariel joined CU Flute Quartet members Yuna Langehennig, Nicole Peters, and Emma Shelby in CU Boulder’s semester-ly chamber music showcase. The quartet played Eugene Bozza’s Quartet for Flutes.
Ariel was named first prize winner at the 2019 CedarLuke Young Artist Competition at the University of Montana in Bozeman. Ms. Flach is honored to receive this award at her competitive debut, and to have been able to perform for judges Dr. Virginia Broffitt Kunzer of Auburn University and Professor Tadeu Coelho of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Ariel is picture with first and second runners up Jordan Gravatt (second runner-up, left) and Lauren Reineking (first runner-up, center).
Ariel performed in CU Boulder’s Chamber Music Showcase with the CU Boulder Flute Quartet. The group performed Casterede’s Flutes en Vacances, alongside various chamber ensembles of their peers. Members: Ariel Flach, Maddie Hardick, Celeste Landy, Nicole Peters.
Ariel presents an all-modern flute recital, synthesizing a program of works for solo flute and chamber ensembles. Works by Shostakovich, Debussy, Bozza, and others feature the flute as a solo, duo, and trio instrument. Ms. Flach is joined by flutists Martha Long and Zachariah Galatis (pictured with Ms. Flach) of the Oregon Symphony, clarinetist Sam Ek, and pianist Renee Dugan.
