Participants in the West Virginia University Community Music Programs summer flute camp will present a series of free concerts at the Creative Arts Center June 20-23.

Camp participants are high school flutists who are entering grades 9-12, said director and WVU flute professor Francesca Arnone.

The camp includes flute master classes, small group lessons with WVU students and faculty, tone and technique classes, chamber music ensembles, a large flute choir, faculty recitals and a final gala concert for family and friends.

The free recitals and concerts will be held in the CAC s Bloch Learning and Performance Hall (Room 200A). They include:

  • Wednesday, June 20�€ A faculty recital featuring Arnone, flute and traverso, and Lya Cartwright-Stroupe, piano. The concert begins at 7 p.m. and will feature works by Georg Telemann, Michael Colquhoun, Philippe Gaubert, Paul Taffanel and Paul Hindemith.
  • Thursday, June 21�€ A WVU student and faculty recital at 8 p.m., featuring works by Darius Milhaud, Franz Schubert, Franz Doppler, Francis Poulenc, Lowell Liebermann and others.
  • Saturday, June 23�€ The final gala concert at 2:30 p.m. will be a fun-filled event with flute chamber ensembles, selected students performing with piano and a 20-piece flute choir that will have piccolos, C flutes, four alto flutes and bass flutes.

Arnone is director of the WVU Flute Choir and a member of the WVU Laureate Wind Quintet. She earned flute performance degrees from Oberlin, the San Francisco Conservatory and the University of Miami. She has served as principal flute of the Boise Philharmonic for four seasons and as piccolo of the Palm Beach Opera Orchestra since 1997. Prior to this, she was co-principal and piccolo of the Orquesta Sinfonica de la Universidad de Guanajuato in Mexico.

For more information about the free concerts, contact the Community Arts Program, 304-293-4841, ext. 3168.