Adult Amateur Day
Saturday, January 25, 2025
Ballard Homestead
6541 Jones Ave NW, Seattle WA 98117
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FREE ADMISSION for AUDITORS
REGISTRATION AND SFS MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED for PARTICIPANTS
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Support for this Event is provided by our Season Sponsor, FluteWorks Seattle
Applications for Adult Amateur Day are now available!
Read the Full Rules, then Apply
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Join us for a fun and inspiring musical experience at the second annual Adult Amateur Day hosted by the Seattle Flute Society! This event was created for adult amateur flute players and enthusiasts to perform for and receive insights from a distinguished guest adjudicator. This year we are ecstatic to present adjudications performed by Dr. Jennifer Rhyne, Associate Professor of Flute at Pacific Lutheran University.
There are both solo or ensemble slots available; you can pick whichever suits your interests best. Register in advance to perform either as a soloist or with friends in an ensemble of up to 6 (six) people. Dr. Rhyne will provide personalized feedback through spoken comments and suggestions. The adjudications will be open to the public but solo/ensemble performers must pre-register.
During the lunch break there will be a 40 minute flute choir reading session that is open to everyone. Join the members of the Flute Society board and other local flutists to read flute choir repertoire! No pre-registration needed for the Community Flute Choir Reading Session.
This is an event you won’t want to miss—come share your love for the flute and make beautiful music together!
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Questions? Contact Cassie Lear at horsfall@seattleflutesociety.org.
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Schedule
9:15am Check-in opens; refreshments available for purchase
9:30am-12:50pm Adjudications with Dr. Rhyne
12:50pm-1:30pm Community Flute Choir Reading Session
1:30pm-4:00pm Adjudications with Dr. Rhyne
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2025 Guest Adjudicator: Jennifer Rhyne
Dr. Jennifer Rhyne serves as Associate Professor of Flute and Music Theory at Pacific Lutheran University where she also directs the Sølvvinden Flute Ensemble and performs with the Camas Woodwind Quintet.
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Before joining the faculty of PLU, Rhyne taught at Fort Hays State University in Kansas. The North Carolina native holds degrees in Flute Performance and in Neuroscience from Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music, as well as degrees in Flute Performance from the University of Michigan and Stony Brook University. She pursued non-degree studies at the École Normale de Musique in Paris. Her teachers include Kathleen Chastain, Michel Debost, Lorna McGhee, Carol Wincenc and Pierre-Yves Artaud. Rhyne is a member of Symphony Tacoma and performs regularly with Vashon Opera and the Blessed Sacrament Baroque Orchestra in addition to directing the Tacoma Flute Choir.
She frequently appears with ensembles in the region such as Northwest Sinfonietta, Bellevue Opera, Lyric Opera Northwest, the Northwest Bach Festival, and Walla Walla Baroque, as well as on chamber music series such as the Second City Chamber Music Series and at the Icicle Creek Center for the Arts. A dedicated pedagogue, her articles have been published in School Band and Orchestra Magazine and Flute Talk, and she has been a featured lecturer and masterclass clinician at the National Flute Association Convention, the Kansas Music Educators Convention, the University of Oregon, Cornish College of the Arts, Ohio University, Portland State University, Western Kentucky University, and Columbus State University in Georgia as well as a frequent adjudicator for contests in the Northwest. She is currently serving as the Assistant Program Chair for the 2017 National Flute Association Convention in Minneapolis. She has won prizes in competitions sponsored by the National Flute Association, the Texas Flute Society, the Albuquerque Flute Association, and the Washington, DC Flute Society and has performed at Carnegie Hall and Madison Square Garden in New York.
​Her students have won prizes in competitions sponsored by PLU, the Coeur d’Alene Symphony, the Tacoma Philharmonic, the Washington Music Educators Association, and the National Flute Association. Rhyne enjoys performing a wide variety of music from all genres and eras, including historically-informed performances of early music on a one-keyed wooden flute as well as performances of avant-garde contemporary solo and chamber works. Her Two Muses recording of music for flute and guitar is available from Amazon.