Flute Ensemble Tour Texas 2024

Our wonderful flautists, who you might have seen playing at the Wollongong Town Hall last year, are off to the USA for the 52nd National Flute Association (NFA) Convention in the USA.

The WollCon Flute Ensemble has been selected to perform a program of works on Friday 2nd August at one of the world’s largest flute events, ‘Flauta Mundi: Global Voices of the Flute’ (August 1-4, at the Henry B. González Convention Center, San Antonio, TX).

Attending the convention will inspire and motivate our students, witnessing and learning from world famous flautists, and also participating in some massed flute ensembles at the Convention. The Trade Hall will also be an experience of a lifetime, with everything flute from wall to wall.

The repertoire is a challenging program of works by living composers and includes a world premiere by our own Head of Music Theory John Spence.

The program is: ‘Steel City’ by Gareth McLearnon, ‘For the Beauty of the Earth’ by John Rutter, ‘Waltzing the Boiling Billy’ by John Spence, ‘Zig Zag Zoo’ by Ian Clarke, ‘Rainforest Counterpoint’ by John Spence (a world premiere), ‘Bamburia’ by Wil Offermans and ‘Ruckus’ by Nicole Chamberlain.

Please support a bursary for a participating student. Donations to this campaign will be used for Bursaries to offset students travel and living expenses during the tour. We would like to offer a minimum of $500 bursaries per participant – and there are 14 participants travelling. Therefore, we are aiming to raise $7,000 in the next month to help our young people perform on the world stage.