Summer Programs
Flute Boot Camp for High School Students
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BOOT CAMP FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Sunday, June 22-Thursday, June 26, 2025
APPLICATION DEADLINE: APRIL 5 - or until program is filled.
THIS PROGRAM IS NOW FILLED FOR 2025.
Open to 12 advanced flutists who have not yet graduated from high school looking for a week of vigorous work on their flute playing in a friendly, supportive environment. Students will receive two lessons with Professor Still: one 45-minute private lesson and one open master class lesson. Also included are daily warm-up sessions, technical workshops, coachings, ensemble work and rehearsal with pianist Hyunsoo Kim. Technical workshops include a session with body mapping expert Kelly Mollnow-Wilson, orchestral mock audition (performance participation optional), college audition workshop and more. An optional concert opportunity will conclude the camp.
Alexa Still
Alexa Still is known for her distinctive performances and a rich discography. Originally from New Zealand, Alexa won competitions including the New York Flute Club Young Artist Competition and the East and West Artists Competition while doing graduate studies. At age 23, while completing a DMA at SUNY Stony Brook, she won the position of Principal Flute of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
Further honors include the Churchill Fellowship and a Fulbright award, which encouraged a focus on pedagogy. Alexa eventually joined the Oberlin Conservatory in 2011where she has received the award for teaching excellence and the NEA professorship. During the summer, regular engagements include the Round Top Festival (Texas), Orford Musique (Quebec) and Aria Academy.
Performance highlights include notable premieres in Australasia and the U.S., as well as solo engagements with organizations like the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Colorado Music Festival, the Albany Symphony, the Long Island Philharmonic, the Simon Bolivar Orchestra, Istanbul Chamber Orchestra, every orchestra in New Zealand, the Takacs Quartet, and the percussion ensemble Nexus. Alexa won The American Prize 2024 for Instrumental Performance.
Alexa's discography boasts over 20 highly acclaimed CDs. Reviews from esteemed publications include Fanfare Magazine: "Still creates a rainbow of colors within the range we might call 'beautiful'. You just won't hear better-sustained flute playing than this, or more subtle, characterful phrasing: real, warm, communicative musicality.", Sequenza 21: "Reviewers far and wide agree that Alexa Still doesn’t make anything sound tough. She gracefully sprints and hurdles through menacing challenges without seeming to break a sweat. Added to this technical superiority comes an equally sensitive musical side.”, and Gramophone Magazine: "Whatever she plays sounds musical in every turn of the phrase....”
Recent world premiere recordings include her recording of Mathew Hindson’s House Music, now available as a digital download, SONY Korea's inaugural release in high-definition audio (2022), "Finding Home," showcasing Michael Fine’s Concierto Del Luna with Ensemble Bravura and guitarist Jason Vieaux, and Aaron J Kernis’ Air, and Alexa's latest solo disc including five premieres, "WISH," featuring music by Valerie Coleman, with pianist Evan Hines and spoken word by Carmen Twillie Ambar. “WISH” was released on the Oberlin label in 2023.
Alexa has contributed to her profession serving as the President of the National Flute Association (USA) and authoring articles for flute publications worldwide. She performs on a silver flute by Brannen Brothers of Boston, complemented by gold or wooden headjoints by Sanford Drelinger of White Plains, New York. When not immersed in music, Alexa enjoys motorcycling, nature and her elderly rescue dogs.
Please visit alexastill.com for more.
Kelly Mollnow Wilson
Kelly Mollnow Wilson holds a Master of Music degree in Flute Performance from The Ohio State University and a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Baldwin-Wallace College. Her teachers include Katherine Borst Jones, Mary Kay Fink and Liisa Ruoho. Ms. Wilson has nine years of teaching experience in the instrumental music department of the Wooster City Schools in Wooster, OH. While at Wooster her responsibilities included directing the Freshman Band, assisting with High School Marching Band, teaching fifth and sixth grade woodwinds, and coaching middle school girls basketball and volleyball.
Ms. Wilson is a licensed member of Andover Educators, Inc., a consortium of music educators dedicated to preserving and enhancing the careers of musicians through accurate anatomical information and somatic awareness as applied to music-making. Through a unique and powerful tool called Body Mapping, Ms. Wilson helps students in all disciplines avoid injury and become better musicians. She has presented Body Mapping workshops for students and faculty at Cleveland Institute of Music, Oberlin Conservatory, University of Akron, Case Western Reserve University, Ashland University, the International Flute Symposium at West Virginia University, members of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra and at the National Flute Associations Conventions in 2018, 2014, 2012, and 2006. She teaches a semester long class, Body Mapping for Musicians, at Oberlin Conservatory. As a Neurokinetic Therapy (NKT) Practitioner and Licensed Massage Therapist, she uses manual therapy and movement education to help musicians with pain and discomfort.
Ms. Wilson currently sees clients at Precision Performance and Therapy, her manual therapy practice, teaches privately and is a freelance musician in Northeast Ohio. She is a founding member of the Aella Flute Duo (www.aellafluteduo.com) and has performed at NFA Conventions in 2016, 2012 and 2011. She is a member of NAfME, OMEA, NFA, PAMA, and is active with the Greater Cleveland Flute Society.
A native of western New York, Ms. Wilson resides in Medina, Ohio with her husband Don and two daughters. Visit her website at: https://precisionperformanceandtherapy.com/
Hyunsoo Kim
Pianist Hyunsoo Kim has performed extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, China and South Korea. A much sought-after collaborative artist, Mr. Kim has performed with eminent artists such as Jaime Laredo, Sharon Robinson, Miriam Freed, Dina Kuznetsova, Chantal Mathias, and members of the Cavani Quartet, Miami Quartet, Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Boston Symphony among others. Concerts have brought him to such venues as Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium, Merkin Hall in NYC, Chicago Cultural Center, Dallas City Performance Hall, Rolston Hall at Banff Centre, Shalin Liu Performance Center, Olin Hall at Bard College, Kumho Arts Hall, and Seoul Arts Center. He has performed in numerous chamber music series including La Jolla Music Society, Myra Hess Memorial Concerts, Chamber Music International in Dallas, Hudson Valley Chamber Circle, IVCI Laureate Series, Linton Chamber Music in Cincinnati, Brattleboro Music Center and Rockport Music. Mr. Kim was a member of the Collaborative Piano Staff at the Cleveland Institute of Music and Kent State University. He also served as a studio pianist for Itzhak Perlman at the Perlman Music Program. He currently serves as a collaborative pianist at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. He is the head of Collaborative Piano at Encore Chamber Music where he is also the admissions director.