The Holmberg Professor of American Music and the UTC Department of Performing Arts will host guest artist Dr. Ginny Winston Tutton in performance on Sunday, Sept. 9, at 3 p.m. in Cadek Recital Hall.
Review for Dr. Ginny Winston Tutton:
Dr. Tutton, a 2008 graduate of UTC, is an active performer, presenter and pedagogue with a passion for crafting programs that are innovative and engaging for modern audiences. As a soloist, Ginny dazzles audiences with her warm, colorful tone, virtuosic technique, and expressive phrasing.
Much in demand as a teacher, Dr. Tutton coaches students ages 9 to 99 as instructor of flute at Centre College and in a thriving private studio. Dr. Tutton is also a frequent presenter at flute and music conferences where she delivers exciting and innovative lectures on flute pedagogy including topics such as Flute FUNdamentals: Improving beginner technique through games, The Flute Studio of the Future: Incorporating STEM subjects into the private curriculum, and The Ian Anderson Method: How rock music can inform classical pedagogy.
Dr. Tutton’s program on Sept. 9 will include the world premiere of Circus of Dreams, a new work for solo flute based on the novel Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, the story of which influenced other program selections. She will also perform a work by Martinu inspired by bird calls in New England, a Hungarian Pastoral and Fantasy by Doppler and a flute duo by Bach, inviting Dr. Ronda Ford of the UTC faculty to perform with Dr. Tutton.
This recital is free admission and open to the public. Parking is free on campus on Sunday, and there is a parking garage behind the Cadek Building.
In addition to the Bachelor’s degree in Music Education at UTC, Dr. Tutton earned a Master of Music in Flute Performance from University of Idaho and a doctoral degree from the University of Kentucky.
She enjoys creating unique recitals that captivate audiences, sometimes pairing music with artwork in Images and Sound, or providing historical vignettes in Flute Music of the 1940s and British Flute Playing at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, and mixing styles in A Flutist Learns Jazz. Dr. Tutton was formerly second flute and piccoloist in the IWASH symphony and has also performed with the University of Idaho Faculty Chamber Ensemble and the Chattanooga Symphony.