Note to Editors: Photographers are welcome to take pictures during the master class in Grusin Music Hall, inside the Imig Music Building.
Internationally renowned flutist Sir James Galway will demonstrate his masterful technique and work with flute students during a free public presentation March 15 at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Galway and piano accompanist Phillip Moll will work with CU-Boulder flute students during a master class from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. in Grusin Music Hall, inside the Imig Music Building. The public is welcome to attend and admission is free. Flutists are encouraged to bring their instruments, and members of the audience will be encouraged to play and sing.
"Sir James Galway is unquestionably the world's most important flutist and one of the elite influential classical musicians of our time," said CU-Boulder professor of flute Alexa Still. "To see this master teaching, live, is literally a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. He presents at most two master classes per year, internationally, and often none. We are incredibly grateful and honored that he is taking the time in his hectic performing schedule to do this master class here at CU."
Still explained that Galway will discuss and demonstrate his technique, including the importance of singing, hand position and embouchure work. Toward the end of the class, Galway will work with three CU-Boulder students on specific repertoire. "We will have a close-up video camera filming the finer details of his technique," Still said. "That video, along with the music being used, will be projected on a large screen for the audience."
The class also will be broadcast on the Internet by the CU-Boulder office of Information and Technology Services. For more information on the Web cast, visit and click on "CU Visiting Artists' Master Classes."
Immediately following the class, Galway and Lady Jeanne Galway will participate in a Flutewise event, co-organized by the CU-Boulder College of Music flute studio and the Colorado Flute Association, intended especially for younger players. The event has very limited registration. For more information on the Flutewise event, visit .
Galway has sold more than 30 million albums and garnered numerous awards as a performer, conductor and educator. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1939 to a musical family - both his father and grandfather were flutists.
At age 10 Galway won all three classes in the Irish Flute Championships and received a scholarship to the Royal College of Music. He later studied at the Guildhall School of Music in London, the Paris Conservatoire and Sadler Wells, as well as private studies with Marcel Moyse. After working with several British orchestras, he was named the principal flutist in 1969 for the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. He became a solo artist in 1975.
Galway has been featured on "The Tonight Show," "Today," "Good Morning America," and "Live with Regis and Kathie Lee," among others, and on the PBS special "Live From Lincoln Center."
Queen Elizabeth II of England honored Galway with an Order of the British Empire in 1979 and a knighthood in 2001.
For more information about Galway's master class at CU-Boulder, contact Professor Still at (303) 492-7150.