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Jasmine Loomis Hedrick Flutist 2002
Award: 1st
prize While working on her DMA at the University of Oregon, Jasmine has been a graduate teaching fellow for three years, teaching flute to undergraduates and offering warm-up and orchestral excerpts class for all flute students. Her supporting area is music history and she has had experience in teaching both music major history classes and non-music major courses. In addition, she has been a graduate teaching fellow for the dean's course "The Nature of Music," and have also worked with Anne Dhu McLucas as her former personal research assistant. Jasmine has teaching experience outside the University of Oregon including adjudicating many high school auditions and solo performances and maintaining a private studio of fifteen students for the past six years in Eugene, OR. In May, 2001, Jasmine was invited to Oregon State University as a guest artist to give a masterclass to the flute studio and present a solo recital. Jasmine has been principal flutist with the University of Oregon Symphony for four years, performing the Ballade by Frank Martin with the symphony as a soloist. She has appeared with professional organizations such as the Eugene Symphony, Oregon Festival of American Music, Eugene Opera, and the Oregon Mozart Players over the past three years. She has also performed many chamber and solo recitals, including four solo recitals at the University of Oregon. In 2000, Jasmine won a performance scholarship in the Petri Foundation competition, which helped support her performance in over twenty-five masterclasses, including those presented by Julius Baker, Jeanne Baxtresser, Leone Buyse, Jeffrey Khaner, Walfrid Kujala, Donald Peck, Keith Underwood, Jim Walker, Ransom Wilson, Carol Wincenc and Trevor Wye. She also won a solo competition funded by the Ladies Musical Club of Seattle in 2001, which sponsored six solo recitals in and around the Seattle area. This year, Jasmine placed second in the Mid-South Flute Festival young artist competition in Clarksville, TN and was a semifinalist in the East & West International Artist competition in New York City. |
