UFA 2022 Flute Festival

Join us for our largest annual event. Come see recitals, classes, and check out lots of flutes and other accessories in our exhibit area. 

Date: March 5, 2022
Time: 9am – 4pm
Location: Westminster College, Jewett Center for the Performing Arts.
– See Google map here!

Entrance Fees:

To help streamline checking participants into the event, please register online and bring your confirmation email as your ticket to get in.

Summerhays will be providing box lunches for participants who pre-register. Please complete your registration before February 19th, 2022 to sign up for your lunch. Due to the ongoing Covid situation, we will be complying with Westminster’s no food policy, and lunches will be boxed lunches and may not be eaten inside Westminster facilities.

• All day Member: $15
• Single Event Member: $5
• All day non member: $25
• Single event non member: $10
• Masterclass Performer: $35 – FULL – registration closed

Struggling to afford to attend the festival? Email info@utahflute.org to find out how you can volunteer to help out at the festival to cover your event fee.

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Schedule of Events

All three morning classes will be available both in person and online. Afternoon events, including the concerts, will only be available in person.

9:00 am: Meet the Vendors (In Person Only)
– Come try flutes and check out accessories from a wide variety of flute vendors.
9:30 am: Flute Repair Basics (In Person and Online)
– Join us to learn some basics for repairing and maintaining your instrument. 
10:30 am: Masterclass with Guest Artist, Lisa Bost Sandberg (In Person and Online)
– See program here!
11:30 am: In Pursuit: Creating Your Path in the Arts (In Person and Online)
12:30 pm: Lunch and visit the Vendors (In Person Only)
2:00 pm: High School Scholarship Competition Winners Recital (In Person Only)
– Three graduating seniors are selected annually for a scholarship to help them with their continuing education. The competition is held in January, and winners are celebrated in this performance.
– See program here! 
2:30 pm: Recital by Lisa Bost-Sandberg (In Person Only)
– See program here!
3:40 pm: Announcement of Winners for the Annual Sonata Competition (In Person Only)
Winners of the annual Sonata Competition are announced. 

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Booths To Check Out

Covid Safety Precautions

In an effort to keep all performers, judges, and audience members safe, the Utah Flute Association requires that all performers present a Covid-19 vaccination card and respond to a health check at the entrance to the event. Non-vaccinated performers will be required to show a negative rapid test that is less than 2 days old. Failure to do so will result in the loss of the performance opportunity with no refund for any fees paid. Performers will be required to wear a mask regardless of vaccination status when not on stage.  Audience members will be required to wear a mask regardless of vaccination status. The Utah Flute Association will keep on top of current Covid-19 health trends and CDC recommendations, and we reserve the right to adjust our parameters if need be. 

Utah Flute Association Covid Policy
We are supremely grateful to Westminster College and the Florence J. Gillmor School of Music for their generosity in once again hosting the UFA Flute Festival after a 2 year hiatus! In order to comply with the requirements of the college, please be advised: Westminster is requiring all students, faculty and staff to be fully vaccinated.

Here are Westminster’s most recent rules as of February 21st:
– Masks are required in all indoor shared spaces, including classrooms. 
– No eating or drinking is allowed in classrooms. 
– Masks may be briefly removed to eat and drink in shared indoor spaces like the library.

And of special interest to flutists:

All performers are required to show a vaccination card, or a negative covid test that is less than 48 hours old, at the registration table. Anyone wishing to try flutes must also show a vaccination card or negative test at check in. A card will be given to you indicating that you are cleared to play instruments. If you are attending the festival, aren’t performing and do not wish to try instruments, you do not need to show any Covid documentation. Please keep your mask on at all times, in accordance with Westminster’s rules, listed above.

Dr. Lisa Bost-Sandberg

A dynamic and impactful teacher, Bost-Sandberg has taught masterclasses, presented lecture-recitals, and led workshops at numerous institutions and festivals. She is the Teaching Assistant Professor of Flute at the University of North Dakota and teaches at the International Music Camp. She has previously served on the faculties of the University of Mary, the University of North Texas, the University of Texas at Dallas, Clarke College, and the Great Neck Arts Center.

Her compositions have been performed at conferences of the American Trombone Workshop, World Saxophone Congress, North American Saxophone Alliance, National Flute Association, Society of Composers, and Iowa Composers Forum. A recent project, titled Chroma, is a series of eight movements of diverse instrumentations paired with paintings by artist and commissioner Marjorie Schlossman. Premiered at the Plains Art Museum in Fargo, North Dakota, the collaboration with Schlossman is the subject of a short film by Mary Trunk and Caren McCaleb. Bost-Sandberg’s works have been honored as prize-winners and finalists in composition competitions of the National Flute Association, the Flute New Music Consortium, and the American Trombone Workshop.

Currently serving the National Flute Association on the Board of Directors and as a member of the Archives and Oral History Committee, she has also chaired the New Music Advisory Committee. She serves on the Board of the Schmitt Music Flute Gallery and as an Associate Member of the International Music Camp Corporation.

A Montana native, Bost-Sandberg received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in flute performance with a related field in composition from the University of North Texas as a recipient of the prestigious Masters and Doctoral Fellowship. She is also a graduate of New York University (Master of Arts) and The University of Iowa (Bachelor of Music). Her primary flute instructors include Terri Sundberg, Elizabeth McNutt, Robert Dick, Tadeu Coelho, and Tamara Thweatt. Bost-Sandberg’s primary composition instructors include Andrew May, Christopher Trebue Moore, Robert Dick, and Lawrence Fritts. She studied the Alexander Technique with Käthe Jarka of New York City and Pedro de Alcantara of Paris, France.

www.lisabost.com

“Lisa Bost-Sandberg is one of the important composer-performers of her generation…[her] interpretations are infused with deep musicality, questing intelligence and a joyous spirit.” 

Robert Dick