Linda Chatterton and YunZhe Lin

Linda Chatterton

“The kind of performance that sparks wild standing ovations. Definitive” says the American Record Guide of flutist Linda Chatterton. Ms. Chatterton has performed in New York at Carnegie and Alice Tully halls, was a featured recitalist on the prestigious Dame Myra Hess series in Chicago, and has been heard throughout the US many times on National Public Radio’s Performance Today. A Minneapolis-based artist, Ms. Chatterton has performed with numerous groups including the Minnesota Orchestra, and she tours regularly as a duo performer with harp, guitar and piano. As a concerto soloist, highlights include many performances of traditional and contemporary repertoire in the US and Europe. She has served as a US State Department Arts Envoy overseas.

YunZhe Lin

YunZhe Lin is a classical guitarist originally from Shenzhen, China. Described as “possessing a refined, flawless, and powerful technique, along with a state-of-the-art knowledge of performance practices from all style periods.” As an active soloist and chamber musician, Lin has earned high praise for his numerous performances throughout the United States and Asia.

As an advocate for new music, YunZhe Lin actively promotes contemporary compositions through performance and education. In November 2024, Lin² (YunZhe Lin, guitarist, and Linda Chatterton, flutist) was invited to Malaysia for a lecture and concert tour at various institutions and universities as part of the 15th Malaysian Composers Series. Lin was also a featured performer in a new music project at the University of Minnesota. In addition to performing, Lin has given insightful master classes, such as at the Malaysia Institution of Arts and during the 2024 Texas Guitar Competition and Festival. Furthermore, he has served as a judge and guest performer at prestigious events, including the 2024 Texas Guitar Competition and Festival and the 2024 Southern Guitar Festival and Competition.

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  ...und los! (...off you go!)

  Tilmann Dehnhard

  ...und los! (...off you go!) The composition process of "...und los!" started with a repetitive note for guitar, coupled with a flute technique called Bisbigliando or timbral trills, making use of alternate fingerings. The expression marking is "daringly fast", so please enjoy the ride!

  TILMANN DEHNHARD performs around the world, gives workshops for modern flute techniques and improvisation and teaches at the Jazz Institut Berlin in Germany. His publications include “The New Flute” (NFA Award Winner 2014) and “Jazz Studies For Flute” (NFA Award Winner 2012), Universal Edition Vienna. He officially endorses Altus Flutes.

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  Dreams of Petka

  Christopher Everest

  As part of a suite inspired by Balkan dances and folksongs, this miniature is influenced by the Pajdushko oro and Strumička Petorka and explores 5/8 'grooves' making use of both 2+3 and 3+2 groupings. Viewing these influences through a distant lens this piece aims to reimagine rather than imitate.

  Christopher Everest is a prize winning guitarist from New Zealand, and has performed throughout the country with playing Lute, Electric Guitar and Classical Guitar. With a special interest in music from the Balkans and Middle-East, he is currently pursuing a Classical Guitar studies at the Sydney with Dr Vladimir Gorbach.

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  Baguala del destierro

  Marcelo Daniel Fernández

  The baguala is a musical genre originating in northwest Argentina that is part of the region's folklore. It derives from the music of the aboriginal communities called "diaguitas". The work aims to convey that, despite being their native land, these communities live in constant "exile".

  Marcelo Fernández was born in Buenos Aires in 1969. He studied guitar and composition at the Alberto Ginastera Conservatory. In 1995 he formed the guitar duo “Fernández-Russo” with which he recorded the CD "Instantes Infinitos" and then went on concert tours throughout Europe. He shares his musical activity with teaching.

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  Minute Waltz

  Stanley M. Hoffman

  Years ago, I recall hearing from a composition teacher about one’s music needing “fresh notes.” This is also true for brief works in which the time one can present them is compressed. In “Minute Waltz,” traditional harmonic relationships contrast with very distant ones resulting in the musical language “free tonality."

  Stanley M. Hoffman (b. 1959, Cleveland, Ohio) holds degrees in Music Composition from Brandeis University (PhD), New England Conservatory of Music (MM) and Boston Conservatory (BM). His music is published by ECS Publishing, Oxford University Press, and Fatrock Ink. Senior Editor at ECS Publishing Group 1998–2021. Freelance editor, composer.

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  They said ...

  William J. Joel

  Two instruments having a conversation, sometimes talking back and forth, and sometimes in unison.

  All things are connected. That's the premise of what William J. Joel does. Each of Mr. Joel's interests informs each other. Several of his works have been recorded as YouTube videos (Suoni Gradevoli / L’abri Trio, 30 Degrees Below / Yhasmin Valenzuela, Flippin’ / Beth Ratay).

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  Melliflua for Flute and Guitar

  Ben Marshall

  Melliflua is a miniature for flute and guitar created in late 2023. Heavily influenced by the composer’s jazz background, the idea for Melliflua sprouted from multiple improv sessions undertaken by the composer. Melliflua features a sinuous flute melody which weaves it’s way through the underlying harmonies.

  Queensland Music Awards finalist Ben Marshall is an avidly innovative composer, multi-instrumentalist and teacher who draws on contemporary classical and jazz influences to concoct sonic creations. His pieces have been described as “impressively diverse” and exhibit an undeniably driven and focused personal style. Ben received the Silver Harris and Jeff Peck Composition Prize in 2024 after graduating with a Bachelor of Music (Composition) from QCGU.

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  A Little Melancholy

  Uri Netanel

  A Little Melancholy was written during the war in Israel with Hamas. What came to my mind in composing a one-minute piece for flute and guitar was the Phrygian mode unwinding itself from a modest beginning to the final chord with the Picardy third. May peace be reached soon!

  Participated in New Music on the Bayou festival, Louisiana, 2017, 2020. Participated in Osmose Festival, Brussels, 2019. Participated in Sounds in the Desert festival, Israel, 2015, 2017, 2021. Participated in the "Liberty-Otherness-Responsibility" project, Modalius Ensemble, 2016. Performed in Tbilisi Conservatory by Czech violinist Tomas Tulacek and Hungarian conductor Daniel Fulop.

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  Omollo Chumbi Nyiri

  Erick Odiweric

  'Omollo Chumbi Nyiri' simply is a Luo man called Omollo who finds pleasure in ladies. He is the salt of all ladies. This piece depicts the enthusiasm with which Omollo has in women. It is a very easy and entertaining piece of music. Cheers.

  Erick Odiweric (b.1996) is a Kenyan composer from Nairobi who is a music enthusiast. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Chemistry from the Technical University of Mombasa and has just enrolled in a Diploma course in Music. He directed the TUMSDA Choir in the university. He later learnt the piano and the classical guitar at the Allegro Music School in Thika. He later joined the Premier Academy of Music where he learnt performance, voice, sung in the PAM Choir and also played various instruments in the PAM Orchestra, under his teacher Mr.Aol Onyango. The composer is interested in composing all kinds of music that is good for all living things. He has written several works for the classical guitar, choral works, and various instruments.

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  Chasing Fragments

  Greg Robin

  Chasing Fragments for flute and guitar is a composition that uses articulation and rhythmic interplay as its main compositional elements. It has three very short sectional divisions.

  Greg Robin is a composer and guitarist from Louisiana. Currently, he is the Director of the Performing Arts Academy at Comeaux High School. Greg studied composition with C.P.First and has had lessons with Mario Davidovsky and Tristan Murail.

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  Chant of a Feathered Sun

  Juan Luis de Pablo Enriquez Rohen

  A Colorful Feathered Sun is aware of all the Cosmic Family and sings a tune with Mother Earth in gratitude for life and the possibility of expression through music itself.

  Most of his academic compositions are based on a multidisciplinary theory between music, astronomy and archaeology called: the JLPER Theory. Numbers and notes are paired with the observable and unique elements of the galaxy which have been previously rendered in the aesthetics and architecture of many pre-hispanic ruins across Mexico.

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  Bagatelletagab

  David Jason Snow

  Bagatelletagab is, as its title suggests, a musical palindrome. Being a metaphorical debate between flute and guitar, it ends up like so many contentious dialogs, running in a circle and ending exactly where it began.

  The compositions of David Jason Snow have been performed in concert by the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the New Juilliard Ensemble, the American Brass Quintet, the Banda Municipal de Bilbao, the Harvard Wind Ensemble, the Yale University Band, and other artists and ensembles at venues in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa.

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  Man of Constant Sorrow

  Randall Snyder

  This piece is a short elaboration of a song from the film. "O Brother Where Art Thou", directed by the Coen Bros in 2000. The origin of the song is unknown, but probably dates back to an Appalachian 19th cen. Baptist hymn. It was first published in 1913 by Dick Burnett and recoded by Emry Arthur in 1928. The song has subsequently been covered by many artists including Bob Dylan and Joan Baez,The film version features the guitar interpretation by Chris Thomas King, portraying the legendary blues player, Tommy Johnson.

  Randall Snyder was born in Chicago in 1944 and attended University of Wisconsin earning a DMA degree in 1973. He has taught at colleges in Illinois, Wisconsin and for several years at the University of Nebraska, where he was resident composer from 1993-2008. He currently is a free lance musician living in Lincoln, NE. and adjunct professor at Peru State College.

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  Ardor sin llama

  Juan Maria Solare

  This is a malambo, a dance and musical genre of Argentine folklore of great expressive force and metric that alternates between 6/8 and 3/4. While the guitar plays traditional tonal chords, the flute melodies proliferate in fourth chords (the indication "postmodern malambo" alludes to this combination of musical languages.

  Juan María Solare, born 1966 in Argentina, works in Germany as composer, pianist, and teaching at the University of Bremen. His music has been performed in five continents and received over 25 million streams in Spotify. Over 30 CDs of different performers include music by him. http://www.JuanMariaSolare.com

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  Divertimento 9

  Rudesindo Soutelo

  One minute of glory for infinite entertainment.

  He was born in Valdrães (Tui), Galiza, on 29 February 1952. Composer and Master in Artistic Education (with a thesis about the creation of a musical tale, entitled The complexity of the simple) and in Music Teaching (Sounds and silences of a life). He studied at the Conservatories of Vigo, Madrid and Schaffhausen (Switzerland), and was a disciple of Rodolfo Halffter and Agustín González de Acilu in composition, and of Janos Meszaros in bassoon.https://soutelo.eu

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  Tracce ...

  Pierluigi Tanzi

  Tracce - Un segno enunciato da un gesto introduttivo, essenziale, costituisce indizio manifesto del suo passaggio, lasciando impronte dei suoi passi trascritti nella memoria, impronte che smarriscono nei processi evolutivi. Traces - A sign enunciated by an introductory, essential gesture constitutes a clear indication of his passage, leaving

  Pierluigi Tanzi was born in Parma. He obtained a Higher Degree in Advanced Studies in Composition at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. His works have been selected, performed and awarded in contemporary music competitions, reviews and festivals. He is a professor at the Conservatory of Music.