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November 2, 2008
CD Release Party for Forbidden Flutes' new recording, "Take the L Train" - Cellar Jazz Club, Vancouver, BC, 7:30 PM
November 16, 2008
CD Release Party for Forbidden Flutes' new recording, "Take the L Train" - Hermann's Jazz Club, Victoria, BC, 8 PM
February 2009
Forbidden Flutes performances for the Vancouver Club and the Cottage Place Hospice
March 1, 2009
Brandenburg 2, 4 & 5 at the Salt Spring Island Festival
Art Spring Center, Salt Spring Island, BC, 3 PM
March 14 & 15, 2009
Forbidden Flutes' Arizona Tour - Sedona Synagogue, March 14 &
Wine Loft, Flagstaff, AZ, March 15
March 23-28, 2009
Serving as master class instructor and adjudicator for prestigous 39th annual Seattle Young Artists Music Festival
May 1, 2009
Forbidden Flutes with her new arrangements of Eric Satie, from American Beauty, & Amelie, as well as the premiere of Laura's original composition, Tata Sonata, based on the crazy car horn motives she heard in India
Hermann's Jazz Club, Victoria, BC, 8 PM
May 3, 2009
Solo Recital for Syrinx Flute Club, with her new arrangement of Stravinsky's Suite Italienne (based on Pulcinella)
First Presbyterian church, Winnipeg, MB, 8 PM
June 2009
7 performances with the Vancouver Symphony: Prokofiev Symphony No. 5, Mahler Symphony NO. 6, Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms, Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver, BC
July 13-17, 2009
Serving on faculty of Rocky Ridge Music Camp, Estes Park, CO
July 26, 2009
Forbidden Flutes performance of new duo program, Bach to Beck
Alexander Park Summer Series, Vancouver, BC, 3 PM
August 15, 2009
Leading Yoga and the Breath workshop at the National Flute Association Convention
Marriot Marquis, New York City, NY, 5:30-6:30 PM
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Laura has recently left her University of Oregon post to pursue an independent career in Vancouver. She is excited to be spending more time collaborating with Forbidden Flutes. In an effort to expand thier already broad repertoire, she is arranging everything from Imogen Heap and film music to Phillip Glass and Shostakovich. She is also planning several other chamber music events that she will be producing in wineries, museums, teahouses, and other alternative venues throughout BC. Additionally, she continues to tour as a soloist, offering recitals, master classes, and yoga workshops.
This spring, she and Liesa Norman completed Forbidden Flutes' new jazz-influenced CD, Take the L Train, which includes numerous tracks that they arranged or composed themselves. It is now available on CD Baby, itunes, Amazon.com, Flute World (they are using it as their hold music for phone orders!).
Additionally, she and Liesa are developing a podcast, The Flute Doctors, for Vancouver Co-op Radio and their website: forbiddenflutes.com. By drawing natural parallels between the genres of rock, jazz, and film music to many brilliant works in the classical repertoire, they hope to inspire new listeners to classical music.
Currently, she is working on a book project, Sell Art, Not Out, which helps musicians and other artists market their craft while maintaining their creative integrity.
She has also begun writing her first novel, The Mosquito Chronicles, loosely based on her '06-'07 Round-the-World travels.
Since 2004, Laura has been organizing a consortium of former Samuel Baron students to raise enough funds to commission Pulitzer Prize winning composer, Joseph Schwantner, to write a major Flute & Piano Sonata in Sam's honor. This exquisite work is now complete and will be premiered by Alexa Still at the National Flute Association Convention in New York City in August 2009. Thanks to everyone who helped make this possible!
Go to Laura and Geoff's adventures pages
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