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February 14, 2010
Forbidden Flutes Valentines
Program - Pender Harbour BC, 2 PM
March 18, 2010
Bach Rocks and Mozart Swings - Forbidden Flutes school shows in BC
April 15, 2010
Forbidden Flutes performs Charke, Reich & premieres Flute Loops
Clamour Series, Western Front, Vancouver, BC, 5 PM
May 20, 2010
Bach to Beck with Forbidden Flutes - Burrowing Owl Winery, Oliver, BC, 7 PM
June 5, 2010
In the House Series - Vancouver, BC
July 2010
Instruments of Change Charity Fundraising House Concerts - Vancouver and Victoria, BC
August 12-15, 2010
National Flute Association Convention performances and workshops - Anaheim, CA
August 23-25, 2010
Snowwater Summer Flute Festival, WA - Guest Artist Teacher/Performer
September 30, 2010
Music on Main performance with Forbidden Flutes - Vancouver, BC
October 16, 2010
Seattle Flute Society Guest Artist Recital, Master Class, & Worshops - Seattle, WA
November, 2010
Instruments of Change House Concert Fundraiser for
Sedona Seniors Center, AZ
February, 2011
First Annual BC Flute Soiree, recital and workshops - UBC, Vancouver, BC
After leaving her University of Oregon post in 2008, Laura has been pursuing 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 has arranged everything from Imogen Heap and film music to Steve Reich and Shostakovich. She has also produced several other chamber music events in wineries, jazz clubs, 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 television, The Flute Doctors. In a hip and accessible way, they demonstrate classical music's relevance to people's everyday lives, to inspire new listeners to this genre. The Flute Doctors blog and eventual podcast can currently be found on their website, http://www.forbiddenflutes.com/tfdBlog.html.
She also recently launched a charity-fundrasiing house concert series, Instruments of Change, which will host benefit concerts for the Heart and Stroke Foundation, Playground Builders and the Sedona Seniors Center this season.
On a completely different note, she is 225 pages into writing her first novel, The Mosquito Chronicles, loosely based on her '06-'07 Round-the-World travels. And she continues to develop her recital/theater piece, What Moves Us, based on these same life changing experiences.
Go to Laura and Geoff's adventures pages
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