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Skidmore Summer Flute Institute
Faculty
 Jan Vinci, Director Vinci’s chamber music career, highlighted by tours of the U.S. and abroad as well as many commissioned works, has spanned more than 20 years. As a duo, Vinci often performs with husband and jazz alto saxophonist, Mark Vinci. The pair performs nationally and internationally, and has appeared on National Public Radio’s Performance Today, hosted by Paul Elisha. Iridescence-a duo with harpist Karlinda Caldicott, former principal of the Albany Symphony Orchestra-has played venues such as the Toledo Museum of Art, Troy Music Hall, and The Juilliard School. For more than 10 years Vinci toured the U.S. with Tritonis, an ensemble with guitarist Joel Brown and cellist Ann Alton. They commissioned more than 15 works and recorded Five Premieres: Chamber Works with Guitar (Albany Records). With Percussia, a flute and percussion ensemble, Vinci recorded Chamber Music for a New World (self-published). She has also received grants from the New York State Council of the Arts, Queens Council on the Arts, Mellon Foundation, and Chamber Music America. In July 2007, Vinci released Global FluteScape: Premieres and Rare Gems (Albany Records). With works by Shen, Higdon, Vinci, Thibodeau, Vaughan Williams, and Fukushima, the CD features Hugh Sung on piano, Mark Vinci on alto saxophone, and Jennifer Higdon on flute. The CD includes a special commissioned work, When I See You, a flute and alto saxophone duo written by Mark Vinci. Vinci is Senior Artist-in-Residence at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and has served on the faculties of the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College and Hofstra University. Since 1994, Vinci has directed the Skidmore Summer Flute Institute and the Skidmore Flute Choir Festival. A former president, vice president, and secretary of the New York Flute Club, Vinci holds a D.M.A. from The Juilliard School, an M.M. from Cleveland Institute of Music, and a B.M. from Bowling Green State University. Her former teachers include Julius Baker, Samuel Baron, Maurice Sharp, Judith Bentley, and Martha Aarons.
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A noted soloist, Khaner has performed concerti with orchestras throughout the U.S., Canada, and Asia collaborating with conductors including Riccardo Chailly, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, Claus-Peter Flor, Hans Werner Henze, Erich Leinsdorf, Kurt Masur, Yutaka Sado, Jose Serebrier, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Gerard Schwartz, Franz Welser-Most, and David Zinman. His concerto repertoire is extensive and he has premiered many works including the concerto by Ned Rorem, written for him in 2003. As a recitalist, Khaner has appeared with pianists Charles Abramovic, Christoph Eschenbach, Lowell Liebermann, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Hugh Sung, among others. He regularly incorporates into the programs the music of today’s composers, many of whom have written expressly for him. Khaner is a founding member of the Syrinx Trio (with fellow Philadelphia Orchestra principals Roberto Diaz, viola, and Elizabeth Hainen, harp), which made its Carnegie Hall debut in 2001 in the Weill Recital Hall. In 1995, he was selected by Sir Georg Solti to be Principal Flute of the World Orchestra for Peace, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the United Nations. The orchestra regularly reconvenes, most recently in 2005 for a tour of Europe and Asia commemorating the end of World War II. Khaner’s editions of repertoire, including the Brahms sonatas, are published by Theodore Presser Company. A graduate of The Juilliard School, Khaner was named to the faculty as Flute Professor in 2004, holding the position formerly held by his mentor, the late Julius Baker. For more than two decades, he has been a faculty member at the world-renowned Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He has given master classes on four continents. Khaner has also participated as a performer and teacher at many summer festivals and seminars including the Solti Orchestral Project at Carnegie Hall; The New World Symphony; the Pacific Music, the Hamamatsu, Sarasota, and Grand Teton festivals, and the Lake Placid and Skidmore Summer Flute institutes. Jeffrey Khaner is a Yamaha performing artist and clinician.
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 Mark Vinci As a soloist, he has toured the U.S., Denmark, the Czech Republic, Poland, Spain, and Germany. Vinci played lead alto with the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, conducted by Jon Faddis, and is a veteran of bands led by Maria Schneider, Woody Herman, Gerry Mulligan, and John Fedchock, which have performed at festivals such as North Sea, Kool, Montreux, Monterey, and Nice. Vinci has recorded on Blue Note, Capital Concord, Telarc, SONY, Enja, and Iris, among other labels. His CDs Grand Slam, As I Think About You, and Interplay present him as a leader and composer. He is frequently a featured soloist with big bands in the U.S. and Europe. Vinci has received numerous commissions including a big-band work for the Empire State Youth Orchestra’s commissioning project, “New Music for a New Generation,” and a 200-piece concert band work for a performance at the United Nations. His flute and alto saxophone duo, When I See You, was commissioned by Jan Vinci for Global FluteScape: Premieres and Rare Gems. Vinci is on the faculty at Skidmore College and SUNY Purchase College, and has been a guest artist of the Skidmore Summer Flute Institute since its inception in 1994. He has taught clinics and residencies at colleges and high schools through the U.S., Denmark, Spain, and–with support from the U.S. Embassy–the Czech Republic. |
Barbara Lee
A New York City-based pianist, Barbara Lee has played in major concert halls and other venues in the U.S. and abroad. Her skills as a classical pianist and sensitive accompanist keep her much in demand as a guest artist and clinician. Lee received her B.M. from the University of Wisconsin and her M.M. from the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College. Lee has been with the Skidmore Summer Flute Institute for more than ten years.
