Rebecca Meador, Music Department, Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas

Rebecca Meador is Associate Professor of Flute and Music Theory. She holds a Bachelor of Music with Certification from the University of Missouri-Columbia, a Masters of Music in Flute Performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Flute Performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. In Cincinnati she taught in the CCM Preparatory Department, the Musical Arts Center, and, in 1995 was appointed Adjunct Flute Instructor at Earlham College. During the 1996-97 academic year, Dr. Meador completed a one-year interim appointment in Texas at Stephen F. Austin State University as Instructor of Flute. More recently, she was Adjunct Instructor of Flute at Jefferson College in Hillsboro, Missouri, and Adjunct Instructor of Music Theory at Webster University in St. Louis.

Dr. Meador has participated in over a dozen professional recordings and has pursued an active freelancing career substituting with the Wichita Grand Opera Company, the Northern Kentucky Symphony, the Sunflower Music Festival Orchestra, and the St. Louis Philharmonic and holding positions with the Whitewater and Sorg Opera Companies, the Orchestra of the Pines, and the St. Louis Wind Symphony. In 1999 she won the flute position with the Equinox Chamber Players, a professional quintet based in St. Louis committed to commissioning new works and promoting music education. During the 1999 season the ensemble was selected to participate in Continental Harmony, a commissioning and residency project funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. She recently performed in several chamber ensemble settings at the 2005 International Double Reed Society, National Flute Association, and Kansas Music Educators Association Conventions. Little Piper published her set of arrangements, Orchestral Excerpts for Flute Ensemble, co-authored by Jean Marshall, in the fall of 2005.

Her teachers include Bradley A. Garner, Jack Wellbaum, Nadine Asin, Jan Smith, and Steven Geibel.

For information on flute study at Washburn, please send email to Dr. Meador at rebecca.meador@washburn.edu

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Recordings/Documentary

2006	Larkin Giffors’s Harmonica, Phillip Kent Bimstein. Equinox Chamber Players. Starkland, ST-214
2001	Continental Harmony, PBS Documentary. Equinox Chamber Players, Airdate: 12/01.
1996	Der Graf von Gleichen, Franz Schubert. The Cincinnati Conservatory Philharmonic Orchestra. Gerhard Samuel, conductor. Centaur Records Inc., CRC-2281/82.
1996	Origins: Songs of Sacred Slumber, Della Enns-producer. Soi Deo Gloria Productions.
1996	Works by Harold Blumenfeld: Illuminations: Symphonic Fragments after Rimbaud, Harold Blumenfeld. The Cincinnati Conservatory Philharmonic Orchestra. Gerhard Samuel, conductor. Centaur Records Inc., CRC-2277.
1995	After His Own Heart: Instrumental Meditations on Selected Psalms. Della Enns-producer. Soli Deo Gloria Productions.
1995	American Variations, The Cincinnati Conservatory Wind Ensemble. Eugene Coporon, conductor. Klavier, KCD-11060.
1994	Paradigm, The Cincinnati Conservatory Wind Ensemble. Eugene Corporon, conductor. Klavier, KCD-11059.
1994	Postcards from Japan, The Cincinnati Conservatory Wind Ensemble (From 1993 Japan Tour). Eugene Corporon, conductor. Klavier, KCD-11058.
1994	Universe Symphony: Unanswered Question, and Orchestral Set #2, Charles Ives. The Cincinnati Conservatory Philharmonic Orchestra. Gerhard Samuel, conductor. Centaur Records Inc., CRC-2205.
1993	Soundings, The Cincinnati Conservatory Wind Ensemble. Eugene Corporon, conductor. Klavier, KCD-11047.
1992	American Dreams, The Cincinnati Conservatory Wind Ensemble. Eugene Coporon, conductor. Klavier, KCD-11048
1992	Composers in the Computer Age: Ruins of the Heart, Diane Thome, The Cincinnati Conservatory Philharmonic Orchestra. Gerhard Samuel, conductor. Centaur Records, Inc., CRC-2144.
1992	Memorials, The Cincinnati Conservatory Wind Ensemble. Eugene Corporon, conductor. Klavier, KCD-11042.
1992	Music From Six Continents: Kyushu, Darrell Handel. The Cincinnati Conservatory Philharmonic Orchestra. Gerhard Samuel, conductor. Vienna Modern Masters, VMM-3006.
1992	Songs and Dances, The Cincinnati Conservatory Wind Ensemble. Eugene Corporon, conductor. Klavier, KCD-11066.
1992	Symphony in E Major, Franz Schubert. The Cincinnati Conservatory Philharmonic Orchestra. Gerhard Samuel, conductor. Centaur Records Inc., CRC-2139.

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Recent Publications

	May/June 2007	Meador, Rebecca. "The Dedication of Frances Shelly,"Flute Talk, Vol.26, No.9 (May/June 2007): 16-21.
	Winter 2007	Meador, Rebecca. "An Interview with Nestor Herszbaum," The Flutist Quarterly, Winter 2007: 52-55.
	August 2005	Marshall, Jean and Meador, Rebecca. Orchestral Excerpts for Flute Ensemble, A Set of Arrangements for Study and Practice, Little Piper Publications. Released Fall 2005.
	February 2004	Meador, Rebecca. "John Boulton Looks Back on 40 Years of College Teaching," Flute Talk, No. 6 (February 2004): 11.
	January 2003	Meador, Rebecca. "How to Start a Flute ensemble." Flute Talk 22, No 5 (January 2003): 26.

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Recent Performances

July 4, 2008	Faculty Woodwind Trio, International Clarinet Association - ClarinetFest® 2008, Invitation by competitive audition. Rebecca Meador (flute), Kirt Saville (clarinet), Kim Krutz (bassoon). University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO.
July 21, 2008	Faculty Woodwind Trio and Friends, International Double Reed Society Convention, Invitation by competitive audition. Rebecca Meador (flute), Kirt Saville (clarinet), Kim Krutz (bassoon), Tabitha Reist Stiener (harp), Tom Morgan (percussion). Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.
June 03, 05, 06	Sunflower Music Festival Orchestra, third flute/piccolo Washburn University, Topeka, KS.
April 2005, 2006	Wichita Grand Opera Company, third flute/piccolo, Wichita, KS.
August 14, 2005	Performance at the 2005 National Flute Association Convention. Topic— The Chamber Music of Ryszard Paciorkiewicz. Ensemble: Rebecca Meador (flute), Kim Krutz (bassoon). San Diego, CA.
August 13, 2005	Performance at the 2005 National Flute Association Convention. Composition—The Deepest Desire: Four Dramatic Songs of Praise, Jake Heggie, for Mezzo-Soprano, Flute, Piano. Ensemble: Ann Marie Snook (mezzo soprano), Rebecca Meador (flute), Patricia Gibson (piano). San Diego, CA.
June 7, 2005	Performance at the 2005 International Double Reed Society Convention. Topic—The Chamber Music of Ryszard Paciorkiewicz. Ensemble: Rebecca Meador (flute), Kim Krutz (bassoon). Selected Austin, TX.
February 26, 2005	Performance at the Kansas Music Educators Association State Convention. Washburn University Faculty Woodwind Trio. Wichita, KS.
February 22, 2002	Performance at the Kansas Music Educators Association State Convention. Washburn University Faculty Woodwind Trio. Wichita, KS.

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Book Reviews

Orchestral Excerpts for Flute Ensemble
Little Piper, www.little-piper.com

"KCFA member Rebecca Meador (Assistant Professor of Flute at Washburn
University) had a Fabulous idea in arranging several important
orchestral excerpts for flute choir. This set of ten arrangements, for
six flutes with alto flute optional, allows students to hear the context
of the flute part to satisfy the observation that "it is not enough to
know only the flute part of a score." Meador has included notes and
suggestions for different ways to use these arrangements, and they are
all helpful. This set of arrangements is an especially great
pedagogical tool for studio class."

Dr. Rebecca Dunnell, Assistant Professor of Flute, Northwest Missouri State University, Kansas City Flute Association Newsletter, Fall/Winter 2006

"What a great idea: giving the flutists in your studio a chance to
experience in a chamber music setting some of the most famous highlights
of the orchestral repertoire for flute. Although they are not intended
for public performance, these arrangements of selected excerpts of
orchestra solo flute solos will allow your students to learn and analyze
these difficult passages along with the harmonies and rhythms and
counter melodies that accompany them. The eighteen flute solos extracted
here represent some of the most important excerpts typically called for
in orchestra auditions and include works by Beethoven, Brahms, Debussy,
Dvorak, Mendelssohn, Rossini, and Smetana. In addition to the solo line,
the flute ensemble accompaniments employ five C flutes along with an
optional G alto flute part. A reduced score (which includes indications
of the original instrumentation) and separate flute parts are included.
This collection will find excellent use in flute ensemble and studio
classes and supplement the many complete orchestral flute parts
published by Little Piper."

Dr. Jerrold Pritchard - Professor Emeritus, California State University - San Bernardino, The Flute Network, November 2006

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