222 Baird Hall
University at Buffalo
Buffalo NY, 14260

tel:  (716) 645-2765 x1257
fax:  (716) 645-3824
email: gabcheer@buffalo.edu

WHAT IS WHOOOSH?

WHOOOSH is a resource fund for UB's flute studio administered through the UB Foundation, started by Flute Instructor Cheryl Gobbetti-Hoffman with assistance from the W & J Larson Family Fund and Bristol-Myers Squibb.

The whooosh flute resource fund supports activities that augment and enhance University offerings for students by:

creating funding to facilitate artist residencies bringing noted international flutists to UB to perform and teach. purchase tickets to ensure UB student attendance at flute-related concert & educational activities supplementing those sponsored by the Music Department, purchase select extra-curricular materials encouraging a broad frame of reference for students, commission new compositions involving flutes, facilitate scholarship funds for international summer Festival, master class and competition participation of select UB performance students, to secure a collaborative studio keyboardist.

Eryk Anspach and Michaela Gerrity Eryk was the Collegiate Winner and Michaela was the Alternate in the 1999 New York State Music Teachers Association Competition. Both are students of Cheryl Gobbetti-Hoffman, and were supported by whooosh.

PURPOSE/GOALS

whooosh seeks to support and enhance the mission and programs of UB's Music Department, ENCOURAGE UNDERSTANDING of the performing arts by facilitating ACTIVE PARTICIPATION of University and musical community members, create NEW OPPORTUNITIES for performance and scholarship in the University community, develop resources and CREATE FUNDING facilitating special musical performances and projects at UB, as well as academic symposia and conferences, INCREASE student & community AWARENESS of contemporary trends and issues in the performing arts through presentations involving the flute and flute-playing, ATTRACT and INVOLVE new and diverse audiences to events at UB and offer opportunities for COMMUNITY –building, create regional, national and international VISIBILITY for UB's Music Department through its activities and projects, while also ENHANCING its REPUTATION.

David Felder
Commission of new work

The Brannen-Cooper Fund has awarded Cheryl Gobbetti-Hoffman and the State University of New York at Buffalo commissioning funds facilitating composition of a new, 20 minute work by David Felder for flute ensemble and chamber orchestra. The commissioned work, Dionysiacs, is scored for flutists  playing piccolos, flutes, alto flutes and bass flute with antiphonal ensemble (gli altri) and/or chamber orchestra. The whooosh Flute Resource Fund has matched this award; North American premiere performance and archival recording of this work will take place as part of the 2005 June in Buffalo
festival at UB; Pierre-Yves Artaud and his Orchestre de Flutes Francais premiered the work in Europe earlier in 2005. This exciting project calls for close collaboration between composer and musicians as well as faculty and
students, emphasizing community and the creative process.

DONATIONS

Donor benefit opportunities include program & publicity acknowledgement, creating and naming flute scholarships, mentoring a student as a patron, personalized association with UB's flute studio and music department, sponsorship of special events and/or receptions.

Please make your tax-deductible check payable to the UB Foundation

Include a note earmarking your funds for deposit in the whooosh flute resource fund, and mail to:

University at Buffalo Music Department
Cheryl Gobbetti Hoffman, Flute Instructor
e-mail: gabcheer@buffalo.edu, phone: 716.645.2765
222 Baird Hall, Box 604700,
Buffalo NY 14260-4700,
fax: 716/645.3824