Flute Choir
and Ensembles, coordinated by Nora Kile, will be available to
all flutists interested in participating. Duet, trio, and quartet music will
be available as well as flute choir reading sessions.
Nora will also be running the Flute World shop, which will be at the Wildacres Flute Retreat for the entire week. The repertoire and recital music will be for sale, as well as many other items of interest to flutists.
Nora Setliffe Kile, a Chattanooga native, earned her B.Mus. and M.Mus. degrees in flute performance from the College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati, where she studied with George Hambrecht who was principal flute of the Cincinnati Symphony. Her first flute choirs experience was performing in the flute choir classes of Robert Cavally while she was at CCM. She is flutist for the New Art Trio and second flute with the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera Orchestra. She is head of the flute faculty at the Cadek Conservatory of Music, and is on the adjunct faculties of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Bryan College in Dayton, TN, and Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, TN.
She is a nationally recognized expert on flute choirs and has conducted flute choir workshops in Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, Texas, Minnesota, and North Carolina. An active member of the National Flute Association, she served as the Exhibitor's Showcase/Exhibitor's Concert Coordinator from 2004-2008, and has served on panels for flute choir organization and arranging at the 1996 and 1999 NFA conventions. She was a member of the 1989 NFA Professional Flute Choir, coordinated the flute choir reading sessions at the 1997 convention after conducting one at the 1995 convention, and was the conductor of the 1999 NFA Professional Flute Choir. She is a charter member of the National Flute Choir, which has recorded ten flute choir CD's to date. In 2006, she was also the guest conductor for the Carluke Primrose Orchestral Flutes, a flute band in Scotland with whom she took her Chattanooga Flute Choirs to perform in joint concerts in 2006 and 2009.
She has attended Wildacres every summer but two since 1983, and began assisting with the flute ensembles classes there soon thereafter. She has several flute choir arrangements and chamber music arrangements published by ALRY Publications, Falls House Press, and Little Piper, as well as arrangements of flute with band/orchestra accompaniment with BRS Music.
She and her husband Bill enjoy boating, scuba diving, and bicycling in their spare time, and are owned by their four cats.
Nora can be contacted at: boatchick55@yahoo.com.
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