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“They have great classical chops and a knack for swinging improvisation as well as the ability to move freely between genres. Their luscious tones blend sweetly and balance well. Flutists as well as a wider audience will both recognize the exceptional quality of the music and the intensity and depth of their performances. The L-words here are lovely, lyrical and, lively.”
Kyril Magg, Assistant Principal Flute, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
“What an absolutely magnificent Forbidden Flutes CD! I can truly not
remember the last time I experienced such sheer pleasure in hearing
the flute. Thank you so much for creating such a delightful, stimulating and affecting CD.”
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Forbidden Flutes
Eclectic Flute Duo
Forbidden Flutes is a wildly imaginative duo that is ambitiously expanding the repertoire, the sonoric possibilities, and the audience for their instrument. Throughout their adventurous, ten-year partnership, Forbidden Flutes has developed a personal sound and a unique vision for their ensemble that is distinct and intimate. Whether flying through the virtuosic passages of opera fantasies, improvising ornaments on Bach Inventions, rocking the rhythms of Radiohead, or weaving together luscious tango tones, one can not tell where Liesa’s flute begins and Laura’s ends. Since 1998, Laura Barron and Liesa Norman have toured with their eclectic music from the Yukon to Florida. Having appeared as a soloist with the Boston Symphony and in Lincoln Center, Laura brings to Forbidden Flutes twenty years of international classical music experience, as well as the flexibility and creativity that she has cultivated as a novelist and yoga teacher. Liesa enhances their music’s drama and sensuality as a multi-instrumentalist, composer, alternative rock singer/songwriter, model, and actress. They released their latest CD, Take the L Train, in 2008, to rave reviews. They have also committed their synergetic energy to a variety of other projects which include the development of a television series, The Flute Doctors, which aims to draw new listeners to classical music; their agency, Breathe Easy Productions, which represents numerous Vancouver-based, world-class musical ensembles; and Instruments of Change which provides music for hospices, schools, and charity fundraising house concerts. This versatile pair is equally at home performing jazz, world music or Mozart. Expect their shows to attract everyone from martini drinking hipsters to the tea and crumpet crowd. The only thing forbidden to them is limits!
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Hailed as “one of the finest flutists of her generation” (Flute Network) Laura Barron made her solo debut, at age 17, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Since then, she has given recitals and taught master classes from New Zealand to the Yukon, premiered over 50 works with the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, and given several performances at Carnegie Hall. Her passions for teaching, yoga and a variety of musical genres have come together in many endeavors. These include her internationally-sold Carl Fischer book/CD Expressive Etudes for the Flute, her Whole Musician yoga workshop which she has led at numerous Flute Festivals and music schools around the world, and her folk music-inspired recording, Echoes of a Blue Planet. Before focusing on her broad-ranging activities with Forbidden Flutes, she founded and ran the Painted Sky Music Festival in Flagstaff, Arizona, from 2002-07. In her early career, she was often a featured soloist with the Brandenburg Ensemble in Lincoln Center and Kennedy Center. Additionally, she served as principal flute of the American Sinfonietta Orchestra, and performed with the Minnesota and Vancouver Symphonies. She has held faculty positions at the University of Oregon, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Northern Arizona University. In 2007, she spent an illuminating year traveling to five continents. From European recitals, French courses in Morocco, Dalai Lama teachings in India, to volunteer work in the Bolivian jungle, this experience continues to inspire and inform her work. Currently, she and her husband Geoff enjoy bike commuting in their home city, of Vancouver, BC. There, she is embracing the freedom of an independent career that includes working on her first novel, composing and arranging, as well as producing and performing chamber music.
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As a classically trained flutist and pianist with a doctoral thesis from the University of British Columbia on “Music and Fusion in the 21st Century”, Liesa Norman’s musical endeavors have traversed all genres. In addition to composing the film score for an award-winning BBC documentary, “What if..”, she has performed with the Vancouver Symphony, and has been featured with numerous ensembles on CJRT radio Toronto, City T.V., Vancouver Television and CBC radio and television, among others. Liesa is also busy as a composer and jazz arranger. As well, she specializes in teaching improvisation workshops to classical musicians. Liesa has also enjoyed a career as a model and actress, doing international runway, movie and television work. Her other passions include recording and performing flute and piano with her five-piece band, Beatthief, who has performed at the premier of the James Bond movie "Die Another Day". This project showcases her imaginative improvisatory skills as she blends her sultry flute tones with their electronic ambient grooves. More recently, Liesa has explored her talents as a singer/songwriter, with a self-titled chamber pop album that combines sultry jazz and ethereal rock, with funk, middle eastern and hip hop flourishes. Liesa debuted the music from this Prism/Universal release in a performance for 10,000 people, as the opening act for Canadian diva, Chantal Kreviak. As Liesa has broadened her compositional palette, she has added valuable new works to the two flute and piano repertoire. Her Mood Swingin’ and Purple Phobia scores will be published by Falls House Press/Theodore Presser in early 2010. However, her proudest creations are her 6 month and 2-year old daughters for whom she and her partner, John, chose the aptly, musically-inspired names, Tosca and
Ellington.
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