String Quartet Performed

Coalescense is being performed by Mercury Season Sunday night (12/30) at 5 Seasons North. I will be playing the first violin part so its kinda turned into a flute quartet and it works pretty well. Iw ill also be playing Brian Chamberlain's "Lost Hollow Road"

Here's the info:
December, 30 2007 at 5 Seasons North 3655 Old Milton Parkway, Alpharetta, Georgia 30005Cost : Donations Accepted

8th Annual New Years Party. Come relax and enjoy a fun night of music and good cheer at the 5 Seasons North! Food and drink will be available through the restaurant & brewery. Music will be provided by the Mercury Season ensemble. Will there be more than one string player in this sea of wind players? How many French horns can get along in one place? Find the answers and more when you join Mercury Season in celebrating the beginning of the start of the New Year. Why not get your New Year’s started early?! We hope to see you there!

duoATL concert this Friday (12/21) at Redlight Cafe

duoATL is performing this Friday (12/21) at 8:30pm at Redlight Cafe (http://www.redlightcafe.com/). World Circus will be opening up for us at 7:30pm. Redlight Cafe has alcoholic beverages and a tasty menu, and we only play for about an hour. So if you always wanted to come to a concert, but without the pretentious atmosphere here's your chance.

The address is: 553 Amsterdam Ave, Atlanta, GA 30306

Here's a map: Click Here

Last chance to hear this program! We change it up after this concert! Admission is $7, so come and have a good time so they'll invite us back!

Concerts this week

This week I have two lunch time concerts. Thursday (11/29) I will be performing with Mercury Season at noon at Georgia Perimeter College, the Dunwoody Campus (http://www.gpc.edu/~gpcdun/). We will be performing works from or influenced by the Balkans. Come see me tear up Monti's Czardas that Erik Kofoed arranged for solo flute, clarinet, horn, and tuba. Friday (11/30) at noon I will be premiering a work by composer and guitarist

Brian Chamberlain(http://www.nobridantes.com/) called "Lost Hollow Road" for flute and guitar at Georgia State University's Kopleff Recital Hall(http://www.music.gsu.edu/locations.aspx) also at noon. Brian is a graduate student at the University and this is a part of his credit work. Its a fantastic new piece, and many other students will be having works premiered on this recital as well.

duoATL has added more concerts to our schedule. We're really packing it in for 2008! I'll keep you posted!

Concerts and a Recording

I have lots of concerts coming up over the next couple months, kicking it off on Nov 4 at 3pm with Brian Luckett for our duoATL concert at Northside Drive Baptist Church for their Music on the Hill series. You can get directions and more information here: http://www.nsdbc.org/

I also have a new concert to announce. I will be performing a work by Brian Chamberlain for flute and guitar (Brian Chamberlain will be playing guitar) at Georgia State University on November 30 at noon. Brian is a graduate student in music composition at the University. I have also recorded a piece of his for solo flute called "Sense of Blue", which you can listen to the recording as well as other pieces here: http://www.nobridantes.com/mp3.php

He is an excellent composer and what I have seen of the flute and guitar work it should be a very exciting piece, not that I'm biased...well maybe a little :)

There's also other Mercury Season and duoATL concerts coming up, but I'll give more details closer to the concert dates!

What a week!

After virtually killing my coworker and his friend handily at the 5k race, I did in fact get a dog at the adoption they were having at the race. I got an American Bulldog/Dalmatian mix who happens to be deaf. I named him Sam, after Samuel Barber. This works out great for me because I can bring him to rehearsals with me and I do not need to worry about all the howling. He doesn't hear a thing.
My computer also half died last week, so I got a new computer. Fortunately the boyfriend is coming to the rescue to get all the data off the hard drive. I perhaps waited too long to get a new computer. Eeek!
Tonight duoATL is performing at Hungry Ear. The show starts at 8, but we don't go on until 9 and play a 30 minute set. You can get more info here: http://nwuuc.org/index/programs/hungry_ear_coffee_house
duoATL has also been asked to perform on Studio GPB. It is a radio show produced here in Atlanta and broadcasts on every npr station in Georgia with the exception of Atlanta, ironic huh? We record on November 17 and get an hour set with an interview. I'll let you know when it airs. You can find more information about the show and find a station here: http://www.gpb.org/public/radio/studiogpb/

Back from New York!

I am back from New York, I had a blast going to the opera, the new york phil, and seeing all the sites. Here's some photos:

Day 1
http://www.spottedrocket.com/NewYork01/NewYork01.html

Day 2
http://www.spottedrocket.com/NewYork02/NewYork02.html

Day 3
http://www.spottedrocket.com/NewYork03/NewYork03.html

Day 4
http://www.spottedrocket.com/NewYork04/NewYork04.html

Day 5
http://www.spottedrocket.com/NewYork05/NewYork05.html

Tommorrow I run the big race against my coworker, who tells me he hasn't been running....somehow I don't believe him. So here your last chance to sponsor me. All proceeds goes to the building of a low income animal hospital: http://www.spottedrocket.com/NewYork01/NewYork01.html

Next Saturday I will be performing with Brian Luckett in duoATL at Hungry Ear. Its not our standard venue, but I've played there a few times before and its always a very attentive audience. We will be playing a 30 minute set. There will be a couple other groups performing that night as well. ( more details later). You can find more info here: http://nwuuc.org/index/programs/hungry_ear_coffee_house

Lots of concerts coming up fast, too many to post here. I'll send out another email after the race!

Another 5K for the Pups!

Well since I had so much fun at my last 5K I thought this time I would
run for a cause. Its for the Atlanta Animal Alliance. The race takes
place on September 29. You can even sponsor me and help raise money
for the welfare of the pups! You can do that online here:
http://www.firstgiving.com/NicoleRandall

There is also a pet adoption, I think my parents are taking bets on if
I bring home a dog after the race. We'll see, but that may still be a
little early for me to get another dog.

Yes, my poor coworker has agreed for a rematch at this race....I
haven't told him I've shaved 4 minutes off my time, and I don't think
he's been running...we'll see if I can run him into the ground again!
(As you can tell the smack talk has already started).

Mercury Season has a slew of concerts planned starting in October,
more info on that within the week.

Miami!!!

I love to travel, and its even better when you get to travel with 60 of your good friends from work :) I love these people, and I look forward to these trips every year. This year we went to Miami for the weekend.

5K's, Vacations, and Mercury Season

Its been a relatively quiet July and August, but things are about to kick back into high gear. I ran my first 5K last Saturday, I wasn't too fast but at least I beat a guy at work...and I've rubbed it in. It looks like we'll be running another next month so this time he won't "cramp up" from the August heat.

I'll be off over the next month going to Miami on a company trip, seeing my folks in Savannah, and taking my own vacation in New York City. That's right, on my own much to the detriment of mom's ulcers. I wouldn't be me if I didn't worry mom about something.

There is a tentative date for a Mercury Season concert on September 20 at the Spruill Arts Center. More info on that soon...we don't have much time, so over the next week or so things should get nailed down.

I am writing a new piece for duoATL to perform this year. It is for an Agnes Scott College concert of women composers, and I just so happen to qualify. So I've been writing alot more, it looks like I have alot to write about after this summer :)

The Big Apple!

Well I finally got my time off approved! I am headed to New York City for a little vacation in September! Woohoo!

Mercury Season at Spruill Arts Center

Mercury Season, a new chamber music ensemble here in Atlanta, is throwing a chamber music concert at the The Spruill Art Gallery in Dunwoody on Tuesday the 19th of June at 7:30pm. Featuring original works and arrangements by Atlanta Composers Erik Kofoed.

Tues. June 19th, 7:30pm
4681 Ashford Dunwoody Road
Atlanta, GA 30338
Cost : Donations accepted
http://www.spruillarts.org/gallery.htm
A free concert of chamber music. Performing amidst the gallery's emerging artist showcase, we are presenting music borrowed, adapted, and not usually heard in a concert hall. Drinks and refreshments will be available. Works by Bach, Villa-Lobos, Massenet,Lennon, Byrd, Monk, Beyonce, and Kofoed

Mercury Season is a collective of classical musicians that take classic and pop music and recombine it through varied instrumental possibilities to present eclectic but emotionally connected programs that engage and entertain mind and soul.

This concert features Nicole Randall on Flute, Brendon Bushman and Kallie England on Oboes, Catharine Sinon and Terrina Anderson on Clarinets, Kiyo Kojima on Bassoon and Saxophone, Greg McClean on Trumpet, Erik Kofoed on Trombone and Alto Horn, Bill Pritchard on Tuba, and Caroline Stutzman on Cello.

Donations welcome. Drinks and refreshments will be available, please join the performers for a brief reception following the concert.

Visual artists utilize their distinct techniques and artistry to communicate their impressions of images and ideas around them. In the same vein, this group of young musicians have taken the music around them - from the traditional to the cutting-edge - and made it their own. They have borrowed from other instruments, from Popular music, Jazz and traditional songs, taking the amazing maelstrom of music that surrounds them everyday, and integrated it into one engaging program.


Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
J. S. Bach Arr. Kofoed

Aria for Flute and Bassoon
Hector Villa-Lobos

Elegie Op. 10 No. 5
Jules Massenet

Blackbird
John Lennon Arr. Kofoed

And think ye Nymphs to scorn at love
Love is a fit of pleasure
William Byrd

Sonata VI
Jan Dismas Zelenka

March of the Lemmings
Spy vs. Spy
Erik Kofoed

Round Midnight
Thelonius Monk Arr. Pilzer

Baby Boy
Beyoncé Knowles

Geamparale and Maruntica
Traditional Slavic

More info about Mercury Season here: http://www.myspace.com/mercuryseason

duoATL playing West End Funk on YouTube

I'm A Bird By Erik Kofoed

I finally got my hands on a recording of a concert I did with a bunch of talented musicians here in Atlanta on December 29. So here's a woodwind quintet written by local composer and brass player, Erik Kofoed, called "I'm a Bird":

http://www.nikkinotes.com/music/flute/Bird.mp3

The musicians were Brendon Bushman (oboe), Catherine Sinon (clarient...soon to be Mrs. Bushman), Dan Wions (horn), Kiyo Kojima (bassoon), and myself(flute). We only had a couple reheasals, and one as a complete group since many people were coming in an outta town for the holidays and other gigs. Myself included.

There are more musicians on that concert, and it looks like Erik is coordinating another concert in June. The series/group is called Mercury Season and there is a site: http://www.myspace.com/mercuryseason

Hopefully I'll get the recording to the GSU solo from the April concert too.

GSU and duoATL

The concert today went very well, and I believe the composer Daniel
Perttu, was really happy with the performance...whew! A really nice
guy, and I wish him well as he searches for a job as a composition
professor and on his upcoming wedding in July. If you know a college
hiring, I recommend this guy.

Now back to duoATL stuff: duoATL will be performing in Williams Hall
at Oxford College in Oxford, GA at 8pm. We will be performing works
by Piazzolla, Assad, Daugherty, Hoover, and much more.

Directions are here: http://www.emory.edu/OXFORD/map.html

We also solidified concerts at Late Nights at the Academy on June 2,
Callanwolde Fine Arts Center on June 17, and a our first chamber
music series "Music on the Hill" at Northside Drive Baptist Church on
November 4.

First Guest Artist Gig!

This Friday (4/20) at noon I will be performing a solo flute work by Ohio Composer Daniel Perttu for the Socity of Composers, Inc. concert at Georgia State University's Kopleff Recital Hall. The concert is free and open to the public. There will be other composers having their works performed and should be a good variety of music as well as the opportunity to hear world premieres of recently composed works. To hear more of Daniel's works visit: http://www.danielperttu.com ( I am a fan of Tonospheres).

So if you around GSU and can make it out during your lunch break, check out the concert. The composer will be in attendance...no pressure...ahh the shoe's on the other foot for a change.

Turning Minor Defeats into Accomplishments

So maybe this week isn't as glamorous as last week, but the bad weeks make the good weeks even better. Professionally, everything is better than ever. Personally, not so hot, but I believe this "not so great" will turn to "something better" with time, patience, and a little of being on my own.

 

A good example, after making a bad driving decision that I will not go into embarrassing detail about, I managed to blow out a tire on the little beetle. So I pulled over into the library parking lot and begin changing my tire in heels and work attire. After wrestling with the full sized spare out of the world's smallest trunk, I was successful in changing the tire all on my very own. I got pretty good at changing the tires on the Tercel in college, so it was nice to know I can still manage it after all these years. I got kinda spoiled relying on others for help.

 

So what, I'm on my own. I can manage, and pretty damn well. It feels good to do it myself.

Another review in the AJC!

My first review, and I think its more than fair. I wasn't incredibly
happy with my sound output in this venue, but pretty nice review from
Pierre Ruhre. He thinks I might even have potential as a
composer....sweet. He's been very generous with his attention on our
group.

So here is the review from the electronic music concert on Tuesday,
where MW5 was performed: Click here to read it!

And listen to MW5 here: http://www.nikkinotes.com/music/mw5.mp3

Yesterday, Tonight, and Tommorrow

Yesterday's concert at Agnes Scott went really well. The were a couple of bobbles, but nothing tragic, and nothing we can't fix between now and the March 6th concert.
I was was concerned about my stamina in making it through the the last piece of the concert which was Daughtery's "I Loved Lucy" but the order worked out well. I was able to save all of my energy until that last piece.I have the most fun playing the last three pieces on the concert, and I think it really shows. Most of the nerves were pretty manageable. If I just remember to have a good time, the nerves seem to dissapate. So onward we go!

Tonight will be an interesting night. My electronic piece, MW5, will be played on an Atlanta Composers Electronic works concert at the Five Spot. It will be nice just to show up to a concert and not worry about performance. You just get to listen to some new and different music, and meet people that share your interest. Should be fun, and I am looking foward to it.

Tommorrow, its back to routine. Work, Eat, Practice, Sleep, Repeat.

Apparition on Bowed.org

Appatition is on the Bowed.org Podcast! Check it out here: http://www.bowed.org/019/019.mp3

duoATL performs this Sunday (2/16) at Agnes Scott College

This Sunday (2/18) at 3pm duoATL will perform at Maclean Auditorium in
Presser Hall at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, GA.

Brian and I will be performing Histoir du Tango by Astor Piazzolla, I
Loved Lucy by Michael Daughtery, West End Funk by Brian Luckett, and
many more works by living composers. Admission to this concert is free.

To learn more about duoATL go to http://www.duoatl.com or download our
flyer and hang it up: http://www.duoatl.com/press/concerts2007.pdf

Our next concert is March 6 at 8pm at the Emerson Concert Hall at
Emory University's Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.

Hope to see you there!

Nicole Randall
Composer and Flautist
http://www.nikkinotes.com

Special Guest Soloist at Georgia State University

I just landed another great performance opportunity. I will be a special guest soloist at The Society of Composers, Inc. GSU Student ChapterConcert of New Works Always on Friday Series. I will be performing a work by Daniel Perttu, a doctorate student at Ohio State University.(http://www.danielperttu.com). The piece is for solo flute called "Prism" its 3 movements and about 6 minutes long.The concert will be at Florence Kopleff Recital Hall at Georgia State University on April 20th at noon. Here are the directions: http://www.music.gsu.edu/locations.aspx.

Its gonna be a busy spring!

duoATL Concerts!

duoATL announces the Spring concert season! Please come see us perform works by Piazzolla, Pipo, Sierra, Daughtery, Hoover and a world premiere by Brian Luckett! Please download our flyer, print it, and hang it up. We have a lot of seats to fill:

http://www.duoatl.com/press/concerts2007.pdf

February 18, 2007 at 3pm
Agnes Scott College
Maclean Auditorium in Presser Hall
Admission is Free

March 6, 2007 at 8pm
Schwartz Center at Emory University
Emerson Concert Hall
Admission is Free

April 13, 2007 at 8pm
Ben Franklin Academy
Atlanta, GA

April 23, 2007 at 8pm
Oxford College of Emory University
Oxford, GA

escarabajo

means beetle in Spanish...sweet.

MW5 in Atlanta Composers Concert!

I just got news today that an electronic work I created in 2000 dedicated to my dad will be performed at the Five Spot (http://www.fivespot-atl.com/) on February 19th at 8pm. I will be in good company with 12 other electronic works by Atlanta composers being played that night. I am looking foward to hearing the piece played in a large space with big speakers :)

More concerts coming soon....very soon...in fact I should be practicing right now.

2007 Resolutions

1. Give more....whether it be blood, money, or time.
2. Write it and record it. Finish something even if its just a flute solo I record myself.
3. Schedule more concert dates for 2008 for duoATL.
4. Drop a dress size. I've been on the verge of a size 8 for two years now, if I eat more veggies I think I can do it.
5. Be more "outdoorsy". I love being more active, especially camping, I did none of that in 2006.
7. Clean house. Mentally and literally there's a long of junk I need to let go of already.
6. Conquer my fears. Rock all here I come!