What Wonderous Love Is This? Flute Duet

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Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Duration: 2 1/2 Minutes
Format: PDF
Price: $2.00

This is an arrangement of the Amercian Folk Song, "What Wonderous Love Is This?". Perfect for intermediate to advanced players. Highest note is E above the staff. Lowest note is C below the staff. Piece is approximately 2 1/2 minutes long. Great for Lent, Good Friday, and Easter church services! Piece will be delivered as a PDF through email.

Auld Lang Syne Flute Duet

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Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Duration: 2 Minutes
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Price: $2.00

This is an arrangement of the Scottish Folk Song, "Auld Lang Syne". Perfect for intermediate to advanced players. Piece starts in 4/4, transitions to 6/8, then back to 4/4. Highest note is 2nd G above the staff. Lowest note is D below the staff. Piece is approximately 2 minutes long. Great for those New Year's Eve Gigs! Piece will be delivered as a PDF through email.

O Come, O Come Emmanuel - Flute Duet

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Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Duration: 2:30 Minutes
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This is an arrangement of the Christmas Carol "O Come, O Come Emmanuel". Perfect for intermediate to advanced players. Piece starts in 4/4, transitions to 6/8, then ends in 3/4 (eigth note remains constant). Highest note is E above the staff. Lowest note is C below the staff. Piece is approximately 2 minutes and 30 seconds long. Piece will be delivered as a PDF through email.

Coventry Carol - Flute Duet

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Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Duration: 2 Minutes
Format: PDF
Price: $2.00

This is an arrangement of the Christmas Carol "Coventry Carol". Perfect for intermediate to advanced players. Piece starts in 3/4, transitions to 3/8, then back to 3/4 (eigth note remains constant). Highest note is 2nd G above the staff. Lowest note is D below the staff. Piece is approximately 2 minutes long. Piece will be delivered as a PDF through email.

What Child Is This - Flute Duet

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Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Duration: 3 Minutes
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Price: $2.00

This is an arrangement of the Christmas Carol "What Child Is This". Perfect for intermediate to advanced players. Piece remains in 6/8. Highest note is 2nd A above the staff. Lowest note is C below the staff. Piece is approximately 3 minutes long. Piece will be delivered as a PDF through email.

Christmas Flute Duets

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Silent Night
Coventry Carol
O Come, O Come Emmanuel
Pat-A-Pan
What Child Is This?

Arrangements of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen", "Silent Night", "Coventry Carol", "What Child Is This?", "O Come, O Come Emmanuel", and "Pat-a-Pan". Buy all 6 in one click! Perfect for intermediate to advanced players. Highest note is 2nd A above the staff. Lowest note is C below the staff. Each piece is approximately 2 minutes long. Piece will be delivered as a PDF through email. $12.00

Or Buy Them Seperately!
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Silent Night
Coventry Carol
What Child Is This?
O Come, O Come Emmanuel
Pat-A-Pan

Pat-A-Pan - Flute Duet

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Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Duration: 1 Minute 30 Seconds
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This is an arrangement of the Christmas Carol "Pat-A-Pan". Perfect for intermediate to advanced players. Piece starts in Cut Time, transitions to 3/4 then 2/4, then back to Cut Time. Highest note is 2nd G above the staff. Lowest note is D below the staff. Piece is approximately one minute and thirty seconds long. Piece will be delivered as a PDF through email.

Smorgasbord Published

Smorgasbord
by Nicole Chamberlain
for solo flute and solo piccolo

Learn more about Smorgasbord here

Smorgasbord explores the different styles and textures a flutist can convey through the manipulation of the air stream. Through punching, clicks, bending, popping, fluttering, and even singing while playing, the flute can take on a metamorphosis of sound. The titles of the movements are analogous to a variety of textures found in food as well as the sounds of the flute. Through punches and aggressive attacks, the sound can be crunchy; though bending, it can be gelatinous; through pops, clicks and different embouchure shapes, it can be carbonated; with our friend the piccolo, singing while playing, and fluttering, it can sound fluffy. Certainly the flute has a "smorgasbord" of ingredients in the pantry that can be whipped up a delicious audio-culinary work.

Silent Night - Flute Duet

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Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Duration: 2 Minutes
Format: PDF
Price: $2.00

This is an arrangement of the Christmas Carol "Silent Night". Perfect for intermediate to advanced players. Piece remains in 3/4. Highest note is 2nd G above the staff. Lowest note is D below the staff. Piece is approximately 2 minutes long. Piece will be delivered as a PDF through email.

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

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Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Duration: 2 Minutes
Format: PDF
Price: $2.00

This is an arrangement of the Christmas Carol "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen". Perfect for intermediate to advanced players. Piece starts in 6/8, transitions to 2/4, then back to 6/8 (eigth note remains constant). Highest note is 2nd G above the staff. Lowest note is D below the staff. Piece is approximately 2 minutes long. Piece will be delivered as a PDF through email.

Confession Cam!

Here is the Atlanta Opera's "Confession Cam" for the 24 Hour Opera Project. I am the second interview on the camera:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yexVeRN06f8

Video of the 24-Hour Opera!

Here is is! Scrub a Dub Raw!

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1686970619254

Audience Choice Award!

We did it! We finished the opera and it won Audience Choice Award! I hope to have some photos and maybe even some video soon. The opera was called "Scrub a Dub Raw" and we had to use two props: a washboard and a rubber chicken. The theme had to be family reunion. I was then paired up at random with Vynnie Meli (http://www.vynniemeli.com) who was the librettist/lyricists. She was amazing to work with!

All three operas were incredible and I was glad to meet some nice, talented people (the bulk of whom were from Atlanta). I have to give alot of gratitude to the directors and cast who really sold the opera to the crowd and who I didn't get a chance to meet or hear until the performance: Beth Suryan (Stage Director), Catherine Schaefer (Music Director/Pianist), Vivian Clifton (Wife/Daughter-in-law), Andrea Green (Mother), Stephen McCool (Cop/Brother, Neighbor), Dennis Shumann (Brother).

Thanks to my cheerleading section which included my hubby, my parents, Brian Luckett, Julie Moxley, Gail Goodman, Curtis Bryant, and Clair and Margaret Hayes. Nice to have some support in the audience!

They did post the operning and you can see all of us picking our props and getting our partners: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD6lUin2igc&feature=youtu.be

World Premiere of Opera I haven't written yet!

I am announcing the premiere of an opera I have not even written yet!

November 7 at 7:30pm - FREE and open to the public
Georgia State University, Kopleff Recital Hall
Corner of Gilmer Street and Peachtree Center Avenue.
Atlanta, GA

This Saturday I begin writing an opera while sequestered at the Atlanta Opera offices. I have 12 hours to work with a librettist before I have to hand off my work to a stage director, singers, and pianist. None of whom I have met as of yet. All I know is the work will be 7-10 minutes and that I will have to include certain items that will be dictated to me by the Atlanta Opera. Should be a fun time! The concert is free and open to the public! Read more here: http://www.atlantaopera.org/calendar/view.aspx?id=43245957

Hope to see the cheerleading section there!

24-Hour Opera Project by Atlanta Opera!

I just got the phone call this morning inviting me to participate in the Atlanta Opera's 24 Hour Opera Project on November 6-7. Naturally I said yes :) I will work with a lyricist to write a 7-10 minute opera in 12 hours, then a stage director and singers will rehearse to perform the work on November 7th!.

I should get a packet in a couple of days with all the details and I will share them as I get to know the details myself. The performance will be at Georgia State University and I hope the performance will be public, but I will let you know.

Here's some more info on the project: http://www.atlantaopera.org/calendar/view.aspx?id=43245957

Publication and Commission

I had a doubly good day yesterday. The publication of my flute quartet,
"Tamar", was released yesterday:

http://www.clearnote.net/Tamar.html

I also recorded the piece and you should be able to listen to a recording of me playing all four parts by clicking the preview button halfway down that page.

On another note, I just struck a deal with Audrey Murphy (director of Hopewell Middle School Band) to write a piece for her middle school band. They will perform the piece at the Music for All National Concert Band Festival in Indianapolis, IN in March 2011. The festival only accepted 4 middle school bands out of the country and Audrey's band was one of them.

Here's is a performance of the piece they commissioned last year and performed at the Georgia Music Educator's Association conference this year. The piece is called Pronto by William Pitts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejy8ulGjqmA

I am very impressed with this young group of musicians and look forward to working with Audrey.

Flute Concertino Published

I finally got a flute concertino I wrote several years ago published. It is
for flute and string ensemble. Instead of renting the piece out to orchestras,
we decided to go ahead and sell the copy to the orchestra (or more probable the
flutist). This piece has had some interest lately, so fingers crossed something
will come of it in the next year: http://www.clearnote.net/Apparition.html
I've also completed a flute quartet as well as some other pieces this year
that I hope to have published soon as well. The publisher is interested so I
just need to get my act together and do.
I am also working with some friends here in Atlanta in the hopes of getting
some new works performed. I'll keep you posted!

Nashville and the radio!

I heard there was some trouble with links, work getting in the way, etc. So in case you missed the radio show it is archived here: http://wpln.org/?cat=5 My performance is about 14 minutes in. The show will also be rebroadcast in Nashville on 90.3 fm on Sunday at 3pm and Tuesday at 8pm.

I had a wonderful time performing on "Live in Studio C" . Its such a great space and the staff is great about checking in and making sure you have everything you need. I got a chance to meet some wonderful composers and performers at the show. I love the music that's getting written by the concert composers in Nashville.

I also got the opportunity to visit my sister and her kids in Clarksville. It was the usual kind of visit. Gossip lots, watch scary TV programs, and hang out with the kids. Doesn't get much better.

I also finally got the chance to catch up with a friend of mine who is a fellow flutist, and old college buddy. She's got some fabulous things going on and it was really great to see her and catch up. I can't wait for her latest Celtic album to go on. It seems exciting!

I am glad to be home and getting back to life a little bit. Catch up on lessons, music engraving, and more importantly sleep! In the meantime, I am waiting for some things to unfold and anxiously figuring out what might be next to write or perform.

On the radio!

I will performing my composition "Smorgasbord" for solo flute tomorrow (7/21) at 3pm Central time/ 4pm Eastern time on Nashville's public radio station WPLN's "Live in Studio C". You can listen to a live stream here: http://www.wpln.org (There is a link in the left side of the page to listen online). There will also be 4 other composers on the program, and I am looking forward to meeting them and hearing performances of their pieces as well.

Mangosteen at 9th Women Composers Festival

Yesterday I received the recording of my piece "Mangosteen" from the performance at the 9th Festival of Women Composers at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in Indiana, PA. I am performing with guitarist Irvin Kauffman. He is assistant principal cello for Pittsburgh Symphony. This was his first public performance on guitar in 20 years due to a hand injury. I was honored that he felt the time was right to make an appearance again and that this should be the piece. http://www.fsharpminor.com/nikki/Mangosteen.html

Irvin is also the oldest member of the Pittsburgh Symphony and was a wealth of knowledge and experience. He's certainly played everything with everybody. It was a wonderful experience to work with someone who's led an incredible music career, but leaves any ego at the door. He made me feel like an equal and seemed genuinely supportive and interested in the music I am writing. I wish him all the best and hope for an opportunity to work with him again. Perhaps on cello next time?

More good news is on the horizon. I'll keep y'all posted!

Back from Boston...now what?

Here we are back from Boston, and I think back on our feet. Provincetown was beautiful, and the wedding was just as beautiful. Thanks to Nick and Susie who kept our music stands from blowing away while we played on the beach for Dan and Lynn's wedding. Also thanks to Karl Henning for putting together the venues and helping us perform our music in Boston. He also took the time to show us around Boston some, and we hope we can all get together again in the future. I have recordings of "Maraschino" and "Toxicodendron" in the music section of www.nikkinotes.com. Thanks again to Karl for the performance and recording.

So now what? What's next? Brian has his final orals exams and one pesky class to complete this summer. Then he's finally done! Woohoo! I know he's also glad I've stopped scheduling him for a million things to perform and do...well for the time being. Or at least until I get some other wicked ideas.

I have some things in the works to get some of my compositions performed by others. Hopefully I will get some news of that shortly. In the meantime, I'm teaching a lot of students and thinking about what to write next. Maybe record some of it?

Married 1 year ago today!

Brian and I were married one year ago today. He's made me incredibly happy. We're living the dream! I love you, babe!

Chamberlain Duo

Now many of you know my husband,Brian Chamberlain, is a classical guitarist as well and he just finished the major hurdle of his graduate studies...his graduate recital. That has freed up some time for him and I to finally get to play together. So we hope to start out doing some weddings and private events and maybe earn some extra cash. So, I made a website: http://www.chamberlainduo.com We'll be performing our first wedding in Provincetown, MA for Brian's uncle's wedding. Then we scurry off to Boston to play a couple of concerts of our own music as well as Karl Henning's. Nothing like jumping straight into the fire! Poor Brian, he just doesn't get a break,maybe in August....oh wait, he'll have to study for his final graduate oral exams. Oh well. One day, Brian, one day.

Husband's Recital

The hubby's final graduate composition recital is coming up on Sunday, and we're both really excited about the performance. The music is great, the performers we secured are amazing. Should be one heck of a concert!

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
3:00 PM
Florence Kopleff Recital Hall,
Georgia State University

Slipping on the Edge of Loss nn. 35, for Solo Piano - Performed by James Walker
Left to Rust nn. 32, for Tuba and Piano - Performed by Vince Jackson and Huu Mai
Lost Hollow Road nn. 15, for Flute and Guitar Duet - Performed by: duoATL
Levee nn. 37, for Flute and Guitar Quartet - Performed by Nicole Chamberlain, Brian Smith and Athens Guitar Trio

-Intermission-

Slow Motion Exit nn. 24, for String Quintet
Ecclesia nn. 39, for Mixed Chamber Ensemble - Performed by: Mercury Season

Women Composers Festival and Flutology

I am finally back to normal life, but had a great time at the 9th Festival of Women Composers. The performance of "Mangosteen" went very well, and I got to meet some fabulous people. I even got to have dinner with Katherine Hoover and she gave some good sound advice.

This week, I had my first flute book published called "Flutology - the Fundamentals". Basically its a reference guide with fingering charts, trill charts, scales, and exercises that I had been using in my lessons, and my publisher thought I should turn all those materials in a book. I even got to design the cover. So here it is: http://www.clearnote.net/Flutology.html

Next on my plate is to practice for Brian's masters composition recital. I am playing on 3 of the larger works and I am excited about the caliber of performers we were able to book for his recital. His recital is May 2nd at Georgia State University's Kopleff Recital Hall at 3pm and open to the public. More info as we get closer to the performance.

Dear March, Come In!

March is an exciting month this year, especially for a couple of my compositions. The best part is I get to travel and perform!

"Mangosteen" is having an especially good month. It is finally published by Clear Note Publications. You can buy a copy at Carere Music here in Atlanta or you can buy it online at http://www.clearnote.net/Mangosteen.html. Some copies have already been sold at the Georgia Guitar Symposium in Columbus, GA. I am also going to perform the work again on March 20 at 3pm with guitarist Irvin Kauffman at the International Festival of Women Composers at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. I am looking forward to hearing alot of great works performed and learning about new pieces in the lectures from the 18-20th. And hopefully I'll get to visit some with the in-laws.

"Smorgasbord" is being performed today in Paris, France by James Strauss at Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris Alfred Cortot. I wish I could be there, but the finances just wouldn't allow it. I hope he is able to get a recording of it. It would be nice to hear someone else perform it for a change.

Last, but not least, I'll be performing with Mercury Season on March 17 at Georgia Perimeter College Dunwoody Campus at 1pm. We will be performing music from Ireland. The concert will include my arrangements of "Brian Borus March", "Irish Confetti", and "Molly on the Shore".

March is a busy month, but should also be a blast. Anytime I get to travel is a good time. I've already been to Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Florida, Columbus,GA, and Savannah, GA this year. We'll be making it out to Boston for a wedding and hopefully a concert in June. Should be an exciting year!

Back from the road, for a month anyway...

It's great to be home, but I feel I haven't quite gotten back to routine. Trying to round all the students back has been a little tricky. Hopefully over the next week it will all iron out. I did enjoy touring, however, I don't think I would want to do the same show on an extended tour.

It was a wonderful experience and met some fabulously talented people who were more than willing to mingle before and after shows. The New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players had a wonderful cast, and I've never felt more welcomed from a group of people. Who would think that they would really listen to the orchestra, but they do! I'm sure it had nothing to do with the fact I played the tiny beast, the piccolo ;)

It was a different experience each show, mainly because of change of venue. The first show we couldn't see the cast from the pit, and it was probably for the best. On the second show, there were plenty of distractions. Not only could we enjoy watching the cast during our tacets, but there was some pit movement during the opening overture. Talk about having to keep your focus! By the third show, I finally started feeling comfortable in my skin, but then the tour was over. Now I'm left singing all the songs over and over, and "I know that a policeman's lot is not a appy one...appy one".

I look forward to what new experience and travels that this year brings, and there seems to be some wonderful things on the horizon. This month will be fairly on schedule, I'll be teaching alot and writing some. But March brings concerts and travel. I can't wait!

On the road...

Well it's a new year, and I suppose I will have to get to my resolutions at some point. Right now, is not the time. It's a little crazy this week or two. The next week will include a ton of traveling.

Brian's great uncle died Friday, and we will make a sad return to Pennsylvania to attend his funeral. Not a pleasant reason to have to travel, but it will be good to see his family and get another chance to know everyone better.

We will drive back in time for me to get on the tour bus for the NY Gilbert and Sullivan player's production of "Pirates of Penzance". We'll have one rehearsal and dive right into the first performance at Appalachain State. We get back on the bus for a performance in Atlanta, then onward to Panama City. This will officially be my first time on a professional tour, and embarrassed to say my first time playing in a real pit. I'm looking forward to this tour! Something I've always wanted to do, I'm glad I get the chance. I am really busting it hard to play well, so I might get the opportunity to do it again if I end up loving the experience.

This will be the first time since Brian and I got married where we will be sleeping apart. I'll miss him, and I'll miss the puppies. They're not coming with us on this short trip to Pennsylvania. They'll be happier at the puppy hotel that they seem to love so much.

So it's a busy and crazy start to the year, with a lot of potential to travel for music and travel to see family (on more happier occasions). Brian will finish his master in composition and hopefully a start to our collaboration on performance, composition and perhaps teaching. 2010 has great potential, indeed.