Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025 • 7:30 p.m.
Weigel Auditorium
Columbus, OH
The Ohio State University Flute Troupe
Katherine Borst Jones, director
Program
Fanfare (Premiere)
Jonathan Mitchell
Queen of Sheba
G. F. Handel, arr. Zill
Ave Maria
Carillo, arr. Katherine Borst Jones
Synapses
from I Sing the Body Eclectic
Tom Duffy
Flute Da Toot
Roger Cichy
Les Fauvettes for piccolo duo
N. Bousquet, arr. Fleming
Meagan Gaskill and Katie Sharp, piccolos
México Mágico
Rubén Flores
Songs of the Ocean
Ryohei Hirose, arr. Pearce
There Was No Ocean
The Tufted Puffin
Lullaby of the Ocean
Fireflies
Ladd McIntosh
Calliope Capers
Ladd McIntosh
Umoja
Valerie Coleman
Carmen
Hang on Sloopy
Piccolo Duo
Meagan Gaskill is a flutist, soprano, and music theorist based in Columbus, Ohio. She will graduate from Ohio State this spring with a DMA in flute performance and a Certificate in College and University Teaching. She performs with the Columbus-based chamber ensemble, Zephyr Winds, and has served as a graduate teaching associate at Ohio State for the flute studio, music theory and aural training. Her teachers include Katherine Borst Jones, Jill Felber and Jennifer Rhyne.
Katherine “Katie” Sharp (she/her) is a first-year DMA student at The Ohio State University where she studies with Katherine Borst Jones. Currently she serves as a graduate teaching associate in flute, and has previously taught music theory, aural skills, and musicology. Her other primary flute teachers include George Pope, Randy Hester, and Nicole Charles. Katie also serves as the Exhibits Coordinator for the Central Ohio Flute Association and as co-secretary for the Graduate Music Student Association.
Flute Troupe 2024–2025
Katherine Borst Jones, director
- Melanie Ahn (West Chester, OH) — First-year, BME Music Education
- Karis Brennan (Middleburg Heights, OH) — Junior, BM Flute Performance and Studio Art
- Katelyn Cheng (Cincinnati, OH) — Sophomore, BA Music, BS Biochemistry
- Nic Digena (Levittown, NY) — Sophomore, BME Music Education
- Meagan Gaskill (Longmont, Colorado) — Doctoral student, DMA Flute Performance
- Sofia Geelhood (Beavercreek, OH) — Senior, BM Flute Performance
- Allie Gerckens (Hilliard, OH) — Fifth-year, BME Music Education
- Maryssa Hoermle (Whitehall, OH) — First-year, BME Music Education
- Sunny Jiang (Beavercreek, OH) — Junior, English
- Lance Korte (West Milton, OH) — Sophomore, BME Music Education, BM Flute Performance
- Laurinda Lan (Hamilton, New Zealand) — First-year, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, Music
- Danica Lipp (London, OH) — Fifth-year, Electrical Engineering
- Jonathan Mitchell (Westerville, OH) — Master's student, MM Flute Performance and Composition
- Kayla Reid (Solon, OH) — Fifth-year, BME Music Education
- Katie Sharp (Worthington, OH) — Doctoral student, DMA Flute Performance
- Braden Stewart (Tipp City, OH) — Senior, BM Flute Performance, BS Theoretical Mathematics
- Haley Svec (Berea, OH) — Sophomore, BME Music Education
- Coral Varian (Lewis Center, OH) — Master's student, MA Music Theory
- Shreeya Yampati (Naperville, Illinois) — Sophomore, BM Flute Performance, BS Neuroscience
Ohio State Flute Troupe Performances and Commissions
Commissions for Flute Ensemble
- Daniel Bukvich — How Birds Take Their Own Self Portraits, 2004
- Roger Cichy — Musings, 2010; Flute-da-Toot, 2015
- Valerie Coleman — Fire Dance, 2009; Juba, 2014
- Thomas Duffy — I Sing the Body Eclectic; "Grand Ol’ Opus" (Pretty Polly’s Train); Sweet Nothings, 2015
- Zach Friedland — Eos, 2019
- Anne McGinty — Illusions, 2013; Changes, 2014
- Ladd McIntosh — Calliope Capers, 2008; Fireflies and Zephyr Breeze and Shade
- Jonathan Mitchell — Fanfare
- Christopher Norman — Sunshine of Saint Eulalie; Hearts Upon the High Road
- Matthew Saunders — Nod a Don, honoring the 95th birthday of Donald E. McGinnis, 2012
- Robert Spittal — Murmurations, a madrigal for flutes, 2014
- Michael Rene Torres — Provoked Introspection, 2013
- Jorge Variego — new piece, 2013
- Christopher Weait — Trouping the Blues, 2004
- Thomas Wells — Chorale for Flutes
- Numerous arrangements from Tom Kennedy including Die Fledermaus (1995); Children’s March (2008, for the NFA National High School Flute Choir)
Flute Troupe Premieres
- 1997 — Tchaikovsky/Jicha: Serenade, Opus 48; Tom Duffy: Synapses at NFA Chicago
- 1998 — Tom Duffy: I Sing the Body Eclectic (1997), OMEA Columbus
- 1999 — Katherine Hoover: Kyrie, Ohio Premiere
- 2004 — Daniel Bukvich: How Birds Take Their Own Self Portraits; Christopher Weait: Trouping the Blues
- 2007 — Norman: Sunshine of Saint Eulalie
- 2008 — Ladd McIntosh: Calliope Capers
Flute Troupe Recordings
- Video recording of "Hang on Sloopy" for The Ohio State University Office of Communications (250,000 YouTube views), 2015.
- Recording for McGinty Music (mcgintymusic.com) — A Christmas Fanfare; Angels We Have Heard on High; Carol of the Bells; Die himmel erzahlen die Ehre Gottes; Fiat Lux; God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen; The Wexford Carol; 'Twas in the Moon of Wintertime (The Huron Carol), December 2013.
- Central Ohio Flute Festival (COFA) and Ohio Music Educators Association (OMEA) conventions in 1987, 1992, 1995, 2002, 2004, 2011, 2018, 2025.
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