Sonora Reed Trio

Kristine Fletcher, bassoon
Richard Fletcher, clarinet
Christa N. Garvey, oboe

The Sonora Reed Trio is a faculty ensemble formed in 2004. The members include Christa Garvey (oboe), Richard Fletcher (clarinet), and Kristine Fletcher (bassoon). The goal of Sonora is to showcase the wonderfully expressive instrumentation of the reed trio and perform superb compositions by leading 20 th /21 st century composers. Sonora is also engaged in educational outreach endeavors through performances and master classes that educate and inspire budding musicians. In 2005 the ensemble presented a lecture and performances at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities entitled, "Shall We Dance? Dance Music for Reed Trio."

Kristine K. Fletcher performs frequently as a collaborative artist and soloist. She has appeared as soloist on the Schubert Club's Courtroom Concert Series (St. Paul, MN), for the Edinburgh, Scotland Society of Musicians, on the Conference of the International Double Reed Society, on Wisconsin public radio and television, on the national convention of MENC, and regularly as a member of the Wisconsin Woodwind Quintet and as principal bassoonist of the Eau Claire Chamber Orchestra. In 2005 she performed at the Conference of the International Clarinet Association in Tokyo, at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, and performed and presented at the Iowa Bandmasters Association. She has been a Visiting Fellow at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, and has toured England and Scotland as a member of the Wisconsin-In-Scotland Chamber Players.

Dr. Fletcher holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Bassoon Performance and Pedagogy, a Master of Arts degree in Bassoon Performance, and a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education from the University of Iowa where she studied bassoon with Ronald Tyree. She also holds a Master of Library and Information Science degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Since 1982 Dr. Fletcher has been on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire where she teaches bassoon, woodwind methods, and related subjects. In 2000 she established and became director of and a performer in Cane Mutiny, UW-Eau Claire's Bassoon Ensemble. She has served on the faculty of the International Music Camp, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, Arkansas Tech University Music Camp, and the Indianhead Arts Center as woodwind instructor, soloist, and chamber musician. Dr. Fletcher has written a number of music articles for professional journals and is the author of The Paris Conservatoire and The Contest Solos for Bassoon (Indiana University Press). At present she is researching and co-authoring a guide to chamber music for bassoon, clarinet and piano. Some of these works may be heard on the recently released CD: Clearly Three performs Trios from the Twentieth Century (available through www.cdbaby.com/cd/kfletcher)

Richard W. Fletcher is Professor of Clarinet and Saxophone at UWEC. He holds a doctorate in Clarinet Performance and Pedagogy from The University of Iowa where he was a student of Himie Voxman. He is an active soloist and chamber musician, performing as principal clarinetist in the Eau Claire Chamber Orchestra and the Wisconsin Woodwind Quintet. He has performed at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Elvehjem Museum of Art, the Schubert Club's Courtroom Concerts Series, the Conference of the International Double Reed Society, on Wisconsin public radio and television, and performed internationally in Japan, Scotland and England. In 2005 he performed at the Conference of the International Clarinet Association in Tokyo, at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, and at the Iowa Bandmasters Association. As a Visiting Fellow at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music he had the privilege of studying the shakuhachi (bamboo flute) with virtuoso Goro Yamaguchi. Prior to UWEC, Dr. Fletcher was a faculty member at Arkansas Tech University . He has served on the faculties of the International Music Camp, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, and Arkansas Tech University Music Camp. At present he is co-authoring a guide to chamber music for clarinet, bassoon and piano and recently has completed a CD of some of these works: Clearly Three performs Trios from the Twentieth Century (available through www.cdbaby.com/cd/kfletcher)

Christa N. Garvey joined the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in the fall of 2003, where she teaches music theory and applied oboe. She is an active performer and a member of the Wisconsin Woodwind Quintet. She previously served on the faculty of the Metropolitan State College of Denver and was a Visiting Lecturer of Oboe and Musicology at the Lionel Hampton School of Music at the University of Idaho. Ms. Garvey has performed with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, the Colorado Ballet Orchestra, the Cheyenne, WY Symphony, the Colorado MahlerFest Orchestra, the Boulder Bach Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Bloomington Early Music Festival.

Dr . Garvey holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Oboe Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Colorado at Boulder. While at CU, she was a winner of the Honors Concerto Competition, College of Music winner for a campus-wide Creative Work Award for a dissertation project, developed an oboe method book, and received grant funding for research in the Czech Republic to study the manuscript scores and correspondence of Bohuslav Martinu. Her undergraduate degree was received from Indiana University. Her teachers include James Brody, Marc Lifschey, Elaine Douvas, and John DeLancie.