The Wisconsin Woodwind Quintet

Kristine Fletcher, bassoon
Richard Fletcher, clarinet
Christa N. Garvey, oboe
Tim Lane, flute
Verle Ormsby, Jr., horn

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The Wisconsin Woodwind Quintet is the resident faculty ensemble at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Members of the Quintet are Tim Lane, flute; Christa Garvey, oboe; Richard Fletcher, clarinet; Kristine Klopfenstein Fletcher, bassoon, and Verle Ormsby, horn. Each of the ensemble's members is an active solo recitalist as well as chamber musician and each is also the primary UW-Eau Claire instructor for their instrument. Performing both the traditional quintet literature and the most recent compositions by eminent and up-coming composers, the ensemble is well known throughout the upper Midwest for its virtuoso performances. The quintet presents public concerts on and off campus each year, along with workshops at high schools, colleges, and conferences. The Wisconsin Woodwind Quintet has been featured at the national meeting of Music Educator's National Conference, the International Double Reed Society conference, the Wisconsin Music Educators Association, Live from the Elvehjem on Wisconsin Public Radio, on Wisconsin Public Television, and on various concert venues. In 2005 they appeared at the Iowa Bandmasters Association conference.

For more information about the ensemble and its availability and fee, please contact Dr. Tim Lane; Department of Music and Theatre Arts, UW-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004; phone (715) 836-2284; e-mail: lanet@uwec.edu.

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.

Tim Lane has played with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Orquestra Sinfonica de Veracruz, and the Ohio Chamber Orchestra. He has been a soloist and chamber music participant with the Roundtop Music Festival (Roundtop, Texas), the Arcady Music Festival (Bar Harbor, Maine), and with the San Antonio Chamber Players. He is currently a member of the Wisconsin Woodwind Quintet and Les Favorites, a period instrument ensemble. Dr. Lane is an active recitalist and has recorded a solo CD for Zuma Records Inc., "Shards of Glass, Romantic Twentieth Century Flute Music". He has also recorded music for Centaur and Tel Arc. His teachers have included Maurice Sharp, Alexander Murray, and William Bennett. He holds a doctoral degree from the University of Illinois - Champaign/Urbana and wrote his dissertation on "The Relation Between Analysis and Performance of W.A. Mozart’s D Major Flute Concerto in Accordance with Conterporaneous Writings". Dr. Lane was a National Flute Association Convention performer competition winner in 1996.

 

Verle Ormsby, Jr., a St. Louis, Missouri native, is Senior Lecturer in Horn Studies with the Department of Music, and is a member of the faculty ensemble, the Wisconsin Woodwind Quintet. Dr. Ormsby is also a member of the Eau Claire Chamber Orchestra, the Northwinds British Brass Band and performs with the Apple River Brass and Wind Quintets. Dr. Ormsby has a Doctor of Arts degree in Horn Performance and Master's in Music degree in Horn Performance from Ball State University (IN), and a Bachelor's Degree in Music Education from Southern Illinois University (Edwardsville).

Dr. Ormsby has been on the music faculties of Pittsburg State University (KS), Southwest Baptist University (MO), Southwest Missouri State University, and Indiana-Purdue University at Ft. Wayne (IN).

He has also performed with the Springfield Symphony (MO), the Springfield Regional Opera Orchestra, the Ft. Smith Symphony (AR), the North Arkansas Symphony (Fayetteville), the Ft. Wayne Philharmonic (IN), the Indiana Chamber Orchestra, the Northern Indiana Opera Orchestra, the Florida Symphony (Orlando), the Walt Disney World Band and Orchestra, the Florida Gulf Coast Symphony (Tampa), and the Savannah Symphony (GA).

Dr. Ormsby is a long-time member of the International Horn Society, and has served as a horn clinician for Conn Horns, and served on the board of the American Horn Competition.