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SONORA SLOCUM, flute
JOHN WILSON, piano

April 8, 2023, 7:30pm
Uptown Blanco Ballroom

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Slocum takes in vast quantities of air and spins it into gold.
- Urban Milwaukee 
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Sonora Slocum, flute
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John Wilson, piano

​About the Performers:

Appointed principal flute of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra in 2012 at the age of 22, Sonora Slocum “has wonderful resonance and a delightfully relaxed vibrato. It’s easy to love such vocal playing, and any orchestra is blessed to have her big sound.” (American Record Guide 169).

Slocum has performed with orchestras around the country including guest principal flute with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra; She has appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra on flute and piccolo.

​Her collaborations as guest principal include touring and audio recordings with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra as well as visual recordings with the Philharmonia Orchestra of New York at Lincoln Center. Slocum has worked under such renowned conductors as Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Sir Simon Rattle, Edo de Waart, Otto-Werner Mueller, John Williams and David Zinman, among many others.

In addition to her debut album Return with Affetto Records, featuring John Wilson on piano, Slocum has released a new album, Mozart Flute Quartets, recorded with members of the Dover and Escher Quartets with record label Acis Productions. Both albums are available on all platforms. Signed CDs can be purchased on her website or at the concert.

​A regular soloist with the Milwaukee Symphony, Slocum is recognized for her “pure, sparkling sound” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel). Slocum's performances of Carl Nielsen’s Flute Concerto with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the Johnson City Symphony earned her critical acclaim. “Slocum takes in vast quantities of air and spins it into gold. Hers is a dynamic range that whispers clearly and coherently and grows without tearing at the edges. Slocum has a HUGE sound...and a wizard’s bag resplendent with technical prowess and musical freshness. Slocum played with full-blooded intensity, convincing artistry, and astonishingly, she did it from memory.” (William Barnewitz, Urban Milwaukee). 
With music publisher Hal Leonard, Slocum has compiled a collection featuring some of the most popular flute repertoire by French composers, as well as a collection of Moyse Exercises for Flute.

Slocum is a faculty member of the Curtis Young Artist Summer Program and the Curtis Mentor Network. Sonora Slocum has conducted master classes at the Curtis Institute of Music, NYO2 Carnegie Hall Youth Orchestra, DePaul University, Montclair State University, New Jersey City University, East Tennessee State University and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Sonora spends her summers performing at a variety of prestigious music festivals, including the Lincoln Center Festival, Strings Music Festival, Twickenham Fest, and Lakes Area Music Festival. She performs regularly with the chamber music series It's Frankly Music, led by MSO Concertmaster Frank Almond. In 2019, she was a featured performer at the National Flute Association Friday Gala performance at Abravanel Hall in Salt Lake City, UT.

Born into a musical family, Slocum grew up in New York City where she attended The Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music Pre-College Divisions. Slocum holds a Bachelor's Degree from the Curtis Institute of Music and Master's Degree in Orchestral Performance from the Manhattan School of Music. She attended the Music Academy of the West, as well as the Aspen and Pacific Music Festivals. Slocum studied with principal flutists Jeffrey Khaner, Robert Langevin, and Bart Feller, among many others.

American pianist John Wilson has appeared as soloist with the New World Symphony, Napa Valley Symphony, New Amsterdam Symphony, and Orchestra Camerata Notturna in New York. As an orchestral pianist, he has performed with the San Francisco Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, and the San Diego Symphony. He recently won the prize for the Best Performance of an American Work at the 2017 Liszt-Garrison International Piano Competition. An avid chamber musician, Mr. Wilson has appeared in chamber ensembles with musicians of the San Francisco Symphony, Montreal Symphony, and San Diego Symphony, and he has also performed with violinists Anthony Marwood, Gil Shaham, and Joshua Bell, cellists Johannes Moser and Alisa Weilerstein, and soprano Audra McDonald. Dedicated to contemporary music, Mr. Wilson has been sought after for performing in the US and world premieres of solo piano works by Michael Tilson Thomas, Timo Andres, Judith Lang Zaimont, and ensemble works by Steve Reich, Reinbert de Leeuw, HK Gruber, and Bernd Deutsch. These performances mark his San Francisco Symphony solo debut.
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