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Champagne Flutes
Ages: 18+
Session Length: 15 Weeks
Skill Level: Intermediate
Registration for the 2025 - 2026 school year will open June 1, 2025.
Champagne Flutes is a small ensemble geared toward intermediate level adult flutists who want to enhance their performance skills and enjoying playing with others.
Group members will work on tone, balance, cueing, and play a wide variety of repertoire. The alto, bass and contrabass flutes will also be used on occasion.
Prerequisites: 2 and 1/2 octave range and ability to play in key signatures of up to 4 sharps and flats.
If you're unsure which of our flute ensembles is right for you, please contact Linda White.
If this is your first enrollment of the school year in the Center for Music (September – June), a non-refundable registration fee is due at the time of enrollment ($35 for a single registrant, with a cap of $50 per family).
Register
| Session | Day | Time | Campus | Fee | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 25, 2025 - January 22, 2026 Sep 25, 2025 - Jan 22, 2026 | Thursday | 2:00pm - 3:00pm | Ohio City | $205 | |
| February 05, 2026 - May 21, 2026 Feb 05, 2026 - May 21, 2026 | Thursday | 2:00pm - 3:00pm | Ohio City | $205 |
Faculty
Linda White
Instructor, Flute; Ensemble Director, Champagne Flutes, Flautrageous Flute Choir; Coordinator, Musical Mix & Mingle
A dynamic performer and versatile musician, flutist Linda White excels in an array of musical styles and plays the entire spectrum of flutes from the piccolo to the contrabass flute. Linda is an avid chamber musician and champion of contemporary music. She regularly collaborates with the composers ... Expand
A dynamic performer and versatile musician, flutist Linda White excels in an array of musical styles and plays the entire spectrum of flutes from the piccolo to the contrabass flute.
Linda is an avid chamber musician and champion of contemporary music. She regularly collaborates with the composers of The Cleveland Composers Guild and performs on the annual Local 4 Musician’s Union She Scores series.
Linda regularly performs with classical guitarist Robert Gruca as part of the Gruca White Ensemble. The duo stretches the boundaries of the standard classical concert with their improvisations and unique musical arrangements. In 2020, the Gruca White Ensemble released their debut recording A Different Take through PARMA Recordings Big Round label. Linda also enjoys performing with the flute quartet Idle Twittering along with fellow flutists Jane Berkner, Kyra Kester and George Pope.
Linda is a founding member of the Blue Water Chamber Orchestra, and has also performed with the Cleveland Pops, Cleveland Ballet, Cleveland Opera Orchestra, Erie Philharmonic, Akron Symphony, and Canton Symphony.
Linda teaches at The Music Settlement where she teaches individual lessons, co-directs three flute ensembles and coordinates a program for adult amateurs to gather and play chamber music. She has been a guest clinician for the Interlochen Adult Flute Ensemble since 2020.
Education
MM, Cleveland Institute of MusicBA, University of Wyoming Close