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The Blanche Bryden Sunflower Music Institute is dedicated to providing talented young musicians opportunities for advanced study and performance experience in chamber music with our master teachers and performers.  Admission is via taped auditions from students age 16-26 from across the country.  All successful applicants receive FULL TUITION, ROOM and BOARD.

Available for Violin, Viola, Violoncello, PIano, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, Trumpet, Trombone and Tuba.  We invite pre-formed string quartets to apply.

2008 Institute
Dates for Institute:  June 3 - 10, 2008
Application deadline: March 14, 2008
Application must include:
   1)    High quality Cassette or CD
   2)    Current resume
   3)    Three references
   4)    Application form (on line by selecting this link)

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2008 Institute Faculty
Violin   Charles Stegeman, Wexford, PA       String quartets & piano quintets
Janna Lower, Gainesville, FL             String quartets & piano quintets
Violon-cello Mark Tanner, Gainesville, FL             String quartets & piano quintets
Keyboard James Rivers, Topeka, KS Keyboard
Bassoon    Mark Romatz, Montreal, Canada Collegiate Woodwind quintet
Clarinet Kirt Saville, Topeka, KS  High School Woodwind quintet
Horn David Everson, Detroit, MI  Collegiate Brass Quintet

Students rehearse a minimum of 6 hours daily.  At the end of the Institute they present two public concerts.


2007 Institute Students

Ashley Stahl
Annalise Ohse
Ashley Webster
Anne Sullivan
Zach Wasserman
Anna Lischke
Mollie Bogle
Sun Hye Oh

Michelle Letourneau
Katherine Palmer
Christopher Roth
Timothy Solinger
William Darst
William Brubaker
Scott Devereaux
Amy Vest


Patrick Walle
Heidi Wright
Peter Pirotte
Saya Namikawa
Samuel Cho



The 2006 Festival brought students from 11 states.

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2005 Repertoire

Piano Duo

Sheep May Safely Graze                          
Sonata Op. 34                                            
   

J.S. Bach/arr. Mary Howe
Johannes Brahms


High School Woodwind Quintet
Passacaille
Divertimento No. 8
Polka from Five Easy Dances  
Pavanne pour une infante défunte         
Roaring Fork   

A.Barthe
W.A. Mozart
Denes Agay
Maurice Ravel/arr.Lesnick
Eric Ewazen


String Quartets
Quartet in F Minor, Op. 95, No. 11     
Quartet in C Major, Op. 59, No. 3  


Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven

Piano Quintets
Quintet in E Flat, Op. 44 for Piano and Strings
Quintet in F Minor for Piano and Strings
Robert Schumann
César Franck

Collegiate Woodwind Quintet

Quintet for Winds
Suite

Jon Harbison
Gunther Schuller

Brass Quintet

Rondo a la Turca
Concerto Araunjez
Three Preludes
Just A Closer Walk
Quintet
Dance 
W.A. Mozart/trans. By Frackenpohl
Rodrigo/arr. Schutza
Gershwin/ arr. Schutza
arr. Don Gillis
Malcolm Arnold
Wilke Renwick

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