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A Flute In The City of Angels
A World Premiere
LOUISE DI TULLIO - Flute
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2009 - 8:00 P.M.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2009 - 2:30 P.M.
Pre-concert talk - 45 minutes prior to performance
An internationally recorded flutist, Ms. Di Tullio has appeared on over a thousand TV and film soundtracks such as THE GODFATHER, SPIDERMAN, DANCES WITH WOLVES, and FORREST GUMP. With exceptional authorization from leading Hollywood composers, Ms. Di Tullio and the strings of the Niagara Symphony present world premiere performances of special adaptations of some of the best music to come out of L.A. studios including JohnWilliams’ HOOK and John Barry’s OUT OF AFRICA.
Featured artists:
LOUISE DI TULLIO
 Louise Di Tullio is one of the most widely heard flutists today, having performed on over a thousand motion picture and television scores in a career that spans four decades. Though her name may not be immediately recognizable, years of recordings have brought her artistry to a vast, if unwitting, audience.
Born into a musical family, Louise was the fourth Di Tullio to join the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra before reaching the age of 20, following in the footsteps of her father and two uncles. During this same period, Louise performed as Principal Flute with the Columbia Symphony, recording many of Igor Stravinky’s works under the baton of the composer. After six years with the Philharmonic, performing in both the Assistant Principal Flute and Solo Piccolo positions, she resigned in order to pursue recording work full time.
The ensuing years brought success in all aspects of the recording world. Her playing was heard nightly on television in shows such as: Gunsmoke, Hawaii Five-O, Little House on the Prairie, The Waltons and Dallas. The list of film composers with whom she has collaborated includes the most distinguished names in music today. Composer John Williams, arguably the most honored film composer in history, refers to Ms. Di Tullio as being “in the very front rank among the world’s great flutists”. Her playing can be heard on the albums of recording stars Barbra Streisand, Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett, Kenny G and Michael Jackson. She has performed on numerous classical recordings ranging from chamber music to a concerto album with the English Chamber Orchestra. Ms. Di Tullio was the recipient of the “Most Valuable Player” award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for the years 1975-1978 and received the Emeritus Award in 1980.
While continuing her busy recording career, Ms. Di Tullio has held the Principal Flute position in many Los Angeles area orchestras, including the Pacific Symphony, the Pasadena Symphony, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra . A partial list of orchestras with which she has appeared as soloist includes the Boston Pops, the Pacific Symphony, the Pasadena Symphony, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Mexico City Symphony and the Carmel Bach Festival.
Louise has taught flute since the age of 18 and has served on the faculties of the University of Southern California, the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara and California Sate University at Fullerton. Several of her students now occupy the Principal Flute chairs in a number of major symphony orchestras and fill the ranks of working flutists throughout the country.
Ms. Di Tullio now divides her time between Los Angeles and Oregon, where she and her husband, trumpet player Burnette Dillon, are rebuilding a house in the countryside of the beautiful Willamette Valley.
RONALD ROYER - composer
 Born in Los Angeles into a family of professional musicians, Ronald Royer began his career as a cellist, performing with such ensembles as the Utah Symphony, Pacific Symphony and Toronto Symphony, as well as working in the Motion Picture and Television Industry in Los Angeles during the 1980’s. Mr. Royer began serious studies in composition in the 1990’s, receiving a Master’s Degree in Composition from the University of Toronto in 1997. In June 2004, he became the Composer-in-Residence for the Orchestras Mississauga supported by a residency grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. Mr. Royer is an associate composer of the Canadian Music Centre and works as an Instructor of Music for the University of Toronto Schools.
Ronald Royer is a prominent Canadian composer with numerous performances, commissions and commercial recordings. His compositions have been performed throughout Canada, Austria, the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Mexico and the United States by leading soloists, ensembles and over forty orchestras.
Along with co-composer Kevin Lau, Mr. Royer recently finished composing his first feature film score for the Canadian children’s movie Gooby, starring Robbie Coltrane and Eugene Levy. Gooby premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in France on May 14 and will hit theatres in North America in the fall. Other commissions include grants by the Canada Council for the Arts to compose Sinfonia Concertante for Piano Trio and Orchestra (the Gryphon Trio and the Mississauga Symphony), Mirage for Orchestra (Mississauga Symphony) and Water and Light, Fireworks at the Falls for Orchestra (Niagara Symphony). As well, Mr. Royer received a Laidlaw Foundation grant to compose Travels with Mozart for Chamber Orchestra. This composition was jointly commissioned by five orchestras, Jyvaskyla Sinfonia (Finland), Toronto Sinfonietta (Canada), International Symphony (Canada/USA), Peterborough Symphony (Canada), and Scarborough Philharmonic (Canada), to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Mozart.
Recordings include the recently internationally released The Nightingale’s Rhapsody with Clarinetist Jerome Summers and The Thirteen Strings of Ottawa by Cambria Master Recordings (California) and the Storyteller’s Bag by the Children’s Group as well as recordings by the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic (Czech Republic), the Toronto Sinfonietta, and cellist Simon Fryer with pianist Lydia Wong.
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