Elise Wo

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 1970-present Professional Musician Performance, recording artist, educator EDUCATION B.A. Ethnomusicology University of Massachusetts. MASTER Jazz History, Rutgers University, Newark

ELISE, FLUTE, ALTO FLUTE, PICCOLO, COMPOSER, ARRANGER PERFORMANCES W/ JOHN HICKS, PIANIST FESTIVALS 1984-present Pori Jazz Festival Nice Jazz Festival Harrisburg Friends of Jazz Tarrytown, NY Jazz Festival Ferrara, Italy St. Louis Jazz Festival Detroit Jazz Festival Charlie Parker Jazz Festival CLUBS Birdland, NY Blue Note, NY Vanguard, NY Sweet Basil, NY Blues Alley, NY Catalina;s LA Athenneum, San Diego Lush Life, NY Bradleys, NY Painted Bride, Phila. Zinc Bar, NY An die Music, Baltimore Jazz Showcase, Chicago Cecil’s Jazz Club, NJ Iridium Jazz Club, NY Trumpets, NJ Tavern on the Green, NY Kimballs, San Francisco Bach Dancing Dynamite Society, Half Moon Bay Knitting Factory, NY INTERNATIONAL TOURS 1 Tours of Japan 1 Italy Brass Group Society 5 concerts 2003 France, Paris, South of France, French Pyranees 1995 Germany 17 cities West and East Germany 1993 Puerto Rico 2004 Blue Note, Beirut Lebanon 2005 Taipei, Taiwan

Elise-Teaching Chronology 2000 – present Private flute Instruction- 1 year of private lessons for a church organist in beginning techniques of flute study. interpretation through listening, exercising various articulations and ornamentations as well as focusing on ensemble playing and expressiveness. Composers works studied include Bach, Debussy, Mozart and Frocsay 2007-present Coaching for a Masters candidate matriculating student seeking a degree in Jazz Flute studies at NYU. Lessons included studies of basic classic etudes for flute, various articulation studies and exercises in improvisation and composition including repertoire by composers such as Miles Davis, Horace Silver, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane and Joe Henderson as well as polishing recording techniques. The student earned her Masters degree at the completion of the these two years. 2 Working with Saxophone/doublers on producing an excellent sound on the flute and interpreting in a different manner acknowledging the differences of the single reed instrument and the flute. Included on roster of New School,NYC Adjunct Faculty. 2 Jazz Foundation of America Bandleader for jazz combo (keyboard, guitar, bass and drums) twice a month offering lecture-demonstrations to teach the elements of Jazz composition and basic jazz theory. Sites of employment included Brookdale Hospital, Brookdale, NY (children’s psychiatric ward) and Grace Congregational Church in Harlem (Summer Love program). Age groups were mixed from 3 – 13 (with adults present) and each lesson was prepared to compliment the repertoire for the day. Tools for teaching included percussion instruments and an instructional felt “board” for teaching music theory. Sessions culminated in an annual Jazzmobile performance sponsored by the 139th St. Block Association. 2007 Selected as a New York University Jazz Fellow for clinics offered at NYU Jazz Appreciation to NYU music students by way of lecture demonstration and performances with resident rhythm section. Compositions included various jazz classics from the books of Ellington, Monk and standards such as Cherokee. 1 An ensemble member of Safari East Cultural Presentations working throughout the 5 boroughs of New York in various community centers offering lecture/ demonstrations and performances. Program concept was to travel by way of music and was shaped with the African Diaspora in which travels to Africa, the Caribbean and then to America culminated in the History of Jazz. Elise Teaching Chronology 2000 – present Private flute Instruction-1 year of private lessons for a church organist in beginning techniques of flute study. interpretation through listening, exercising various articulations and ornamentations as well as focusing on ensemble playing and expressiveness. Composers works studied include Bach, Debussy, Mozart and Frocsay 2007-present Coaching for a Masters candidate matriculating student seeking a degree in Jazz Flute studies at NYU. Lessons included studies of basic classic etudes for flute, various articulation studies and exercises in improvisation and composition including repertoire by composers such as Miles Davis, Horace Silver, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane and Joe Henderson as well as polishing recording techniques. The student earned her Masters degree at the completion of the these two years. 2 Working with Saxophone/doublers on producing an excellent sound on the flute and interpreting in a different manner acknowledging the differences of the single reed instrument and the flute. Included on roster of New School,NYC Adjunct Faculty. 2 Jazz Foundation of America Bandleader for jazz combo (keyboard, guitar, bass and drums) twice a month offering lecture-demonstrations to teach the elements of Jazz composition and basic jazz theory. Sites of employment included Brookdale Hospital, Brookdale, NY (children’s psychiatric ward) and Grace Congregational Church in Harlem (Summer Love program). Age groups were mixed from 3 – 13 (with adults present) and each lesson was prepared to compliment the repertoire for the day. Tools for teaching included percussion instruments and an instructional felt “board” for teaching music theory. Sessions culminated in an annual Jazzmobile performance sponsored by the 139th St. Block Association. 2007 Selected as a New York University Jazz Fellow for clinics offered at NYU Jazz Appreciation to NYU music students by way of lecture demonstration and performances with resident rhythm section. Compositions included various jazz classics from the books of Ellington, Monk and standards such as Cherokee. 1 An ensemble member of Safari East Cultural Presentations working throughout the 5 boroughs of New York in various community centers offering lecture/ demonstrations and performances. Program concept was to travel by way of music and was shaped with the African Diaspora in which travels to Africa, the Caribbean and then to America culminated in the History of Jazz.