Cathy Collinge Herrera holds both a Doctor of Music degree in Flute Performance and a World Music Certificate from The Florida State University. Her other performance degrees were earned at the University of Northern Iowa and University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Collinge Herrera has performed solo, chamber and symphonic repertoire throughout the U.S., Canada, Australia, England, Central and South America. While a Fulbright scholar to Peru, Dr. Collinge Herrera was principal flutist with the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional for two years, and founder of the Festivales Internacionales de Flautistas. As an artistic ambassador for the U.S. Embassy, she has performed as concerto soloist recitalist and master class clinician in Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia, Dominican Republic and Venezuela. Other Latin American performing venues include Costa Rica, Mexico and Brazil. Dr. Collinge Herrera has served as faculty member for a variety of universities including the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts Conservatorium at the Edith Cowen University, Perth. Currently she teaches at Juniata College, is a Rostered Artist for the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a scholarly contributor to the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, and performs with the Pennsylvanian Nittany Valley, Penns Woods, and Altoona Symphony Orchestras, Camerata Amistad, Allegria Ensemble, Air Dynamics!, and From the Heart Duo. Her CD “Doorways” features world flutes and world percussion. Founder of The Flutopia Initiative flutists inspiring musicians to change the world one concert at a time, she has dedicated her life to sharing the joy and hope music brings, in the classroom and on stage, with audiences pre-school age through 104!
Members of the Ensemble
P. Brent Register is a professional composer, musician, and educator. His works have received numerous awards and include premieres in New York City, Chicago, Phoenix, and San Diego. He received the Bachelor of Music Education and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His Master of Music degree is from the Manhattan School of Music. He has studied additionally at the Mannes College of Music, the University of Oslo, and the Norges Musikkhøgskolen in Oslo.
Brent's compositions include Songs of the Chinese Poets for tenor, oboe, and clarinet, Pausing at the Border for tenor, piccolo/flute/alto flute, and piano, Evening Peace for soprano, tenor, baritone, oboe, bassoon, and piano, Symposium for orchestra, The Mirror for soprano, flute, and piano, The Silence Flowering its Birdsong for tenor, English horn, and piano, the score to the motion picture Potential Inertia, Where Birds Dwell for male chorus and piano, and The Gatherer of Lost Children for soprano, oboe, cello, piano, and percussion, and Bedtime Stories (beyond the window) for soprano, flute, oboe, cello, and piano. His latest composition, Four Seasons for baritone, flute, cello, and piano, will be released in the winter of 2017. Additional publications include editing Alec Templeton's Trio for flute, oboe, and piano and arranging Touring the Hispanic World, a multi-volume set for two flutes and guitar. Brent's works are represented in the USA by ALRY Publications and Jeanné Publications. Feel free to visit his website at https://www.pbrentregister.com/
Diane Gold Toulson, Master of Music in flute, received her degrees from the Eastman School of music and Columbia University. She has enjoyed an extensive career as soloist, chamber musician and orchestral flutist. Highlights of her concert appearances in the U.S. include Carnegie Recital Hall, the Lincoln Center Library and Avery Fisher Hall in New York and the National Gallery and Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. A grand proponent of chamber music, Ms. Toulson has performed extensively with the Easterly Chamber Players, the Huntingdon Trio and the Amado, New Philadelphia and Alard Quartets, in addition to Camerata Amistad, Allegria Ensemble, and Air Dynamics!. Internationally Ms. Toulson has performed and taught master classes in the Netherlands, Spain and Argentina. She has recorded an LP and two compact discs and has been involved with over 40 commissioned works. Currently Ms. Toulson is principal flute of the Altoona, Nittany Valley (founding member) and York Symphony Orchestras in Pennsylvania where she is often featured as concerto soloist. Formerly a member of the music faculty at Bucknell University, Ms. Toulson teaches at the Music Academy of State College, PA where she also serves as coordinator of the Bellefonte, PA Historical Association’s “Sunday Afternoons at the Library” chamber music series.
Espiritu Guanacasteco (excerpt)
