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Dr. Teresa Beaman

Dr. Teresa BeamanTeresa Beaman is a Professor of Music at California State University, Fresno, where she has taught flute since 1986.  Active nationally and internationally as a performer and clinician, Dr. Beaman has performed and taught in China, the Netherlands, Germany, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii.  As a member of the New Sousa Band directed by Keith Brion, she has toured  Japan and the United States.  She has been an Educational Consultant for UMI. Her radio and television appearances include programs for stations KVPR 89.3, KVPT and KNXT in Fresno, California, WKAR in East Lansing,  Michigan, Malaysian Television in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, and Singapore, Channel 2. She was awarded a Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award at California State University, Fresno.
 
She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she studied with Samuel Baron and was a Graduate Council Fellow. She earned a Master of Music degree and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University, where she studied with Thomas Nyfenger. She also studied in Stuttgart, Germany with Klaus Schochow at the Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik.  Her other major teachers include Israel Borouchoff and Alexander Murray. Music festivals in which she has participated include the Darmstadt (Germany) International Summer Course for New Music, the Bach Aria Festival, the Yale Summer School for Music and Art, Banff, the New College Music Festival, and the National Music Camp at Interlochen.
 
Teresa Beaman served as Secretary of the National Flute Association (1995-96) and was Assistant to the Program Chair for the 1992 National Flute Association Convention in Los Angeles.  She performed at conventions of the National Flute Association in 2000, 1998, 1997, 1995, 1992, 1988, and 1986, was a judge for the 1999 NFA Newly Published Music 
Competition, and served as a tape judge for the 1996 NFA Young Artist Competition.  She has presented and coordinated eight Flute Festivals in Central 
California since 1991.
 
She has recorded a compact disc, Flute Moments, of music by American composers on the Laurel Record label, and was partially sponsored by grants from the California State University and a recording grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.  Her CD was praised by Fanfare:  "Her playing is technically assured, and she offers polished interpretations...on this most adventurous and rewarding recital program." The Flute Network wrote, "Beaman...is one of our truly great young performers and this recording is simply dazzling.  Her technique is awesome, her tone ravishing, and her interpretations intense."
 
Most recently, in June 2000, Teresa Beaman and Mary Lou Paschal toured in England, the Netherlands, and Belgium playing versions of the program, "A Recital in Celebration of Gardens."  The venues included Kew Gardens near London, England and the Hortus Botanicus (Botanical Garden) in Leiden, the Netherlands.  They also performed at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England and in Antwerp, Belgium.

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