Phyllis Avidan Louke (b. 1954), an Altus Artist, serves as Music Director of Rose City Flute Choir, is principal flute with Oregon Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra and Oregon Symphonic Band, freelances and is an active chamber musician in Portland, Oregon. Ms. Louke has taught privately since 1992, and adjudicated for Solo Festivals at both the local and state level. She has extensive experience working with student ensembles. Ms. Louke graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara where she studied flute with Burnett Atkinson.

Ms. Louke has been arranging for flute ensembles since 1990, specializing in folk songs and Jewish music. In addition, she has composed original works, including: Suite Butterfly for Flute Quartet or Flute Choir (also on the National Flute Choir recording High Altitude), Une Chanson du Printemps, Shadowlands, Under the Big Top, Echoes in the Wind, Cloud Images, As Eagles Flew and the award winning Of Wizards and Witches for Flute Choir as well as Echoes in the Wind—A Native American Soliloquy (also on the National Flute Choir recording Silver) and Castle in the Mist for alto flute and piano, Blessings & Celebration for bass flute and piano, and Reflections of Water for flute and piano. She has also created original pedagogical materials in Extended Techniques—Double the Fun (for two flutes) and Extended Techniques—Solos for Fun (for flute and piano).

Many of her works have been finalists or received honorable mention in the annual National Flute Association Newly Published Music Competition, and her composition Of Wizards and Witches was a winner of this competition in 2006. In addition, her composition Under the Big Top was awarded 2nd Place in the Hoff-Barthleson Music School Flute Club’s Composition Competition, and was premiered in Scarsdale, New York in 2000.  Ms. Louke has also been the recipient of annual ASCAP awards since 2004.  Her compositions and arrangements have been performed at the National Flute Association’s annual convention since 2000, as well as internationally, and many have been recorded by the National Flute Choir, Woodbridge Flute Choir and other groups. Ms. Louke has studied composition with Tomas Svoboda. Her music is primarily published by ALRY Publications of Charlotte, NC.

The published music of Phyllis Avidan Louke is available directly from the publishers, as well as from:

www.fluteworld.com  (Flute World)
www.flute4u.com  (Carolyn Nussbaum Music

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Discography:

High Altitude (1999) recorded by The National Flute Choir
(Released by ALRY Publications)
Suite Butterfly

Silver (2004) recorded by The National Flute Choir
(Released by ALRY Publications)
Echoes in the Wind

Breathless (2004) recorded by The National Flute Choir
(Released by ALRY Publications)
There Is No Rose by Z. Randall Stroope, arr. Phyllis Avidan Louke

Christmas Flutes (1999) recorded by The National Flute Choir
(Released by ALRY Publications)
We Three Kings/Carol of the Bells, arr. Phyllis Avidan Louke
O Come All Ye Faithful, arr. Phyllis Avidan Louke

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