The Three "T's" of AlTernaTEe Piccolo Fingerings: Technique, Tuning, and Timbre

Come explore the intriguing and essential world of ‘other’ fingerings on the piccolo!  Gather tips on becoming a better piccolo player by using special fingerings to improve your playing.  This is a hands-on workshop – have your piccolo, tuner,  and note-taking equipment on hand!

Zart Dombourian-Eby is the Principal Piccoloist (Robert and Clodagh Ash Chair) of the Seattle Symphony and is regularly featured as both a flute and piccolo soloist and clinician in Seattle and across the world. Her performances have consistently received highest praise from both critics and audiences: the Seattle Times review of her performance of Gunther Schuller’s Concerto for Flute and Piccolo bore the headline "It was a night for flute/piccolo artistry,” and described her playing as "spectacular" and "phenomenal.” Alex Ross of The New Yorker wrote that she “crystallized Varèse's ‘Density 21.5.’”

A native of New Orleans, she received her B.A. and M.M. degrees from Louisiana State University. After…