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 a year of study with Albert Tipton she attended Northwestern University earning a Doctor of Music degree under the tutelage of Walfrid Kujala. She has been a member of the New Orleans Pops, Baton Rouge Symphony, Colorado Philharmonic, and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and performed with the Chicago Symphony, and has served on the faculties of the University of Washington and Pacific Lutheran University. She has given master classes throughout the United States and internationally, including the first piccolo recital ever performed in China. She was the founding editor of Flute Talk and is on the Editorial Board for The Flutist Quarterly. She has served as both Program Chair and as President of the National Flute Association, and been a featured soloist and presenter at numerous NFA conventions.

Zart has commissioned numerous compositions, including two works for piccolo and piano by Martin Amlin, and sonatas by Gary Schocker and Levente Gyongyosi, and a chamber work by Ken Benshoof. She can be heard in over 150 recordings of the Seattle Symphony, and her solo CD, in shadow, light, is available on Crystal Records. Her award-winning editions of the three Vivaldi piccolo concertos and the Telemann duo concerto are both published by Theodore Presser.