Guest Artist: Adam W. Sadberry Flutist and educator Adam W. Sadberry, recognized as a musician to watch in the Washington Post’s 23 for ‘23, is making his mark through his dynamic contributions on and off stage. With accolades such as winning the Concert Artists Guild’s 2021 Victor Elmaleh Competition, Adam is showcasing his talents as a guest artist with prestigious institutions like The Phillips Collection, Chamber Music Detroit, and the Eastman School of Music. In 2023 he premiered _NOT RUNNING. (The Life of L. Alex Wilson), a piece by Dameun Strange that honors L. Alex Wilson - an unsung hero of the Civil Rights Movement and Adam’s late grandfather. The work was co-commissioned by the BMI Foundation and Concert Artists Guild. Beyond his performances, Adam’s commitment to education and equity is evident. He served as a sabbatical replacement teaching flute at the University of Minnesota in Spring 2023 and has given residencies at colleges nationally. His presentations on relevance and mindfulness, influenced by his life and Alexander Technique training, demonstrate his holistic approach. His work has led him to being a panelist at the 2023 League of American Orchestras Conference. He holds the principal flutist position at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music and has played with renowned orchestras including those of St. Louis, Detroit, and Minnesota. He contributed to the soundtracks of Disney's The Lion King (2019) and the Hollywood Bowl’s Juneteenth Celebration (2022), featuring artists like Chaka Khan and Questlove. Adam, 27, is originally from Montgomery, TX, and he currently resides in Saint Paul, MN where he is training as an Alexander Technique teacher. Beyond music, Adam loves rollerskating, reading, podcasting, and eating food. Adam can be found on Facebook and Instagram as @adamhappyberry.
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Dr. Michael Seregow
Pianist Michael Seregow enjoys a multifaceted career as a performer, teacher, and recording artist. An avid chamber musician, he has received national and international recognition in addition to winning numerous prizes and competitions. In 2020 he was the winner of The American Prize in chamber music performance, and more recently in 2022 he was awarded 2nd prize in the Puerto Rico Center for Collaborative Piano’s International Collaborative Piano Competition. Michael maintains a busy performance schedule, collaborating with internationally recognized artists throughout the world. Recent highlights include performances at the 18th Encuentro Universitario Internacional de Saxofón México in Mexico City, the 2nd International Conference on Women’s Work in Music in Wales, UK, as well as recitals in Costa Rica and Honduras. This summer, Michael served as a conference pianist for the 2022 International Trombone Festival (Conway, AK). Michael has also performed at numerous national conferences within the United States including those for the North American Saxophone Alliance (Tempe, AZ), College Music Society (Louisville, KY), and National Flute Association (Salt Lake City, UT) in addition to performing as an invited guest artist at many colleges and universities across the country. In September of 2020, Michael released a CD recording project with flutist Sophia Tegart entitled Palouse Songbook on Centaur Records. This disc features new and recent compositions by women composers for flute and piano, including two new commissions, and was praised by American Record Guide as “a stunning set of performances by Tegart and Seregow” who are “at the top of their game.” Currently a member of the piano faculty at Ball State University in Muncie, IN, he has also served on the keyboard faculties at Washington State University, University of Puget Sound, and University of Oregon. A sought-after pedagogue, he has presented on various piano-related topics and adjudicated throughout the United States as well as in Latin America. Michael earned graduate degrees from University of Oregon (MM and DMA in piano performance), and in the summer of 2011 he was invited to be a collaborative piano fellow at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, CA.
Dr. Mihoko Watanabe
Flutist Mihoko Watanabe, a native of Japan, is Professor of Flute at Ball State University and chair of the Certificate in Entrepreneurial Music program. Before joining the School of Music, Dr. Watanabe taught at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, and the University of Windsor, Canada. Dr. Watanabe has won competitions sponsored by the Japan Flute Association and the National Flute Association (NFA) and has appeared in Japan, Israel, Canada, England, and the USA as a celebrated and versatile international performer, recitalist, chamber musician, and concerto soloist. She is a member of the faculty woodwind quintet, the MUSICAL ARTS QUINTET (MAQ). The MAQ has been awarded the prestigious 2010 American Masterpieces grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support a performance tour and CD entitled “American Breeze,” which was released in 2012 from Albany Records. She was the founding member of the HIBIKI (響) Trio, comprised of Ball State faculty (flute, viola, and harp). The Hibiki Trio was invited by the College Music Society (CMS) to present a performance and lecture-recital in 2015 and 2016 nationally. She was a member of TRIO FLURINETO (flute, clarinet, and piano) at Ball State, and the Trio performed nationally at various universities, the 2010 NFA Convention, and the 2011 International Clarinet Association Convention. Independent of her participation in Ball State chamber ensembles, she is a founding member of TRIO PIACERE (flute, cello, piano), which has performed internationally, and a member of DUO VIVA (two flutes). In 2006, DUO VIVA recorded “Doppler Effect,” a CD released by and available from Little Piper. TRIO HARMONIA (flute, viola, and piano) was invited to perform at the 2017 NFA Convention in Minneapolis, MN. Dr. Watanabe has held several principal flute positions and performed with American and Canadian orchestras. Currently, she is the principal flutist of the Muncie Symphony Orchestra and has performed with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and Fort Wayne Philharmonic. Previously, she has performed with the Aspen Music Festival Orchestra, Lansing Philharmonic Orchestra, Farmington Area Philharmonic, Warren Symphony Orchestra, Pontiac-Oakland Symphony, Oshkosh Symphony Orchestra, Brevard Music Center Orchestra, Windsor Symphony Orchestra (Canada), and Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra (Canada). In 2012, she premiered From Days of Yore, a flute concerto written by Jody Nagel, with the Muncie Symphony Orchestra. In 2007, she was invited to perform CPE Bach Flute Concerto in d minor with Mt. Carmel Chamber Orchestra in Israel.
Dr. Watanabe has performed numerous lecture recitals, panel discussions, and workshops at conferences nationally and internationally, such as the annual conferences of the National Flute Association (NFA), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Flöte e.V. (DGfF e.V.), British Flute Society, International Double Reed Society, International Clarinet Association, and CMS. She has also been invited to perform for regional flute festivals in the USA. Dr. Watanabe is an enthusiastic teacher and travels widely as a clinician, presenting master classes throughout the United States, Canada, and Japan. She has adjudicated at national and international competitions, including the Kiwanis Music Festival in Canada, Regional Flute Festival competitions in the USA, and various NFA Competitions (Young Artist, Arts Venture, and Graduate Research). She was appointed to be on the Brevard Music Center summer festival faculty in 2005, and she has been on the Music for All Summer Symposium faculty since 2012, the Benefic Chamber Music Camp faculty since 2013, and the Fresno Opera & Orchestra Summer Academy since 2015. As a pedagogue, she was featured in the December issue of Flute Talk magazine in 2009.
In addition to being a gifted flutist, Dr. Watanabe is also devoted to the field of ethnomusicology, which she studied extensively at the University of Michigan. Her interest in Japanese traditional music led to a faculty development grant from the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, to research Kazuo Fukushima’s Mei for solo flute in Japan. Her research resulted in a feature article in the Spring 2008 issue of The Flutist Quarterly. It led to lecture-recitals at the 2007 NFA Convention, the 2010 British Flute Association Convention in England, and the 2013 International Flute Festival at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg in Germany. In 2011, her article was translated into Dutch and published in the Nederlands Fluit Genootschap’s Fluit, the official journal of the Dutch Flute Association. In 2013, the article was translated into German for the DGfG e.V.’s Flöte aktuell, official journal.
As an advocate of studies in entrepreneurial music, Dr. Watanabe has participated in the Savvy Musicians in Action Workshop in 2015 and received the top prize “the 2015 SAVVY Arts Venture Challenge” with Janet’s band. In 2016, she was invited to present at the CMS National Conference in Santa Fe, NM, and at the National Association of School of Music (NASM) Conferences in Dallas, TX, in 2016. She was invited to be a panelist and a facilitator for a meeting for the 2019 Carolina/CMS Summit 2.0: 21st Century Music. In 2021, she will present at the NETMCDO 2021Virtual Conference.
Dr. Watanabe served as the Greater Indianapolis Flute Club president from 2010-2013 and currently the board member of the flute club. She is a member of the NFA flute club committees. She is very active for the College Music Society (CMS) organization that she will serving the Chair of the Program Committee for the 2023 CMS National Conference in Miami, FL.
Dr. Watanabe received her doctorate from the University of Michigan, her master’s degree and performer's certificate from the Eastman School of Music, and her bachelor’s degree from the Musashino Academia Musicae in Tokyo, Japan. Her teachers have included Bonita Boyd, Leone Buyse, Fenwick Smith, and Takao Saeki. She attended the Aspen Music Festival with Martha Aaron and Mark Sparks, Julius Baker’s Summer Masterclasses, Orchestral Institute with Ervin Monroe, and Domaine Forget International Music and Dance Academy with Alain Marion, Emmanuel Pahud, Lise Daoust, André Papillon, and Jean Morin. Also, she participated in Jeanne Baxtresser’s Orchestral Masterclass in Maryland and Walfrid Kujala’s Orchestral Masterclass in Chicago. She also has privately studied with Jeff Zook.
Dr. Watanabe has performed numerous lecture recitals, panel discussions, and workshops at conferences nationally and internationally, such as the annual conferences of the National Flute Association (NFA), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Flöte e.V. (DGfF e.V.), British Flute Society, International Double Reed Society, International Clarinet Association, and CMS. She has also been invited to perform for regional flute festivals in the USA. Dr. Watanabe is an enthusiastic teacher and travels widely as a clinician, presenting master classes throughout the United States, Canada, and Japan. She has adjudicated at national and international competitions, including the Kiwanis Music Festival in Canada, Regional Flute Festival competitions in the USA, and various NFA Competitions (Young Artist, Arts Venture, and Graduate Research). She was appointed to be on the Brevard Music Center summer festival faculty in 2005, and she has been on the Music for All Summer Symposium faculty since 2012, the Benefic Chamber Music Camp faculty since 2013, and the Fresno Opera & Orchestra Summer Academy since 2015. As a pedagogue, she was featured in the December issue of Flute Talk magazine in 2009.
In addition to being a gifted flutist, Dr. Watanabe is also devoted to the field of ethnomusicology, which she studied extensively at the University of Michigan. Her interest in Japanese traditional music led to a faculty development grant from the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, to research Kazuo Fukushima’s Mei for solo flute in Japan. Her research resulted in a feature article in the Spring 2008 issue of The Flutist Quarterly. It led to lecture-recitals at the 2007 NFA Convention, the 2010 British Flute Association Convention in England, and the 2013 International Flute Festival at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg in Germany. In 2011, her article was translated into Dutch and published in the Nederlands Fluit Genootschap’s Fluit, the official journal of the Dutch Flute Association. In 2013, the article was translated into German for the DGfG e.V.’s Flöte aktuell, official journal.
As an advocate of studies in entrepreneurial music, Dr. Watanabe has participated in the Savvy Musicians in Action Workshop in 2015 and received the top prize “the 2015 SAVVY Arts Venture Challenge” with Janet’s band. In 2016, she was invited to present at the CMS National Conference in Santa Fe, NM, and at the National Association of School of Music (NASM) Conferences in Dallas, TX, in 2016. She was invited to be a panelist and a facilitator for a meeting for the 2019 Carolina/CMS Summit 2.0: 21st Century Music. In 2021, she will present at the NETMCDO 2021Virtual Conference.
Dr. Watanabe served as the Greater Indianapolis Flute Club president from 2010-2013 and currently the board member of the flute club. She is a member of the NFA flute club committees. She is very active for the College Music Society (CMS) organization that she will serving the Chair of the Program Committee for the 2023 CMS National Conference in Miami, FL.
Dr. Watanabe received her doctorate from the University of Michigan, her master’s degree and performer's certificate from the Eastman School of Music, and her bachelor’s degree from the Musashino Academia Musicae in Tokyo, Japan. Her teachers have included Bonita Boyd, Leone Buyse, Fenwick Smith, and Takao Saeki. She attended the Aspen Music Festival with Martha Aaron and Mark Sparks, Julius Baker’s Summer Masterclasses, Orchestral Institute with Ervin Monroe, and Domaine Forget International Music and Dance Academy with Alain Marion, Emmanuel Pahud, Lise Daoust, André Papillon, and Jean Morin. Also, she participated in Jeanne Baxtresser’s Orchestral Masterclass in Maryland and Walfrid Kujala’s Orchestral Masterclass in Chicago. She also has privately studied with Jeff Zook.
BSU Flute Studio
The Ball State Flute studio is led by Dr. Mihoko Watanabe. The BSU Flute studio welcomes you to campus and hopes to make your stay enjoyable. The studio is made up of music majors and minors from all over the world, including California, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Missouri, Texas, China, Colombia, and Czechoslovakia. Visit our facebook page at www.facebook.com/ballstateflute.