Lois Herbine
Lois Bliss Herbine is
a solo piccolo artist on Crystal Records. All six accompanied recordings from
her CD, Take Wing, including premieres of Daugherty, Persichetti, and
Dorff, have been broadcast on radio stations across the United States. Flute
Talk and Flute Network reviews describe her piccolo as
"enchanting", "mesmorizing", and "vivid". The Gramophone
hails her recital as "high-flying" and "beguiling" and Music
Web International exclaims, "Another leading wind soloist takes
flight". In 2000 Herbine was invited to give a solo performance on the
flute and piccolo for the Republican Governors' Association at the Republican
National Convention. Since then she has performed multiple times at National
Flute Association conventions to favorable press. As a commercial orchestral
artist, Herbine has served as principal flute for Peter Nero's Philly Pops and
the Mann Festival orchestra, and performed in soundtracks for television and
radio specials, theme music and commercials. Most recently, she was a backup artist
for SONY artists John Legend and Il Divo.
Herbine is the founder and artistic director of
Concerts at Carmel in Glenside, PA, which celebrated its 10th anniversary in
2009. A new recording on the DTR label highlighting live performances from
Concerts at Carmel's 2006 season has received favorable press from Philadelphia
critics as well as comparison to internationally renowned chamber ensembles.
Her piccolo playing was praised as a "model of color-driven
expression" (David Patrick Stearns, The Philadelphia Inquirer).
Lois Bliss Herbine is a committed exponent of
contemporary music, having commissioned and performed it with a number of
ensembles on recordings for CRI and Albany labels including premieres of
orchestral music by Gunther Schuller, Andrea Clearfield, Peter Schickele,
Melinda Wagner, Sofia Gubaidulina and Bernard Hermann. In the fall of 2008 she
gave the world premiere of Joseph Hallman's "Piccolo Sonata" and
David Finko's "Piccolo Concerto" with orchestra and performed La
Monica's "Satarello" for solo piccolo and orchestra for the first
time since the Philadelphia Orchestra programmed it in 1935. Herbine will
perform the La Monica with the Ocean City Pops this summer and plans to record
her first solo CD for flute on the Naxos label with the music of Daniel Dorff.
As a writer, Herbine has contributed articles for
the national trade magazines Flute Talk and The Flutist Quarterly
and most recently for the American Music's Center's web-magazine, New Music
Box. She earned her Bachelor of Music from the New School of Music,
Philadelphia, receiving the school's highest honors in performance and academic
achievement. A native of the Philadelphia area, Herbine is a student of William
Kincaid's "American School" and her biography is listed in the twelfth
edition of The International Who's Who of Musicians. She is the American
representative for the biannual International Piccolo Symposium, having
taught alongside Nicola Mazzanti (Italy), Christine Beard (USA) and Jean-Louis
Beaumadier (France) and with Lior Eitan (Israel) in 2011. With the support of
Powell Flutes, Herbine is currently giving lectures and masterclasses on
performing musically, following the pedagogy of her teacher John Krell and his
book Kincaidiana on the legacy and pedagogy of the Philadelphia
Orchestra's principal winds from the "Golden Era".
