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Nora Lee García-Velazquez honored by La Prensa
 Dr. Nora Lee García-Velazquez, Associate Professor of Flute, has been named among 2009's "Hispanic Women Who Make the Difference" by La Prensa, the premier Spanish newsweekly in Central Florida. She won in the Education category along with Linda Rosa-Lugo, also of UCF. La Prensa Publisher/CEO Dora Toro and Justina Gonzalez Marti acted as events coordinator and chair of the selection
committee for the awards.
UCF Flute Ensemble tours Guatemala
 The UCF Flute Ensemble will tour Guatemala under the direction of Dr. Nora Lee García-Velazquez from March 6 to 13. The ensemble will appear in Guatemala City and Antigua, performing music by American, French and Latin American composers.
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Nora Lee García-Velazquez, is one of the most highly regarded flutist in the concert world today. A Powell Flutes Artist and Associate Professor of Flute at the University of Central Florida, appears throughout the United States, Europe, and South America as a soloist, chamber artist and teacher. A frequent performer for the NFA, including Dallas, Orlando, Phoenix, Washington, D. C., and Tennessee she has also appeared at the Monterrey Flute Festival in Mexico, the Peru Flute Festival and the Chile Frutillar Encuentro de Flauta del Sur del Mundo. Recently she participated as a judge for the International Flute Competition in Mexico City 2006 and the Chamber Music Competition at the National Flute Association 2006.
Ms. García-Velazquez's newest recording was for Sony Picture End of the Spear 2006 and for Warner Brother's she recorded Music Expressions. She premiered many works including Prelude and Dance by Howard Buss winner of the NFA Newest Competition 2004. Other premiered works by Orlando García-Velazquez El Silencio despues de la lluvia (France, Moulin Ande, 1999), Robert Brownlow Concerto for flute chamber orchestra and vibraphone (Michigan- Interlochen Music Festival 2001) and Edmundo Vazques Alturas II (Chile, Escuela Moderna de Música 2001).
Renowned as a teacher, she regularly gives master classes at the University of Central Florida abroad, including Escuela Moderna de Música in Chile, La Universidad Nacional del Cuyo in Argentina, La Escuela Superior de Música y Danza en Monterrey, Moulin Ande, France, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, La Escuela Moderna de Música Murcia Spain, llUniversity of North Texas, Punahau School in Hawaii, University of Iowa, University of East Illinois, University of Western Illinois, University of Tennessee and the Conservatory of Music, San Juan Puerto Rico. Currently she is the principal flute of the Florida Chamber Orchestra and Disney Orchestra and plays with the Brevard Symphony, Melbourne, Florida and the Bach's Festival, Winter Park, Florida.
Book Now Dr. Nora Lee García-Velazquez for future concerts or Master classes at ngarcia@mail.ucf.edu.
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