GBFA Announces Raffle Winner

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Greater Boston Flute Association Announces Raffle Winner

—Na’ama Lion wins Williams silver head joint

Woburn, MA – Monday, November 29, 2004 — GBFA, a nonprofit organization devoted to supporting the greater Boston flute community, today announced that GBFA member Na’ama Lion of Cambridge, MA has won a $1000 silver head joint from Williams Flutes. The raffle for the head joint was held at this year’s annual Flute Fair in Marlborough, MA. All members were eligible, whether present at the fair or not.

“We are delighted to be able to announce a winner,” said the organization’s president, Elizabeth Watson. “And we want to again express our profound thanks to David Williams of Williams flutes for donating one of his beautiful head joints for our raffle.”

Na’ama Lion is Tutor and Director of the Mather House Chamber Music Program at Harvard University, a structured coaching program open to all members of the Harvard community where workshops, visiting artists, and lectures supplement weekly coachings and end-of-semester recitals.

Na'ama has performed solo and chamber music recitals in Israel, Europe and the U. S. with several orchestras and ensembles, including Sequentia ensemble for medieval music, the Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra and Boston Baroque. Ms. Lion is a founding member of the chamber music ensembles "Kammerton" and "New Quartet,” the latter specializing in new music for baroque instruments. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Boston University the Soloist Diploma from the Arnhem Conservatory in the Netherlands, where her studies were supported by a scholarship from the government of the Netherlands. Her teachers have included Wilbert Hazelzet, Carla Kemme-Mahler and Christopher Krueger. She is on the faculty of the Longy School of Music, the Brookline Music School and Mather House, Harvard University. Ms. Lion has recorded for Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.

Mission Statement

Greater Boston Flute Association is committed to achieving, through diverse and innovative programming, collaboration among all who have a passion for the flute. Our mission is to utilize the flute as a means of celebrating our humanity, and to present cultural and educational opportunities for flutists and other interested community members.

For more information about GBFA, please visit www.gbfa.org or write to: GBFA

P.O. Box 2184

Woburn, MA 01888-3184

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