Eveline Noth and Ensemble Saturday 19 Feb. at 12 pm SLT (PST) Music Island, Sea Turtle Island http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sea%20Turtle%20Island/57/23/23 If you attended Thom Dowd's concert with his colleague Eveline Noth in November then you know that you want to be there when the lovely Eveline Noth returns with 3 of her pre-professional students to present…
Rockcliffe University has graciously invited the Music Island concert series to be part of the distinguished educational and cultural offerings that the online university has been making happen in Second Life (and beyond) for the past three years. We'll be bringing selected representative concerts from the Music Island series to a newly created…
Thom Dowd's Early Music Group presents a live concert of recorder music featuring Group X. Saturday, January 23 12:00 noon SLT Renaissance Island (Music Room) For more information about the program, consult Thom Dowd's blog . What is "Group X?" Merely a newly formed quartet of the most talented group…
Thom Coard of the Fribourg Conservatory in Switzerland manages to show off the skills of his recorder students to an international audience on a regular basis and all for the price of a good web cam and some broadcasting software. I know that the students and student families appreciate the extraordinary opportunity he is…
Our good friend Thom Dowd, the Second Life master of the Renaissance flute suffered a motorcycle accident that took him out of commission with a broken thumb for a few weeks. We were relieved to see this posted video of his first try at playing with the mended thumb! Way to go Thom…
Calling themselves the "Music or Die" Flute Ensemble, a group of young students from the Fribourg conservatory gave their spring year end recital in an unusual venue... the virtual world of Second Life on Music Island. A supportive and appreciative audience of avatars whooped, applauded and even waved virtual lighters in encouragement of the…
Italian pianist Alessandro Marangoni first met flute teacher Thomas Coard from Switzerland in Second Life where they both perform as (respectively) Benito Flores and Thom Dowd. Naturally when Alessandro's blossoming musical career took him to Switzerland, he paid Thom a visit. Lucky students at the conservatory had the chance to hear Alessandro perform…
Flutes on Fire Music or Die Flute Ensemble Saturday June 6, 2009 12 pm SLT One of the great opportunities in Second Life Music is to be able to gather round and support emerging performers, amateurs and students. Thom Dowd, a Music Island resident artist has been teaching this group of…
At Thom Dowd (Thom Coard's) April 4 th concert on Music Island we were introduced to the new sound of the bass recorder as Thom and his student Gorse Ferrari presented an all-live concert for two recorders in various combinations, including Gorse's new bass. A large picture of the bass instrument was floating behind…
