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San Diego Flute Retreat

A vacation flute retreat designed for adults. Join us for a week near the beach with premier flute clinicians and friends.

San Diego Flute Retreat

A vacation flute retreat designed for adults. Join us for a week near the beach with premier flute clinicians and friends.

2025 Featured Guest Artist

Dr. Chelsea Tanner

Dr. Chelsea Tanner maintains an active career as an enthusiastic performer, teacher, and mindset coach for musicians. She is currently Head of Flute and a teaching artist at tonebase.co as well as a Flute Faculty member at the Colburn Community School in Los Angeles. Chelsea has previously served on the faculties of SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music and Penn State University. Her former teachers include Marianne Gedigian, Jeanne Baxtresser, and Katherine Borst-Jones. (www.chelseatanner.com)

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2024 retreat Concert Videos

Opening Concert: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

The 2024 San Diego Flute Retreat guest artists and clinicians perform three movements from A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Toni Cortez-Aguilar, bass flute

Dr. Yana Zixuan Yan, flute and alto

Anahita Pestonjamasp, flute

Valerie McElroy, flute

Dr. Brittany Trotter, flute and piccolo

Closing Concert

Featuring flute choir, trios and duets performed by retreat attendees, clinicians and featured guest artist. Concert included selections from the following:

1. Swan Lake, flute trio, Tchaikovsky

2. Four Cuban Dances, Ignacio Cervantes 3. Pavane, Gabriel Faurè

4. Tango Fantasty, Herbert Lindholm

5. Tico Tico, Zequinha de Abreu

6. Arabic Folk Tunes for flexible quartet, arr. Wajdi Abou Diab

7. Frequency, Herman Beeftink

8. Passacaglia, Georg Frederic Handel, arr. Paul Morgan

2024 Highlights

Here’s a quick recap of the week. This video cannot express the amount of joy and fun we had this week. Thank you to our guest artists, clinicians, participants, partners, friends and an amazing property manager for making this week possible.

San Diego Flute Retreat

San Diego Flute Retreat

JUNE 21 - 28, 2025