King of Prussia, PA – Theodore Presser Company proudly announces the release of The Flute Scale Book: A Path to Artistry (414-41206 — $24.95), a perfect companion to Flute 101: Mastering the Basics (414-41200). This book includes the teacher's and performer's dream list of scale studies. Once players learn the scales, there is a chapter detailing what to do, musically, with the notes once they have been learned. Also included are practice guides, featuring hundreds of rhythms and articulation patterns, allowing players to practice any group of six or eight notes, as well as sample practice plans which provide an organized curriculum with weekly practice suggestions. The Flute Scale Book is designed for a lifetime of use, with embouchure development and scale exercises perfect for younger players, as well as more advanced exercises for professional players, including audition scales, phrasing studies, major and minor scales, thirds, arpeggios, seventh chords, modal scales, chromatic intervals, tonguing exercises and more, extended to D4 and beyond. In short, every flutist will benefit greatly from this comprehensive method.

Phyllis Avidan Louke, a member of ASCAP, is a flutist and composer/ arranger of music primarily for the flute, including ensemble and solo works. With over 30 works published, her music has been performed extensively both nationally and internationally. She has also contributed articles appearing in Flute Talk and The Instrumentalist magazines. Ms. Louke maintains a large flute studio of private students and is in demand as a flute clinician and adjudicator. Ms. Louke, a certified teacher in elementary and music education, earned a B.A. from the University of California at Santa Barbara, where she studied with Burnett Atkinson.

Patricia George has served on the faculties of the Eastman School of Music, Idaho State University and Brigham Young University - Idaho, and currently is the flute professor at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival and the American Band College. She is the Editor of Flute Talk magazine and writes the monthly column “The Teacher’s Studio.” Ms. George presents her “Flute Spa” participatory masterclasses throughout the United States for universities and flute clubs. She is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music with the B.M., M.M., and Performer’s Certificate in Flute. She studied with Frances Blaidsell, Joseph Mariano, William Kincaid and Julius Baker.

Offering music by today’s greatest composers and teachers, Theodore Presser Company is the leader in publishing educational and recital music. Theodore Presser Company is a full-range music publisher and distributes the music of over 30 publishers from around the globe, with a combined sales catalog that features over 60,000 available works. For more information about new publications from Theodore Presser Company or to locate a dealer near you, log on to www.presser.com or e-mail us at sales@presser.com. For review copies of the publications listed in this release, please contact Heidi Vanderlee at (212) 777-0900, ext. 230 or send an e-mail to hvanderlee@presser.com.