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Columns::October 8, 2001
UGA responds to governor”s budget-reduction directive
Recipients of Brooks award for excellence announced
Federal, state laws cover university employees called to military service
Four named faculty fellows for scholarship program
New grants will fund two Brazilian projects
Taking the next steps
UGA welcomes new faculty
On a mission
Stretching their skills
Campus News
Flute professor performs with the Berlin Philharmonic and finds herself
On the road again
By Phil Williams
phil@franklin.uga.edu
Noted flutist Angela Jones-Reus, an associate professor in the School of Music, is joining the legendary Berlin Philharmonic
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| Angela Jones-Reus and her husband moved to Athens because they like the town; she joined the music school faculty last year. Photo by Peter Frey |
Orchestra and conductor Claudio Abbado for its entire two-week United States tour, which began at New York’s Carnegie Hall this month.
Jones-Reus, who has played with the Berlin Philharmonic before and was for nine years principal flutist of the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, joins the orchestra as it plays in New York, Boston, Chicago, Ann Arbor and Costa Mesa, Calif.
“The sound when you’re sitting in the middle of the Berlin Philharmonic is simply amazing,” says Jones-Reus. “It is so homogenous and well-balanced-my ear longs for it.”
The orchestra is playing Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner, Mahler and Weber during its U.S. tour, and will be joined by internationally known pianist Maurizio Pollini in a performance of the Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor at Carnegie Hall.
Jones-Reus, who joined the UGA music faculty in August 2000, performed with the Berlin Philharmonic on its tour of the United States in 1999 and also at its New Year’s concerts in 2000 in Berlin. During her tenure with the Stuttgart Philharmonic, she performed in more than 1,400 concerts, including tours of Japan, the United States, South America, Spain, France and England. The orchestra performed in Athens in 1997.
Before moving to Athens, Jones-Reus had lived in Europe for 15 years. Orphaned as infants in Germany, she and her brother were adopted by an American couple in 1965 when she was only one year old. Her natural mother was German and her father Italian, and she is fluent in both of these languages. She grew up in the United States.
As a young girl, Jones-Reus loved to sing and played the guitar and piano, but because several of her friends played flute she asked to learn that instrument as well. Only months after she began flute lessons, her family took her to Charlotte, N.C., to hear a performance by flute virtuoso Jean-Pierre Rampal.
The experience changed her life.
“I decided that night in Charlotte that I was going be a flutist,” she says. “I did a drawing of Rampal and sent it to him, and he wrote me back. We later become friends, and I actually performed with him in 1986 in Carnegie Hall.”
Jones-Reus came to Athens with her husband, Achim Reus, to open a restaurant, Achim’s K-Bob on Lumpkin Street near the UGA track. Achim Reus was principal French hornist with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart for more than 17 years and has also performed numerous times with Berlin Philharmonic. The couple had visited a friend in Athens in 1999 and fell in love with the town, and UGA at first hired Jones-Reus as a temporary instructor of flute. This past spring, she resigned her position with the Stuttgart Philharmonic when UGA hired her as an associate professor.
She received her bachelor of music degree in flute performance from the North Carolina School of the Arts in 1985, and her master’s degree from the Juilliard School in New York the following year. She has studied with many of America’s premier flutists, including Julius Baker, who is generally regarded as the dean of American flutists and flute teachers. Jones-Reus also served as principal flutist in orchestras in Italy, and has performed with many chamber groups and made numerous CDs with orchestral and chamber groups.
In 1987, she received a Fulbright-Hayes Grant for Music in Italy and conducted a year of in-depth research comparing contemporary Italian and American flute music.
Among her recordings is a solo CD with I Virtuosi di Prague recorded in 1996, a CD of three Mozart piano concerti with noted keyboard performer Keith Jarrett and a live recording of the Brahms Symphony No. 4.
“I am so excited about being on this tour with the Berlin Philharmonic,” says Jones-Reus. “I know it’s going to be a marvelous experience.”
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