A current repertory can be found below. To see or hear clips please click here. To contact Tugboat Music about Barbara Siesel, please click here.

Now We Can Sing: Home in America
(Performance/residency/DVD/Video)
Multimedia Classical Flute and Theatrical Performance
As Hitler and the Nazis came to power in Germany during the nineteen thirties – Jewish musicians were banned from playing the music of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert and other great German composers. Now We Can Sing: Home In America is a traditional recital placed in a theatrical setting – the audience arrives at the concert and is transported to the atmosphere of the cultural world of prewar Germany. The lobby evokes the period through artwork, music and the signing of the “Lineage Linen” documenting when and from where their family immigrated to America.

Flute Music From Around the World
(Performance/CD/Video)
Featuring music from China, Ireland, France, Germany, America, Japan and India
The flute has played an important role in so many cultures. Flutist, Barbara Siesel, offers a pallet of music from China, Ireland, France, Germany, America, Japan and India. A wonderful and peaceful way to spend an afternoon or evening. This concert includes music from the baroque to the contemporary as well as Barbara’s thoughts and commentary on the selections.

Perfect for libraries, schools, galleries, cabarets, first nights and community festivals.

Lineage
(DVD/Performance)
Multi-media work for live solo flute and six prerecorded flute tracks and projected visual imagery.
Sidney Corbett’s new composition “Lineage” for solo flute and multiple recorded flutes in six movements, is a commentary on displacement. Media artist Bruce Wands incorporates in a dissolving background family snapshots and works by noted photographer Clemens Kalischer. Recorded stories, the reminiscence of Ms. Siesel’s mother, are also incorporated into “Lineage.” “Lineage” conveys both the universal and the particular experience of immigration. For more information, visit www.Lineagemusicproject.org.

The American Flute
A program of works of the great American composers.
The twentieth century saw an explosion of music written for the flute by prominent composers. This concert is an exciting amalgam of the works of great American composers played by a great American.

Barber, Canzone
Paul Bowles, Sonata No. 1
Walter Piston, Sonata
Aaron Copland, Duo
Stefania De Kenessey, Sonata No. 1

The Romantic Flute
A fun – and mushy – program.

Some of the most beautiful and romantic music ever written. From the mythic to the ultra real – the difficulties of love are expressed by the most seductive of instruments by one of the great flutists of our time.

Schumann, Romances
Schubert, Introduction and Variation
Reinecke, Sonata – “Undine”
Borne, Carmen Fantasy
Debussy, Syrinx

A Flute in the Gallery
Designed around your planned exhibit-or the music and art come to you as a set.

A subtle pairing of music with visual images draws the viewer closer to the music-the listener closer to the message on the wall. For example, an exhibit of artworks calling attention to environmental problems world-wide prompted Ms Siesel to create a concert titled: Environmentally Concerned. Ms. Siesel pairs solo flute music by Chinese composers with prints by visual artist. Paul Wong. His work, “Lost Relics” depicts the cultural and environmental destruction that is being caused by the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River. The pieces chosen by Ms. Siesel illustrate different aspects of the subject. The program includes Tan Mizi’s “Flute Solo”, transcribed from traditional Chinese flute to western flute, Bun Ching Lam’s solo flute work and a new work by Ping Jin for solo flute also based on the Three Gorges Dam destruction.

Multimedia Flute (video available)
A concert showcasing a group of commissioned interdisciplinary works.