- My name is Dinea Rose.

I go to Berne-Knox-Westerlo High School and I play the flute.

(solemn flute music begins) The piece I played today, it's a "Fantasia" by Georg Phillipp Telemann in D Minor, and the way I would describe it is very solemn and just dark and deep.

(solemn flute music continues) My favorite part about this piece is that it's in the minor key and sounds very scary, almost haunting in a way.

I like that.

I like Halloween a lot, and I like that.

You could play it in a church and it would just all sound haunting.

It has a lot of emotion.

I definitely found the second movement very challenging in some regards, it took me a long time to learn it.

Just because of all the fast moving notes and a lot of accidentals that you have to keep up with.

The flute always stood out to me in elementary school, whenever we were choosing our instruments I was either gonna go with the trumpet or the flute, and I liked the flute better 'cause it was prettier and higher and I saw other people play it.

(solemn flute music continues) My practice routine is to first do, like, five, ten minutes of warmups, then go into any technical work, like, tone and just fingering and all that.

And then I start playing all my pieces.

It's usually priority of what's coming up.

Like, if I have NSYSSMA I'll do my NYSSMA piece first and then do all my band music at the end.

(light flute music) I think I'll go into a band in college, but I probably won't minor or major in any music.

I still wanna keep it in my life though, just to have it 'cause I love playing the flute.

I'd like to thank my mom and my lesson teacher and my first music teacher, Annie Drewello, she introduced me to the flute.

But yeah, my lesson teacher, Caitlin Ippolito, I've been with her since ninth grade.

She's taught me everything I know.

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