Flutist & Performing Artist
"Bishop and Neuenschwander play each score with seamless expressivity, technical panache and vibrant coloration. They may be unseen but their refined artistry is definitely heard."
— Gramophone
KIRKWOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE SUMMER FLUTE CAMP
June 15-18, 2026 | 9am - 4pm
Registration $330 | Scholarships Available!
Enhance your performance skills, and have fun making music—in the course of a week of intensive study with our distinguished faculty of performers, Rose Bishop, Heather Neuenschwander, and Dr. Jama Stilwell. Students entering college, or entering high school grades 9-12 in Fall 2026 are invited to register.
The program includes:
- Individual lessons
- Chamber ensembles & flute choir
- Workshops on Performance Anxiety and Auditions, Music Theory, Conducting, Piccolo, Extended Techniques, Beatboxing, and more!
- Daily lunch, snacks & Thursday dinner
- Opportunities to play piccolo, alto flute, bass flute and contrabass flute!
- Friendship bracelets, games and contests to test your musical knowledge!
- A chance to play solo repertoire for feedback
- Final performance featuring all participants
For more information and registration:
tinyurl.com/KirkwoodFlute
Flute Faculty
Rose Bishop
International prize-winning flutist Rose Bishop enjoys a career as an orchestral musician, soloist and educator based in Iowa. A Trevor James Flute Performing Artist, she has performed extensively across the United States, as well as internationally across three continents. Rose Bishop is Instructor of Flute at St. Ambrose University, Coe College, Cornell College, Clarke University, and Kirkwood Community College. She serves as Principal Flute of the Southeast Iowa and Quincy Symphony Orchestras, Acting Principal Flute with the Dubuque Symphony, and a member of the Colorado Mahlerfest Orchestra. Bishop has appeared as a guest soloist with several ensembles, including numerous university and municipal bands in the USA, England, France, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, and Belgium, in addition to enjoying various guest artist residencies at universities throughout the United States.
Heather Neuenschwander
Heather Neuenschwander is an active flute/ piccolo player and teacher. She recently moved to the Twin Cities Metro and is currently accepting students for her home studio. Prior to moving to Minnesota Heather was the principal piccolo player with the Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra, a position she won by audition in 2021. She also freelanced with many other local orchestras throughout Eastern Iowa. In 2018 she co-founded the Iowa City Flute Choir and served as principal conductor from its creation until her relocation.On September 26, 2025 her debut album Unseen//Unheard, a collaboration with flutist Rose Bishop, will be released through Strange Moon Records featuring newly commissioned duets for alto and bass flute. Heather also served on the National Flute Association's committee for flute clubs and choirs and she has worked for Flute Specialists, Inc. since 2013 focusing in online sales and promotions.Outside of the flute industry, Heather is a seasoned music educator. Holding a bachelor's degree in music education and a master's degree in flute performance, Heather has taught as a certified K-12 music educator in four state. Currently she is teaching middle school beginning band in Maplewood, MN.
Dr. Jama Stilwell
She teaches Music Theory and History, as well as courses on music and gender, on the concept of originality in music, and on the music of the Beatles. Jama’s research focuses upon opera and popular culture in eighteenth-century Paris; her 2010 article on this topic won national recognition as the recipient of the Alfred Einstein Award of the American Musicological Society. Jama holds degrees in Musicology from Northwestern University and the University of Iowa, and a degree in Flute Performance from the University of Iowa, where she studied with Betty Bang Mather and Anita Miller-Rieder. In her spare time, Jama loves playing the one-keyed eighteenth-century traverso.