Arts for Rural Texas (ARTS) presents a special in-house concert featuring Miles Gillette-Bockhorn and Isabelle Jamois. This concert is free to attend and will be held Saturday, November 15, at 6:30 PM at the ARTS Ross Gallery in Fayetteville.

The evening’s program will include Sicilienne, Op. 78 (Fauré/arr. Gouin), Prelude to an Afternoon of a Faun (Debussy/arr. Samazeuilh), and Sonata for Flute and Piano, Op. 64 (Bonis). The performance promises a compelling interplay between flute and piano.

Miles Gillette- Bockhorn

Miles Gillette-Bockhorn is an accomplished pianist currently pursuing his master’s degree at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, where he serves as a teaching assistant and pianist for the Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra and Shepherd School Chamber Orchestra. He earned his bachelor’s degree in piano performance from Baylor University, where he was the recipient of the Gladys C. Stinton Outstanding Undergraduate Performer in Piano award and winner of the 2021 Baylor School of Music Concerto Competition.

Throughout his undergraduate career, Miles has held positions in the Baylor Men’s Choir, Baylor Wind Ensemble, and Baylor Symphony Orchestra, and won masterclasses with several distinguished concert artists, including Abbey Simon, Sara Daneshpour, and Awadagin Pratt. His principal teachers include Brian Connelly, James Dick, John Dujka, and Viktor Valkov. Upon completing his studies at Rice, he intends to pursue a Doctor of Musical Arts degree.

A native of Fayette County, Miles has attended the Round Top Festival Institute three times, performing Saint-Saens’ Carnival of the Animals with the Texas Festival Orchestra and Poulenc’s Sextet for Winds and Piano, FP 100 in the 2022 Best of the Chamber Works concert.

Isabelle Jamois

Isabelle Jamois is a Haynes Young Artist from San Diego, California currently pursuing a Master of Music degree in flute performance from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. She received her bachelor’s degree in flute performance from the Peabody Institute, where she studied with Marina Piccinini, earned the Britton Johnson Prize, Evergreen House Foundation Scholarship, Arrowood Prize, Premier Talent Scholarship, and was inducted in the Pi Kappa Lambda Society.

She is the recipient of the Robert E. Lohse Memorial and Richard E. Norris Endowment funds from Rice University. In March 2025, she was a finalist in the Houston Flute Club’s Byron Hester Competition, and in February, Isabelle was a finalist at the MidSouth Young Artist Competition.

During her time at the Peabody Institute, she eagerly participated in community engagement projects such as the Peabody in the Library series, the Junior Bach program, and performed with her woodwind quintet, Aura Winds, in venues around Baltimore, including the Walters Art Museum as part of their Drop-In Art Making events.

Isabelle held fellowship positions at the Bowdoin International Music Festival this summer and at the Yale Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in 2024, where she premiered Variations on a Theme by Ornette Coleman by renowned composer Vijay Iyer. In the summer of 2022, Isabelle attended the Eastern Music Festival, and in 2023, she attended The 21st Century Flutist: The Global Artist in Mondovì, Italy.

An avid supporter of new music, she performed a solo flute work as part of the “In Process” exhibition at the Moody Center at Rice University. In the fall of 2024, she was part of the premiere of composer Pierre Jalbert’s Saxophone Concerto, written for Timothy McCalister. She has also performed in Peabody’s Old Bay New Music ensemble, the ECCE in New York, and annually premiered works in the Flutists and Composers World Premieres Concerts from 2021-2023.

Piano & Flute Performance

By Arts for Rural Texas

Piano & Flute Performance