John Fonville is a flutist and composer. Fonville specializes in extended techniques on the flute, especially microtonality, and performs on instruments including a complete set of quarter tone (Kingma system) flutes. [1] [2] [3] He has premiered works by composers including Ben Johnston, Salvatore Martirano, Joji Yuasa, Roger Reynolds, Hiroyuki Itoh, and Paul Koonce. [2]
He is a member of the Tone Road Ramblers (Morgan Powell, Ray Sasaki, Eric Mandat, Jim Staley, Ron Coulter), the Eolus Quintet, and the UCSD Department of Music's Performance Lab. [2] Fonville is the author of Microtonal Fingerings for Flute (1987), A Pedagogical Approach to the Flute Etudes of Joachim Andersen (1981), and "Ben Johnston's Extended Just Intonation: A Guide for Interpreters" (1991). [4]
Fonville is the flute player, and is listed as such, on the recording credits for the theme song of the 1971 film Shaft , recorded by Isaac Hayes in 1971.
AllMusic's François Couture describes Fonville as, "one of the strongest contemporary flutists." [5]
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