Welcome to another (belated) Flute Friday! Let’s talk flute bags. Before I begin today’s blog, I just want let everyone know that I have not been sponsored by any of these companies for my opinions. I have watched numerous YouTube product “review” videos that are not true opinions at all but rather just nice things…

Welcome to a new Flute Friday! It’s time for another installment of Practice Blueprints. This week I will be discussing Francois Doppler’s Fantasie Pastorale Hongroise, a work that embraces the nationalistic vibe of the late Romantic era but also adds a bit of the famous French Flute School flair that we all know and love.…

Welcome to a new Flute Friday/Saturday! I have discussed goal setting and how to effectively organize practice time in previous blog postings, but I have not yet touched on the differences between effective and ineffective practice techniques. Numerous books have been published about the necessary evil of practice, covering topics from practice time management, playing…

Welcome to a new Flute Friday/Weekend! Most of us, at some point, will be asked to put together a sample recording of our playing. This may be in support of a college application, a masterclass audition, a job interview, or simply to entertain our friends and family. Often our primary objectives in these recordings are…

Welcome to the first Flute Friday/Sunday post of 2017! I am a bit behind on my postings….but today I am back in the saddle to discuss something that may be on many of our minds – How do we protect the future of the arts? We have entered a volatile time in which many of…