Welcome to a new Flute Friday! Apologies for the past few post-free Fridays. I have been traveling, moving, teaching and performing and am happy to announce that I will be reopening my studio in Davis, California effective August 1, 2016! If you are in the Davis area and would like to sign up for flute…

Welcome to Flute Friday! Summer is upon us. I always liked to use my summer months in college to daydream about my next recital program. I listened to CDs (or watched YouTube videos later in grad school), checked out music from our school library to add to my lazy summer practice session queue, purchased music…

Welcome to a very (very) belated Flute Friday (posting on Tuesday). Last week I took a trip across the Atlantic Ocean to London, England. This breathtaking city is home to numerous cultural artifacts and a wealth of history buried within spectacular museums and centuries old castle walls. As I walked through Hampton Court I was…

Welcome to another Flute Friday! Earlier this week I began practicing the Chaminade Concertino, a piece that has been collecting dust in my music collection for several years now. It is always surprising to me whenever I practice music I have not touched in a long time how performance struggles that existed before seem to…

Welcome to Flute Friday! Last weekend I sight read a number of piccolo parts in one of the local groups I play with after having been on a piccolo hiatus since January. I often think that the most difficult thing about playing the piccolo is mustering the courage to belt out your parts no matter…