Welcome to another Flute Friday. We live in a world of instant gratification. Information that may have taken hours of research in a library 20 years ago can now be found quite literally in the palm of our hands by Siri in 30 seconds or less. Rapid fire advancements in technology have created an app-based…

Welcome to another Flute Friday. Years ago I purchased a flute with a C# trill key and, although it seemed quite exciting at the time, I have since only used it in one or two circumstances. When the time came for one of my students to purchase an instrument with a similar feature I was…

Relocating Your Studio by Rachel Taylor Geier, DMA. Article originally published in the January 2016 issue of Flute Talk. Republished with permission. Relocating Your Studio by Rachel Taylor Geier, Flute Talk, January 2016

Welcome to a much delayed, but very thoughtful, Flute Friday. Bad performances happen to everyone. From young students performing Hot Cross Buns at a studio masterclass to orchestral flutists sweating their way through Stravinsky’s Fire Bird Suite to legendary solo artists such as James Galway performing the greatest works ever composed for the flute, every…

Welcome to another edition of Flute Friday/Saturday/Weekend. One of the most difficult, and often most costly, steps to recital preparation is working with an accompanist to fine tune tempos, cues and virtually all other collaborative elements of performance. As a youngster in rural Northern Idaho, I did not have the luxury of having an accompanist…