Welcome to the second post in my Performer Spotlight series!  For this entry I decided to focus on another living artist who has conquered not only the solo and chamber music stages but has also made quite a reputation as an orchestral performer with a sound of solid gold.  Emmanuel Pahud has served as the principal…

  The metronome.  Best friend or worst enemy?  We all tend to use the metronome to correct rhythm deficiencies in our playing because it functions as an objective, mechanical observer.  Reliable rhythm is like the Sun, if you will, to our own musical solar system.  Without rhythm there is still music but that music is…

Anyone who has experienced stage fright of any kind knows just how difficult it is to control the panic when the pressure is on.  It is even trickier to understand exactly what is happening to you physically that is preventing you from giving your most optimum performance.  How do we measure our reactions to the stress of…

This will be the first in a series of regular posts introducing contemporary, and not so contemporary, flute artists to my blog community.  Each post will contain a snippet from the performer’s biography, a YouTube clip cataloging a significant performance from the artist’s career, basic historical background of the works performed in each clip and…

This video is just to remind all of you that playing the flute does not always have to be serious. Music is supposed to be fun.