Adult Learner Session - Thursday, 16 October 2025, 7pm (CET)

Harmonics, embouchure and colours

Developing our Colour Palette within our flute playing is a fascinating experience.  In this Adult Learners session we shall begin working together on developing colours through the use of dynamics, embouchure movement and most importantly your concept of the colours you want to use within your studies and repertoire.  Your concept of sound, colour & dynamics is unique to you.  Let us find your concept together!

Exercises to develop our colour palette will include:

• Harmonics
• Moyse De La Sonorité Pg.10 - Suppleness in the Low Register 
• Galway Tone Exercise with the use of dynamics 
• Moyse: Tone development through interpretation (please choose one piece)

Repertoire:

Debussy - Syrinx 

Gluck - Dance of the Blessed Spirits 

Schubert Variations - Introduction and theme 

Mozart Concerto: D Major Concerto. K314 Andante na mon troppo

Martinu Sonata - Adagio

Please feel free to choose from the repertoire above. There is something for each of you in these beautiful pieces of our repertoire. If you have another choice you are free to bring this to us as we listen, learn and enjoy together! 

Adult Learner Session 30 October 2025, 7.00pm (CET) 

Celebrating the British composer Sir John Rutter with the study of his beautiful piece Suite Antique for flute and piano or Strings 

Each month we shall be introducing you to a new composers or piece of repertoire to help you develop your musical library of repertoire. This month we shall celebrate Sir John Rutter as he celebrates his 80th Birthday.

One of Rutter's most popular orchestral works, Suite Antique, has become an important standard in contemporary flute repertoire and been recorded several times by Rutter and others.  It has six movements; Prelude, Ostinato, Aria, Waltz, Chanson and Rondeau.

Over the years, many of my students have performed this beautiful piece and totally taken my breath away with their beautiful rendition of this very lyrical piece. The slow movement in particular is so lyrical and allows us to use our colours, dynamics and smoothness of finger movement.  

As a student, I was not so familiar with this piece during my years of early study. I have come to love this piece and include it as part of my standard repertoire . I hope you will add this into your library and enjoy it as much as I do.

Many of the movements can also be performed on their own our as a sequence which we shall also discuss.

Exercises:

Tone - Moyse - De La Sonorité, pg 9 - ascending notes 

Technique - Taffanel and Gaubert EJ4 -Tonguing & different articulation on Scales: including single and double

No etude this session as we study the Rutter Suite Antique in its form and harmonic beauty.