The Flute Suite

Laura Lentz has given us a new book: The Modal Flute Warmup: Sound Discovery and Color Palette Expansion where she revisits and expands a classic Sam Baron exercise to introduce classical flutists to All the modes, encouraging exploration and discovery. In this conversation, Laura presents her book, and we talk about the importance of finding space in our practice and teaching to allow for discovery. You can learn more about Laura and her book at lauralentzflute.com

In my conversation with Sami Junnonen we talk about his newly released recording of the Ibert, Jolivet and Rodrigo flute concertos, as well as the power of teachers, music competitions, and the idea of Life as Art, and Art as Life! Flute Concertos / Ibert, Jolivet & Rodrigo is recorded on Resonus Classics: RES 10335 Learn more about Sami at www.samijunnonen.com I'd love to hear from you! The Flute Suite is on Instagram and Facebook, as am I, or visit www.kathyweidenfeller.com Would you like to help support The Flute Suite? Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/kathy25562

Reflections and stories on communication and community as The Flute Suite reaches the one year mark!

I invite you to reflect on your own personal practice: not so much What you practice - but How you think and talk about it. 3 Pillars of good practice: Cultivating Joyful Curiosity, including Movement and Novelty, and remembering the need for Space and Time. Some of the resources mentioned in this episode: #music_360 #violincase (Hillary Hahn) #justanotherflutist Sophie Dufeutrelle: The Flutist's Way, book III #AmyLikar Reach out – you can find The Flute Suite on Instagram and Facebook, or me as Kathy Weidenfeller,flutist and at www.kathyweidenfeller.com Would you like to help support The Flute Suite? Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/kathy25562

Reflections on this fall and the start of The Flute Suite as we reach the end of 2023! Thank YOU for listening! Reach out – you can find The Flute Suite on Instagram and Facebook, or me as Kathy Weidenfeller,flutist and at www.kathyweidenfeller.com Would you like to help support The Flute Suite? Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/kathy25562 And share The Flute Suite with a friend! Give us a rating where ever you listen. Best wishes for 2024!!

Jaana Laasonen is Lector of Flute at the East Helsinki Music Institute, and the creator of the 'Colour Flute' method, part of the 'Colourstrings' family: a method for beginning instrumentalists based on the theories and methods of Zoltan Kodaly. In this first part of our conversation, we talk about the importance of family and folk music in early instrumental education. You can find out more about the Colour Flute method here 2.25 Early musical experiences 9.51 Benefits of working with very young students 12.24 Connecting to Kodaly 22.34 Beginning with new flute students

Here's a conversation with the lovely Beatriz Machias: orchestral flutist, opera singer and founder of the Tampere Flute Festival here in Finland. In this episode, we talk about teaching, practicing, the possibilities that competition holds for young flutists – and especially being more than your flute! · 1.41 How it all started! · 6.15 Singing and flute playing · 11.00 The Tampere Flute Festival · 19.27 The importance of competitions and the upcoming Finnish Flute Association competition · 23.12 Practice and teaching · 43.41 TFF 2024! For more information about Beatriz and the Tampere Flute Fest, follow: @beatrizmaciasflutist @tampereflutefest You can hear Dr. Pearson talk about the focal dystonia research I mention in Episode 7 of The Flute Suite starting at 15.40

Today I'm continuing my 'back to basics' series by talking about how to use singing and playing in practice and teaching. Once again, I've created a companion video to go with this episode, where you can see and hear how I produce and use this effect. You can find the video here. In the episode, I mention John Wion's workbook entitled 'Sing', sold by Falls House Press and Theodore Presser. I also talk about Mattias Ziegler, and you can learn more about him and his teaching at his website Also, for more information on how fixed mindsets affect learning, I suggest this article: Heimhovitz, Kyla, Carol S Dweck, 2017. The Origins of Children's Growth and Fixed Mindsets: New Research and a New Proposal, Child Development, 88(6), 1849–1859. Again, I encourage you to share your clips of performances or practice sessions using singing + playing at #tfsbacktobasics or #tfsimprov2