Interviews

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We have asked baroque flute champions, performers and teachers, to share some of their habits and practices, and the reasoning behind them, in order to inspire others to review and possibly improve the way they use their practice time. The aim is also to help building connections across different schools, or between academic courses and more informal learning paths, that may be worthwhile to explore in more detail and share through a wider community. The interviews tipically include:

The interviews tipically include:

flutists' daily habits and routines
key features of warm-up and daily practice
tips to make practice more effective
useful pieces, tools and aids.

Browse the interviews in the page below or click on one.

Toshiyuki Shibata	Marion Treupel-Franck
Tommaso Sandri	Olga Musiał-Kurzawska	Karl Kaiser	Anastasia Fedchenko
Sophia Kind	Luis Martinez	Sebastijan Bereta	Chiara Strabioli
David Gutierrez	Yat Ho Tsang	Nuria Canales Rubio	Annie Laflamme
Enrico Luca	Clément Lefèvre	Anna Besson	Claire Genewein
Na'ama Lion	Yu-Wei Hu	Anne Parisot	Sieglinde Größinger
Karolina Zych	Kristen Huebner	Felipe Egaña Labrin	Sophia Aretz
Lars Johannesson	Ching-Yao Wang	Johanna Bartz	Melissa Farrow
Joanna Marsden	Gabriela Galvan	Kate Clark	Pablo Sosa
Tommaso Rossi	Darina Ablogina	Michael Dollendorf	Liane Sadler
Enrico Di Felice	Florencia Gomez	Amanda Markwick	Stephen Preston
Laura Pontecorvo	Elizabeth Walker	Eleonora Biscevic	Manuel Granatiero
Luigi Lupo	Laura Ronai	Teddie Hwang	Enrico Coden

...and more to come

Marion Treupel-Franck Interview

I was born in Munich and grew up in a very creative family. My father especially was particularly devoted to the creative arts — he painted, practiced calligraphy, and wrote countless poems. He always encouraged me to follow my dreams and visions. ...more

Toshiyuki Shibata

I am a Japanese flutist based in Paris and Brussels who has performed with leading early music ensembles including La Petite Bande, Il Fondamento, Vox Luminis, BachPlus, Anthonello.
I currently teach in Conservatories in France and Belgium ...more

Anastasia Fedchenko

I am a flute player from St. Petersburg, Russia, currently living in Basel. I am fortunate to collaborate regularly with ensembles such as the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, Utopia Orchestra, Les Talens Lyriques, Bremer Barockorchester, Anima Eterna Brugge, ...more

Karl Kaiser

I live in Freiburg, Germany. My main ensembles include the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, La Stagione Frankfurt, Camerata Cologne, and the Ardinghello Ensemble for Romantic chamber music. With these groups, I have toured worldwide and recorded ...more

Olga Musiał

I am a Polish flautist specializing in historical performance. In 2007, I graduated in Poznań, where I studied modern flute with Jerzy Pelc. I later studied historical flutes in Wrocław and completed my degree in Łódź with Magdalena Pilch (traverso) ...more

Chiara Strabioli

I studied traverso first with Claire Genewein, and then with Barthold Kuijken and Frank Theuns in Brussels. I have played with La Petite Bande, the Accademia Barocca di Santa Cecilia, the Accademia Montis Regalis, Atalanta Fugiens, Gli Originali, among others. ...more

Tommaso Sandri

I am an Italian flautist based between Basel and Milan, active in historically informed performance. I have collaborated with ensembles such as Ensemble Astrophil & Stella, Bach Akademie Stuttgart, Utopia Orchestra, and Bremer Barockorchester, among others. ...more

Luis Martinez

Founding member and artistic director of La Guirlande, a group dedicated to the performance of music from the 18th and 19th centuries in which the flute plays a prominent role, Luis Martínez has won several national and international competitions. ...more

Sebastijan Bereta

I was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina. For the past 13 years I’ve been living in Paris, and I currently work as a freelance musician, mostly in France, performing with ensembles such as Les Talens Lyriques and many others.
...more

Annie Laflamme

Annie Laflamme, specialist for historically informed performance on the baroque, classical and romantic flutes, now lives in Germany. She performs as solo flute with renowned ensembles such as Les Musiciens du Louvre, Concentus Musicus Wien ...more

Sophia Kind

Sophia Kind is a flutist from Germany. She performs with ensembles such as the Freiburger Barockorchester, Vox Luminis, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, and Continuum Berlin, and teaches traverso at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and at Schola Cantorum Basiliensis ...more

Yat Ho Tsang

I grew up in Hong Kong, but the flute brought me to Amsterdam, where I met Marten Root and started my baroque flute journey. Later I continued with Karl Kaiser and Daniela Lieb in Frankfurt Germany, where I ended up living now. ...more

Nuria Canales Rubio

Nuria Canales Rubio is a Spanish baroque flute player who began her musical journey at the age of 9. She holds both a BA and a MA degree in modern flute, respectively in Spain and in the Netherlands, and moved to the US in 2022 ...more

Claire Genewein

I was born in Munich, Germany, as the sixth child and we had a very creative home. My musical experience began with singing and playing instruments, with nativity plays, Orff-Instruments first, then the recorder, with opera performances (already on the modern flute) at home ...more

David Gutierrez

I consider myself passionate about music education, as well as a versatile musician. I currently combine my work as a music teacher in Barcelona with the organisation and promotion of Anacronía, with which we try to reach new audiences ...more

Clément Lefèvre

Clément Lefèvre is a French flautist based in Versailles. Primarily a baroque, renaissance, and classical flute player, hHe is a regular performer in concerts and modern world premieres resulting from the researches of the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles. ...more

Anna Besson

Born in Southern France, I live in Belgium and teach historical flutes at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel and Conservatorium van Amsterdam. I started playing the traverso through my traditional Irish flute practice and share my time between concerts, teaching, and my two beautiful girls ...more

Sieglinde Größinger

Sieglinde Größinger is an Austrian flutist who got trained in flute and historical flutes in Vienna, Graz, Oslo, Amsterdam and Brussels. Her traverso teachers were Barthold Kuijken, Frank Theuns, Getraud Wimmer and Marten Root. ...more

Enrico Luca

Born in Sicily, Enrico Luca started with the modern flute at the age of seven, and then graduated in historical flutes. He teaches in Milan and Terni, and has collaborated with Il Giardino Armonico and many other ensembles. ...more

Yu-Wei Hu

As both recitalist and orchestral musician, Yu-Wei has performed across the globe, including appearances in the BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall, and with Oxford Bach Soloists at Park Avenue Armoury ...more

Anne Parisot

I'm based between Paris and Avignon in the south of France where I'm teaching historical flutes. I'm playing a lot in orchestra, enjoying discovering all these historical flutes from the traverso to the early 20th century flutes. ...more

Na'ama Lion

Na’ama Lion, based in the Boston area, is well known as a versatile performer on early flutes, and has explored medieval music, Renaissance, and 18th and 19th century music with numerous groups ...more

Sophia Aretz

I am a flautist specializing in historical flutes, living in Cologne and working as a freelancer. Turning my hobby and passion into a profession, I love seeing the audience moved by the music,
...more

Felipe Egaña Labrin

Born in Chile, pursued studies in early music with Wilbert Hazelzet and Marten Root in the Netherlands and Germany, and has worked with Bremer Barock Orchestra and Netherlands Bach Society ...more

Kristen Huebner

I am originally from the United States and have been living and working in The Netherlands since 2009. Thanks to my fantastic teacher Immanuel Davis, I was introduced to the traverso back in 2006 ...more

Karolina Zych

I am from Poland. I have a regular position at the early music orchestra MACV and teach historical flute at the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznan. ...more

Melissa Farrow

As a student growing up in New Zealand I had some wonderful teachers who inspired me to love Baroque music. I studied at Sydney Conservatorium then Conservatorium van Amsterdam ...more

Johanna Bartz

I am a German flutist, now living in Basel, Switzerland. Since 2016 I teach the Renaissance traverso at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, and soon I’ll also be teaching the traverso at the HEM Geneva. ...more

5 key elements of daily practice

Explore insights from experienced baroque flutists and incorporate them into your daily practice for a richer and more rewarding musical journey. ...more

15 strategies for difficult passages

A detailed insight into the nuanced and varied approaches musicians employ to address technical challenges, showcasing a holistic and thoughtful method of practice ...more

Ching-Yao Wang

I am a Taiwanese flute player based in Vienna, specializing in historical flutes under the guidance of Mrs. Gertraud Wimmer ...more

How baroque Maestros start their practice day

Have you ever wondered how baroque flutists start their practice day? Here is a short overview of what they mostly do, as presented extensively in our interviews. ...more

Lars Johannesson

I spend my time playing the baroque to modern repertoire on (mostly) the appropriate flutes, which involves a fair amount of instrument-switching. ...more

Dennette McDermott

I was born in Michigan and recently retired after teaching for 32 years at Northwestern State University of Louisiana.
...more

Pablo Sosa

Despite my passion for playing orchestral repertoire, chamber music has always been an essential element in my life. ...more

Kate Clark

Teaching has always been a very demanding element in my work, but it brings deep insights, humility and sometimes profound satisfaction, especially when a student finds greater clarity ...more

Gabriela Galvan

Gabriela was captivated by historical flutes for their incredible variety of sound possibilities and the opportunity to discover and explore repertoires and composers ...more

Joanna Marsden

‘Baroque flute master’ Joanna Marsden (the Classical Music Sentinel) is a ‘fabulous’ (the Whole Note) flautist based in Montréal. She has performed with numerous ensembles throughout North America and Europe ...more

Liane Sadler

Liane Sadler plays historical flutes in both orchestral and chamber music, with groups such as the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, as well as her own chamber ensembles. ...more

Benedek Csalog

I am a Hungarian flutist, I basically only play Baroque instruments, mainly late Baroque German repertoire, but also French and Italian music. ...more

Michael Dollendorf

The flute is my great love but it was not my first instrument. I started playing guitar at age eight and picked up the Baroque flute and the recorder at age twelve for two reasons. ...more

Darina Ablogina

I am a flutist, teacher, curator, and co-host of the @insight-reading enlightenment podcast. I love exploring new horizons for my musicality ...more

Tommaso Rossi

Tommaso Rossi, multi-faceted musician, has a solistic activity as recorder, flute and traverso player.
He collaborates regularly with Antonio Florio’s I Turchini ...more

Stephen Preston

My relationship with baroque flute has always been led by my desire for insight into the music. At music college I became the (Boehm) flute player in a trio ...more

Amanda Markwick

Mesmerized by the pure, almost vocal sound of the flute since she first heard it as a child, Amanda Markwick has since made that fascination her own reality ...more

Florencia Gomez

Florencia is a flute player specialized in historical instruments.
She has collaborated with Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, ...more

Enrico Di Felice

Enrico Di Felice began an important solo activity at a very young age which led him to play at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam ...more

Manuel Granatiero

Manuel Granatiero lives between The Hague in Holland and Rome.
He is part of some important early ...more

Eleonora Biscevic

Eleonora Bišćević is a Croatian/Italian flutist based in Switzerland, active throughout Europe in orchestras, ...more

Elizabeth Walker

Elizabeth Walker lives in the UK and has written two award winning baroque study books, has recorded Telemann ...more

Laura Pontecorvo

Laura Pontecorvo is an Italian flutist who has been performing the baroque and classical repertoire for many years in the most ...more

Enrico Coden

Enrico Coden is an Italian flute player, researcher, and teacher in Haarlem and performs music from the Renaissance ...more

Teddie Hwang

Teddie Hwang is a flutist and photographer living in Mainz, Germany. Drawing from her experiences in both disciplines, ...more

Laura Ronai

Laura Rónai is a Brazilian flute player, musicologist and populariser, academic researcher on baroque flute performance ...more

Luigi Lupo

Luigi Lupo is an Italian flutist, and a renowned specialist and collector of historical flutes, spanning from medieval to ...more

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