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.​
Sophia Kind
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

Sophia Kind Interview

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

Annie Laflamme Interview

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

Yat Ho Tsang Interview

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 Interview

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 Interview

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 Interview

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 Interview

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 Interview

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 Interview

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 Interview

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 Interview

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 Interview

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 Interview

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 Interview

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 Interview

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 Interview

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 Interview

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 Interview

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 Interview

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 Interview

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 Interview

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 Interview

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

Pablo Sosa Interview

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

Kate Clark Interview

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 Interview

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 Interview

‘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 Interview

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 Interview

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 Interview

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 Interview

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 Interview

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 Interview

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 Interview

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 Interview

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

Enrico Di Felice Interview

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 interview

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

Eleonora Biscevic Interview

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

Elizabeth Walker Interview

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

Laura Pontecorvo Interview

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

Enrico Coden Interview

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

​Teddie Hwang Interview

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

Laura Ronai  Interview​

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

Luigi Lupo Interview

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