Flute Colors Blog

The flute choir that I conduct had planned a study day this week. We had invited a breathing coach who came to give a workshop on breathing. ‘What do you think about breathing?’ was one of her first questions. This group consists of flutists who have all been playing the flute for a number of […]

I can associate easily. Every situation or story automatically gives me connections to other things or situations. This is combined with images in my mind. Maybe it’s my creative mind, which comes in handy when making music and teaching. When I teach, I like to use images to help students more easily understand the point […]

Life is full of contrasts. We can be happy or sad, excited or bored, awake or asleep. We have summer and winter, hot and cold, and so on. We cannot fully experience one without the other. Together they balance the experience. This is also the case in music. We have tension in the music and […]

‘Try a hysterical vibrato,’ was my assignment. I tried to challenge my student to create a slightly less mechanical vibrato. ‘My previous teacher said I had to master this exercise perfectly before moving on,’ was his response. Vibrato is an important topic for my student. Right from the first lesson, he wanted to know everything […]

The sound of the piano, violin, cello, double bass, and many other instruments is amplified by a soundboard. If you remove the soundboard, you’ll hardly hear anything. But what about the flute? If we rely solely on the instrument itself, compared to the piano, we do have a problem… We ourselves are an important part […]