"It oozes out of every pore!"

This week on 'Talking Flutes Extra' Jean-Paul speaks with Principal Flute of the RTE National Symphony Orchestra about the most important part of musical communication.  Using your 'tone' and how when listen to a good flute player, their sound comes oozing out of their pores as they communicate a story to an audience.  How Covid-19 has affected her love for making music with others and we also speak about her love for Tea!

Please keep sending your questions and suggestions for future podcasts to [email protected] and to @talkingflutes on FB and @tjflutes on IG or @flute on Twitter.

'Talking Flutes' and 'Talking Flutes Extra' are podcast productions by the TJ flute Company.  For more information visit www.trevorjamesflutes.com

Squashed and lost flutes, buckets of thrown urine and breaking down on the edge of an English mountain at 3 am in full concert dress...and much much more!

In 'Talking Flutes' Halloween podcast this week, Clare and Jean-Paul recount their musical nightmares!

Please continue to send in your suggestions for future podcasts including guests by email to [email protected] 

'Talking Flutes' and 'Talking Flutes Extra' are podcast productions by the TJ flute company.  for more information visit www.trevorjamesflutes.com

"I can't see Hollywood movie and T.V music sessions ever being a permanently remote operation post Covid."

In 'Talking Flutes Extra' this week Jean-Paul speaks with L.A based Gina Luciani about the change to remote orchestral recordings for Hollywood TV and films during Covid-19.   Gina also talks about re-arranging the famous 'Carmen Fantasy'  for flute and how she has been true to the original opera and taken inspiration from violin versions for the extra virtuosic flair!   She also talks about her dream that sheet music publishers will make the design of music book front covers as exciting to look at as the old album and CD covers of the past.

You can send in your flute questions or suggestions for future podcasts to [email protected] or you can message us on FB @talkingflutes and on Instagram @tjflutes

'Talking Flutes' and 'Talking Flutes Extra' are podcast productions by the TJ flute company.  For more information visit www.trevorjamesflutes.com

"Life rarely works out as you initially think it will!"

This week on 'Talking Flutes Extra' Jean-Paul speaks with composer and flutist Nicole Chamberlain about her career in 3D animation, and then the sudden and complete change in her direction to becoming a successful flutist and composer.

Please keep sending your questions and suggestions for future podcasts to [email protected] and to @talkingflutes on FB and @tjflutes on IG or @flute on Twitter.

'Talking Flutes' and 'Talking Flutes Extra' are podcast productions by the TJ flute Company.  For more information visit www.trevorjamesflutes.com

"Breaking musical boundaries...It's much more about instinct"

This week in 'Talking Flutes Extra' Jean-Paul speaks with the fabulous queen of Low Flutes Carla Rees.  Covering many aspects of flute playing from motivation, how making a mistake can be a hugely positive learning experience, how improvisation isn't as hard as you think it is through to her development of an online full or part time music degree accessible to all. 

For information on the online degree programme Carla speaks about in the podcast, visit https://www.oca.ac.uk/our-tutors/carla-rees/ 

'Talking Flutes' and 'Talking Flutes Extra' are podcast productions by the TJ flute Company.  For more information visit www.trevorjamesflutes.com 

Exercise and Music are like the 'Yin and the Yang'

Celebrity Hollywood Personal Trainer and flutist Ridge Davis talks about his journey from doing his flute Masters at Coburn with the legendary Jim Walker to becoming 'Ridge Davis' the fitness guru.

The key to any goal directed exercise or study is in 'chunking' your work.  Setting smaller goals and give your self the mantra "Yes I can - Yes it will"

For more information on Ridge then visit www.ridgedavis.com 

Please keep sending your questions and suggestions for future podcasts to [email protected] and to @talkingflutes on FB and @tjflutes on IG or @flute on Twitter.

'Talking Flutes' and 'Talking Flutes Extra' are podcast productions by the TJ flute Company.  For more information visit www.trevorjamesflutes.com

The musical pulse keeps the music alive!

'Who I was and how I identified myself with... was suddenly gone!"

We have an extra 'Talking Flutes Extra' this week where we catch up with Elsa Nilsson who on a previous podcast recorded last May, was struggling to cope with complete lockdown in NY.  

We also speak about how she is feeling now and how she has taken her tutor book 'Between the Beats' to a wider audience by making teaching videos available on the Patreon platform to bring the unique concept to a wider flute playing audience. 

https://www.patreon.com/join/betweenthebeats

'Talking Flutes' and 'Talking Flutes Extra' are podcast productions by the TJ flute company.  For more information visit www.trevorjamesflutes.com 

The joy of playing in a group and developing your musical ear can't be understated.

In this 'Talking Flutes' podcast, Professor of Flute at the Royal Academy of Music in London Clare Southworth reminisces about playing in the very popular British flute group called 'Bamboozle' 30 years ago and the fun they had playing on radio and TV.

We love receiving your emails with questions and suggestions for future podcasts.  Please continue to send them in to [email protected] or you can post them on FB @talkingflutes, Instagram @tjflutes and @clareflute 

'Talking Flutes' and 'Talking Flutes Extra' are podcast productions by the TJ flute company.  For more information visit www.trevorjamesflutes.com 

Video game music gives the flute arranger interesting problems!

In 'Talking Flutes Extra' this week, the uber popular Barry Griffiths aka @grizzlyflute on Instagram talks about designing his posts, his lavish and often complex arrangements and the simply fact that he takes no notice of any algorithms.  He just posts when he wants to!

Please keep sending your questions and suggestions for future podcasts to [email protected] and to @talkingflutes on FB and @tjflutes on IG or @flute on Twitter.

'Talking Flutes' and 'Talking Flutes Extra' are podcast productions by the TJ flute Company.  For more information visit www.trevorjamesflutes.com

"It's so important to learn music by memory as you listen so much more when you're not looking at the dots!'

On 'Talking Flutes' this week we talk to the phenomenally talented musician, composer, author and producer Mike Mower about his life in music, making it big with his group 'Itchy Fingers' and also with working and arranging music and albums with Sir James Galway.

Please keep sending your questions and suggestions for future podcasts to [email protected] and to @talkingflutes on FB and @tjflutes on IG or @flute on Twitter.

'Talking Flutes' and 'Talking Flutes Extra' are podcast productions by the TJ flute Company.  For more information visit www.trevorjamesflutes.com