The Flute View

Vviana Guzman iInterviews Dr. G’s Horoscopes The Flute View Columnist, Rachel Taylor Geier

The Flute View Podcast is sponsored by Flute World, Haynes Flutes, Flute Hoot and University of California Santa Cruz.

Viviana Guzman interviews Ariana Piknjač. Ariana Flute, as she is known on Instagram, was born in 1995 and raised in Sydney, Australia. Since she comes from a musical family, her musical story began when I was aged just 3 years and 9 months starting with piano lessons. She is currently studying two fields of study at the Music Academy in Sarajevo with the highest grades out of 23 subjects overall: Flute Performance in the class of prof. Sakib Laèeviæ and Music Theory and Education. She has performed at various concerts in different countries and has worked with various music professors from Austria, Serbia, Australia, Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Russia and Switzerland. She honorarily play with the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra occasionally and has participated in Federal music competitions in the disciplines of flute, choir and chamber music being awarded first prizes.

Deep dive into Ariana Piknjac!

The Flute View Podcast is sponsored by Flute World, Haynes Flutes, Flute Hoot and University of California Santa Cruz.

Viviana Guzman interviews Gary Arbuthnot. International Virtuoso Gary Arbuthnot presents a show that will thrill and delight all audiences. Now seen by over a million people worldwide, his shows highlight great Celtic tunes, incredible musical scores from contemporary movies, Broadway, and opera to some of the biggest rock and pop groups of the modern era. Gary has been voted Entertainer of the Year, a Prize-winner at both the Markneukirchen and Carl Nielsen International Flute Competitions, and was awarded the Meaker Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Music, London. Other prizes include the BBC Radio Three Young Artists Forum, an English-Speaking Union Scholarship, and awards from the Hattori Foundation, Countess of Munster Musical Trust, Claudio Abbado European Young Musicians Trust and the Foundation for Sport and the Arts.

Gary Arbuthnot shares his experiences as a globe trotting flutist.

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Viviana Guzman interviews Sir James Galway & Lady Jeanne Galway.

Galway Flute Festival June 20-25, 2021 www.galwayflutefestival.com @sirjamesgalway @ladyjeannegalway

The Flute View Podcast is sponsored by Flute World, Haynes Flutes, Flute Hoot and University of California Santa Cruz.

Viviana Guzman interviews Elisabet Franch. International flutist Elisabet Franch has been recognized worldwide as the Grand Prix Winner of the 27th World Music Competition, Winner of the Vienna New Year’s International Music Competition (Austria) 1st Prize and Judge’s Trophy of American Protégé Woodwinds and Brass Competition (Carnegie Hall, New York), Anton Rubinstein International Flute Competition (Berlin, Germany), 1st prize (by unanimous decision) Domenico Cimarosa International Flute Competition (Aversa, Italy), Galway Academy Alumnus (Rising Star Award 2013).  She is the Former principal flute of Tianjin Symphony Orchestra of China  Elisabet is now back in Spain and combines her solo career with teaching as Flute Professor of Centro Superior de Música de Galicia.

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⭐️Stepping down from a Principal Flute position in Tianjin, China,

The Flute View Podcast is sponsored by Flute World, Haynes Flutes, Flute Hoot and University of California Santa Cruz.

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The Flute View Podcast is sponsored by Flute World, Haynes Flutes, Flute Hoot and University of California Santa Cruz.

Viviana Guzman interviews Herman van Kogelenberg. He is the Principal Flute of the Munich Philharmonic, is a dutch flute player based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Whilst studying, Herman was appointed Principal Flute with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège in 1999.  He resigned from the orchestra to join the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam from 2003 until 2010. An invitation by the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and their musical director Yannick Nézet-Séguin to become their principal flute led to Rotterdam in 2010, and in September 2013 he was appointed principal flutist of the Münchner Philharmoniker under Lorin Maazel. With the Münchner Philharmoniker he appeared as a soloist in 2016 and 2018. Since 2017 he is also solo flutist of Orchestra Mozart, founded by Claudio Abbado.

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Viviana Guzman interviews Mario Caroli. At the age of 22, Italian born, Mario Caroli was awarded "Kranichsteiner Musikpreis" at Darmstadt, which was his debut in the international stage. Since then he has been invited to a number of music festivals mostly in Europe, as an indispensable artist in contemporary music scenes. He has been accepted by many orchestras so far and among the conductors that he collaborated with, there are Pierre Boulez, Peter Eotvos, Heinz Holliger, Oswald Sallaberger, Hiroshi Wakasugi, Jonathan Webb, Kazushi Ono. Maurizio Pollini and Emmanuel Pahud recognized him as a "great artist" and the composer Salvatore Sciarrino admired him as a "Paganini of the flute". Currently, Mario Caroli teaches at the Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg and enjoys a wonderful international career.

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Viviana Guzman interviews Emily Beynon, Principal flutist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam. Emily Beynon has performed as concerto soloist with, amongst others, the Concertgebouworkest, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Orchestras, NHK Symphony, the Vienna, Prague, Netherlands, English Chamber Orchestras and the Academy of St.Martin-in-the-Fields.

Topics covered: 

Dealing with the Pandemic as a musician.

How to prepare for a recital.

How to start a flute academy.

How to deal with stage fright.

Should I continue with the flute, knowing how difficult it is to "make it" as a musician?

Words of advice from Emily Beynon.

The Flute View Podcast is sponsored by Flute World, Haynes Flutes, Flute Hoot and University of California Santa Cruz.

Episode 11 (after a 5 year hiatus) Viviana Guzman interviews Paul Edmund-Davies, former Principal Flute of the London Symphony Orchestra and the Philharmonia Orchestra.  Topics covered:  Why Paul Edmund-Davies left the London Symphony Orchestra, Releasing exercise books, Starting SimplyFlute.com, Traveling the world, Introducing the Simply Flute Head Joint by McKenna, Remaining inspired.

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⭐️Leaving the London Symphony

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