99 is the new 100, so I needed a guest befitting of the occasion; step up a behemoth of the German orchestral flute scene in the incomparable Michael Faust.
Michael has just freshly retired as principal of the WDR Symphony Orchestra here in my adopted home of Cologne, and he joined me for an al fresco chat in sunny Kölle to reflect on a glittering career.
It’s a special one lads; drink it up x

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Chapters:

00:00 - An Introduction

03:48 - Professional Retirement

09:58 - Nervosity v Tension and Blackouts

23:00 - Santa Cecilia, Munich and More

36:22 - What Makes a Great Second Flute

46:32 - Hamming Flute Loyalty

59:27 - Career Concert Highlights 

1:05:00 - Rapid Fire Questions

1:1ß:38 - An Important Initiative 

This week I welcome some royalty from the German orchestral world as the principal flute of Cologne’s Gürzenich Orchestra, Alja-Velkaverh-Roskams, joins me for a chat.
From working under Haitink and Dudamel, to the first time playing all *those* big solos, daily practise routines, opera vs symphonic playing, and motherhood as a musician; Alja covers the lot over some coffee.

Grma x

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Chapters:

00:00 - An Intro

04:23 - Slovenia to Köln

11:18 - First Orchestral Solos

22:00 - Operatic vs Symphonic Fluting

42:15 - Gold Brannens 

54:43 - Rapid Fire Questions

Whilst on my holidays, I got anxious about making a podcast and then ended up getting inspired to make one about working on your holidays and it turned out to be a fun part of my holidays.
It’s a history of holidays, an analysis of if you should or shouldn’t practice on your holidays, and a love letter to amateur flute players.
Saúde x

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Chapters:

0:00 - Practise Anxiety

7:15 - Holiday History

16:40 - Why We Take Holidays

28:04 - An Ode to Amateurs

34:24 - Pina Coladas v Practise

It’s always felt like we flute players weren’t invited to the Romantic party. Whilst Beethoven, Wagner and Mahler were playing beer pong, we were at home tooting our own flutes.
So this week, I look at why that is, along with the Jena German Romanticism movement, the response to The Enlightenment, and how the French screwed it all up.

Grma x

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Chapters:

0:00 - Students and Sun

7:02 - Romantic with a big R

16:50 - The Shite Flute

25:44 - German Romanticism and Aperol Spritz

36:55 - What Flutes Should Do

I did it so you don’t have to; the five greatest flute albums of all time, ranked for your pleasure.
What makes an album great? Is it only classical albums included? Was 1975 the best year for James Galway’s beard?
Come on in and find out x

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Chapters:

0:00 - Criteria for Greatness

7:37 - Fifth Place

16:55 - Fourth Place

22:56 - Third Place 

31:45 - Runner Up

41:15 - The Greatest Album of All Time

48:02 - A Wee Treat for You

McIlroy, Frampton, Best, Galway; Belfast has always punched above her weight, and we love her for it. But why is national identity so much more important in smaller nations? And what can it give to an artist’s voice that former colonial nations can’t?

 Grma x

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Chapters:

0:00 - Our Wee Rory

5:55 - Colonialism and Pearl Harbour

12:46 - Big Country Nationalism

20:05 - Wee County Nationalism

29:54 - Our Wee Country

37:44 - The Effect on an Artist’s Voice

Using melancholy as a medium, I discuss how a chat in a pub about the 2001 rom-com Serendipity lead to a breakthrough method in using the flute to express emotion. 

Grma x

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Chapters:

0:00 - Kate Beckinsale’s Pint

9:57 - Defining Definitions

17:11 - Melancholic Bile

22:15 - Art Expressing the Inexpressible

33:01 - How to Express More on Flute

39:59 - Chopin the Melanchole

Bernold, Gallois, Fischer, Martin, Desplat; they all share three things. They’re flute players, they’re conductors and they’re men.
This week I look at why so many have switched the flute for the baton, and how underrepresented females are in both disciplines.
grma x

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Chapters: 

0:00 - Last Week’s Reaction

7:20 - Women in Conducting and DEI

22:13 - Flute Players Turned Conductors

39:26 - Flutists and Bad Music Theory

I’m in a foul mood over this all, so I apologise in advance. Looking at the Trump regime, wokeness in classical music, Nazi propaganda and real stories from the flute US world.

F*ck America,

grma x

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Chapters:

0:00 - The Irish vs The Irish Americans

10:19 - Authoritarianism and Wokeness1

9:57 - Trump's Nazi Kennedy Center

42:00 - Stories from the Flute World

A scorching hot take on the true reason Historically Informed Performance has gained so much popularity in the last 15 years, via the printing press, urtext editions and nazi raccoons.
Cheers x 

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Chapters:

0:00 - This Week’s Menu

4:09 - Printing Petrucci

15:20 - Modern Publishing

32:12 - The Hot Take