From La Scala in Milan, to the Teatro Colón in Argentina, and from Singapore’s mega-venue to Belfast’s Ulster Hall; this week I look at the oldest, biggest, acoustically best and iconic venues of classical music. 

Grma x

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Chapters:

00:00 - Cologne’s Finest

03:08 - Ten Biggest Venues 

18:59 - Ten Oldest Venues

24:10 - Ten Best Acoustics

30:48 - Special Mentions

The Cooper Scale, perfect intonation, closed holes and their air cones; this week’s episode is a deeply nerdy one, and I loved every second of it. I hope you do too.

Grma x

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Chapters:

00:00 - Heatwaves and Hertz

11:00 - Boehm’s Broken iPhone

17:29 - Albert Cooper’s Magic

24:21 - Money, Money, Money

27:24 - Misconceptions of Intonation and The Flute

35:26 - Modern Flutemakers and their Scales

If you’ve got that orchestral excerpt book and want to find the exact timings of each one without having to look them up, this episode is for you. 

Find the playlist below; you’ve just gotta put up with me deciding if I’d sh*g, marry or k*ll each one. 

Grma x

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0hv0cHHaJYgyyuBtkY1QWM?si=c36056ad1b4e4865

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A review of Edward Blakeman’s book, Wibb: A Flute for Life, led to some reflection on hero worship, classism and choosing compassion. 

Grma x

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Chapters:

00:00 - Anger to Compassion

13:37 - Full Book Review

24:20 - Hero Worship

33:35 - Wibb Recordings

I’ve promised to get a specialist on performance anxiety within classical music for months now, and today we finally get there.

Today’s guest is board certified neurologist and psychiatrist, Dr. Déirdre Cooper.

Together we chat about performance anxiety, the psychology of anxiety, inter-generational trauma, emigration, child prodigies and so much more.
Grma x

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And finally; use the code “INLINEG” online or in person at Flute Center for; 5% off accessories, 10% off all sheet music, free shipping on new instruments and free shipping to trial instruments (USA only.)

Chapters:

00:00 - An Introduction

05:48 - West Cork to Köln 

14:23 - Exposure Therapy and Anxiety Explained

22:54 - Classical vs Other Music

40:16 - Fight or Flight and Teacher Trauma

52:08 - Emigrating Musicians

1:04:03 - Child Prodigies 

I’m up in Dortmund this week to sit down with Italian flute superstar, and absolute sweetheart, Mario Caroli.

I brought a load of questions to ask Mario, almost none of which got asked in the end as this conversation took its own organic, authentic, vulnerable and downright gorgeous path. Come follow it along with us.

grma x

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Chapters:

00:00 - An Intro 

04:54 - Mario Caroli on Inline G

10:06 - Social Media for Flutes

20:30 - Easiest Job in the World

37:25 - Flute Soloists

52:49 - Platinum Flutes

57:50 - Quick Fire Questions

There aren’t many things that get me to our rival city of Düsseldorf, but today’s guest is one of them.

I sat down with Professor at the Robert Schumann Hochschule, co-founder of PART ensemble, member of E-MAX ensemble, recording artist, soloist and contemporary music specialist; Evelin Degen.

It was a pleasure of an episode to make, enjoy it x

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Chapters:

00:00 - An Intro

03:07 - Improvising and The Bug

32:24 - Teaching Through the Years

43:10 - Evelin’s Flutes

55:20 - Quick Fire Questions

Blasphemy, murder, eroticism and a dirty flute solo; Strauss’ Salome has it all. I’ll explore the biblical and Irish roots that are essential to understanding how to play one of the greatest flute solos in our repertoire. 

Grma x

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And finally; use the code “INLINEG” online or in person at Flute Center for; 5% off accessories, 10% off all sheet music, free shipping on new instruments and free shipping to trial instruments (USA only.)

Chapters:

00:00 - Pints?

05:38 - Biblical Salome

14:44 - Oscar Wilde

26:48  - Strauss’ Salome

33:10 - THE Flute Solo

Coming from the basement of an architectural museum in Aachen, this week I chat with the principal flute of The Royal Antwerp Symphony, Aldo Baerten. 

Aldo’s had a truly international career, and today he tells me all about how he chose his gold Powell, the acoustical differences of European concert halls and the importance of the European Union for music.
Grma x

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And finally; use the code “INLINEG” online or in person at Flute Center for; 5% off accessories, 10% off all sheet music, free shipping on new instruments and free shipping to trial instruments (USA only.)

Chapters:

00:00 - An Intro to Aldo

03:50 - Teaching Philosophies

22:28 - Choosing a flute

38:51 - Acoustics of Europe

48:54 - European Teaching

1:00:45 - Quick Fire Questions

Looking at the aesthetic beauty of hands, their potrayal in art, the biology of fingers, neanderthals, WPM, Michelangelo, Ruben Kim, Rockstro and why Inline G is better. 

Grma x

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And finally; use the code “INLINEG” online or in person at Flute Center for; 5% off accessories, 10% off all sheet music, free shipping on new instruments and free shipping to trial instruments (USA only.)

Chapters:

00:00 - This Hand is Your Hand

09:45 - Rockstro 

17:23 - Curved Fingers?

25:04 - Nice Fingers In Art

29:28 - Gorgeous Flute Hands