Dear Flutelovers, I thought it might be helpful for new readers to know about my free flute pdfs in a single blogpost, so here are all the links below. They've been created over the years, and can be printed out for your practise pleasure. Enjoy! Best, Jen Free pdfs for your flute practice: Jen's Easy to Read Flute Fingering Chart (pdf - 2 pages) All free fingering charts and trill charts The Top Ten Secrets of Great Fluteplaying _____________________ Free printable Longtone Exercises in pdf! Low Longtone Warmups (pdf from this blog's previous post) Middle & High ..read more

 Dear Flutelovers, I'm really enjoying the long-running Flute Vlog of Katie Althen-Velázquez . She is a recent graduate of the Juilliard, now free-lancing and making realistic videos about her life as a flutist. See all her vlog videos here.  I enjoyed her honest talk about taking auditions as well as how she feels when "down in the dumps". So honest, so real, and such a good reality check! Yes, I feel exactly like that when I'm in the dumps about my playing too! But here's a new twist! Katie is playing a set of Advanced-Intermediate etudes that I've never heard before, and ..read more

Dear Flutelovers, I spent a lovely rainy Saturday afternoon having my day brightened by the gorgeous sound of the flute playing of William Bennett, the funny stories about his life, and the exquisite playing of Wibb's students. Can't wait to hear part two today in the fog and rain too. Following the concert there is a very interesting interview with Lorna McGhee about studying with Wibb. See below.  Enjoy! Jen Celebrating Wibb! The William Bennett Memorial Concert Part 1 (video) Introduction - Edward Blakeman  Bach Concerto in G minor - Largo  - William Bennett (Flute) Dvo ..read more

 Dear Flutelovers, Happy Ho-ho-hos to all near and far on this festive day! And Healthy thriving New Year too! There has been much discussion and happy new discovery on one of the flute groups this week about the marvellous group Quintessenz. If you only listen to one performance make it this flute quintet version of Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks by R. Strauss: (video) Quintessenz has been around since 1996 and I was the happy recipient of some of their earliest scores from piccoloist/arranger Gudrun Hinz. She's a kind and wonderful soul. I see she's not currently performing with the ..read more

 Dear Flutelovers, Four things of interest to see online this month: 1. All issues of Flutetalk online are now free to read. There's no search or index function but holy cow there are tons and tons of topics covered from 2008 to now. Wowza. 2. A wonderfully in-tune flutist, Barry Griffiths, with terrific dynamics and soulful interp. has begun recording all the flute quartet repertoire. You can use his recordings to pre-rehearse before your quartet rehearsals by playing along. When I was preparing students for quartet, I only wish I'd had these recordings of the quartet repertoire for ..read more

Dear Flutelovers, If you've been watching the 77th Concours de Genève online some of the flute recital presentations are really compelling!    First Round (video playlist) is an online recital. See repertoire lists below. As of today's date we are mid-way through the semi-final round.  Semi-final Round (video playlist). Eight flutists were selected for the semi-final round of the competition :   Rafael Adobas Bayog, 25 years old  Mario Bruno, 25 years old  Heewon Han, 21 years old  Elizaveta Ivanova, 26 years old  Sooah Jeon, 15 years old  Ju ..read more

 Hello flute-lovers, Just came across this lovely flute and piano work which I had not realized has free sheetmusic too! Denis Bouriakov performs Philippe Gaubert's Ballade (video): And here's the free sheetmusic in pdf at IMSLP: Ballade by Gaubert in pdf Lovely to find music that's new to me and so in character for the instrument! Enjoy, best, Jen ..read more

Circa 1980 Dear Flutelovers, The other day I received an email from a new reader who didn't know what kind of a flute career I'd had, so I thought I'd re-introduce myself to any other new readers out there in the land of antique flute blogging. ;>) My name is Jennifer Cluff and I've been playing the flute since the age of 11 (which would have been 1972!). My formal bio is here. I had failed at being interested in the piano, had disliked the sound of beginner violin, and actually started on the Recorder in grade 4 with in-class lessons, but it was when I entered a new school in grade 7 that ..read more

Dear Flutelovers,  Two blog posts in three days from me, whoa nellie, eh? But this one is time sensitive if you want to participate, and I think it sounds amazing! A chance for adult amateurs and students to play for the Galways for one thing! :>) There's a Flute Championship being held online with Sir James and Lady Galway as judges, as well as Ulla Miilmann, Viviana Guzmán and Joshua Batty.  Yesterday the author, Karen North, officially announced The 3rd “Lyrical Flute International Championship”. She wrote: "This  is a virtual competition, so entrants submit a video of pl ..read more

 Dear Flutelovers, Well here's a marvelous musical discovery; music for flute by Argentinian composers Paulina Fain (flute) and Exequiel Mantega (piano). And so much of their flute/piano sheetmusic is free at their Tango Education website. Have a listen to the optimism, fun and playfulness of this first one. I truly want to play the flute again just to play pieces exactly like this piece!! Viste de Mi (You Saw Me): (video)  Paulina Fain flute, Exequiel Mantega piano I love that title: You Saw Me. How apt that is for what it sounds like! And here's another favourite one: Un dia ..read more