As a young woman, I met the inimitable Diane Cilento, who during her life guided me on many different paths of inspiration. The flute music piece is called ‘blo’ from album Titania’s Dream, commissioned by Diane for her production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
I love music that has a melodic and harmonic narrative. My new #WorldMusic Album #ThirdCulture is a good example – John Huie’s gorgeous pieces (for flute, guitar, Chinese banjo, percussion and bass) take us on an evocative journey… Xiao Ma means Little Horse
The sound of the Flute can connect us on a spiritual & meditative level. If you need to CHILL, a flute meditation piece I wrote (album #FluteSpiritdreamsandImprovistations). Titled Yugali, Pan
Here’s a quick interview in which we discussed how there are so many great flute players in the world now (perhaps thanks to the French Flute School!), so competition is tough. A piece of advice from Monsieur Guiot on how to stay within the Classical Flute World whilst at the same time attracting an audience!
It’s rare that I omit Debussy’s Syrinx from my classical flute recitals. The piece is so definitional for all flute-players, and helps to define the importance of the instrument as the oldest known to man.
