The Flute View
By Viviana Guzman, Morgan Pappas
The Flute ViewMay 19, 2021
Rachel Taylor Geier
Vviana Guzman iInterviews Dr. G’s Horoscopes The Flute View Columnist, Rachel Taylor Geier
Topics covered
🌟Interest in Astrology
🌟Tarot for friends and understanding self
🌟Upcoming book for Oxford University Press
⭐️Mini Reading for Viviana
🌟Mini Reading for Alicia
🌟Astrology Basics: getting to know the Moon, Rising, Venus, Mars
The Flute View Podcast is sponsored by Flute World, Haynes Flutes, Flute Hoot and University of California Santa Cruz.
Ariana Piknjač Interview
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!
Topics Covered:
🌟Musical upbringing
🌟Born in Sydney, living in Sarajevo
🌟Typical day
🌟Getting covid
🌟Favorite Beverage
🌟Favorite Food
🌟Súper Power Goals
🌟Wonderful advice for a young flutist:
🌟Don’t compare yourself to others
🌟In time, everything passes.
🌟Stay positive
🌟Name of tune played: “U stambolu na Bosforu”
The Flute View Podcast is sponsored by Flute World, Haynes Flutes, Flute Hoot and University of California Santa Cruz.
Gary Arbuthnot Interview
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.
Topics Covered:
🌟Favorite country
🌟Favorite airport
🌟Best part of traveling
🌟Requirements for becoming a cruise ship entertainer
🌟More opportunities now than ever to carve out a career in music
The Flute View Podcast is sponsored by Flute World, Haynes Flutes, Flute Hoot and University of California Santa Cruz.
Sir James Galway & Lady Jeanne Galway Interview
Viviana Guzman interviews Sir James Galway & Lady Jeanne Galway.
Galway Flute Festival June 20-25, 2021 www.galwayflutefestival.com @sirjamesgalway @ladyjeannegalway
Topics covered:
🌟Galway Flute Festival
🌟Galway LiveLearn Sériese
🌟Dealing with lockdown
🌟Coping with challenges
🌟Resilience after accidents
🌟Teaching strategies
🌟Favorite country
🌟Secret to maintaining a good marriage/partnership
🌟Leaving the Berlin Philharmonic and becoming a soloist
🌟Relationship with Muramatsu
🌟Going on tour with the entourage
The Flute View Podcast is sponsored by Flute World, Haynes Flutes, Flute Hoot and University of California Santa Cruz.
Elisabet Franch Interview
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.
⭐️Topics covered:
⭐️Stepping down from a Principal Flute position in Tianjin, China,
⭐️the most important aspects of playing,
⭐️the best part of traveling the world as a soloist,
⭐️as well as the worst part of it,
⭐️the secret to gaining fast fingers, and MORE!⭐️👏🎉🎶
The Flute View Podcast is sponsored by Flute World, Haynes Flutes, Flute Hoot and University of California Santa Cruz.
Beatriz Macias Interview
Viviana Guzman interviews Beatriz Macias. Beatriz Macías has established an international career as one of the most versatile figures in the scene of classical music. Both a flutist and singer, Macías has held the position of Solo Flutist in the Luxembourg Chamber Orchestra and has performed with some of the top orchestras in the world. Macías is the founder and Artistic Director of the Tampere Flute Fest based in Finland.
Topics covered in this episode:
- Playing in orchestras around Europe
- Starting the Tampere Flute Festival
- Developing a singing career
- Work hard, and chase your DREAMS🌟
The Flute View Podcast is sponsored by Flute World, Haynes Flutes, Flute Hoot and University of California Santa Cruz.
Herman van Kogelenberg Interview
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.
We discussed the following topics:
⭐️Early Teachers
⭐️The Wooden Flute
⭐️Is Wood for you?
⭐️How to find the best Wooden Flute
⭐️Playing with the Munich Philharmonic during the pandemic
⭐️How to make it as a young flutist in today’s competitive market
The Flute View Podcast is sponsored by Flute World, Haynes Flutes, Flute Hoot and University of California Santa Cruz.
Mario Caroli Interview
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.
🌟Topics covered:
🌟Early Studies
🌟Contemporary Music
🌟Conservatory Positions
🌟Cultivating Several Passions
🌟The Importance of Love
🌟The Key To Succeeding in Music
The Flute View Podcast is sponsored by Flute World, Haynes Flutes, Flute Hoot and University of California Santa Cruz.
Emily Beynon Interview
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.
Paul Edmund-Davies Interview
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.
Topics covered:
⭐️Leaving the London Symphony
⭐️Releasing exercise books
⭐️Starting SimplyFlute.com
⭐️Traveling the world
⭐️Introducing the Simply Flute Head Joint by McKenna
⭐️Remaining inspired
The Flute View Podcast is sponsored by Flute World, Haynes Flutes, Flute Hoot and University of California Santa Cruz.
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