FE Flute Studio Profiles: Dan Parasky
At the Flute Examiner, we cherish our teachers, whether they serve college flute studios, community music schools, private independent studios or a combination…
Connecting With Your Audience
This is strange time for performing artists. Due to circumstances beyond our control, our stages, venues, and theaters are closed. Pre-Covid performances with…
The Importance of Exercise
While taking the Essentials of Performing Arts Medicine online course through PAMA this summer, one of the things that really caught my attention…
Claiming Your Space
As a movement educator and Body Mapping teacher, one of the things my students consistently work with is claiming enough space, both in…
Zooming Back to the Basics
“My old pain/discomfort is coming back.” “My hands hurt.” “I’m getting headaches all the time.” “Why am I noticing so much more discomfort…
Interview with Hannah Hammel
Flute Beginnings When did you start playing the flute? Why did you choose this instrument? I began the flute when I was seven,…
A Story About a Claw, a Flute, and Two Flutists
A brand new flute student came through the door for his first lesson. Overflowing with excitement to meet his new teacher and demonstrate…
Why We Should Love Our Ribs
What structures are you using when you breathe? If you ask a bunch of flute players this question, the typical answers are lungs,…
Interview with Carla Rees by Kelly Mollnow Wilson
KW: When did you start playing the flute? Baroque flute? Piccolo? Big flutes? CR: I first heard the flute at a concert played by Atarah Ben…
