A residential course that offers an inspiring and refreshing opportunity to refocus and re-inspire after the summer vacation and long disruption from COVID-19 in a friendly and relaxed location.

Suitable for advanced post grade 8 flute students: senior school, music college or university graduates and undergraduates, flute teachers, or young professional flautists.

Elizabeth Walker (director of Flutes in Tuscany, flute teacher at the specialist music school in Wells, Pearl Flute Artist and historical flute specialist) will start each day introducing her daily warmups and scale patterns, aimed to develop and reinforce tonal colours, flexibility and finger dexterity. This will be followed by a class focusing on a specific aspect or technique found in our core repertoire: such as writing cadenzas, ornamentation, improvisation, memorisation. The morning finishes with a look at some challenging virtuosic flute ensemble repertoire.

In the afternoon there will be optional one-to-one or group baroque or classical 8 keyed flute lessons, (taster sessions also available for those without instruments or prior knowledge) whilst expert piano accompanist Richard Shaw (staff accompanist at The Royal Academy of Music, London) will offer invaluable guidance, accompanying recital pieces that will be later performed in a relaxed and inclusive concert each evening.

For more information and the application form, click here.