Oxford Flute Summer School

And just like that the Oxford Flute Summer School has finished for 2024!

Our students were kept busy with plenty of masterclasses, technique sessions, 1:1 lessons, ensemble rehearsals, flute choir and concerts. It was a real treat to watch our students grow musically, learn from each other and perform with confidence and smiles on their faces. Well done to all of our students, it was a pleasure having you all and we hope you enjoyed the course 😄🪈

A massive thank you to all of our teaching staff Kate Hill, Sue Thomas, Robert Winn, Carrie Cook Hensel and Sinead Walsh, to our pianists Sally Goodworth, Richard Shaw and Radim Panchoca and our Director Katie Bycroft for organising such a wonderful week 😄🎶

We look forward to seeing new and familiar faces next year!

P.S. Watch this space, as we will be sharing lots of exciting video material over the next few months 📹

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Only 9 days to go until the 2024 starts!! 🥳 We are so looking forward to welcoming you all, and have some exciting news to share with you regarding the course.

Firstly, we are delighted to announce that will be joining us on our course again this year! All participants will have the chance to browse their extensive collection of sheet music and try out new flutes. 🎼🎶🪈

Secondly, we are honoured to invite Koto player Michiko Motoi to our course! Michiko will be staying in residence and will be available to discuss traditional Japanese music, the Koto instrument and participants will have the chance to explore repertoire for Flute and Koto. We are very excited for this cross cultural collaboration 🤩🇬🇧🇯🇵

Finally, our director Katie Bycroft and pianist Sally Goodworth are performing on August 7th! Their concert will raise funds for the Oxford Flute Summer School Bursary Fund, and tickets can be purchased at the door. 🎫

Please reach out to us via email or social media if you have any final questions before the course begins. We can’t wait to see you all soon! 🤩🪈

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Meet our pianist, Radim!
Radim studied at the Conservatory Kromeriz, Janacek Academy in Brno and Stavanger College in Norway and during his studies participated in masterclasses in London, Weimar and Paris. In 1998 he won first prize in the Anglo-Czechoslovak Music Competition in London and was a member of a prizewinning piano trio in Stavanger Chamber Music Festival. His varied career includes work as a soloist with the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra, and as a recitalist and duo recitalist with international soloists such as .win66 Robert Winn, Davide Formisano, Lorna McGhee, .walker.flute Adam Walker, Denis Bouriakov, Janos Balint, Clara Novak and many others. He currently works together with his wife Libuse, as pianist for Brno Philharmonic Orchestra and docent at JAMU and the Brno Conservatoire. An important part of his artistic knowledge is accompanying world competitions such as Prague Spring, Beethoven’s Hradec, the Leoš Janáček Prize Competition and the Oskar Nedbal Competition.

Radim has worked at the for many years and is very excited to return again this year 😄

Meet the pianists on our course!

Sally Goodworth has performed as an accompanist throughout the UK and Europe, in venues including the South Bank, Wigmore Hall, Barbican and Windsor Castle. She has toured in Spain, Italy, Germany and China as accompanist to the Berkshire Youth Choir. She currently holds a full time position as Music Coordinator at Brunel University London split between the Music and Theatre Departments and Brunel Arts Centre and continues to be a staff pianist for the London College of Music, Berkshire Maestros and Oxford Flute Summer School. Sally was a piano tutor, accompanist and lecturer in keyboard skills and piano pedagogy at University of Reading for many years and staff accompanist for the Royal Air Force Central Band CPD schedule. She is Head of Piano for online board MTB Exams.

Sally has played for masterclasses given by many renowned musicians including Tasmin Little, Raphael Wallfisch, David Owen Norris, Jennifer Pike, John Wallace and many orchestral principals. She has accompanied many eminent flautists including Robert Winn, Wissam Boustany, Kate Hill, Ian Clarke, Katherine Kemler, Paul Edmund-Davies and Jonathan Snowden.

Sally has performed numerous reduced orchestra operas in stately homes including Tosca, Eugene Onegin, La Boheme and La Traviata and has been Musical Director for more than 30 musical theatre productions including LCM’s Urine Town in 2018. She played in the film She’s Been Away directed by Sir Peter Hall and was a hand double playing Chopin in the last ever Poirot episode Curtains. Recordings include Elgar’s Trombone with Sue Addison and members of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Velvet Afternoon featuring original pieces for flute and piano composed and performed by John Hackett. Most recently, Sally has performed with our founder, Katie Bedford, in a concert in Malta.

We love love love our pianists at Oxford Flute Summer School but it can be hard to meet regularly with your pianist.

Paul Gardner has an excellent website with beautifully played accompaniments for all instruments, including much of the flute repertoire. Reinecke concerto just added 🤩
Take a look!

Piano Accompaniment tracks | Play along to your favourite pieces Improve your music practice! Piano accompaniment play-along tracks for violin, viola, cello, flute, oboe, clarinet, trumpet and horn

THANK YOU everyone who came to our concert celebrating Villabianca, a project of The Malta Trust Foundation
And Oxford Flute Summer School had an outing to Malta!
Thank you for coming to Malta Sally Goodworth come back soon.

Excited that Sally Goodworth is arriving in Malta this evening for an Oxford Flute Summer School mini reunion concert in Valletta this Saturday!
We are raising money for Villabianca a project of The Malta Trust Foundation
All welcome. Tickets on the door.
Palazzo de la Salle Malta Society of Arts

Meet the staff on our course - Carrie Hensel

Carrie Hensel trained as a flautist at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, subsequently working as a freelance musician, teacher and conductor of several youth orchestras and wind bands. Having now established a busy private teaching practice in Hampshire, she also enjoys tutoring and conducting on holiday courses, including the Oxford Flute Summer School and Flutewise. Many of her students have gone on to achieve scholarships, play at county and national level and have successful musical careers.

She is the founder and director of Hampshire Flute Days, and conductor and coach of several of Hampshire’s wind ensembles, both for youths and adults. As conductor of the Hampshire Flute Choir, she has taken the group on tour to places such as Estonia and Germany. She has led them with regular performances at the National Festival of Music for Youth and British Flute Society conferences. As a founder member of Flute Roots, and an enthusiastic supporter of musical education, she gives recitals and workshops to help inspire and motivate young musicians. She is also a Music Adjudicator for The British and International Federation of Festivals.

Carrie has taught at the Oxford Flute Summer School for many years now and leads the Flute Choir. Carrie always brings fun and challenging repertoire to the Flute Choir sessions and helps those who may be playing Alto Flute or Bass Flute for the first time. She is very excited to meet you all on the course this year.

Meet the staff on our course - Sue Thomas
Sue began playing the flute aged 10, attaining Grade 8 less than two years later. While at school she studied privately with Douglas Townshend, then accepted an undergraduate place on the joint course at the RNCM - Royal Northern College of Music and Manchester University, studying flute with Trevor Wye and piccolo with Pat Morris. On graduation she was awarded the Principal’s Prize and then continued her studies with William Bennett at the Royal Academy of Music, where she won the Flute Prize and was the recipient of both the Paddy Purcell Award and a DipRAM. During her studies, Sue was fortunate to acquire scholarships from the Countess of Munster Trust, Welsh Arts Council, Ian Fleming and Myra Hess Trusts.

Upon leaving the Royal Academy of Music, Sue quickly became in demand as a freelance player with the London orchestras before joining the London Philharmonic Orchestra as Sub-Principal Flute in 2001. Her role in the orchestra has involved extensive work as Principal Flute, including recordings of a complete Brahms cycle with Marin Alsop, as well as operatic recordings of Rosenkavalier, The Rake’s Progress and Ariadne at Glyndebourne.

Sue has appeared on various occasions at the Wigmore Hall in the series Soloists of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and together with Nick Carpenter premiered Shadows, a concerto for flute and clarinet by Peter Eötvös at the Royal Festival Hall in 2011. Sue has been a Professor at the Royal College of Music for 15 years and was awarded an ARAM for services to music in 2010. She regularly gives classes and examines in many of the British conservatoires as well as tutoring on the The National Youth Orchestra of Wales. Sue plays a Louis Lot flute, aspiring to continue the French Flute tradition that William Bennett and Trevor Wye championed.

Meet the staff on our course - Kate Hill

As a member of the for thirty years Kate travelled the world extensively, including tours to Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Europe, North America, Brazil and Argentina, working with wonderful artists and music makers. Her freelance musical activities were widespread encompassing orchestral playing, concerto performances, chamber music and recording. Her successful recording of the Mozart flute Concerto in G led to her recording the Concerto for flute and harp with harpist Lucy Wakeford. Kate has recorded the wind chamber music of William Alwyn on the label with the Haffner Wind Ensemble. She was a member of the Haffner Wind Quintet for over twenty years, and as a member of this wind ensemble she was a founder member of the .

Kate has vast teaching experience: in the UK, she completed twenty-five years as a professor of flute at the and was awarded the Honorary ARAM in 1998. She also taught at of Music for nine years and for ten years at the Royal Northern College of Music. For many years she was the flute coach for the Spanish National Youth Orchestra ( JONDE). Kate is a regular teacher at the Oxford Flute Summer School and is looking forward to meeting the students this year.

Meet the staff on our course!

Prof. Robert Winn is a graduate of the in London and was principal flautist of the from 1985-1997. In 1994 he served as a Professor of Flute at the .liszt.academy in Weimar and in 1999 he became Professor of Flute at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne. Professor Winn has given masterclasses in Canada, Australia, Switzerland, Spain, Belgium and the Czech Republik.
Apart from his wide experience in classic musical genres he has played on many Hollywood movies such as The Lord of the Rings, Notting Hill, The English Patient and many more.

To learn more about Robert, head to his website at https://robertwinn.de/. If you are interested in joining one of our courses, head to our website at https://lnkd.in/emhwNreG. This year, our courses take place from August 11-16th. Stay tuned, as we will be sharing more information about our other wonderful teachers in the coming weeks!

Places filling up fast! Book now for Oxford Flute Summer School 2024

Bursary application deadline Friday 22nd March at 5pm!!

Apply for a bursary to OFSS by this Friday!
Application form below for 16-24 yr olds.

https://www.ofssbursaryfund.com/

Friend and frequent student of Oxford Flute Summer School Emme Hensel performing next weekend Reinecke flute concerto. Well done Emme, we can’t wait to hear you!!!

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Full board and tuition: £927 reduced from £1030
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Coming up this Sunday ….

It's our AGM next Sunday, and you're invited! 🎵

Join us online 10am-12pm for our AGM meeting, performances from some of our past Competitions winners, and the latest in our 'In Conversation With' series of talks with inspiring players - this time with our brilliant President, .boustany!

Wissam will share his extensive insight and experience on all things flute - and there’ll be a chance to ask your questions during an audience Q&A.

Find out more and RSVP: https://bfs.org.uk/events/agm-2023-conversation-wissam-boustany

A bit more about Wissam Boustany:

Born in Lebanon, Wissam Boustany began his musical studies in Beirut with his stepfather. He moved to Britain in 1977, where he studied at Chetham's School of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music. During these years Wissam received numerous awards, notably the Silver Medal in the 1982 Madeira International Flute Competition and (in the same year) the woodwind prize in the Royal Overseas League Competition.

Wissam has worked with orchestras including the BBC SSO, BBC Philharmonic, LSCO, State Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Utrecht Chamber Orchestra, Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra and Palestine National Orchestra. In 1995, he founded Towards Humanity, a multi-decade international initiative working with musicians and charities, helping communities who suffer from the tragedies of war. In 1997 he was awarded a knighthood by the Lebanese government (Chevalier de l’Ordre du Cèdre) in recognition of his music and peace work.

OFSS dates confirmed!
11-16 August 2024
Come and join us for a week of fabulous flute playing
See our website for more details https://oxfordflutes.co.uk/

Places still left on Nicki’s Telemann day

Had a wonderful visit to Flute Tree in Sydney today thank you Mark O’Connor, James and the team for the welcome 😀
Great to meet flute friends on the other side of the world… something we love at the Oxford Flute Summer School. Dates soon to be confirmed for August 2024, watch this space!

This young man was a superstar - learned The Great Train Race by Ian Clarke specially for OFSS!

Wonderful week at the 35th OFSS, thanks to all: students, staff, supporters, families and friends 😊
Full of music, learning, friendly support and fabulous playing - it was a pleasure to be with you all!

🎶Places still available on our flute course!🎶 - https://mailchi.mp/a0c299e4efa2/ofss2022openforbookings-10372189

Come to OFSS this year and enjoy 6 intensive days of flute playing with like-minded people in the beautiful surroundings of St Edward's Oxford. Book your place here https://oxfordflutes.co.uk/
All enthusiastic players over the age of 15 welcome!

If you can't get to Norway or Australia for Adam Walker's upcoming concerts including the Nielsen Concerto with the Bergen Philharmonic then try the Wigmore Hall in London on 5th and 10th June http://www.adamwalkerflute.com/events/

OFSS Bursary application deadline next Friday 24th March!
Apply now for a chance to win a full or half bursary to attend our course in August.
More info and application form here: https://www.ofssbursaryfund.com/

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Home | Ofssbf Young players grow in confidence after spending a week with the outstanding teachers at the Oxford Flute Summer School. They also benefit from spending time with other enthusiastic flautists. However, some find it hard to pay the fees. The Bursary Fund is here to help.

Friend of the summer school Wellbeing for Musicians Community founder Veronika Klirova has an excellent podcast series - take a look here at the latest episode:

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