Trevor Wye International Flute Summer Course 2015
- Cheltenham, United Kingdom
- Camp Type: Overnight, Day, International
- Age of Campers: 12 - All
- Gender of Campers: Coed
This is a basic camp listing: no contact information is provided.
All course delegates will follow a schedule which includes :-
- Daily Masterclasses with Trevor Wye - whether as invited Performers , Participants or Listeners including warm ups on tone, technique and intonation.
- Study Classes and Orchestral Extracts
- Lectures on the History of the Flute illustrated with ethnic instruments and a number of museum quality flutes dating from 1720 to 1923. These will be passed around for study and examination
- Coached ensembles and optional evening flute choir/ensembles
- A daily discussion and diagnostic clinic
- Pedagogy sessions for teachers or intending teachers
- Optional individual lessons with Julie Wright
- A flute repair class
- A talk on the tuning of flutes with an explanation of the construction of flute scales
- A showing of thousands of musical postage stamps, as well as demonstrations of making flutes from a carrot or from paper
- The Final Concert will be on the evening of August 23rd when all performers, participants and amateur players will play in an ensemble with some performers invited to play a solo.
A rough typical day is:
Warm Up/ Hot Up: 09.00 -10.30 Daily exercises, memory exercises, scales and
arpeggios, improvisation etc using Complete Daily Exercises. (Wye - Novello)
10.40 - Studies (Etudes) and corrective and other exercises, including a
Special Study Session on Bach, Syrinx and Schubert Variations.
12.00 one solo repertoire piece each day.
Lunch
15..30 - 18.30. Flute and piano repertoire master class with pianist.
Either am or pm, a short daily look at our flute history with ethnic flutes
of all kinds and a dozen or more historic flutes to examine.
Evening flute ensembles.
Time to relax back at the house.
The week will conclude with a concert with all performers participating.
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Camp Focus
All Activities
Art Activities
- Music
Miscellaneous Activities
- Team Building