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FEBRUARY Adult learner series
Join us for two online sessions, 12 & 26th February at 7pm (CET), as we learn with Lady Jeanne Galway.
Session One - Going Low
12th February 7pm (CET).
Are you having a bit of difficulty playing those beautiful full Low notes on your flute?
Would you like more variety of the colour and suppleness down low? How about being able to get that embouchure of yours to know where to go and what to do? In these sessions this month we shall work together on understanding and finding that embouchure that works for you in your low register.
Session Two - Going Real Low with Guest Artist Chris Potter
26th February 7pm (CET)
Low Flute specialist, good friend and Galway Flute Academy Artist, Chris Potter will be joining us on this very exciting session.
Chris has a very deep and experienced understanding of the Low Flutes - Alto, Bass, Contra, Sub-Contra and even lower. In this session Chris will be offering suggestions and exercises on developing a low register that is flexible, powerful when needed and has something important to say.
JANUARY Adult learners series
Join us for our sessions on Thursday 22nd & Thursday 29th January 2026, 7.00pm CET, as we learn with Lady Jeanne Galway.
We are all soloists within our playing. We all are the interpreters of the wonderful composers who wrote us such beautiful music. We are all here to shine and use our gifts. We are musicians deep within.
In our January sessions we shall look at bringing our playing to another level. That of the soloist: full of purpose, direction, confidence and clarity.
We might have an idea of how we want our piece to sound, how to finger scales, how to move our embouchure, maybe how we want that cadenza to sound or the Partita of JS Bach or Debussy’s Syrinx.
We speak of knowing where the next note is as we develop our ears, the placement of our tongue as we work our double tonguing and the breathing mechanism to sustain our sound and long phrases. But what of the moment when we are playing on our own whether in a cadenza, a short solo in your orchestral or ensemble or adding a solo piece to our performance?
Let's delve together with a few of our favourite pieces that I hope will add confidence and ideas to your playing and take your playing on and off the stage to another level.
DECEMBER Adult learner series
Join us for two online sessions, 11 & 17th December at 7pm (CET), as we learn with Lady Jeanne Galway.
Session One - Exploring seasonal works of the Baroque era
11th December 7pm (CET).
When I think of December, the beginning of the Winter season and a celebratory time for all; my mind always goes to the time before the holidays and the music that fills my spirit. As has been the tradition within the Western world for many years, composers have filled the concert halls, churches and our homes with beautiful choral & instrumental works for a variety of ensembles and soloists.
Galway Tone exercise
Moyse: De La Sonorité
Taffanel & Gaubert - Scales in various articulations including single and double and tonguing .
Session Two - Stamitz G Major Concerto Movt 3 (Rondo. Allegro)
17th December 7pm (CET)
Have you ever explored the Stamitz G Major Concerto? Movt 3 (Rondo. Allegro) is a wonderful piece of music, also adaptable to playing on its own with piano accompaniment. This particular work encapsulates all the techniques we love to display in playing a fun virtuosic performance - single and double tonguing, scales, legato lines and of course brings joy to both the listener and ourselves.
So let's end the year with joy in our playing together
