Pan Journal March 2024

Including: a run-down of the 2024 Competitions; newly discovered works by Marin Marais, c 1710; optimising your practice routine with the Spider Log method; memories of player, publisher and bon viveur Simon Hunt; former RSNO flautist Helen Brew reflects on her career and next steps; Johann Wilhem Wilms and his flute compositions; supports for playing with an injury; Composer Katrina Penman on musical connection; Trevor Wye on the last years of Albert Cooper; a summer with Eldred Spell; and more!

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Sophie McGrath
Pan Journal November 2023

A bumper features issue, including: composer Kaija Saariaho, Wessel Flutes (Re)Launch, a guide to Poulenc’s Sonata for Flute and Piano Pt 2, Eva Kingma’s new double contrabass flute, meeting flute-playing astronaut Ellen Ochoa, teaching tips for beginner flute, Wibb through his flutes, returning to a playing career in later life, Albert Cooper’s biography Part 5, Avril Coleridge-Taylor’s work for flute and piano; and more!

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Sophie McGrath
Pan Journal - July 2023

Pat Morris: A Piccolo Life, A Beginners’ Guide to choosing and (re)learning repertoire, the benefits of improv for ensembles, interpreting Poulenc’s Sonata for Flute and Piano, the bel canto singing tradition, flutemaker Albert Cooper, writing a method book - plus news, reviews, events listings, Competitions 2023 rundown and more!

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Sophie McGrath
Pan Journal - March 2023

How the pandemic improved my playing; celebrating female composers; can a flute player write interesting chamber music?; a personal experience of overcoming physical injury; beginner’s guide to comparing the baroque and modern flute; Trevor Wye’s biography of master flutemaker Albert Cooper part 3, After the War - and more

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Sophie McGrath
Pan Journal - November 2022

Mastering your breathing, exploring extended techniques, a closer look at Piazzolla’s Histoire du Tango, an introduction to Franz Anton Hoffmeister, part 2 of Trevor Wye’s biography of flutemaker Albert Cooper, Publisher spotlight on Edition Cossack, an interview with composer Halit Turgay - and more

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Sophie McGrath
Pan Journal - July 2022

A special celebration of Wibb’s life by members of the global flute community. Also in this issue, a beginner’s guide to meditative music-making, Conrad Asman on his new work for piccolo, discovering the eFlute Festival, the effect of the pandemic on freelance players, the performance history of Prokofiev’s Sonata for Flute and Piano in D Major Opus 94, Publisher Spotlight on Edition Svitzer - and more

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Sophie McGrath2022
Pan Journal - March 2022

An interview with Emily Beynon, remembering Franz Doppler on his 200th birthday, investigating the flute in Donizetti’s Lucia, recollections of Alain Marion, ideas for livening up your practising, the first instalment of a biography of legendary flutemaker Albert Cooper, OHMI Trust on playing the flute with disabilities, behind the scenes commissioning new music, and more!

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Sophie McGrath2021
Pan Journal - November 2021

British flute choir arrangements, body mapping with a focus on arms and jaw, livestreaming as a musician, F S Kelly and his Serenade, the art of transcription-making, Competition entrants’ stories, Competitions 2022 information, recollections of Jean-Pierre Rampal, returning to summer school and more!

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Sophie McGrath2021
Pan Journal - July 2021

Collaborating via the internet, British flute repertoire, teaching methods for pain-free playing, teaching tiny players, Competitions entrants share their stories, an appreciation of flutemaker Roger Harris, Dutilleux Sonatine, rediscovering Dutch music banned by Nazis - and more

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Sophie McGrath2021
Pan Journal - March 2021

Lowell Liebermann at 60, a beginners’ guide to circular breathing, face masks for flute-players, Atarah' Ben-Tovim’s teaching repertoire, wise words from Moyse, an introduction to body mapping, a reflection on the life of Hallfriđur Ólafsdóttir, and more

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Sophie McGrath2021