Flute with David M.

I've worked hard to be a flutist, and I continue to work hard every day to grow my technique, my hearing, and my musical imagination: what we call "chops" and "big ears"! My great hope is that I can help my students succeed at something they are passionate about within the musical domain. Personally, I've recently been expanding my composing, improvising, and arranging activities. I am hoping to collaborate more on duets and small ensembles when this CoVid disaster is over! I started teaching a free weekly course for the general public up here in Connecticut in 2020 because I feel strongly that everyone needs to know that they are musical inside, how to have access to that music, and how to share it with others. Of course my private students learn the same principles! "Big ears" for everyone! I started my higher education in music with a BA in Music History and Theory, not Flute (that came later, with my Master's from Yale University in the studio of Ransom Wilson). My BA, from Oberlin College, gave me a great background to logically grow my students' listening skills. My students get to know the whole gamut of Western Music from Gregorian Chant to modern movie music. More importantly, they continually increase their understanding of what they are hearing -- both from without and from their own imagination. I believe in breaking down walls that divide our world into isolated subjects, so I am interested in knowing what my students are excited about -- be it archery, French, Social Studies, Harry Potter, or whatnot -- and connecting it with music and the flute.