Hong Kong Orchestral Teachers’ Circle Co-presented with Hong Kong Arts Festival

Paul Edmund-Davies Mastering The Basics Of A Great Flute Technique

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The workshop will cover the four most important basic flute techniques including Sonority , Articulation, Finger Technique and Intervals. Paul Edmund-Davies will demonstrate and explain in detail as well as practice together with participants and supply follow-on information for improvement.

Free Admission

Conducted in English. Supplemented with Chinese.

Please bring your flute to join

Programme Enquiries: 2737 7651 / www.tlmf.org

Paul Edmund-Davies

~ Principal Flute of the London’s Philharmonia Orchestra*

~ Former Principal Flute of the London Symphony Orchestra

*  The Philharmonia Orchestra will perform in 2010 Hong Kong Arts Festival. For more details, please visit www.hk.artsfestival.org

Paul Edmund-Davies established his international reputation as flautist and soloist in the twenty years that he was Principal Flute of the London Symphony Orchestra. Conductors with whom he has performed concerti include Leonard Bernstein, Rostropovich, Pierre Boulez and Kent Nagano and he has played in Chamber Music ensembles with André Previn. From 2005, He took up the position of Principal Flute with the Philharmonia Orchestra.
For the last ten years Paul has toured extensively, giving recitals, classes and performing concerti in America, Europe, Canada, Australasia, the Middle East and the Far East.
Paul has also co-written and performed on a cross-over projects with Neil Percy, Principal percussionist with the LSO. Their disc, Ball and Biscuit, was released in 1999 on the Black Box label. Their latest disc, Cuvée Acoustique was released in May 2006 and a play along version  for one or two flutes (Flute Fusions) was published by Kevin Mayhew in January 2007, giving flautists the opportunity to experience different styles and rhythms from around the World.
He has also edited several books of music entitled The Flautist's Collection and has completed editing and recording the complete Flute Sonatas of J. S .Bach and G. F. Handel (consisting of score, parts and CD with complete performance and play along version) the Telemann Fantasias, the two unaccompanied Partitas by J. S. and C. P. E. Bach and the Canonic Sonatas and Sonatas for two flutes by Telemann. He is currently working on editions of the complete flute works of the hitherto uncelebrated Giuseppe Rabboni.
In June 2007 his latest book, ‘The 28 Day Warm up Book for all Flautists eventually!’ was published. This 150 page volume with four sections on Sonority, Fingers, Articulation and Intervals is entirely original and in a logical and musical way helps to address and solve numerous playing related issues. It is now in its second edition.
Paul is also a director of The Champagne Guild, a company devoted to introducing previously unavailable Champagnes into the United Kingdom.