Dear all, Are you a musician ? Who are you exactly ? Have you ever competed ? Or auditioned ? Do you plan to ? I believe that, no matter who we are and which path we have chosen, we all have to confront ourselves to such a competitive situation sooner or later. Nowadays, I can't think of a job that you don't have to audition or interview for, a sportive event with no competing purpose, or even a hobby without the aim of doing one's best. So, I think everyone could benefit from the book I am about to present. I swear, I won't make any benefit from you buying it, I don't have an agreement with the author ! It just happens to be THE book that helped me the most in my life as a competing and aud

Dear all, it's time to tell you how I came to realize that I was practicing and thinking backwards. Until my first international competition, which was Kobe 2013, all I wanted was to play the flute. Nothing made me happier than playing a difficult piece with all the right notes in the right places and a nice sound. 'It's already something', is what you might be thinking right now. It was, for sure, good enough to bring me quite far. But from time to time, a teacher would tell me my etudes were boring, or that nothing was really happening in a piece I played. I have to say, I didn't really know what to do about it at that time. I often ended just compensating by moving around more, which has

Dear all, So I am a flutist !! How did it happen ? It is actually a funny story, and I thought I would share it with you, because it is quite different from the usual "I knew I wanted to play this instrument the moment I heard it". No, nothing of the sort for me. First, there are no musicians in my family, so there was no spontaneous need to play music. I think my mother once said "why not play an instrument", and we waited for next September and enrolments to the music school of my town, and that was it. Well, that was it on the principle, because I still had to chose the instrument, right? So, next thing we know, September is upon us and we are going to the music school. When asked what I

Dear all, Here is the very first post of my very first blog ! I am really excited ! So, if you are here, either you landed on this page by happenstance, or you actively looked for it. In both cases, I think you are wondering who I am and why I have got a blog on my brand new Flutist Website. So here is the thing : until the 3d of June, I was nobody. Well, of course I am exaggerating, because as a matter of fact, no one really is 'nobody', and I am pretty sure we all have lots of interesting stories to tell. But let's say, nobody knew who I was, I had a reasonable amount of friends on Facebook, and I hated selfies and hashtags. Then I won the first Prize at the Kobe International Flute Compet

StartFragment Dear all, it's time to tell you how I came to realize that I was practicing and thinking backwards. Until my first international competition, which was Kobe 2013, all I wanted was to play the flute. Nothing made me happier than playing a difficult piece with all the right notes in the right places and a nice sound. 'It's already something', is what you might be thinking right now. It was, for sure, good enough to bring me quite far. But from time to time, a teacher would tell me my etudes were boring, or that nothing was really happening in a piece I played. I have to say, I didn't really know what to do about it at that time. I often ended just compensating by moving around mo