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A Gilded Career: A Q&A with Sir James Galway Celebrating His 85th Birthday

If you ask a non-flute person to name a flutist, many of them would undoubtedly…

Do You Know Your Flute’s History? Provenance and the Stories Behind Our Instruments

The Library of Congress is a vast repository of knowledge, memory, and culture, housing millions…

Kujala Walfrid color by J. Roob (2)
Passing Tone: Walfrid Kujala (1925–2024)

Walfrid Kujala, known affectionally as Wally, passed away on November 10, 2024, at the age…

Remembering Wally: A Collection of Tributes to Walfrid Kujala

Walfrid Kujala passed away in November 2024 (read Leonard Garrison’s obituary in this issue). He…

FQ at 50: Thank You Wally

The Flutist Quarterly has had some incredible regular contributors over the course of its 50 years.…

Cart's D minor sonata with my McDermott's flute at a recording session
Rediscovering Jiří Čart (Czart/Zarth)

While I was visiting Brno, Czech Republic, in 1997, Arnošt Bourek of the Janáček Academy…

Excerpt from the Fourth Movement of Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 4
Revisiting the Pedagogy of Articulation – Part Two

In the fall issue of Flutist Quarterly, I discussed the fundamentals of articulation and its…

Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash Illustration of a smile
Facing Braces: How one Flutist Dealt with Having to Save Her Teeth

I always felt blessed that I had never suffered any ailment or injury that interfered…

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Thursday’s FusionFlute Gala gave everyone a taste of the many flavors in store for the rest of the weekend.
Celebrating Flauta Mundi: Photo Highlights from the NFA’s 2024 San Antonio Convention

From August 1 to 4, 2024, thousands of flutists from across the United States—and abroad—gathered…

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A Fiesta of the Flute: Photo Highlights from 2024 Youth Flute Day

On the Saturday of the NFA’s 2024 Convention in San Antonio, almost 400 students joined…

Kaija Saariaho: A Personal Reflection

This article originally appeared in the November 2023 edition of the British Flute Society’s publication…

For the Love of the Flute: Mary Jean Simpson

This is the second in our ongoing series of articles that FQ is doing in…