Flute Courses in Italy - Flute Lessons in Florence

Flute Course in Florence, Italy

The Flute course is designed to help you to start off, improve or master your abilities with the flute. The course is carried out through private lessons where you will receive full attention of the teacher and reduce considerably the amount of time you will need to learn or perfect your skills. The Flute Course can be taken at any level of knowledge of Flute playing, as the classes are completely personalized.

The course can be divided as follows so you can have an idea of what will be studied once the teacher evaluates the best level for you.

Beginner Flute Course

At first you will study the basic notes, and practice them through specific short sequences where you will be able to produce your first tunes;
Develop the ability to read simple structures of musical staff;
Study and practice the Intervals (the difference in pitch between two notes);
Learn the dynamics in every aspect of the execution of a given piece, either stylistic (staccato, legato etc.) or functional (velocity);
Develop the use Accidentals; lowering and rising of pitch;
Acquaint the student with the Articulations; the direction or performance technique which affects the transition or continuity on single, or between multiple notes or sounds;
Acquaint the student with Arpeggios followed by specific practice;
Introduce the students to his first set of music scales.

Intermediate Flute Course

Develop a deeper understanding and ability of the chromatic scale; a musical scale with twelve pitches, each a semitone or a half step apart;
Enable or perfect the student's rhythm reading;
Develop students skill and understanding of the harmonic;
Instruction and practice and of the melodic minor (minor scales);
Deepen students ability with music scales;
Improve and perfect the student's sight reading; the reading and performing of a work;
Develop student's ability to read and perform inversions.

Advanced Flute Course

Improve and master the ability to interpret and perform the circle of fifths;
Develop or master the use of the 7th chord; a triad plus a note forming an interval of a seventh above the chord's root;
Deepen students knowledge of complex time signatures;
Develop a greater ability to create musical ornamentations;
Improve the ability of changing from one key to another (modulation);
Master the technique of progression in order to create a smoother music line.

About the teachers:

David Bellugi is a virtuous flutist and also a recorder, concert and studio musician, Macintosh-enthusiast, Sound Desinger editor, and part owner of a Florence-based record company.
David has a B.A. in Applied Musicology which he received Summa cum Laude from the University of California in San Diego(USA), where he studied with Bernhardt-Ambros Batschelet (flute). To read more about him click here.

Stefano Margheri began his studies and was graduated with highest marks at the Cherubini Conservatory in Florence under the orientation of Maestro Alfieri and Professor Di Sabatino. He has done specialisation with K. Klemm and A. Marion, and he has also attended chamber music courses held by Maestro Franco Rossi. To read more about him click here.

Although the Flute Course can be taken alone, other students usually have chosen to combine the Italian language Courses and the Flute Course and that's why we've created the Intensive Music Courses (Italian + Music).

Other instrument you can learn at the AEF:
violin, guitar, viola, cello, harp, oboe, double-bass, clarinet, trumpet, horn, trombone, tuba, drum.

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All prices are in Euros;
1 lesson: 45 minutes;
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