Adams Music Centre - Together in Music

Breathing, posture and tone

Saturday 2 November 2024 | 10:30 - 12:00 | Room A

With his love for the contrabass flute, Ned McGowan knows all about breathing, posture and tone on low flutes.

Playing a low flute can be quite challenging in terms of breathing and posture. In this workshop, Ned McGowan will address these issues and look at how improved breathing and posture affect tone.

Ned McGowan is a flutist, composer, teacher, improviser, researcher and contrabass flute soloist. Known for rhythmical vitality and technical virtuosity, his music has regularly won awards and been performed at Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw and other halls and festivals around the world by many orchestras, ensembles and soloists.

Ned is a professor at the Utrecht Conservatory in composition, ensembles and the intense rhythmic training program he has developed, Advanced Rhythm and Pulse. He regularly lectures and teaches around the world on subjects such as his music, rhythm, creativity and low flutes.

Ned McGowan
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