Teachers & Pupils Flute Courses

Bring any number of your pupils of any level and at any time of the year for a weekend, or longer, for an inspirational few days.

The Teachers & Pupils Flute Courses are now in the fourth year and proving very successful for motivating pupils for the rest of the year!

For two or more days, there is no better way of inspiring your pupils for the year.

Atarah has been teaching students of all levels from 8-18 for over 30 years, including Hindhead, and Bloxham summer courses. As the Associated Board Rep for France, she is a specialist in improving exam marks, and has an original approach to teaching Practical Musicianship instead of theory exams.

She covers:

Technique

Musicality

exam skills

and gives each student individual lessons

Along with:

Singing

Dancing

French culture & conversation

Contact with French pupils fills every moment of the day

Set and with a heated pool,

a chance to busk at a market or restaurants and great food, its work and fun combined.

Atarah has one of the world’s largest collections of flute ensemble music for all levels, and 1200 flute figures to look at! other woodwind friends on clarinet, sax, oboe, recorder also invited “!

Accommodation for up to 16 children. Teachers bringing students get free accommodation.

For further information atarahflute@wanadoo.fr or call 0033557474428

Flexi Students Flute Course – France

Flexi means come for as short or as long a time as you want from 2- 7 days!!! Music and University student top-up days for Flute and clarinet 16 and over. This student course offers intensive one to one and group work in a joyful environment with great food, free wine and endless time for fluting.

Sam Coles first flute in the Bordeaux Aquitaine Orchestra will be joining Atarah to discuss technique, sound, interpretation, orchestral playing and much more. Also joining Sam and Atarah will be Anita Biltoo

vocalist, baroque specialist and resident pianist.

Atarah,

who has taught at the RNCM, and endless universities for almost 50 years, can guarantee to improve your playing in four days. Experience of 15 years in an orchestra, 15 years on the road with her Band, and Master classes and adjudications all over the world, mean she has a clarity and unusual approach, which is very inspiring although sometimes a little surprising,

Career guidance, future aims sorted out and fluting sanity make this a very valuable few days in a student’s life.

Bursaries available.

Date: Easter Holidays 2011
Venue: Dordogne

For further information atarahflute@wanadoo.fr or call 0033557474428

Prussian Cove (Cornwall) Flute Course 2010

THURSDAY 25TH TO SUNDAY 28TH NOVEMBER 2010 (LUNCHTIME TO LUNCHTIME)

Set in idyllic, rugged coastal surroundings, Prussia Cove, on the western tip of Cornwall, has been chosen to host the first Flute Retreat — a course run by musicians for musicians. We have limited the number of students (all adults) to around 20 in order to ensure a fully active musical environment, as well as to maximise comfort. The rate of £350 includes full board and is based on a shared room. It may be possible (for an additional charge) to accommodate you in a room on your own, but if this a prerequisite please contact Gillian before completing the application. You may stay on the Sunday night for a small additional charge and, subject to availability, there may also be scope to extend your stay beyond that. Please ask for details.

There will be opportunities for ensemble playing (and pianist Mark Tanner will be on hand), tuition (within a group setting), as well as mini lectures on topics related to musical study and performance. We anticipate players of around grade 8, although it is very likely that some students will be somewhat more advanced, lending the ensembles greater flexibility of repertoire. This year especial attention will be given to Bach and Mozart. The emphasis will be on practical music-making, but a variety of optional leisure activities will be laid on for your delectation.

With Atarah, Gillian Poznansky, Mark Tanner

For further details on the 2010 Prussian Cove Flute Course please see the attached PDF.

Atarah’s French Flexi-Flute Course for Students

A Flexi Flute Course?

Special courfse for students You can come for as many days as you want!

Location: South-west France

Dates: 30th March to 7 April 2010 (Easter vacation)

Atarah Ben-Tovim, MBE, Hon D Mus invites student flautists aged 16 upwards to this flexiflute course at her converted farmhouse home and flute museum, lost in the vineyards two kilometres from River Dordogne and only 35 minutes from cheap-flight Bergerac airport.

World-renowned teacher, international competition judge and master class specialist. Atarah was an orchestral principal with RLPO for 15 years, (she beat James Galway to the job!!) and has played every concerto in the repertoire. She was Chair of British Flute Society for 6 years and is Associated Board Representative for SW France.

What do you get?

Intensive personal coaching from Atarah at Grade 7 to Diploma-level and post-Diploma.
Detailed work on technique, orchestral repertoire, solos, finesse and chamber music. Concertos with flute orchestra accompaniment. Teaching tips, Baroque specialist coaching. Audition, exam and scholarship tips, including Diploma viva voce and written submissions. Career guidance.
Great meals in-house and local restaurants including free wine! Heated pool

Optional extras:

French Spanish and German language coaching. Demo videos recorded. French culture trips.
Advanced Clarinet or Recorder friends also welcome.

Fee:

£85 per day, including transport to/from Bergerac airport or local railway station, accommodation and all meals and wine. Bursaries possible,

How to get there?

Budget flights to Bergerac from Stansted, Southampton, Birmingham, Bristol, Liverpool, Exeter and East Midlands Leeds with Ryan Air, Flybe, J2 and BMI Baby – or train via Paris and TGV to Libourne, with local connection. Book early for cheap travel.

For more details, contact atarahflute@wanadoo.fr or call 0033 557 474428

Time to think at Atarah’s Advanced Course

Dear Atarah, thank you for a brilliant course. Everything was perfect – your teaching was as valuable and original as ever, the music was amazing, and I loved playing the alto flute, which I never dared to before, I always thought I’d hold the group up. The food was out of this world; and you gave 150% of yourself, as you always do. I loved meeting your pupils, young and old. And we were very grateful to your neighbour for driving us to Bergerac. What a thoroughly nice woman. She said you had done so much for them, she was pleased to be able to do that for you. Please thank Douglas too, for picking us up from the airport and for making that delicious chicken soup and the salads and such good conversation.

Marianne and I got back to London with only a slight hitch: I left my flute in the Ladies at the airport, the other side of customs. I realised as we were walking to the station and rushed back. A kind man escorted me to the loos, where there were three security officers looking suspiciously at it. They thought it was some kind of an explosive device. I just got there in time.

Hope you’re having a well-deserved rest. I am very much enjoying the Zoe Heller and think you will probably like it too (I bought three copies, one for me, one for you, one for my daughter-in-law).

Much love

Janice

Flute Course all Levels of Late Starter Adults Playing Bach Together

An adults workshop in London organised by Janice Norman.
All levels of late starter adults playing Bach together with Atarah. Thought you would all like these photos of a memorable evening!

Janice