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Director's Quote of the Day:"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. " Aristotle |
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Trevor Wye
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WYE studied the flute privately both with Geoffrey Gilbert and the
celebrated Marcel Moyse. He was freelance orchestral and chamber music
player on the London scene for many years and has made several solo
recordings, notable on his specialist instrument, the flute d'amour,
which he reintroduced in modern times. His formative years were
influenced by many players and singers, particularly Alfred Deller and
William Bennett.
Wye was formerly a Professor at the Guildhall School of Music, London
and for 21 years at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.
Trevor Wye is the author of the famous Practice Books for the Flute,
which has received world wide acclaim and has been translated into ten
other languages, more recently; his highly praised biography of Marcel
Moyse was published in English and in four other languages. Currently,
he is working on an encyclopedia of the flute.
During the year, Wye teaches at his Flute Studio in Kent, a one year
residential course for postgraduate students and travels throughout the
world giving concerts and master classes including annual appearances in
the USA, Switzerland and Japan. He enjoys serving on juries for
international competitions, and giving recitals and presenting his
unique "Flutes Fantastic!", an hilarious recital with commentary, in
which he plays on more than fifty different flutes.
He collects antique spectacles on which he sometimes lectures, and in
1990, won the Annual Quiz on the subject of the Mapp and Lucia novels,
awarded by the E.F.Benson Society. He spends his spare time gardening,
or at the astronomical observatories in his garden which he also talks.
Founder of the British Flute Society, he was also founder and director
of International Summer School, from 1969-1988, the biggest flute summer
camp in the world. In 1990, he was made an honorary Fellow of the Royal
Northern College of Music.
Since 2003, Trevor Wye serves as an honorary director of the Hong Kong
Flute Centre.
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