PorterFlute Pod
188 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago -Amy Porter has been praised by critics for her exceptional musical talent and passion for scholarship. With a versatile and distinguished career, she hosts special guests, tells stories and inspiring tips learned in her life as a classical musician and entrepreneur. Owner of small businesses, founder of 2 non-profits, designer of her own lifestyle brand, Amy Porter leads people in multiple ways. Teaching as a Professor, mentoring as a Coach and her Anatomy of Sound workshop has led her to create innovative thought in others. Porter Productions brings you Amy Porter in PorterFlute Pod.
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S7 Ep. 7 "Being Where Your Feet Are" The Blissful Hiker Alison Young
July 17, 2024 06:00 - 47 minutes - 43.9 MBAlison Young is The Blissful Hiker, former professional flutist "The solo, female, middle-aged, titanium-reinforced, neurological-movement-disorder-manager, cancer-thriver and long-distance-backpacker, Blissful Hiker. With over 12,000 miles logged as a backpacker on six continents and a background as a world class professional musician and nationally syndicated radio host, Alison Young offers a unique perspective with engaging programs that connect us with the natural world and ultimately h...
S7 Ep. 6 100th Episode: The Future of Elementary Classical Flute Music
July 10, 2024 06:00 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MBIt's my 100th Episode so, in the spirit of moving us forward in our flute pedagogy, I'm asking how best I can serve our flute community. What is the future of elementary classical flute music? What will music students be playing when this generation of students are teaching? PorterFlute Pod producers Isabella Carucci and Ella Hursh are flutists creating the Flute Pedagogy Project and I asked them to be the co-hosts of this special anniversary podcast. Happy 100th episode! I'm so grateful for...
S7 Ep. 5 A New Life in Radio - Meet Adam Eccleston, Flutist, Educator and Radio Host
July 03, 2024 06:00 - 43 minutes - 39.6 MBAdam Eccleston talks all about his "wild and interesting journey as a musician, educator, radio host and a slew of other wonderful things..." and we share a lot of laughs. I met Adam at ARIA Summer Academy 15 years ago ? at Mt. Holyoke College and he really had an impression on me. We've managed to keep in touch - I heard him on WQXR Radio in NYC and I just had to have him with me in the pod.
S7 Ep. 4 Go Blue Flutes! Exit Interviews 2024
June 26, 2024 06:00 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MBThis podcast features interviews with the newly minted Dr. Brandon Lepage whose DMA dissertation Queer Excellence through Musical Activism is one that propels us forward. His recitals surrounded the subjects of Flint, Michigan: Repertoire and Gun Violence: and LGBTQ+ representation in "flexible" instrumentation in chamber music for intermediate players . Also featured is Alexis Phinney, our new Graduate Student Instructor for 2024-25. She is the assistant for My Breathing Buddy studies and i...
S7 Ep.3 Storytime: Meet Noniko Hsu, Digital Media Specialist
June 19, 2024 06:00 - 44 minutes - 41 MBMeet Noniko, my UMICH SMTD alum I deem "My Disney Princess" destined for a life in film and music. She's a digital media specialist on the high seas, bringing her music to the expeditions to Antarctica. Listen in and learn about her path from Taiwan to Antarctica after I met her at age 15.
S7 Ep. 2 Remembering Leonard Bernstein: A Tanglewood Flute Reunion
June 12, 2024 06:00 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MBWe loved our time as Fellows at Tanglewood! Alison Young (The Blissful Hiker) and Regina Helcher Yost (Charleston Symphony) are my guests in the pod as we remember the inspiring spirit of Leonard Bernstein from our time working with him in 1987. He has left an indelible impression upon our music making - and yes, we'll weigh in on Bradley Cooper and the movie, "Maestro"
S7 Ep. 1 Performance Therapy: The Illusion of Ease
June 05, 2024 13:05 - 14 minutes - 12.9 MBHow do others make it look so easy in their career and on stage? I delve into some of the reasons that might be behind some of that look of ease. Welcome new producers Isabella Carucci and Ella Hursh into the Pod from the UMICH SMTD Flute Studio. And check out the new video format!
S6 Ep. 12 It's A Wrap! 2023 Audience Insights
December 20, 2023 07:00 - 23 minutes - 22 MBIt's 2023 in review. The top 7 Episodes, our stats from Spotify, YouTube and Amazon as well the Meta data. Thanks from the bottom of my heart for your listenership.
S6 Ep 11 My Grab Bag of Life
December 13, 2023 07:00 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MBI have always had this idea that I’d go into my grab bag of advice– actually two grab bags I have - and this episode is called My Grab Bag of Life. I recorded it in case you hear something that helps. Word of caution – it will be random. Some life things some flutey things and you'll hear about Sarah. I chose some Christmas Nativity music – this time my arrangement all played by me – of Morten Lauridsen’s O Magnum Mysterium
S6 EP 10 A Musician's Winter Break. Yin or Yang?
December 06, 2023 07:00 - 25 minutes - 23.5 MBLast season I didn’t do a podcast during the holidays so I thought I’d end this season with advice for getting through it all. So I chose the most obvious of titles. – A Musician’s Winter Break. Yin? Or Yang? Yin being restorative and yang being filled with power. Both will be productive, believe me.
S6 Ep 9 What's Up Amy?
November 29, 2023 07:00 - 20 minutes - 19.3 MBLots of things are up - so I'll update you! Go Blue Flutes, where I'm playing next and some new recordings being released in 2024.
S6 Ep 8 Performance Therapy: Auditioning for Music School and What Professors Want
November 22, 2023 07:00 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBI’m happy to be coming to you with some prescriptions for naturally healing your fear of being in the hot seat during those pre-screening and live auditions for music school. Let me tell you, I don’t like being judged any more than you do so let me tell you how to best be yourself, how to think, who to listen to when it comes to your playing (hint: it’s not you) and what is expected of student’s in an audition for schools, both undergrad and grad. With me in the pod, several of my unnamed ...
S6 Ep 7 Storytime: "Survival of the Flutist" by Marianne Gedigian
November 22, 2023 04:46 - 33 minutes - 31 MBWritten by flutist and teacher Marianne Gedigian, Survival of the Flutist details the journey of a flutist on their path to professional and personal fulfillment. This stunning 80+ page hard cover picture book was masterfully hand lettered and illustrated by artist, flutist and teacher Patti Adams. Produced by Adam Workman, founder and president of Flutistry Boston, Survival of the Flutist is exclusively available at www.flutistry.com
S6 Ep 5 Performance Therapy: Pre-internet learning
November 01, 2023 06:00 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MBI learned the flute before the computer was portable and I’m often asked how I did it. After asking “did what?” and “what are you asking about?” How I made a career before the ease of information and accessibility. I realize you all want to know how we got by without the internet or computer for gaining wisdom about classical music and how to play it. Sit down and listen. There's a lesson here.
S6. Ep 4 A Conversation on Gaubert with Penny Fischer (Nocturne & Allegro Scherzando, Madrigal, Sonata in A)
October 25, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBNFA Lifetime Service Award winner Penelope Fischer turns 80! Listen to our conversation in 2020 about and feature 3 of the works on the Phillipe Gaubert Study Guide we created together in 2017. Amy Porter, flute; Tim Carey, piano. Penny Fischer and AP discuss Nocturne & Allegro Scherzando, Madrigal and Sonata in A,
S6 EP 3 Warm Yourself UP! Meet Amanda Blaikie and Laura Lentz
October 18, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 56 MBWe review new ways to warm yourself up with two wonderful flutists! Discover Modal Flute Warmups from Laura Lentz in Rochester, NY and Daily exercises and Rubank duets online with Detroit Symphony's Amanda Blaikie. PLUS exciting news about a new method on the horizon from a very respected pedagogue. Listen in!
S6 Ep. 2 The Anatomy of MY Sound: Dr. David Dowling quantifies my flute sound
October 11, 2023 06:00 - 33 minutes - 31.3 MBListen in as distinguished professor Dr. Dowling teaches about how he quantified my sound for the audience at my 2019 Anatomy of Sound workshop. Apparently people wanted to know why I sounded and how I sounded like I sound! Dr. Dowling specializes in underwater acoustics, hydrodynamics, hydro-acoustics, structural acoustics and has worked for the Navy so - I trusted him in this study but it took some convincing on his part as to why I needed to see the Anatomy of Sound! Featuring Gaubert Son...
S6 Ep1 Friendcast: Trudy Kane, Retired, Met Opera and Frost School of Music
October 04, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBMy coach from 1988-1990 was Trudy Kane. Ms Kane was Principal Flute with the Metropolitan Opera 1976-2008 and is Professor Emeritus at the Frost School of Music, University of Miami. She received both her BM and MM from the Juilliard School. She is active in the commercial recording field and can be heard on the soundtracks of many film scores including The Untouchables and Beauty and the Beast (original). She can be heard and seen on many Met videos including Il Trittico, Manon Lescaut, Pet...
S 5 BONUS What's Up Amy?
June 03, 2023 17:00 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MBWhat's up Amy? Featuring surprise guest Gareth Davies, Principal Flute, London Symphony. Plus updates on Trio Virado, Brevard Music Center and AP's summer reading list.
S5 Ep 12 Storytime: The WIlliam Bennett Legacy with Lorna McGhee & Guests
February 07, 2023 16:18 - 1 hour - 68.8 MBHappy (would have been) 87th Birthday WIBB on February 7th! The legendary WIlliam Bennett died in May 2022 and he left a hole in all of the hearts of the musicians that knew him. I was never his student, only a fan, so today my guest is Lorna McGhee, and we discuss this incomparable flautist. I'm including some of his recordings, special memories and dedications from his students and friends Denis Bouriakov, Wissam Boustany, Emily Beynon, Joel Tse, and Jeffery Zook.
S5 Ep. 11 Etude Edition: Drouet's Drama
February 01, 2023 07:00 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MBDrama! Stolen Flutes! Stolen Music! It's a backstory from 200 years ago. Plus - In the preface of the Drouet Etudes it mentions that they should be practiced after the Berbiguier etudes. I was so happy to read that because I needed something to bridge the gap from Berbiguier to Altes and Rose.
S5 Ep 10 Business 101: I want to play on Broadway (pop music, Movies)
January 25, 2023 07:00 - 58 minutes - 53.1 MBNew York Flute legend Elizabeth Mann and Blue Flute Alum Karmen Gould bring the one piece advice that everyone needs when they say to themselves and others, "I want to play in the movies, the pit or in rock band!" If I had a nickel for every time I hear that. You have to love it, live it and be "the musician's musician."
S5 EP 9 Stay Well, Play Well: Personal Wellness
January 18, 2023 07:00 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MBFear. Blame. Regret. All feelings that can emerge on the yoga mat, in a lesson and in a personal relationship. Today I want to discuss the concept that these feelings of fear, blame and regret represent the space between where you are RIGHT NOW (who you think you are) and where you want to be (who you are going to become). No one is producing this podcast except me, myself and I so get out your journal, sit on the couch and let’s discuss one mental health issue – feelings.
S5 Ep. 8 Performance Therapy: Piccolo Power!
January 11, 2023 07:00 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBGet out your piccolo notebook in this therapy session everyone because In the pod with us is legendary Detroit musician Jefferey Zook and I ask him the questions you’ve asked me.
S5. Ep 7 Go Blue Flutes! Grad School Edition
January 04, 2023 07:00 - 14 minutes - 13 MBMeet Masters of Music flute students Minseo Kim from Korea and Lexi Eubanks from Georgia, along with DMA candidate Brandon LePage from Michigan. They're all checking in and letting us her their voices as they tell us in their words, how their experiences have been in 2022.
S5 Ep. 6 Storytime! Viviana Guzman, From Tragic to Magic!
December 28, 2022 19:00 - 38 minutes - 35 MBMeet Viviana Guzman.
S5 Ep 5 Etudes by Isang Yun
December 21, 2022 07:00 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MBThis episode takes a deep dive into the "Etudes for solo flute" by Korean composer Isang Yun. Here I excerpt the dissertation and feature the playing of Dr. Brian Dunbar, faculty at Anatomy of Sound and Professor of Flute at Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam.
S5 Ep.4 Business 101: What (not) to Say and (not) Do
December 14, 2022 07:00 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MBLet's think about the awareness of our behavior in our business, or job, our workspace. We’ll speak about some of the things people are learning as young adults and are like, “HEY! I wish I knew that earlier!” Today I’m discussing what to say and how to behave in several different arts and artistic settings and hopefully it will elevate your purpose. Suggestions from Vicky Oliver, Janet Horvath, Alan J. Tomasetti, and the Cincinncati Metroplitan Orchestra.
S.5 Ep. 3 Friendcast: Dr. Alice Dade, Humor as a Hobby
December 07, 2022 07:00 - 54 minutes - 50.3 MBMeet "Funny Girl" Alice K. Dade. She loves making people laugh in stand up comedy. AND she's a great musician and teacher. From the University of Missouri, welcome my friend Alice.
S5. Ep.2 Go Blue Flutes! Meet The Freshmen
November 30, 2022 07:00 - 21 minutes - 19.5 MBThey are astoundingly wonderful people beginning their journey within the folds of the University of Michigan Flute Studio. Meet the new Blue Flutes!
S. 5 Ep.1 Performance Therapy: "Have a Good Lesson!"
November 23, 2022 07:00 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MBToday I want to get into that very popular phrase - that "blessing" we bestow on others in the hallways of homes and music schools everywhere. "Have a Good Lesson!" What does that mean exactly? And to whom? I pose some ways we might look at this wonderful and ever-changing one-on-one meeting with our mentors. I give both perspectives here, having been in both situations. Of course, I haven't been in your situation. Only you can change your perspective in order to have a good lesson.
S5 BONUS What's Up Amy?
September 14, 2022 16:00 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MBThere are many projects in the air around here - stay in the loop and get updated on the latest from Porterflute!
S4 Ep. 8 Let's Talk Sound! Anatomy of Sound LLC and AOS-Wellness
May 04, 2022 06:00 - 51 minutes - 46.9 MBWould you like to hear about it? We're featuring snippets from my movie Anatomy of Sound made in 2012. Ten years later, my guest is movement coach Laura Dwyer, my partner in Anatomy of Sound LLC and AOS-Wellness.com We're going to introduce you to a place you can come to for answers beyond the clinic and you'll meet your new Breathing Buddy. Interested in telling your story about the pandemic and your musical growth from it on the next episode? How are you pulling yourself forward or pulling...
S4 Ep. 7 Blue Flute Alumni Composer Nina Shekhar: Exploring the intersection of identity, vulnerability, love, and laughter
April 27, 2022 06:00 - 42 minutes - 39.4 MBBlue Flute Alumni and award winning composer Nina Shekhar is my guest and we really give the attention and light to female and nonbinary composers. We want to live in the solution. From her bio "Nina Shekhar is a composer who explores the intersection of identity, vulnerability, love, and laughter to create bold and intensely personal works." Enjoy the podcast as we feature some of her works!
S4 Ep. 6 Composer Talk: Meet Daniel Dorff, VP of Publishing for Theodore Presser Company.
April 13, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 60.3 MBMeet Daniel Dorff. Flutists adore playing his music and I adore his humor. Featuring excerpts with Katie Leung, pianist in my live performance of Dorff's Sonata (Three Lakes).
S4 Ep. 5 Villa Lobos Specialist, Musicologist, Ethnomusicologist Thomas G. Garcia
April 06, 2022 06:00 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBI met Tom Garcia at Juilliard as a tuba major. Then we formed the Porter/Garcia Flute and Guitar Duo and the rest is history. Born in Brazil, he's an expert in all things Villa Lobos and even makes his own period Latin American guitars. He is Professor of Ethnomusicology and Musicology at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
S4 Ep.4 Symphony Stories with Christina Smith, Principal Flute, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
March 30, 2022 06:00 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MBWe were appointed in the same week. My flute sister for 8 years, Christina Smith, is here to talk about how we played then, and how we play now. And, of course, we serve up some Tea.
S4 EP.3 Performing Early Music with Kathie Stewart
March 23, 2022 06:00 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MBWe go there, firing questions about "Early" music with Kathie Stewart, my partner for my recent project on YouTube, Quantz Quickies. We discuss J.J. Quantz's treatise, "On Playing The Flute". A founding member of the GRAMMY-award winning baroque music ensemble Appolo's Fire, currently Kathie is Curator of Historical Keyboards at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Historical Performance Institute, and Academic Specialist in Historical Performance.
S4 Ep. 2 Animals and Music
March 16, 2022 06:00 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MBLet’s talk about music, animals and life. They all go together emotionally and scientifically. Listen to stories, studies and facts behind music on our human planet and our animal planet. With stories by Laura Dwyer, and Co-producers Justine Sedky and Alan J Tomasetti. Featuring Amy Porter playing "Zoo Song" by Nina Shekhar.
S.4 EP 1: Let's Talk Shop! Meet Founder of Flutistry, Adam Workman
March 09, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 79.9 MBWelcome to Season 4! Need to know about repair warning signs, talk shop about gold and silver, and understand a ton more that you did before? Meet Adam Workman. He's likable, trustworthy and always current. First Flutistry Boston, then Flutistry Austin, now Flutistry Florida. Your Flutistry is always evolving.
S3 Ep. 15 Storytime: Stories From Our Time
December 22, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 62.2 MBThe Juilliard 1980s reunion continues as we tell stories from our time at Juilliard in the 1980s and living in New York City's Ansonia Hotel. We invited two of my closest buddies, a girlfriend who’s just a great girlfriend and a neighbor who was just a great neighbor. Violist and educator Rebecca Young and pianist, composer and educator Robert Apostle. I went to the vault and found a Sonata that’s a favorite among flute players- Christopher Caliendo’s Sonata No 8 Movement 3 the Ride of the H...
S3 Ep. 14 Stay Well, Play Well: Your Guide on The Side
December 15, 2021 07:00 - 22 minutes - 20.4 MBI’ll give you just a few thoughts from my experience over 20 years at Michigan on the relationships with a teacher of your instrument and highlight work that students can do personally to have everything click. Featuring Gieseking Sonata with Tim Carey on piano.
S3 Ep. 13 Friendcast: A Juilliard Flute Reunion
December 08, 2021 07:00 - 58 minutes - 53.2 MBI chose to invite the 6 female peers that I felt influenced me the most from the Juilliard School from 1982-1987. They also always had a smile, always played their best and are such beautiful souls in this world. Welcoming in Wendy Stern (Montclair State), Liz Mann (Orpheus and St. Lukes), Sharon Wood Sparrow (Detroit Symphony), and Liz Buck (Arizona State University). Here in spirit, Marina Piccinini and Laura Gilbert.
S3, Ep. 12 Go Blue Flutes: Alumni Updates and the Audition Process
December 01, 2021 07:00 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MBIn honor of December application deadlines we have some advice on auditioning for the UMICH SMTD Flute studio. And there are four Blue Flute alumni updates!
S3, Ep. 11 Business 101: 501.C3 Non-Profit Organizations AFC and SEMFA
November 24, 2021 07:00 - 53 minutes - 49 MBLet's dive deeper into the the stories behind the Atlanta Flute Club (Founded in 1997) with Kathy Farmer and Southeast Michigan Flute Association (Founded in 2002) with Debbie Ash and Holly Clemans. We also discuss flute choirs and their development. Featuring Desert Echoes Flute Project Flute Choir with member and co-producer of PorterFLute Pod, Alan Tomasetti. Performing "Flourishes" by Kathy Farmer.
S3, Ep. 10 - Etude Edition: A Winter's Rose: 32 Etudes by Cyril Rose
November 17, 2021 07:00 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBWe come bearing a Rose - etude that is. It’s our Etude edition and Cyril Rose etudes for clarinet are discussed today since I’ve recently recorded them all from my edition published by Carl Fisher. and we’ll be looking into them more creatively with my two colleagues from UMICH SMTD, Professors Chad Burrow and Dan Gilbert.
S3 EP 10 Etude Edition: A Winter's Rose: 32 Etudes by Cyril Rose
November 17, 2021 07:00 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MBWe come bearing a Rose - etude that is. It’s our Etude edition and Cyril Rose etudes for clarinet are discussed today since I’ve recently recorded them all from my edition published by Carl Fisher. and we’ll be looking into them more creatively with my two colleagues from UMICH SMTD, Professors Chad Burrow and Dan Gilbert.
S3, Ep. 9 - Performance Therapy: Inside the Interview Audition for Academia
November 10, 2021 07:00 - 57 minutes - 52.2 MBWe’re bringing some advice to those students wondering if they can have a career teaching and performing as an instrumentalist – together – and not put into a box of being one or the other. Meet the most recent Doctorate graduates that have jobs here in the US - Dr. Erika Boysen, University of North Carolina, Greensboro and Dr. Maria Castillo, University of TN, in Knoxville. Both women weigh in on being DMA graduates from UMICH and young Professors in the 21st century.
S3 EP 9 Performance Therapy: Inside the Interview Audition for Academia
November 10, 2021 07:00 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBWe’re bringing some advice to those students wondering if they can have a career teaching and performing as an instrumentalist – together – and not put into a box of being one or the other. Meet the most recent Doctorate graduates that have jobs here in the US - Dr. Erika Boysen, University of North Carolina, Greensboro and Dr. Maria Castillo, University of TN, in Knoxville. Both women weigh in on being DMA graduates from UMICH and young Professors in the 21st century.
S3, Ep. 8 - Storytime with Composer Lowell Liebermann
November 03, 2021 06:00 - 49 minutes - 45.8 MBMeet Lowell Liebermann, composer, pianist, Juilliard friend and lover of all things music. We feature his Sonata for Flute and Piano published by Theodore Presser. Chia-Chi Hsu, piano.