Trevor Wye, flute

Trevor Wye studied the flute privately both with Geoffrey Gilbert and the celebrated Marcel Moyse. He was a freelance orchestral and chamber player on the London scene for many years and has made several solo recordings. He was formerly both 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 received worldwide acclaim and have been translated into eleven other languages. More recently, his highly praised musical biography of Marcel Moyse was published in English and five other languages. For the past 30 years he has been working on an encyclopaedia of the flute, now online: www.fluteark.com.

During the year, he teaches at his Flute Studio in Kent, a unique residential course for postgraduate students, and travels throughout the world presenting the Carnival Show and giving master classes with annual appearances in the USA, Canada, Europe, Taiwan and Japan. He also enjoys serving on juries for international competitions. In 1990 he was made an honorary Fellow of the Royal Northern College of Music by the Duchess of Kent. He was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011 by the National Flute Association of the USA.

The Carnival Show

Trevor Wye has been presenting his Carnival of Venice Variations for more than forty years throughout the world. The Carnival Show begins with an introduction to the instruments. The Variations include two of Mozart’s Magic Flutes, piccolo, Scandinavian flute, Mexican pottery flute, the bansuri, panpipes, a paper flute, a bicycle pump, a 750 years old ocarina, single flageolet, double flageolet, the very rare triple flageolet, a human tibia, an ocarina, the Cindy Flute, a gemshorn, a parrot flute, a tzi-tzu, a carrot, a Thumpy, flute damour, sopranino recorder, a snake, a flötlein garklein, baroque flute, alto and bass flutes, a frog, a rack of 22 small flutes, 7 whistles, an electronic chromatic flute, and several other electronic flutes. The Variations include music by Bach/Gounod, Briccialdi, Genin, Godard, Grieg, Wye, Scott, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Sousa, SaintSaens, Beethoven, Strauss, Schubert, Weber, Mozart, Alford, Rachmaninov, Rossini, Mendelssohn and Hieronymous Bloggs.