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Tootling Ted is a site about flutes and teaching and about Kate Walsh. She loves teddy bears, flutes, performing and TT covers all of these .

Kate has a very wide range of skills relating to flute playing and teaching. Her performing range extends from playing the piccolo in a samba street band to complex contemporary music theatre: one day she can be a soloist in a concerto and next giving a beginner their first lesson. By common consent she is an inspirational teacher both one to one for her instrument and in the classroom. She is able to convey her passion for music in a way that motivates younger children. As a flautist she has the expertise necessary for advanced diplomas for adults. She pioneered the teaching of fifes for flute beginners when she worked as a peripatetic flute teacher in Ealing. She is just as at home teaching children or adults and feels she can learn from both. She is now Head of Music at Lady Margaret Primary School in Southall where she is able to introduce a new generation of children, mainly of Asian origin, to the joys of creating, participating in and listening to music from all over the world in a wide variety of styles and idioms.

.Kate Walsh originally studied flute at the London College of Muic with Ann Cherry .She subsequently pursued her studies with Colin Fleming of the Ulster Orchestra and in various masterclasses. She has an M.A. from City University, London and an LGSMD from the Guildhall School of Music and has obtained a Post Graduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) specialising in music.

Her performing career has covered all types of music. She has played with a wide range of local, national and regional ensembles and orchestras including the Northern Ballet Theatre and the Bournemouth Symphony and most recently with Dorset Opera in their acclaimed 2007 production of Turandot. She is solo flute in the Royal Air Force Association President’s Band(RAFA) and Vale Winds and has played with a number of other bands. She plays regularly with the North London Philharmonia and the All Keyed Up flute ensemble She particularly enjoys working in pit bands and has performed in many operas, shows and musicals, ranging from Gilbert and Sullivan to Benjamin Britten.

She has recently moved with her husband to a comfortable five-bedroomed house in West London where for the first time in her life she is able to have her own music room and conduct rehearsals and not disturb anybody .

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Kate enjoys performing in many different situations including solo and joint recitals and with chamber groups. She has had many years experience of solo recitals, both with and without piano. She is very flexible and likes to structure her programmes to suit the requirements of each organiser. She has a wide knowledge of standard and lesser-known flute repertoire ranging from J.S.Bach to Oliver Knussen. She also frequently performs light music, folk songs and jazz-influenced pieces. In her recitals Kate is keen to show off the various members of the flute family .Her particular favourites are the piccolo, which she loves and the very rare flutes d’amore. She conducted a major research project into these instruments and their repertoire as part of her MA degree. SANKYO FLUTES have used an edited version of her findings on their web site Flauto d'amore for some time to give background information on their new Flute d’amore in A. A fuller version, a translation of which has appeared in Brazil, may be consulted by following this link Flute d'amore

Kate and her friends in All Keyed Up would be very happy to put together an evening of varied flute ensemble music as a concert or as a background to your function. Numerous audiences have been charmed by this unusual medium.

Kate studied singing as well as flute at Music College and this has translated into a lasting interest in working with voices. She has worked with the mezzo-soprano Jane Money and the pianist Richard Furstenheim: they can offer a real fun evening, mixing their solo and Chamber Music repertoires

If you think Kate and friends can contribute to your musical event, please Email Kate or phone her on the numbers below and she will be very happy to discuss your requirements and suggest how she/they might be able to help.

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^{If you are looking for an orchestral soloist, Kate has a wide range of classical and modern concertos in her repertoire. In 2001, she performed Chaminade’s Concertino and the Reinecke Concerto in the same programme to great acclaim. She would be particularly interested to perform some of the dedicated flute d’amore repertoire, which her research has uncovered. The first performance of her edition of a Concerto in F for Flute d’amore and strings by J.A.Hasse(1699-1783) on November 17th 2003 in London was a great success and she would be very interested in further performances.}

^{A full repertoire list for her other concertos is available on request.}

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^{Kate is also not one to turn down a challenge, to do things which are slightly out of the ordinary for jobbing musicians. Thus she has played for afternoon tea on a cruise ship, entertained (with others) the local Hells Angels in a German bus station, provided background music at a furniture convention and has also entertained passing shoppers and bemused lorry drivers in Enniskillen High Street with a spirited rendition of the first movement of the Mozart D major concerto.}

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She is very happy to lead workshops or masterclasses for all ages, followed by a recital if required.

Lecture recitals and associated activities relating to the Flute d’amore or the whole flute family are also available.

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A Minor Partita

WHAT KATIE DID first appeared in 1992.  It includes a wide selection of classics and lesser-known repertoire for solo flute and with piano. The highlights are a moving performance of the great Sonata in A by Franck and the Partita in A Minor by J.S.Bach.  Other lesser-known gems include the whole of La flûte de Pan by Jules Mouquet and the Saint-Saens Romance.

Available directly from 80 Long Lane and specialist music shops, £10.95

INVOCATION – Released in 1998, it contains an exceptionally wide range of music, mainly from the unaccompanied repertoire. There are also tracks with mezzo-soprano(Jane Money) and one with viola (Alicia Chislett). You can hear the full spectrum from traditional folk tunes to settings of Japanese haiku (with voice) in a haunting contemporary idiom. Japan is also represented with two, intense, highly spiritual pieces – Requiem and Mei by Fukushima. Kokopeli by K Hoover evokes the desolate plains of the American West before the coming of the white man. The classic repertoire in this disc includes "A Minor Sonata" from C.P.E. Bach, and unaccompanied version of the C Major sonata by J.S. Bach and one of the twelve "Fantasias" by Telemann. Particularly worthy of note is an original setting of one of Kate's poems from Epithalamium for flute and voice by Richard Peirson ,her former accompanist

All this for £13.95 from Long Lane or specialist flute and record shops

Payment is acceptable in any convertible currency. Euros particularly welcome

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CONTACT POINTS

Details of her availability for playing may be obtained from Musicians Answering Service - 01306 500022

For all other information, please contact

80 Long Lane

Ickenham

Uxbridge

Middlesex UB10 8SX

United Kingdom

Phone: (44) (0)1895 674278

Fax: (44) (0)1895 674278

Mobile: (44) (0)7889 716181

Email: Kateflute@btinternet.com: Kate@tootlingted.co.uk

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