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Welcome to the summer course Flöjtmani at Lunnevad Folkhögskola in June 2025!
Pianist: Asuka Nakamura
Spots are allocated on a first come first serve basis. Additional Auditor passes are available for a reduced price.
In your application, let us know your repertoire of choice, 1-2 pieces with piano accompaniment and one unaccompanied piece.
Application deadline 1st of May
Upon application you will receive a confirmation email with instructions on how to pay the application fee. Remaining fees must be at our disposal before the 1st of June. After the 1st of June the application is binding and can only be canceled by presenting a medical certificate.
The masterclasses will be taught in English.
The course includes masterclasses, flute choir, workshops, warm-ups, concerts and social activities.
Active participant:
Course fee 3000 SEK (incl 300 SEK non refundable application fee)
As an auditor you take part in all activities except playing in the masterclass.
Aduitor pass:
1 day: 800 SEK
26/6-29/6: 1900 SEK
Meals and lodging:
We can’t guarantee a shared double room. If it’s not possible to offer you a shared room, we will offer you a single room instead, for full price. Please let us know who you want to share a room with.
Single room 3 nights+ all meals: 3550 SEK
Shared double room 3 nights+ all meals: 2900 SEK
All meals only: 1975 SEK
Single meals available for purchase on site.
The course includes 1:1 lessons, flute choir, flute ensemble, youth masterclass, workshops, warm-ups, concerts and social activities. The course will be taught by flautists and flute teachers from the board of the Swedish Flute Association.
Course fee 2000 SEK (incl 300 SEK non refundable application fee)
Meals and lodging:
We can’t guarantee a shared double room. If it’s not possible to offer you a shared room, we will offer you a single room instead, for full price. Please let us know who you want to share a room with.
Single room 3 nights+ all meals: 3550 SEK
Shared double room 3 nights+ all meals: 2900 SEK
All meals only: 1975 SEK
Single meals available for purchase on site.
The course fee is the same even if you choose to arrive or leave at a different time.
Katherine Bryan made her concerto debut at the age of 15. She has since performed as soloist with orchestras around the world.
Katherine’s debut solo recording of concertos was released to great acclaim in 2010. She was nominated for an International Classical Music Award in 2011. Further to this success, Katherine recorded another disc of concertos, which includes the first British recording of the concerto by Christopher Rouse. Her third album, Silver Bow, a collection of violin transcriptions for flute and orchestra, was released in September 2015. Her latest recording of Opera transcriptions Silver Voice was released in 2017.
Katherine won a full scholarship to study flute at the Juilliard School. She was also aprize winner at the Royal Overseas League Competition in London, the Young Concert Artists Competition in New York and was a finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year for three consecutive competitions. She was awarded the Julius Isserlis Scholarship by the Royal Philharmonic Society.
Katherine has been Principal Flautist with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra since she was just 21. She has played as Guest Principal flute with orchestras throughout the UK and across the world. She is in great demand as a teacher and tutor. Katherine regularly performs live on radio and television. In 2019, she was named by the BBC Music Magazine as one of the top 6 international flute players of all time. She runs her own flute course on the banks of Loch Lomond.
She is a mother to Torben, 4, and runs The Drummond Craft Co, hand-makingjewellery.
Asuka Nakamura began playing the piano at the age of three in Nagoya, Japan, and at the age of nine she made her solo debut with Mozart’s famous Piano Concerto No. 23.
Asuka has given concerts all over the world. In Sweden she has performed piano concertos by Grieg, Beethoven, Mozart, Mendelssohn and Messiaën. Asuka has had competitive success with prizes in the Ljunggrenska Competition, Gothenburg, Blütner Piano Competition, Malmö, and the Nordic Piano Competition, Denmark.
Since Asuka moved to Stockholm, she has received scholarships from the Frimurarlogen and from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music for four consecutive years.
In 2013, Sveriges Radio made the documentary Mozart has never been to Japan, which is a free artistic insight into Asuka Nakamura’s journey from Japan and her life as a pianist in Sweden today.