3. DINNER Panflute Seminar 2003

14. bis 16. November 2003, in Rümlang ZH

 

Hello everyone,

I am a swiss nai enthusiast that had the unique chance to attend the 3rd panflute weekend organised by Michael Dinner with the great naists Dan Herford, Michael Dinner and the master Damian Luca himself!

The weekend was absolutely great (at least twice as good as described here)! Let's call it 36 hours music and endless fun!

Damian Luca played a lot of known and new music and it was impressing to see the master of the flute so close. I'd never expect Damian Luca to be a man who is so talented and yet so full of humour.

A few minutes after everyone arrived there atmosphere turned into a "romanian jamming" session. Dan Herford or Damian Luca on the piano and playing all the tunes that we knew (some of tunes are published in this forum). Dan even sang a great italian song!

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At the end of the weekend there was a little concert in a church and Dan played some very beautiful classical pieces (among others a Haendel #3 - the fast one ...) and Damian played some songs from popular to folk style, from fast to slow. Damian was able fill the church with sound and emotion expressed by the nai that I have never heard before!

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I think if Sunday night did not come finally, the dinner weekend would have never ended! And at the moment, Damian Luca is still around here in Switzerland somewhere giving lessons to enthusiast that take the chance to get some piece of advice of the master himself!

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At the end I must say that I was amazed how "aware" Dan Herford is about all aspects of the technique of the flute. Did you ever ask you, how you are doing something? Why you are doing it this or that way? What could one try else? etc. So the lessons with Dan were enormously helpful and he gave thousands of impulses to improve ones practising.

Damian Luca seems to be a genie that was born with talent. He is not fully aware of the questions a young naist can have - he always says, just do it this way (... and then it's very hard to follow him ...) but he is still full of patience and shows the romanian riffs over and over ...

I can only strongly recommend these kind of events to you, if you like the nai and are fond of music!

Ciril