2016 Essay Contest Winner Paula Elizabeth Hartsough

The purpose of Marcel Moyse’s Tone and Development The purpose of Marcel Moyse’s Tone and Development book is to increase flexibility of tone color, feeling, and character. Since I started regularly working out of this book, my sense of artistry has drastically...

2015 Essay Contest Winner Allison Jayroe

Twenty-Four Petite Melodic Etudes With Variations Moyse created these books as a way of finding a larger dramatic and emotional range on the flute. His goal was for flutists to find limitless possibilities with our tone colors, vibrato, and dynamic range. Describe a...

2015 Essay Contest Winner David Lassila

I had not really experienced the teachings of Marcel Moyse until the beginning of this year. All of my previous teachers’ influences stemmed from great flute players other than Moyse, such as Baker, Rampal, Taffanel and Gaubert, and so on. My only early exposure...

2015 Essay Contest Winner Jillian Storey

24 Petite Melodic Etudes Like any young flute player studying privately I began with Moyse’s long tone studies from De La Sonorite at a very young age but wasn’t told whose ideas I was following until later in my flute studies. Until more recently I was an impatient...