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Keep up-to-date with concert plans, view our latest events and publicity and come and meet the members of this recorder consort with attitude!

Be sure to click HERE to listen to our latest live broadcast from BBC Radio 3′s ‘The Early Music Show’.


 

“…stylishly played by i Flautisti, the ‘Girls Aloud’ of Baroque music!”

BBC Radio 3 ‘The Early Music Show’


i Flautisti – The London Recorder Quartet – are making a name for themselves by challenging preconceptions of recorder playing and delivering inspirational repertoire with imagination and creativity.

The ensemble is bringing a fresh approach to the idea of a modern consort, combining the vision and diversity of C21st composers with exciting performances that encourage admiration for their instrument.

This year sees the continuation of i Flautisti’s concert concept; to support the continuing creation and production of new music by premiering new works in many of the performances they give.  Collaborations with worldwide composers and the group’s enthusiasm to maintain these have resulted in three World Premieres in the first half of 2011.  Linking this with the ensemble members’ eagerness to arrange existing works constantly encourages the growth of repertoire for recorder.

 

“Recorders with Attitude!”

Brighton Early Music Festival

 

The group has appeared as Young Artists of the Newbury Spring and Bury St. Edmunds Festivals, showcasing two World Premieres at these.  2010 saw the inclusion of i Flautisti in the Festival Mitte Europa to promote German-Czech cultural interactions, filmed for Česká Televize. 

i Flautisti have been broadcast live on BBC Radio 3’s ‘In Tune’ and ‘The Early Music Show’.  The ensemble also performed ‘Rituals of the Seasons’, their first staged theatrical piece alongside a singer and reciter, as part of their Young Artists concert for the Brighton Early Music Festival 2010.  i Flautisti were also the featured ensemble in the Summer Issue of The Recorder Magazine.

In 2011 the ensemble have had their debut recital at St Martin-in-the-Fields in London, been Semi Finalists in the SMITF Chamber Music Competition and Finalists in the Salieri Zinetti International Chamber Music Competition in Italy.  i Flautisti are Young Artists at Grassington Arts, Cambridge Summer and Leamington Music festivals, have appeared at the Summer School of Early Music in Prachatice in the Czech Republic, and premiered a new piece written for them by young composer Dominic Irving, entitled ‘Soundclouds – …a soundscape for four improvising recorder players.’ The ensemble were also delighted to be invited to give the World Premiere of Karel Janovický’s composition, Quartet for Recorders No.1, at The Embassy of the Czech Republic in London receiving praise for their ‘technical brilliance and youthful élan’ from the International Martinů Circle.  The group also looks forward to expanding their education work alongside the Recorder Rebels publication having given a concert alongside 200 of North London’s recorder players at The Union Chapel in Islington.  There they also premiered a new piece written for them, Mistura by Nathan Theodoulou. 

i Flautisti has continuing representation from Tanja Classical Music Agency in Prague and Culture Mediation International in Vienna, a management agency that seeks to promote diverse and creative artists throughout Europe.

 

“This young ensemble is one to watch.”  

BBC Radio 3 ‘In Tune’