Exploring and expressing our emotions through music.
Newbiggen Lane
Durham
DH70PB
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Hi I’m Rosanna and I’m the proud owner of Flautino Music School. My musical training started with a wonderful piano teacher when I was 8 years old. I also have a dad who loves classical music and had a lovely record player that we would listen to on Sunday afternoons. For some reason he had a few records of recorder music and I just fell in love with the sound. It wasn’t what the recorder sounded like at school!! We found an out-of-school recorder teacher and my love affair with music began. I took grade 8 when I was 14 and went on to do my diploma, and then on to King’s College London and the Royal College and Academy of Music. Truth be told … I hated them all! They were so stuffy … I felt no joy in music when I was there. So I moved back up here … worked for the Sage Gateshead for a while, and then decided to set up my own music school … and Flautino Music School was born. I started out as a mobile music teacher, but after a few years of travelling around I felt the need to put down roots and started teaching from Lanchester Community, County Durham, and am so happy to be part of the community in Lanchester.
My approach to music now is born out of never wanting music to stuffy or snobbish. Music is for EVERYONE! Yep … sometimes you have to work hard but it should still be FUN. I use a wonderful method called Piano Safari for my piano teaching which gets students playing enjoyable music right from the start. Music theory is added in bite-sized chunks. I want kids to be able to read music but also to improvise and learn how to play by ear.
Recorder-wise … I don’t teach recorder to kids because … well, why would you?? It sounds awful when you start so I much prefer to teach piano as way of learning to read music and then kids/adults can migrate onto whatever other instrument they choose … great if that’s the recorder! So I have a few adult students and teach and Durham and Newcastle universities. The recorder is still the love of my life! If you head over to Flautino Events you can read about what’s going on in the performing side of my life.
My love of music therapy started when I was 17 and I spent my work experience week at Dilston College where they did music therapy. It was magic! Music was a language that anyone could speak, whether they were verbal or not. I have now taken various short courses in music therapy and absolutely love the sessions I run. My instrument collection is growing and it’s so wonderful to see kids who often struggle to engage just totally under the spell of music that they are creating.
