Photo: Jean-Paul Wright
The Hamilton Flute Festival takes place this weekend - two days of workshops, masterclasses and lessons with Guest Artist Joshua Batty, along with flute ensembles, concerts, forums, and trade stands.
RNZ Concert host Andrew Clark spoke with festival founder Kathryn Orbell about the event - it's the fifteenth one she's organised - and how she came to play the flute in the first place.
"I started out in a Saturday morning music class. It was compulsory to play recorder for a couple of years first, and then you were allowed to choose what you might want to move on to. And I wanted to play the cello."
"But we had a roster of parents who picked up all the local children and dropped them off for lessons on a Saturday morning, and you couldn't fit five kids and a cello in the car. So flute it was!"
Here's one of Kathryn Orbell's favourite flute pieces:
2025 Hamilton Flute Festival
Saturday 12 July - Sunday 13 July
Fairfield Intermediate School Auditorium
Clarkin Road, Hamilton
