We are delighted to take part at the Forum for Flute in Diekirch and to be able to present AZUMI flutes to you. As part of this high-calibre festival, ALTUS artist Rogier De Pijper from the Netherlands will be our guest and hold a masterclass.
Rogier de Pijper (1982) is a Dutch flutist.
In 2016 he released his book ‘Flute Colors’, 112 exercises to improve your flute playing with extensive techniques. The book was sold in more than 20 countries around the world in just one year and translated into German within a month of its release. With this publication he´s busy becoming a leading innovator in the flute world at an international level with.
Rogier also wrote a beginner’s method for flute ‘Fluitmethode.nl’ and ‘Fluitmethode.be’.
Rogier is Altus artist and promoter of Jupiter flutes.
Every year Rogier organizes numerous activities for amateur flute players of all ages. Every summer he organizes a flute camp for flutists up to 20 years old called ‘Dwarsfluitkamp’ and together with Ilonka Kolthof a summer flute course for flutists aged 20 and older called ‘Flutopia’.
Rogier studied music education at the Rotterdam Academy of Music and flute at the The Hague Royal Academy of Music. In 2011 he finished his master studies for the flute at the Tilburg Academy of Music where he specialized in extended techniques. Until 2013 Rogier was a teacher of extended techniques for flute at the Tilburg Academy of Music.
https://www.forumflutepiano.com/flute