UA Flute Studio

The University of Arizona Flute Studio includes students from across the world engaged in undergraduate, masters, and doctoral degree programs. Flute studies at UA include private weekly lessons, a weekly studio master class, small group technique classes, flute pedagogy, and guest artist master classes. Along with applied study of the flute, the studio flute ensemble, Flutefinity, records and performs large and small chamber works for school performances and outreach activities within the local community and surrounding area. Flute students are encouraged to seek national and international recognition through young artist competitions, festival/master class performances, and scholarly publications.

Athletic Method

Brian teaches performance development through a simple athletic approach. Students are taught to focus on performance objectives in a longitudinal manner while developing kinesiological habits that ensure success. Music theory, history, and physiology are condensed into a simplified interpretative algorithm that trains the body's physical performance mechanisms to reinforce the joy of performing.

Product Driven

Brian Luce is a highly regarded performer and teacher with experience as an orchestral musician, chamber musician, freelance performer, recording artist, competitor, and recording engineer. This experience, coupled with over 30 years of teaching in the private studio and classroom at universities, high schools, junior high schools, and fine arts festivals, has led to the development of a curriculum that focuses on students' product creation. All students in every major are required to create a professional recording portfolio suitable for commercial release in the state-of-the-art School of Music Recording Studio. As future teachers, they will create a series of teaching and mentoring materials to specific clientele and teach younger students using the apprenticeship model. Flutists learn to function as a producer, arranger, and recording artist in the creation of recordings in the commercial and classical recording studio. These pre-professionals will develop professional marketing materials including a web presence while learning to exploit market gaps in order to secure future employment.