Teacher
Welcome everybody! Thank you for your interest in my teaching.
Alongside my career as a flautist and conductor, it has been my lifelong quest to nurture young flute players and conductors into well-rounded people through the art of music making. It is an incomparable honour to witness the blossoming of promise into excellence as young students develop over time into creative and confident young artists.
I had the privilege to teach both flute and conducting at the University of Auckland for 35 years, and I enjoyed my time as Professor of Music immensely. My reputation as an inspiring teacher is well documented by my students’ international performances and prizes. Many of my students are enjoying careers in Europe, North America and New Zealand.
During this time, I have always maintained a flourishing private music studio and held many flute courses as I love teaching at all levels.
Like learning a language, learning music is an activity best achieved through interaction and communication. I love teaching on the dynamic principle of ‘learning by playing’.
Research tells us that playing an instrument is not only good for our body and physical fitness but also aids our brain development during the formative years. For all students it is ideal to live in an environment of ‘musical life-experience’ from the earliest possible age to both nurture and develop talent to achieve their musical potential.
For me personally ‘living a musical life is to live life’ to its full potential, and I look forward to sharing my passion of music with you or your child.
TVNZ ONE Portrait Professor Uwe Grodd
“One of my favourite sentences is: ‘The air we breathe in is the air we breathe out.’ This is fundamental… I look for spaces in the body that react with each other to pump the air out. I think of the air as being like a continuous stream of water. If you push against it, it continues to flow in the same speed and volume. That continuity eventually provides the flexibility to move the air, which must stem from an actively supporting body: nothing is jarring.”
Read the full interview with Uwe Grodd in Flute Talk magazine here.