Viviana Guzman interviews Herman van Kogelenberg. He is the Principal Flute of the Munich Philharmonic, is a dutch flute player based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Whilst studying, Herman was appointed Principal Flute with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège in 1999. He resigned from the orchestra to join the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam from 2003 until 2010. An invitation by the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and their musical director Yannick Nézet-Séguin to become their principal flute led to Rotterdam in 2010, and in September 2013 he was appointed principal flutist of the Münchner Philharmoniker under Lorin Maazel. With the Münchner Philharmoniker he appeared as a soloist in 2016 and 2018. Since 2017 he is also solo flutist of Orchestra Mozart, founded by Claudio Abbado.

We discussed the following topics:
⭐️Early Teachers
⭐️The Wooden Flute
⭐️Is Wood for you?
⭐️How to find the best Wooden Flute
⭐️Playing with the Munich Philharmonic during the pandemic
⭐️How to make it as a young flutist in today’s competitive market

The Flute View Podcast is sponsored by Flute World, Haynes Flutes, Flute Hoot and University of California Santa Cruz.