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How would a day in an intensive masterclass be like?
Have you ever participated in an intensive masterclass? I bet you haven’t done that yet.
Allow me then to give you a little glimpse over how would your day look like, what you will learn and how would your experience be like.
FLUTEinWIEN – Intensive. Personal. Effective.
🕙 10:00 – 45 minutes daily sound and technique class
Every day during your intensive masterclass will start with a 45 minutes sound and technique class. In this class you will learn to use simple yet challenging exercises that will help you develop your control over your air pressure, lips flexibility, tone focus and colors, playing big intervals smoothly, attack, dynamics, articulation and more.
In this class you’ll get to work on your basics and learn a new warm-up routine that will allow you to develop all these techniques daily.
🕚 10:45 – 2 HOURS daily repertoire class
We’ll continue with a 2 HOURS daily repertoire class, in which you’ll get to integrate the technical work of your sound and technique class directly into the pieces you are preparing.
Besides of the technical difficulties that each piece might require us to work on, this is the time to discuss as well interpretation and style, such as for example Baroque articulation, freedom and rubato in romantic and French music, orchestral excerpts (if you prepare for a coming audition). Therefore, my recommendation is to always bring with you few pieces in different styles, so we get a chance to cover all these topics.
🍰☕ You deserve a break – with a delicious homemade cake and coffee
Since the total daily classes time is almost 3 HOURS, we’ll have a break that will include a homemade cake I prepare myself (the most favorite so far has been the cheesecake) and a cup of coffee, which I roast myself.
Very often the students would prefer to finish the classes without any break, and the ‘break’ would happen then at the end of the classes.
🕐 13:00 – Free afternoons and evenings – time to discover Vienna
Vienna has endless possibilities for you to discover. There are “only” 100 museums in the city. Whether you are passionate about arts, nature, science, history, architecture, music, craftsmanship, psychology and much more – Vienna has a museum for it. In addition, you can visit palaces, the zoo, an aquarium, parks and gardens, enjoy the Austrian world famous Apfelstrudel (Apple strudel), coffee houses and enjoy local cuisine – and it’s only just a bit of what’s possible to do.
Every evening there is a huge selection of concerts available – in the famous golden hall of the Musikverein (where the New Year’s concert takes place), in the Staatsoper (world’s famous opera house), in the Konzerthaus, Volksoper, Teater an der Wien and many other smaller halls for chamber music and recitals. All the best orchestras, soloists and conductors arrive regularly to Vienna and you’d be able to listen to them live.
Love to share your experiences with someone? Come with your friend!
The Intensive Masterclasses are offered for 1 or 2 flutists only, in order to be able to work as intensively every day with each flutist.
The ‘Duo Masterclass’ allows you to come together with your flutist friend and participate together. Each one of you will have a daily 30 minutes sound and technique class and 1.5 hours daily repertoire class and you’ll be able to watch the class of your friend.
The break with the homemade cake and coffee is of course happening as well. We’ll finish the day around 14:15 and the rest of the day will be free for you to enjoy Vienna.
Testimonials
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The intensive masterclass with Ory was exactly what I needed. In a very short time Ory guided me on how to find more focus and a richer color in my sound, and how to apply this focus on different techniques-staccato, piano, tuning of the high register, lengthening of phrases, and more. Ory is one of these rare cases of an excellent musician and flutist, who is also a fantastic teacher. The systematic set of exercises that he developed is highly effective and would benefit anyone in acquiring a full range of sound possibilities. The format of the intensive masterclass enables to really learn and transform in a very short time. I feel like I now have a new trajectory, and I look forward to implementing the new ideas into my performance.
(And also, the cake and coffee were delicious!) 
Anat Nazarathy
February 17, 2020 - I've got an online course from Ory - three days warm-up course. It was amazing! I appreciate very much Ory's playing and teaching. I like that Ory gives very clear instructions for exercises and also plays it for a student. Ory is patient and kind teacher. He pays attention on how you do an exercise very carefully. After practicing with Ory my friends who are musicians noticed that my flute sound became more powerful and colourful and I'm really thankful to Ory for that!
Vitalia Antonova
June 12, 2020 - This was the most effective flute massterclass , Ory is totally a fantastic flutist but the most important is that he is a good teacher... He works every detail, it was totally worth it , as much as I surely am thinking to continue lessons with him and to do massterclasses with him again ...
The best experience till now.... ����
Rina B.
December 11, 2017 - My 14 year old daughter recently toke the course. It was her first online course, and she was very pleased. Ory is very good teacher, with a lot of patience. He also detected and helped her dissolved a few problems. Thank you Ory Schneor. Absolutely recomend!
Drazenka Bendelja
August 16, 2023 - Ory is a truly fantastic flute player, musician and teacher. He is kind, patient and clearly has a wealth of knowledge he is very willing to share. I think it’s always great to seek advice from those you respect and admire and after 3 lessons with Ory, I left Vienna feeling motivated, inspired and confident. Thanks so much Ory!
Stephen Clark
March 25, 2019 - Ich hatte Ende Juli bei Ory den Meisterkurs dreitägig gebucht und konnte mir in dieser Zeit sehr spannende und interessante Tipps zu Themen wie Ansatz, Ton und Luftführung einholen. Meine Erwartungen an den Kurs wurden eindeutig erfüllt.
Vielen Dank lieber Ory für diese schönen Stunden! 🙏🏻✨🎶
Maximilian Geier
September 18, 2025 - I just completed this excellent three day course. Ory Schneor's insightful instructions and comments during the course helped me right away. Through his clear demonstrations and intuitive comments, I felt a real physical change. My embouchure is so much more stable already and I am really looking forward to experimenting more and to working on these exercises with my own university students!
Andrea Kapell
January 10, 2021 - I had a fabulous week participating in FluteinWien! Ory transformed my sound from being a rather unfocused tone to a gloriously rich full focused tone in the course of 5 days. His patience and ability to explain minute adjustments within the embouchure and oral cavity were extremely beneficial. Having gone through this experience, I feel a lot more confident on how to approach and maintain a consistent tone throughout my repertoire, excerpts, and etudes.
To finish each flute masterclass with a pleasant chat, fresh home-made cheesecake, and cappucino or tea, made for a great reward after a lot of hard work on the flute. Thank you so much for a great week Ory!
Caroleen Molenaar
April 7, 2018 - Clear and precise explanations to exercises that push your technique forward. Ory's lessons are a gush of fresh air to the daily practice of the flute. Very inspiring and motivating teacher. I highly recommend him and I am looking forward to more lessons!
Ana Laura
July 16, 2020 - If you are looking for a good MASTERclass for yourself or for your students, Ory Schneor and FLUTEinWIEN is the place to be. His approach is tailored to each individual, you have time to observe yourself (breathing, air column/direction/speed; awareness of the muscles, lips etc) and explore new ideas which are extremely pedagogically defined and well explained. Ory Schneor has a good pedagogical approach and extreme sensibility in guiding your progress in playing the flute. His work shows a great deal of dedication in teaching and as in playing/demonstrating at lesson.
Finally I found peace with myself (teaching and playing) and I can move on and explore new ideas with more confidence and ease on my musical/flute path. 🎶😁🤓💪
Tina Ostr
August 28, 2019
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