Welcome to the first Flute Examiner issue of 2022!

We have three articles for you this month, submitted by Kelly and me, along with Margarita Zelenaia’s “Solitude,” our monthly New York Women Composers feature. Kelly writes about learning to create a performance space in a time when that may be your living room rather than a concert hall. I share suggestions for seeing the bright side of a lost competition, and Kelly’s interview with Meerenai Shim reveals a strong, resilient and valuable member of our community. There’s a pattern this month—when things don’t go exactly the way we expect, when conditions aren’t perfect, how do we pivot? We’ll all face moments like these, and we hope you’ll be inspired by what you read here this month!

Jessica Dunnavant, Editor

	Meerenai Shim: Flutist, New Music Advocate, and Entrepreneur When did you know that flute was THE instrument for you? What has your education as a flutist been like? I just followed…
	Performance Space Over the last three semesters, my students have been reporting even more performance anxiety than usual. We have all had to become much…
	“Solitude” Suite for a Flute solo in three movements by Margarita Zelenaia In 1997, together with my teenage son I just moved to the US, and my husband, in order to support us, continued to…
	How to Celebrate When You Don’t Win I’m addicted to the Great British Baking Show. I’ve watched every season we can access in the US, most of them more than…