AVNER GEIGER
Choose a challenge, set aside some practice time each day, and discover something new.
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Short, focused daily sessions centred on one theme, delivered directly to your inbox.
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Flexible and self-guided—start whenever you like and progress at your own pace.
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Suitable for all levels, from enthusiastic amateurs to advanced players.
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A valuable resource for flute players, teachers, and students alike.
Welcome to the Flute Challenges
The Flute Challenges are carefully designed courses that combine technique, musicianship, and repertoire through manageable daily steps.
Free, flexible, and self-guided, they are created to support thoughtful, consistent practice—whether you're refining your skills, teaching others, or simply doing it for fun, motivation and inspiration.
The Autumn Edition
This autumn, I've prepared two new challenges, as a sort of an autumn journy- one which is historical and inspiring and one which is more on the technical side, as well as a live online workshop on breathing and posture.
A Visit to the French Flute School
The French Flute School has shaped the way we play the flute today. Join a five-day historical journey through this fascinating tradition, exploring beautiful French repertoire and the ideas of legendary flutists such as Taffanel, Gaubert, Moyse, and Rampal.
Each day, you'll receive a new piece to practice, a historical recording to listen to, and a musical idea to explore. We'll focus on elegance, tone, vibrato, articulation, and virtuosity, discovering what we can learn from the great French flutists of the past.
Level: intermediate to advanced
Length: 5 days 15–20 minutes daily
Focus: Inspiration
A visit to the french flute school
For intermediate level and up
The Tone and Embouchure Challenge
Join this 8-Day Challenge to develop a more flexible embouchure, improve your sound, expand your dynamic range and play with greater ease and freedom.
Each day, you'll receive specially designed exercises, a melodic étude and an inspirational video to help you explore the balance between your lips, air and support. The exercises can be adapted to your level, and the goal is simple: less effort, more flexibility and more possibilities in your flute playing!
Level: Beginner and up
Length: 8 days 15–20 minutes daily
Focus: Inspiration
The Tone and Embouchure Challenge
For beginner level and up
Workshop: "Breathing and Posture fundamentals for flutists" 11/11/26 / 8:00 CEST / UTC+2
A 90-minute online practical workshop, full of breath- on posture and breathing.
Breathing and posture are the foundations of our flute technique house. They influence how we produce and control our sound, coordinate our fingers and articulation, manage long phrases, and play with greater ease and endurance. When the body is balanced and breathing is free, we can reduce unnecessary effort and gain more flexibility, control, and possibilities for musical expression.
In this practical workshop, we will explore the relationship between breath, body, and sound, drawing on ideas from Atem-Tonus-Ton, the Alexander Technique, yoga, and other approaches to body awareness.
Through simple exercises, we will work on releasing unnecessary tension, finding a balanced posture, breathing more freely, and understanding how these elements affect our flute technique and sound.
The focus will be on practical exercises you can apply directly to your daily flute practice.
For flutists of all levels.
Date: 11/11/26, 18:00 CEST / UTC+2
Price: 10 Euros
Duration: 90 minutes
Format: Live online via Zoom
Registration and advance payment required.
Breathing and Posture for flutists
For all levels
The Summer Edition
This summer, a new edition of the Flute Challenges is here!
It includes two new courses focusing on essential skills and repertoire: From Intonation to Intuition (14 days) and Baroque Gems (7 days).
All challenges are free and available simply by subscribing through this page.
Each challenge is a focused course designed to fit alongside your regular practice, with an emphasis on practical, musical work.
All challenges are self-guided and can be done at your own pace. You can start anytime. Days can be repeated if needed, but daily work on the challenge is strongly recommended.
Baroque Gems
A 7-day program exploring short masterworks across the German, French, and Italian traditions, developing your phrasing, style, and ornamentation through quick, rewarding daily focus sessions.
Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Length: 7 days, 10–20 minutes daily
Focus: National Baroque styles, ornamentation, phrasing, and musical rhetoric
Goals: Repertoire expansion, stylistic awareness, ornament flexibility, and expressive interpretation
Baroque Gems
For beginner level and up
From Intonation to Intuition
A 14-day program designed to help you become a more confident, flexible, and intuitive flutist by shifting from mechanical tuner-watching to active, musical listening through targeted exercises, etudes, and excerpts.
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Length: 14 days, 15–25 minutes daily
Focus: Listening flexibility, harmonic balancing, and interval placement
Goals: Confidence, pitch flexibility, ear-to-embouchure connection, and effortless control across all registers
From Intonation to Intuition
For intermediate level and up
The Taffanel Gaubert Live Challenge
7 days of a live challenge, on the facebook group of the flute challenges!
Taffanel Gaubert Live Challenge
For intermediate level and up
The Spring Edition
This spring, a new edition of the Flute Challenges.
It includes three courses- focusing on essential skills and repertoire: the Vibrato Lab, the Mozart Concerto Challenge, and the Double Tonguing Jumpstart.
All challenges are free and available simply by subscribing through this page.
Each challenge is a focused course designed to fit alongside your regular practice, with an emphasis on practical, musical work.
All challenges are self-guided and can be done at your own pace. Days can be repeated if needed, but daily work on the challenge is strongly recommended. It is also a good tool for teachers!
You can follow one course or combine several, depending on what you want to work on.
The Vibrato Lab
A 7-day program focused on developing expressive, controlled vibrato through a blend of technical work and musical application, taking inspiration from both flute and string playing traditions.
Level: Intermediate to advanced
Length: 7 days, 20–30 minutes daily
Focus: Vibrato control and range
Goals: Refined, expressive vibrato applied with intention and musical awareness
The Vibrato Lab
For intermediate level and up
The Mozart Concerto Challenge
Deconstructing and Reconstructing a Masterpiece
An 8-day program focusing on the first movement of a Mozart concerto, combining analysis and focused practice to develop a confident, expressive, and audition-ready performance.
Level: Intermediate to advanced
Length: 8 days, 30 minutes daily
Focus: First movement exposition
Goals: Confident, expressive performance grounded in musical understanding
The Mozart Concerto Challenge
For intermediate level and up
The Double Tonguing Jumpstart
from tu to tuku
A 7-day program that builds double tonguing from “tu” to “tuku” through targeted exercises and engaging repertoire, developing clarity, speed, control, and consistency across all registers and dynamics.
Level: Intermediate
Length: 7 days, 20–30 minutes daily
Focus: Double tonguing across registers and dynamics
Goals: Clarity, speed, control, and consistency of articulation
The Double-Tonguing Jumpstart
For intermediate level and up
The Winter Edition
A 7-day orchestral excerpt simulator designed to prepare you for auditions, competitions, and other high-pressure performances by training reliability under pressure, mental resilience and focus, consistency without guaranteed warm-up, and presence and musical clarity in exposed situations, specifically for players preparing for orchestral auditions or similar professional contexts.
The Audition Game
For advanced level and up
A structured, musical approach to scale practice inspired by Taffanel & Gaubert’s famous No. 4 exercise, with six days of focused work designed to improve control and intonation, awareness of tendencies, evenness, flexibility, and tone, while turning daily technique into a more mindful and musical practice rather than a mechanical one.
The Game of Scales
For intermediate level and up
An expressive 8-day challenge inspired by opera repertoire and bel canto style, focused on character and phrasing, musical intention, sound imagination, and playing beyond the notes, inviting you to explore personality and expression and learn how to “sing” on the flute.
The Prima Donna Flute Challenge
For intermediate level and up
The Fall Edition 2025
Regain your sound, clarity, stamina, flexibility, finger technique, and articulation in a short time through a reset that clears old habits and builds a fresh foundation. The challenge includes daily warm-ups, technical drills, and music-making designed to improve breath control, tone, technique, and endurance while leaving you with exercises that will be usefull keep using long after the challenge ends.
Back in shape challenge
For intermediate level and up
One étude a day—carefully curated to build progressively across technique, articulation, tone, and musicality.
Designed for three levels:
Beginner (3–4 years) focusing on finger technique, tone, basic articulation, and rhythm;
Intermediate (5+ years) developing agility, dynamics, phrasing, articulation, and stamina;
Advanced (student-level and above) targeting speed, endurance, complex rhythms, and expressive depth.
The Etude challenges
Three challenges for beginner, intermediate or advanced
A 40-day structured practice journey based on the methods of Marcel Moyse, exploring tone, finger technique, and articulation through De la Sonorité and Gammes et Arpèges (both required).
Divided into 8 phases of 5 days, each segment approaches Moyse’s exercises from a new angle—revealing deeper layers and building a focused, goal-oriented practice.
480 Moyse
For intermediate level and up