TEACHER & PEDAGOGUE
“Ms. Canali belongs to those people who establish and build new, innovative and well-founded pathways between art, pedagogy and science. She is not only a technically outstanding flutist, but also an artistically highly sensitive musician and at the same time a highly successful pedagogue and passionate researcher. Her versatility, enthusiasm and profound expertise have a profound effect in many different areas (artistic, pedagogical, scientific) in Salzburg and far beyond. As vice-rector for music teaching (Mozarteum University), I know how important it is to support and promote these kinds of skills within the instrumental music disciplines.”
Brigitte Engelhard
Francesca Canali is a passionate teacher with an intense international teaching and pedagogical activity that over the years has intensified and diversified in many different directions.
She pursues a holistic pedagogical approach to flute and music education: her parallel activities as an artist, a pedagogue and a scientist/researcher enable her to combine wide-ranging artistic and pedagogical experiences with scientific knowledge and skills and to ground her own didactic-pedagogical methods on a scientifically founded basis.
Currently based in Salzburg (Austria), she is a professor of flute and chamber music/ensemble at the Kalaidos Musikhochschule in Zurich and at the Landesmusikschulwerk Oberösterreich (Austrian Regional Music Schools System).
Until 2020 she taught physiology, self-care, prevention, anatomy and medicine of the musician at the Music University Mozarteum in Salzburg.
She regularly leads international masterclasses, seminars, workshops and is often invited as an expert and a teacher by many international institutions and universities and as a lecturer at numerous congresses on musician’s medicine and physiology and music pedagogy all around the world.
Her students are prizewinners of national and international musical competitions and auditions in various prestigious orchestras and universities.
Furthermore, Francesca Canali has been a tutor for the flutes and woodwinds of many international youth orchestras and has carried out numerous international music education projects in collaboration with music institutions such as, among others, the El Sistema in Venezuela, the Fundación Batuta, the Filarmónica Jóven de Colombia, Comfenalco in Colombia, the Unisa, the Miagi, the Universities of Pretoria, Johannesburg and Cape Town in South Africa, the Fundación Vozes y Musica para la Integración in Barcelona, SEYO – El Sistema Europa. She has taught regularly at the Conservatorio Itinerante Teresa Carreno, an advanced training programme of the Venezuelan Fundación Musical Simon Bolívar, and is tutor of advanced flutists at the Academia latinoamericana de la flauta of El Sistema Venezuela.
Since 2010, Francesca Canali teaches within the Austrian programmes dedicated to the discovery, development and promotion of musical talent. Her young pupils are regular members of the Junior-Akademie and Akademie für Begabtenförderung (Music Training Academies for Talented Young Musicians) of the Austrian Regional School System, are selected to play in numerous youth orchestras and ensembles and to participate in international projects, and are regular prize and scholarship winners in national and international competitions.
All these experiences have allowed her to acquire an extremely rich and diversified range of teaching experiences and pedagogical methodologies with flutists of very different ages, levels, abilities and cultural backgrounds as well as belonging to very different musical training and education systems.
She was awarded cum laude a Doctorate (PhD) in music science and pedagogy from the University Mozarteum in Salzburg with an innovative interdisciplinary research (doctoral thesis) on the anatomy and the physiological and mental processes involved in flute and wind instrument playing (2013).
Based on the results of more than twenty years of interdisciplinary research and her varied artistic and pedagogical experiences, she developed her own pedagogical method for flute and wind instruments, which is characterized by a holistic body-oriented approach.
She lectured at international conferences and at numerous international congresses on the pedagogy of music and the physiology and medicine of the musician. A comprehensive publication of her research and method will be published soon.
For more detailed information see profiles in the corresponding submenus.
Philosophy
Teaching for Francesca Canali is a two-way teacher-learner maieutic process and means first of all recognizing, activating and supporting…..
Methodology
Her teaching approach is process-oriented and centered on the individuality of the learner, so that individual strengths and potentials are valued and supported and…
Research
Her research has an interdisciplinary approach and focuses on the bodily and mental processes that influence sound quality, focusing especially on the larynx and vocal apparatus….
Projects
Francesca Canali constantly devotes much of her energy to many innovative educational projects both in Austria and abroad….
Background
Wide-ranging studies at prestigious music Universities in Rome, Paris and Salzburg allowed Francesca Canali to grow up in a rich and varied international cultural environment…
Courses
Current opportunities to study with Francesca Canali as an ordinary student at the Kalaidos Musikhochschule in Zurich as well as in courses and master classes.