To celebrate the Festive Season, we have asked a number of famous flutists to do their version of the well known tune 'We Wish You A Merry Christmas' in their choice of flute genre and style. We will post them here as they arrive, and the very first is from Trevor Wye. Click to play the video below and see how Trevor cleverly makes, and then plays, a carrot flute....

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Trevor Wye spends his time giving concerts and master classes the world over including his well known presentation, The Carnival of Venice, for 60 flutes and piano. Besides travelling widely, he teaches at his Flute Studio in Kent and is Programme Director of the 2010 British Flute Society Convention and General Editor of The Flute Ark – the new flute encyclopedia:
www.fluteark.com
www.trevorwye.com

Second up we have Jean-Louis Beaumadier, adding We Wish You a Merry Christmas to the end of "Bouquet de Roses " by Eugène Damare, with Jacques Raynaut on piano - the first time Santa has played piccolo perhaps?....

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Jean-Louis Beaumadier began his flute studies with Joseph Rampal at the Marseilles Conservatory and then continued in Paris at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de musique with Jean-Pierre Rampal. Soloist in the National Orchestra of France, thanks to his abundant discography, his concerts around the world and his piccolo collection published by Gérard Billaudot editions, he subsequently became one of the foremost representatives of the flute piccolo in the world. http://www.jean-louisbeaumadier.fr

Mary O’Brien is a flute teacher based on the North Shore in Auckland, New Zealand. She plays 2nd flute and piccolo with the Auckland Symphony Orchestra and is a past president of the Auckland Flute Society and the New Zealand Flute Society. She is the Editor in chief and the driving force behind Flute Focus.(Photo credit - Ron Weiss)