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NEW ! Peter’s Piccolo World Exercise Book
Ready to put your piccolo knowledge into practice?
Or are you simply looking for useful exercises to add to your piccolo warm-up routine?
This book is the for anyone who wishes to continue their adventures on the piccolo!
It contains exercises specific to the piccolo, based on well-known excerpts from the orchestral repertoire, as well as hints and tips, accompanying recordings and some important illustrated characters who wished to make an appearance.
Topics cover the realms of sound, vibrato, articulation and finger technique, and there are helpful references to Books One and Two throughout.
Welcome to Peter’s Piccolo World, the Exercise Book!
Peter’s Piccolo World
This books delve into the worlds of articulation, breathing, piccolo sound, vibrato, and much more. Discover what flying saucers, sausages and mouse trampolines have in common with your piccolo playing. Explore the effect that diverse languages and speech patterns have on articulation. Uncover the seven secrets to playing high notes softly on the piccolo. Investigate the vibrato types and sound shapes that create the most beautiful piccolo sound. Develop your finger and posture technique with additional in-depth daily exercises.
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WORKS BY
Desimpelaere • D’hoe • Henderickx • Lysight • Tas • Van der Roost
MUSICIANS
Peter Verhoyen – piccolo
Nele Tiebout – saxophone
Benoït Viratelle – bass clarinet
Pieterjan Vrankcx – seven African drums
Sylvie Erauw – marimba
Stefan De Schepper – piano
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Recently recorded Halvorsen’s Passacaglia on two piccolos with Anke Lauwers. See more of my videos on my YouTube channel!
Biography
As piccolo solo at the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Peter has built up an excellent reputation as a specialist on his instrument. Since 2006 he has developed various concert programs for piccolo and piano together with pianist Stefan De Schepper. With these projects he demonstrates that the piccolo earns a spot on the concert stage as a recital instrument. For a contemporary touch, Peter asked several Flemish composers to write new works for his instrument. The next step was the realization of a series of CDs (Piccolo Tunes, The Birds!, Piccolo Polkas, La Gazza Ladra, Ma Mère l’Oye, Mighty Metamorphoses) in which the piccolo is the central instrument. For his dedication to contemporary Flemish music, Peter has been awarded the Fuga Trofee from the Union of Belgian composers in 2017. Since 2025 he has been appointed as a member of the Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten (Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts)
News
Royal Conservatoire Antwerp master student Fernanda Baeza Vergarda has been selected as one of the five semi-finalists of the Australian Flute Festival Piccolo Competition.
Royal Conservatoire Antwerp master students Gitte Bongaers, Maria Leiva Sepulveda and Meadhbh Ni Ruairc jave been selected for the final round of the Concorso Severino Gazzelloni in Napel
Royal Conservatoire Antwerp piccolo master student Itay Shamir won a temporary contract as solo piccolo with the Dortmunder Philharmoniker (2025)
Sarah Miller, alumnus of the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp piccolo class, has been appointed as the new solo piccolo at the Orchestra of La Monnaie Opera House (Belgium)
Royal Conservatoire Antwerp piccolo master students Itay Shamir and Gitte Bongaers won 1st and 2nd prize in the Dutch International Piccolo Competition (2025)
Royal Conservatoire Antwerp piccolo master student Patricia López Yago has selected as piccolo player for the Lutoslawski Youth Orchestra (2025)
Royal Conservatoire Antwerp piccolo master students Bea Sánchez, Itay Shamir and Andrea Moby Røreng won the first, second and third prize at the Kujala International Piccolo Competition organized by the Chicago Flute Club (2025)
Kunstuniversität Graz student Anna Lydia Podmenik won the audition for second flute/piccolo with the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra (2024)
Royal Conservatoire Antwerp piccolo masters Elizabeth Salerno, Erica Vogel and Ana Mondéjar Amat obtained the first, second and third place at the NFA Piccolo Artist Competition 2024 (San Antonio)
Royal Conservatoire Antwerp alumnus Erica Vogel won first prize in the NFA Piccolo Orchestral Audition and Masterclass Competition 2023 (Phoenix)
Royal Conservatoire Antwerp students Bea Sánchez, Ana Mondéjar Amat and Maria Leiva Sepúlveda and Kunstuniversität Graz student Maïa Huet have been selected as semi-finalists for the Gazzelloni Piccolo Competition 2023 (Italy)
Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp student Elizabeth Salerno won second prize in the Tampere Flute Fest Piccolo Competition 2023.
Ester Esteban Solana, alumnus of Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp piccolo class, won the first prize at the Nordic Piccolo Artist Competition and won the second prize at the Gazzelloni Piccolo Artist Competition.
Four students of the piccolo master program @ KCA were selected as semi-finalist for the NFA Piccolo Artist Competition 2022 (Chicago) Three of them went to the finals.
Prize winners were Ester Esteban Solana (first prize) Sarah Miller (second prize) Erica Vogel (third prize) Maria Leiva Sepúlveda showed wat a terrific piccolo player she is during the semi-finals.
Mar Sala Romagosa, alumnus of the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp piccolo class, has been appointed as piccolo solo at the NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra (Poland)
Erica Vogel, student of the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp piccolo class, has been appointed as the new piccolo player at the Koninklijke Marinierskapel (The Netherlands)
Upcoming Events
January 18, 2026 (11:00)
40 Years Matinee Concerts
• Peter Verhoyen – piccolo, flute, alto flute
• Marc Godfroid – trombone
• Marc Matthys Jazz Trio
Location : Concertstudio Kortrijk (Belgium)
Info & tickets : www.schouwburgkortrijk.be
February 10, 2026
Querflötentage 2026
Masterclasses, Piccolo recital, Vivaldi concerto
• Peter Verhoyen – piccolo
• Irén Seleljo – piano
• East Tyrol Flute Orchestra
Location : Lienz (Austria)
Info & tickets : h.glanzer@tsn.at
February 21, 2026 (20:15)
Carnaval de Animaux
• Maarten Goethals – script
• Koen De Bouw – narrator
• Peter Verhoyen – flute
• Roeland Hendrikx – clarinet
• Yossif Ivanov, Sascha Maisky – violin
• David Abrahamyan – viola
• Justus Grimm – violoncello
• Uxia Martinez Botana – double bass
• Mathias Roofthooft – percussion
• Marie François, Lily Maisky – piano
Location : CC De Kern, Antwerp (Belgium)
Info & tickets : www.schouwburgdekern.be
February 22, 2026 (14:30)
Carnaval de Animaux
• Maarten Goethals – script
• Koen De Bouw – narrator
• Peter Verhoyen – flute
• Roeland Hendrikx – clarinet
• Yossif Ivanov, Sascha Maisky – violin
• David Abrahamyan – viola
• Justus Grimm – violoncello
• Uxia Martinez Botana – double bass
• Mathias Roofthooft – percussion
• Marie François, Lily Maisky – piano
Location : CC De Kern, Antwerp (Belgium)
Info & tickets : www.schouwburgdekern.be
April 21, 2026
40 Years Wiener Flötenwerkstatt
Piccolo workshops
Location : Innsbruck (Austria)
Info & tickets : www.flute.at
April 28, 2026
40 Years Wiener Flötenwerkstatt
Piccolo Workshops
Location : Bruckner Universität, Linz (Austria)
Info & tickets : www.flute.at
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