Trevor Wye

Trevor Wye (born 6 June 1935) is a professional flautist, flute instructor, and author of several books about technical aspects of flute playing. He founded the International Summer School for flute.

The English flautist Trevor Wye began playing the flute at age 15. Wye did not study flute at a tertiary institution, but studied privately with Marcel Moyse, whom Wye credits as a major influence on his playing, teaching, and writing career. Wye also studied with flutist Geoffrey Gilbert. He has been influenced by British singer Alfred Deller and flautist William Bennett.

Wye was a freelance orchestral and chamber player in London for many years, and has released several solo recordings. He served as a professor at the Guildhall School of Music, London, for fourteen years, and at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, for twenty-two years. The latter school awarded him an honorary degree in 1990.

Perhaps his best known published works are the six-volume Practice Books for the Flute, which concentrate on tone, technique, articulation, intonation and vibrato, breathing and scales, and advanced practice. He has also published a series titled A Beginner’s Book for the Flute, a piccolo practice book, and several arrangements for flute and piano. His biography of Marcel Moyse has been published in several languages, and an ongoing collaborative project consists of an encyclopedia of the flute. Another work-in-progress is a short biography of Albert Cooper, flute maker.

Wye teaches in his flute studio in Kent, which is a one-year residential course for postgraduate students established in 1990, and travels the world giving masterclasses and concerts, serving as an adjudicator for international competitions, and giving recitals. He is the general editor of a free, on-line flute encyclopedia called The Flute Ark.

Wye's wife Dot passed away in October of 2022.

List of publications
Wye has published over 170 items including books, CDs, DVDs.

Hobbies
Wye's hobbies include astronomy. He has a home observatory with a 16 inch (~400 mm) Schmitt Cassegrain computerised telescope. He has a large collection of antique flutes, both the western concert variety and others from around the world. He demonstrates about 60 of them in his Carnival Show.