Anders Ljungar-Chapelon

Performing on Sankyo Flutes

“Sankyo has a most beautiful, mellow, dynamic and expressive sound, a perfect intonation and balance between the three octaves of the flute; it has a very fast and precise attack, and, on top of this it is a flute with an elegant and attractive design.”

Dr. Anders Ljungar-Chapelon is professor of flute and researcher at the Malmö Academy of Music at Lund University, Sweden, and International Tutor in Flute and researcher at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester (RNCM), England.

Prof. Dr. Ljungar-Chapelon is a researcher and supervisor (Master and Phd). His research is based on hermeneutics from methodological and philosophical perspectives. He has done extensive research on Swedish flute music from the 18th and 19th centuries, Schoenberg’s twelve- tone technique, French early 18th century music, Debussy's Syrinx for flute and its connection to theatre, and investigations into new fields of flute acoustics. He has written a doctoral thesis (PhD) about the French art of flute playing, its tradition, learning, craftsmanship and aesthetics in a hermeneutical perspective covering the period from 1707 to the very late 20th Century.

Prof. Dr. Ljungar-Chapelon further develops teaching materials and writes articles. He edits historic musical manuscripts published by the editions Flöjtistens Vademecum (Lund University Press), Autographus Musicus (Stockholm), in the series The Swedish Transverse Flute and Flautissimo. Universal Edition has also published his Syrinx research in their prestigious series of Wiener Urtext Edition. 

He received his musical education in Gothenburg (Gérard Schaub), Copenhagen (Ørnulf Gullbransen), Cologne (Amadeus Quartet) and Paris (Alain Marion). Close contact with flautist and professor Alain Marion in Paris was especially fruitful, as was the chamber music studies with the Amadeus Quartet in Cologne.