(Jane Rutter Homage to French Flute)

An artistic young flute player goes to Paris to learn how to live ... along the way she encounters ghosts of the artistic Parisian past. An Australian in Paris is an exciting appealing concert-theatre piece with delicious French music from "la Belle Epoque" to the present day. Dubbed the Classical musicians' Midnight in Paris', with French music and poetry An Australian in Paris DVD includes the legacy of the French Rampal Flute School and the 'tres amusant' company of Mallarme, Verlaine, Colette, Josephine Baker, Janet Flanner and Gertrude Stein. Music by Debussy, Faure, Jolivet, Poulenc, Elgar, Roussel, Marais, Ravel, Bolling, Cole Porter,Mancini, Piaf and Aznavour. A virtuosic musical and poetic tour de force, this album was nominated for a 2012 ARIA award( Australian Grammy), and reached #No 1 in the Australian Classical charts.