Awarded for 2025; announced January 2026

Award Citation

The Teacher of the Year 2025 award of the Global Flute Excellence Awards is presented to Anne Pustlauk (Belgium) in recognition of exceptional pedagogical leadership grounded in scholarship, clarity, and sustained international educational influence.

Throughout 2025, Pustlauk’s work exemplified the highest standards of flute pedagogy, uniting historical rigor with practical applicability and reaffirming the central role of informed teaching in shaping contemporary performance practice.

Scholarly Contribution and Pedagogical Authority

A defining milestone of the year was the publication of The Classical and Early Romantic Flute: A Theoretical and Practical Guide (Oxford University Press), the culmination of more than fifteen years of research into historical flute performance practice.

Distinguished by its clarity and pedagogical precision, the book translates historical sources into concrete, usable tools for modern teaching and performance. It bridges scholarship and practice with exceptional effectiveness, offering performers and educators a structured, historically grounded approach to Classical and Early Romantic repertoire

International Teaching and Educational Impact

Alongside her scholarly work, Anne Pustlauk maintained an active international teaching presence throughout 2025, leading advanced courses and masterclasses devoted to Classical and Early Romantic repertoire. Through this work, she has consistently reinforced historical awareness as an essential foundation of contemporary flute education.

Her teaching emphasizes intellectual clarity, stylistic understanding, and practical musicianship, shaping a generation of flutists equipped to engage repertoire with both historical insight and artistic responsibility.

The Award

The Teacher of the Year award honors educators whose work demonstrates outstanding pedagogical authority, scholarly depth, and lasting influence on flute education at the international level.

In recognizing Anne Pustlauk as Teacher of the Year 2025, the Global Flute Excellence Awards acknowledge a year marked by significant scholarly achievement and a sustained commitment to teaching that strengthens the intellectual and artistic foundations of the flute world.

This recognition is part of the Global Flute Excellence Awards 2025.