{"id":941,"date":"2009-05-18T19:31:25","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T18:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/?p=941"},"modified":"2025-10-29T08:18:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T08:18:41","slug":"elizabeth-petcu-featured-in-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/2009\/05\/18\/elizabeth-petcu-featured-in-the-irish-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Petcu Featured In The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_943\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-943\" class=\"size-full wp-image-943\" title=\"Elizabeth Petcu playing a Martin Doyle simple system wooden (Irish) flute.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/elizabeth-petcu-irish-flute.jpg\" alt=\"Elizabeth Petcu playing a Martin Doyle simple system wooden (Irish) flute.\" width=\"230\" height=\"220\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-943\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Petcu playing a Martin Doyle simple system wooden (Irish) flute.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/author\/arminta-wallace\/\">Arminta Wallace<\/a> has recently published an article for the Irish times about Martin Doyle&#8217;s good friend <a title=\"Elizabeth Petcu | Just Me \u2013 solo flute music\" href=\"http:\/\/www.elizabethpetcu.ie\/\">Elizabeth Petcu<\/a> who resides in the coastal town of <a title=\"Bray | Wikipedia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bray,_County_Wicklow\">Bray<\/a> in the <a title=\"County Wicklow | Wikipedia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/County_Wicklow\">County Wicklow<\/a>. For over 25 years Elizabeth served as the principal flautist with Ireland&#8217;s <a title=\"RT\u00c9 Concert Orchestra\" href=\"https:\/\/orchestras.rte.ie\/\">RT\u00c9 Concert Orchestra<\/a> until a hearing problem (<a title=\"Otosclerosis | Wikipedia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Otosclerosis\">otosclerosis<\/a>) sidelined her career. Despite this impediment, Elizabeth has gone on to record a solo flute music album, <em>Just Me<\/em>, and has formed the inspirational music ensemble Rune with <a title=\"About Martin Doyle | Martin Doyle Flutes\" href=\"\/about.html\">Martin Doyle<\/a> (flutes) and Deborah Armstrong (piano). Here are two excerpts from Arminta Wallace&#8217;s article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The ability to hear plays such a crucial role in making music that it\u2019s almost impossible to imagine how a professional musician feels when they\u2019ve been diagnosed with a condition called otosclerosis, or progressive deafness. \u201cI\u2019m in good company, apparently,\u201d says the flautist Elizabeth Petcu with a wry smile. \u201cBeethoven is thought to have had it as well.\u201d [&#8230;] Petcu formed a trio with the pianist Deborah Armstrong and the traditional flutemaker and player Martin Doyle. They call themselves RUNE, and they take an innovative approach to live performance; their concerts blend visual imagery, poetry and prose with various different kinds of music, from baroque to improvisation via the slow air. \u201cI wanted to keep playing. But I didn\u2019t want to do the very conventional, formal kind of classical recital,\u201d she says. \u201cSo what we do is, we pick a theme and tie the music together with words and the beautiful visual imagery of Martin\u2019s photographs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The entire article can be viewed here: <a title=\"An Irishwoman's Diary - by Arminta Wallace | The Irish Times\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/opinion\/an-irishwoman-s-diary-1.762524\">An Irishwoman&#8217;s Diary \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arminta Wallace has recently published an article for the Irish times about Martin Doyle&#8217;s good friend Elizabeth Petcu who resides in the coastal town of Bray in the County Wicklow. For over 25 years Elizabeth served as the principal flautist with Ireland&#8217;s RT\u00c9 Concert Orchestra until a hearing problem (otosclerosis) sidelined her career. Despite this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,174,86,58,6,7],"tags":[448,451,50,450,364,23,452,449,25,38,453],"class_list":["post-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-family-friends","category-flute-players","category-ireland","category-music","category-musicians","tag-an","tag-arminta-wallace","tag-article","tag-diary","tag-elizabeth-petcu","tag-flute","tag-irish-times","tag-irishwomans","tag-martin-doyle","tag-music","tag-rune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3250,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions\/3250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}