November 8, 2025

Nestor Torres is a wonderful flute player and a tremendous guy. I knew of him from friends, and I met him over twenty years ago after he taught a master class, and I took a lesson from him, and we became fast friends.

Nestor studied with the same teacher I had in college, the late great principal flutist from the NY City Ballet, Andrew Loyla.

A few weeks ago, he came to Venice, CA, and I went to see him perform.

He was awesome.

Open thread and enjoy.

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