Floor Wittink is a Dutch professional saxophonist, teacher, breathcoach and workshopleader. Floor earned her Master’s degree in Classical Saxophone through studies with Johan van der Linden. She followed masterclasses with many saxophonists and other musicians like Arno Bornkamp, Claude Delangle, Christer Johnsson and Christiaan Bor. Following these studies Floor did a three-month residency at the beatiful Banff Centre of the Arts in Canada where she gave many performances in collaborations with fellow musicians and recorded a solo CD.

Since that time Floor has been busy working with symphony orchestras like the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, music theatre like Holland Opera and several chamber groups; playing duo with piano, guitar, harp and with saxophone quartet.

Floor always loved to be a teacher and started teaching the saxophone already during her studies. She frequently gives workshops and clinics where she focuses on issues like sound and breathing. For the past years she has devoted a lot of time to writing about these issues on her blog and in e-book about playing from your heart (Spelen vanuit je hart). She also published a book about teaching music for teachers.

As a wind instrumentalist, Floor has a special interest in breathing and decided a few years ago to become a breathcoach next to her activities as performer and teacher. She helpt wind instrumentalists, singers and speakers with breathing technique and helps people suffering from Long Covid to develop a healthy breathing pattern.

She recently developed several online courses about breathing and saxophone playing in Dutch and English.