The dutch fluteplayer Maurice Heugen (1969) has been soloflutist for the Zürich Opera Orchestra since 1993. He is one of the many dutch fluteplayers who left his home country for a orchestralplaying career abroad. As a matter of fact, looking back in the history of fluteplaying, there have been quite a number of fluteplayers with a fine reputation flying the dutch flag. One could go back as far as Drouet, making an international career as a soloist in many european country