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Spouse (s) 3rd wife, Jeanne, Lady Galway (née Cinnante) Sir James Galway OBE (born 8 December 1939) is an Irish [1][2] virtuoso flute player from Belfast, nicknamed "The Man with the Golden Flute". [3] After several years working as an orchestral musician, he established an international career as a solo flute player.
Frédéric Chalon. Claire Chase. Laura Chislett. Jasmine Choi. Cesare Ciardi. Ian Clarke. Valerie Coleman. Albert Cooper – also flute maker and inventor of Cooper scale. David Davies.
A musician who plays the flute is called a flautist or flutist. Paleolithic flutes with hand-bored holes are the earliest known identifiable musical instruments. A number of flutes dating to about 53,000 to 45,000 years ago have been found in the Swabian Jura region of present-day Germany , indicating a developed musical tradition from the ...
This category has the following 17 subcategories, out of 17 total. Flautists by nationality (56 C) Flautists by century (5 C) Flautists by genre (4 C)
Jean-Pierre Louis Rampal (7 January 1922 – 20 May 2000) was a French flautist.Rampal popularised the flute in the post–World War II years, recovering flute compositions from the Baroque era, [1] and spurring contemporary composers, such as Francis Poulenc, to create new works that have become modern standards in the flautist's repertoire.
Valerie Coleman (fl. 1997), flautist and composer contributing to chamber music. Elena Duran (born 1949), Mexican-American flautist, concerto appearances and recordings with major orchestras. Cynthia Folio (born 1954), composer, flutist, music theorist and academic. Jeanne Galway (born 1955), American-born flautist and educator now based in ...
Kate Clark (flautist) Kate Clark (born 1962 in Sydney, Australia) is a solo, chamber, and orchestral flutist based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She is a specialist in the performance and performance practice of historical flutes from the renaissance to the early modern period, and teacher of historical flutes at the Royal Conservatory of The ...
Emmanuel Pahud. Emmanuel Pahud (born 27 January 1970) is a Franco-Swiss flautist. He was born in Geneva, Switzerland. His father is of French and Swiss background and his mother is French. The Berlin-based flutist [1] is most known for his baroque and classical flute repertoire. Pahud was born into a nonmusical family. [2]