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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.
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 ...
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.
Shqip; Simple English; Slovenčina; Slovenščina; ... Flautist stubs (71 P) Pages in category "Flautists" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
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.
Claire Chase (born 1978), recitalist, recording artist and arts entrepreneur. 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.
Henry Threadgill (born February 15, 1944) [1] is an American composer, saxophonist and flautist. [2] He came to prominence in the 1970s leading ensembles rooted in jazz but with unusual instrumentation and often incorporating other genres of music.
Double Contrabass. Hyperbass. The Western concert flute is a family of transverse (side-blown) woodwind instruments made of metal or wood. It is the most common variant of the flute. A musician who plays the flute is called a “flautist” in British English, and a “flutist” in American English.