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Western Classical

* Richard Adeney *

Egidius Aerts Egidius Aerts (1822–1853) was a Belgian flautist and composer. He was born in Boom, Belgium. He studied under Jean François Joseph Lahon (1798-1847) in the Brussels Conservatory The Royal Conservatory of Brussels (french: Conservatoire ...

* Robert Aitken *

Wellington E. Alves Wellington Eleutério Alves is a Brazilian flautist and composer. He studied flute at the Universidade Estadual de Maringá. He currently plays with Orquestra Filarmônica Cesumar, Orquestra Sinfônica da Uem, Coral de Flautas da Uem. He is a ...

* William Alwyn * John Amadio *

Neville Amadio Neville Francis Amadio AM MBE (15 February 191329 May 2006) was an Australian flautist who played with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and its predecessors for over 50 years. The conductor Sir Charles Mackerras once said that Amadio was "without ...

Joachim Andersen Joachim Andersen may refer to: *Joachim Andersen (composer) (1847–1909), Danish composer *Joachim Andersen (footballer) Joachim Christian Andersen (; born 31 May 1996) is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier ...

Claudi Arimany Claudi Arimany i Barceló (born in Granollers, Catalonia, December 29, 1955) is an internationald flautist, considered the direct heir, both in interpretative style and in musical concept, of Jean-Pierre Rampal, his mentor and colleague in many con ...

Andrew Ashe Andrew Ashe (–1838) was a Northern Irish flautist who became director of the Bath concerts. Life Ashe was native of Lisburn and born in about 1758. He was educated in music at Woolwich. "On account of reverses of fortune, his parents were abo ...

Nina Assimakopoulos Nina Assimakopoulos is a flutist from United States, recording artist, and professor. She is the Assistant Professor of Flute at West Virginia University West Virginia University (WVU) is a public land-grant research university with its main c ...

Johann Jacob Bach Johann Jacob Bach (or Johann Jakob) (baptised – 16 April 1722) was a German musician, composer and an older brother of Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach is thought to have been born in Eisenach. After his studies at the Latin school there, he b ...

Julius Baker Julius Baker (September 23, 1915 – August 6, 2003) was one of the foremost American orchestral flute players. During the course of five decades he concertized with several of America's premier orchestral ensembles including the Chicago Sympho ...

* John Barcellona *

Samuel Baron Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the bibl ...

Huáscar Barradas Huáscar Barradas (born 1964) is a Venezuelan flautist and Professor of flute at the "Instituto Universitario de Estudios Musicales" in Caracas. As a flutist he has represented Venezuela at a range of international festivals and as both soloist a ...

* Georges Barrère *

Francesco Barsanti Francesco Barsanti (1690–1775) was an Italian flautist, oboist and composer. He was born in 1690 in the Tuscan city of Lucca, but spent most of his life in London and Edinburgh. Biography Very little is known about Barsanti's background. His f ...

* Jeanne Baxtresser * Larry Beauregard * Michel Bellavance *

William Bennett William John Bennett (born July 31, 1943) is an American conservative politician and political commentator who served as secretary of education from 1985 to 1988 under President Ronald Reagan. He also held the post of director of the Office o ...

Atarah Ben-Tovim Atarah Ben-Tovim, MBE (1 October 1940 – 20 October 2022) was a British flautist and children's concert presenter. Biography Ben-Tovim was born in Abergavenny, Wales, the daughter of Harry Ben-Tovim, a doctor, and his wife Gladys Rachel ( ...

* Henri Besozzi * Sharon Bezaly * Lisa Beznosiuk *

Boris Bizjak Boris Bizjak (born 1981) is London-based Slovenian flautist. He has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in the UK, USA, China, Japan, Slovenia, Croatia, France, Spain and Cyprus. In 2016, he was selected by the Slovenian Government to perf ...

* Frances Blaisdell * Michel Blavet * Vilém Blodek *

Theobald Boehm Theobald Böhm, photograph by Franz Hanfstaengl, ca. 1852. Theobald Böhm (or Boehm) (9 April 1794 – 25 November 1881) was a German inventor and musician, who perfected the modern Western concert flute and improved its fingering system (n ...

– also inventor of predecessor of modern flute * François Borne * Denis Bouriakov * Adrian Brett * Giulio Briccialdi *

Carlos Bruneel Carlos Bruneel is a Belgian flautist. He has played throughout Europe, America and Japan. He studied at the Conservatory of Antwerp with Jan Van Reeth. In 1982 he carried off the Belgium Tenuto Contest. He continued studying in London with Jonat ...

* Katherine Bryan *

Ferdinand Büchner Ferdinand Büchner (born December 13, 1823, in Bad Pyrmont, Germany; d. 1906 in Moscow) was a German flautist and composer. Ferdinand Büchner began studying the flute at an early age with his father, who played a leading role in the musical life ...

* Pierre-Gabriel Buffardin *

Marisa Canales Marisa Canales (born December 11, 1959) is a Mexican flute player. She was born in Mexico City where she started her musical studies; she later attended the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, then Philadelphia College of Performing Arts (PCP ...

Roland Cardon Roland Cardon (15 April 1929 – 18 August 2001) was a Belgian composer, pedagogue, flautist, clarinetist and multi-instrumentalist. He often published works under the name Guy Rodenhof. After studies at the Ghent Conservatory, from 1955 he ...

– alias Guy Rodenhof * Robert Cavally *

Frédéric Chalon Frédéric Chalon was a French musician born in the 18th century. He was the son of a violinist who played at the Opéra of Paris, and about 1801 he became a flutist and oboist at the Théâtre Feydeau and Théâtre de l'Opéra Comique to 1821. ...

* Claire Chase *

Laura Chislett Laura Chislett is an Australian flute player . She performs contemporary repertoires including Brian Ferneyhough's ''Unity Capsule'', James Dillon's ''Sgothan'', Michael Finnissy's ''Sikangnuqa'', Reza Vali's ''Song'' flute solo and Maurice Wedd ...

* Jasmine Choi *

Cesare Ciardi Cesare Ciardi (28 June 1818 – 13 June 1877) was an Italian flautist and composer. Life Born at Prato to a Tuscan family, Ciardi eventually settled in 1853 in Russia, where he was appointed in 1862 as professor at the Saint Petersburg Conserva ...

* Ian Clarke * Valerie Coleman * Albert Cooper – also flute maker and inventor of Cooper scale * David Davies *

Michel Debost Michel Debost (; born 20 January 1934), is a French flutist. Born in Paris, he is one of the well known flutists of the French school. He has studied under Gaston Crunelle and Marcel Moyse. Debost has won major international competitions. He w ...

* Leonardo De Lorenzo *

Jules Demersseman Jules Auguste Demersseman (9 January 1833 – 1 December 1866) was a French flautist and composer. Biography Demersseman was born in Hondschoote, Département Nord, France, near the Belgian border. At 11, he was a student of Jean-Louis Tul ...

* Abbie de Quant * François Devienne *

Franz Doppler Albert Franz Doppler (16 October 182127 July 1883), was a flute virtuoso and a composer best known for his flute music. He also wrote one German and several Hungarian operas for Budapest, all produced with great success. His ballet music was po ...

Karl Doppler Karl Doppler (12 September 1825, Lemberg10 March 1900, Stuttgart) was a Hungarian flute virtuoso, conductor, music director, composer. He was the younger brother of the composer Franz Doppler and father of the composer Árpád Doppler. He worke ...

Béla Drahos Béla Drahos (born 14 April 1955) is a Hungarian conductor and flautist. Biography Drahos started out as a flautist, joining the orchestra in his hometown when he was just 8 years old. At the age of 12 he became the principal flautist, and as ...

Friedrich Dülon Friedrich Ludwig Dülon (14 August 1768 – 7 July 1826) was one of the most prominent and famous flute-virtuoso musicians of the Classical era, being one of the first flutists to be considered gifted on Western concert flute. At the age of 40 ...

* Paul Lustig Dunkel * Hilary du Pré * Elena Duran *

Mario Duschenes Mario Duschenes, CM, LL.D. (27 October 1923 – 31 January 2009) was a Canadian flautist, recorder player, music educator and conductor. Early life Mario Duschenes was born in Altona, near Hamburg, Germany in 1923, the son of Franz and Grete ...

* Doriot Anthony Dwyer *

Alfred John Ellory Alfred John Ellory (18 June 1920, Cornwall – 5 July 2009) was a British musician best known for playing flute on several of the James Bond films in the 1960s. Ellory won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music as a teenager, where he s ...

* Timothy Essex *

Pedro Eustache Pedro Eustache (born August 18, 1959) is a Venezuelan-born flautist, reed player, world woodwind player, composer, and instrument maker. He has more than seven years of symphonic experience and a collection of around 600 instruments from all ...

Bülent Evcil Bülent Evcil (born 1968) is a Turkish solo flutist and is the winner of the Royal Belgium Encouragement Medal of Art. He received the second place award in the ''Best Overall Performer Award'' at the 4th James Galway International Flute Seminar ...

* Andrew Findon *

Thierry Fischer Thierry Fischer (born 28 September 1957) is a Swiss orchestra conductor and flutist. Early life and education Fischer was born in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (Zambia) to Swiss parents. He studied flute with Aurèle Nicolet and began ...

* Louis Fleury * John Fonville *

Frederick the Great Frederick II (german: Friedrich II.; 24 January 171217 August 1786) was King in Prussia from 1740 until 1772, and King of Prussia from 1772 until his death in 1786. His most significant accomplishments include his military successes in the S ...

– Prussian king and avid amateur *

John Frohling John Frohling (1827–1862) was a key figure, along with Charles Kohler, in development of the Northern and Southern California wine industry and was the founder of Anaheim, California, in the mid 19th Century. He was also a member of the Los Ange ...

* Anton Bernhard Fürstenau *

Kaspar Fürstenau Kaspar Fürstenau (26 February 177211 May 1819) was a German flautist and composer. He wrote about sixty compositions for his instrument among rondos, fantasias, suites and concertos. Together with his son Anton Bernhard Fürstenau he traveled ext ...

* Moritz Fürstenau * Patrick Gallois *

James Galway Sir James Galway (born 8 December 1939) is an Irish virtuoso flute player from Belfast, nicknamed "The Man with the Golden Flute". He established an international career as a solo flute player. In 2005, he received the Brit Award for Outstan ...

Bianca Garcia Bianca Rose Garcia (born June 1986) is an American politician from the state of New Hampshire. A Republican, she served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 2012 through 2014. Biography Garcia graduated from the Curtis Institute ...

Giuseppe Gariboldi Giuseppe (Francesco Gabriele Patrizio Gaspare) Gariboldi (17 March 1833, Macerata – 12 April 1905, Castelraimondo) was an Italian flautist and composer. In 1856, after studies with Giuseppe D'Aloe, he moved to Paris, where he worked as ...

* Anna Garzuly * Philippe Gaubert *

Severino Gazzelloni Severino Gazzelloni, born Severino Gazzellone (5 January 1919 – 21 November 1992) was an Italian flutist. Biography He was born in Roccasecca and died in Cassino. Gazzelloni was the principal flautist with the RAI National Symphony Orchest ...

Paul Génin Paul-Agricole Génin (14 February 1832, in Avignon – 22 December 1903, in Paris) was a French flautist and composer for flute. He was a student of Louis Dorus and became first flute at the Théâtre-Italien (Comédie-Italienne) Paris Par ...

* Jean-Claude Gérard * Tula Giannini * Richard Giese *

Geoffrey Gilbert Geoffrey Winzer Gilbert (28 May 1914 – 1989) was an English flautist, who was a leading influence on British flute-playing, introducing a more flexible style, based on French techniques, with metal instruments replacing the traditional wood. H ...

Iwona Glinka
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Friedrich Hartmann Graf Friedrich Hartmann Graf (23 August 1727 – 19 August 1795) was a German flautist and composer. Biography Graf was born 23 August 1727 in Rudolstadt. He was trained by his father Johann Graf and then served as a drummer in a Dutch army regime ...

Peter-Lukas Graf Peter-Lukas Graf (5 January 1929) is a Swiss flautist born in Zürich, Switzerland. He was a pupil of André Jaunet, and later attended the Paris Conservatoire, where he won first prize with Marcel Moyse and Roger Cortot. Besides playing the f ...

* Irena Grafenauer *

Uwe Grodd Uwe Grodd (born 29 November 1958 in Stuttgart) is a German conductor and flautist, currently living in Auckland (New Zealand). He has performed and recorded internationally for over 25 years. Grodd conducted the gala opening night of the Hand ...

* Ørnulf Gulbransen * Nicholas Gunn * Ute Günther *

Viviana Guzmán Viviana Guzmán (born August 20, 1964) is a Chilean professional flutist, composer, dancer and poet, who performs over 80 concerts a year, and has played in 122 countries. She has been described by ''The New York Times'' as "an imaginative artist ...

Rházes Hernández-López Rházes Hernández López (1918–1991) was a Venezuelan composer and flutist born in Caracas June 30, 1918. He died in Caracas in 1991. He composed several works for the piano, including ''Casualismo no. 6'' (1984), and ''Prisma no. 1'' (1979) ...

Gudrun Hinze Gudrun ( ; non, Guðrún) or Kriemhild ( ; gmh, Kriemhilt) is the wife of Sigurd/Siegfried and a major figure in Germanic heroic legend and literature. She is believed to have her origins in Ildico, last wife of Attila the Hun, and two qu ...

* Katherine Hoover *

Jacques-Martin Hotteterre Jacques-Martin Hotteterre (29 September 167316 July 1763), also known as Jacques Martin or Jacques Hotteterre, was a French composer and flautist who was the most celebrated of a family of wind instrument makers and wind performers. Biograph ...

Luigi Hugues Luigi Hugues (27 October 1836 – 5 March 1913) was an Italian academic geographer and accomplished amateur musician. He is best known today as a composer and arranger of virtuoso works for the flute, and for his contributions to the teaching ...

* Timothy Hutchins *

Christopher Hyde-Smith Christopher Hyde-Smith (born 11 March 1935) is a flautist. Christopher Hyde-Smith's flute playing has been compared in ''The Guardian'' to Sir Laurence Olivier's acting in variety of expression, characterization and style. He has played all over ...

* Gerald Jackson * André Jaunet * Jens Josef *

Catherine Ransom Karoly Catherine Ransom Karoly is an American flutist. She joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic as second flutist in 1996, and was promoted to Associate Principal flute in March 2009. She has been the first-prize recipient of numerous competitions, includ ...

Dirk Keetbaas Dirk Keetbaas Jr. (June 20, 1921 – July 27, 1995) was a Dutch-born flautist, composer, and record producer in Canada. He became known as a member of the Symphony Six, a group of six musicians under contract to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra ...

* Bettine Keyßer * Jeffrey Khaner * William Kincaid *

Kristiyan Koev Kristiyan Koev (''Maestro Kristiyan Koev''; Bulgarian: Кристиян Коев; 1 July 1970) is a Bulgarian flutist. Maestro Koev is also known as "Kristiyan Koev – The Golden Flute". He was born in Sofia in a family of flutists. Both his par ...

Ernesto Köhler Ernesto Köhler (4 December 1849 – 17 March 1907) was an Italian flautist and composer. He was considered one of the best flautists of his era. Born in Modena, Köhler was taught the flute by his father, Venceslau Joseph Köhler, who was the ...

Jadwiga Kotnowska Jadwiga Kotnowska is a Polish flautist. A winner of many important international competitions, she was educated in Poland, Switzerland and France. She studied flute with Aurèle Nicolet, Alain Marion and Jean-Pierre Rampal. Today, in turn, she i ...

John C. Krell John C. Krell (2 April 1914 – 10 January 1999) was an American flutist, piccoloist, author and teacher. Early life John Christian Krell was one of six surviving children of Adolph Jacob Krell and Flossie V. Howell Krell. Adolph was a German i ...

Frederich Kuhlau Friedrich Daniel Rudolf Kuhlau (German; Danish sometimes ''Frederick Kulav'') (11 September 1786 – 12 March 1832) was a Danish pianist and composer during the late Classical and early Romantic periods. He was a central figure of the Danish ...

* Barthold Kuijken *

Kaspar Kummer Kaspar Johann Kummer (1795–1870) was a German flautist, professor and composer. Kummer was born on 10 December 1795 in Erlau in Thuringia (in Sankt Kilian.) Musicsack - http://www.musicsack.com/PersonFMTDetail.cfm?PersonPK=100007153 - has Erlau, ...

Michel de la Barre Michel de la Barre (c. 1675 – 15 March 1745) was a French composer and renowned flautist known as being the first person to publish solo flute music. He played at the Académie Royale de Musique, the Musettes and Hautbois de Poitou and the c ...

* Eric Lamb *

Robert Langevin Robert Langevin is a Canadian flautist. He has been principal flautist of the New York Philharmonic since 2000 and is a former principal flautist of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. He was associate principal flautist with the Montreal Symphony O ...

Sidney Lanier Sidney Clopton Lanier (February 3, 1842 – September 7, 1881) was an American musician, poet and author. He served in the Confederate States Army as a private, worked on a blockade-running ship for which he was imprisoned (resulting in his catch ...

* Maxence Larrieu * Nicholas Laucella * John Lemmone *

Hans-Martin Linde Hans-Martin Linde (born 24 May 1930 in Werne, Germany) is a German noted virtuoso flute and recorder player of (mainly) baroque and early music Early music generally comprises Medieval music (500–1400) and Renaissance music (1400–1600), but ...

* Nicola Lindsay *

Diana López Moyal Diana López Moyal is a Cubans, Cuban Flute, flutist, musician, performer, and teacher based in Miami. Born in Havana, Cuba, she graduated with a Bachelor of Music in Flute from the Higher Institute of Art in 1986 and was appointed as a professor ...

* Donato Lovreglio *

Kathryn Lukas Kathryn Lukas (Kate Lukas) is a contemporary flute performer and teacher. She is Professor of Music (Flute) at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. She has taught at the Guildhall School of Music and recorded contemporary flute reperto ...

Antoine Mahaut Antoine Mahaut (1719, in Namur – c. 1785) was a Flemish flautist, composer, and editor. He probably learned his trade from his father who was also a flautist, and entered the service of Bishop of Strickland at the age of fifteen, with whom he t ...

Alain Marion Alain Marion (25 December 1938 – 16 August 1998) was a French flutist, and considered one of the world's best flute players of the late twentieth century. Biography Marion was born in Marseille on Christmas Day 1938. He studied at the Marsei ...

* Jaime Martín * Marya Martin *

Nicholas McGegan James Nicholas McGegan OBE (born 14 January 1950 in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England) is a British harpsichordist, flutist, conductor and early music expert. Biography McGegan received his early education at Nottingham High School. He sub ...

Lorna McGhee Lorna McGhee (born 1972) is a Scottish flutist and teacher, currently serving as Principal Flute of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra since 2012. In addition, she is an Artist Lecturer in Flute at Carnegie Mellon University. Past positions include ...

Gareth McLearnon Gareth McLearnon (born 17 January 1980) is a Northern Irish flautist, composer and arranger based in Strasbourg, France. Early life and music education McLearnon began playing the flute aged 11 in his native Belfast, initially studying under Wi ...

* Victor McMahon *

Susan Milan Susan Milan ( ; born 3 September 1947) is an English professor of flute of the Royal College of Music, classical performer, recording artiste, composer, author and entrepreneur. Biography Susan Milan was born in London, the daughter of civil s ...

Ulla Miilmann Ulla Miimann is a Danish flutust. She is principal flutist of the National Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra and an associate professor of flute at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. In 1994 Miilmann was appointed principal flutist at The Danish Nat ...

* Claude Monteux *

Barbara Morgan Barbara Radding Morgan (born November 28, 1951) is an American teacher and a former NASA astronaut. She participated in the Teacher in Space program as backup to Christa McAuliffe for the 1986 ill-fated STS-51-L mission of the Space Shuttle '' ...

– educator and former astronaut *

Tadashi Mori was a Japanese conductor and flautist. Biography Tadashi Mori performed as flautist in his young days. He studied conducting from Hideo Saito, and started his career as conductor. He was a music director and principal conductor of the Toky ...

* Gareth Morris *

Louis Moyse Louis Moyse (pron. ''moh-EEZ''; 14 August 1912 – 30 July 2007) was a French flute player and composer. He was the son of influential French flutist Marcel Moyse, a co-founder of the Vermont Marlboro Music Festival, and taught many world-class f ...

* Marcel Moyse *

Ulrich Müller-Doppler Ulrich Georg Müller-Doppler (born 7 August 1962,http://www.universaledition.com/Ulrich-Mueller-Doppler/composers-and-works/composer/3608%20%27%27Ulrich%20M%C3%BCller-Doppler%27%27 Listing at Universal Edition. Retrieved on 28. Januar 2014 accordi ...

* Milan Munclinger *

Reza Najfar Reza Najfar (born 20 April 1960) is a flute player and composer from Tehran, Iran, living in Austria. Since 1992, he is professor for flute at the Tiroler Landeskonservatorium in Innsbruck and the Prayner Konservatorium in Vienna en, Vi ...

Ingrid Søfteland Neset Ingrid Søfteland Neset (born 9 May 1992) is a Norwegian Classical flautist living in Stavanger (2017). She is the daughter of music teachers guitarist Terje Neset (born 1959) and pianist Anne Leni Søfteland Sæbø (born 1961), and the sister of ...

* Charles Nicholson * Aurèle Nicolet * Thomas Nyfenger *

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 flutistPatrick LamEmmanuel Pahud – The showcase behi ...

Eleonore Pameijer Eleonore Pameijer (born 1960) is a Dutch musician who studied flute with Koos Verheul at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, where she received her solo diploma ''cum laude''. She continued her studies with Abbie de Quant (Utrecht, the Netherlands ...

* Kathinka Pasveer * Maggi Payne *

Philippe Rebille Philbert Philibert Rebillé ''dit'' Philbert (also ''Philibert'', 1639 – after March 1717) was a French flautist. He is credited with the introduction of the one-keyed flute to France in around 1667.Ardal Powell, ''The Flute'' (New Haven and London: Ya ...

* Marina Piccinini *

James Poke James Poke (born 1963 in Dorking, England) is a musician, primarily known as artistic director and co-founder of the ensemble Icebreaker. Poke studied music at the University of York and composition with Erich Urbanner at the Hochschule für Mu ...

* Claire Polin * Ardal Powell * Stephen Preston *

Johann Joachim Quantz Johann Joachim Quantz (; 30 January 1697 – 12 July 1773) was a German composer, flutist and flute maker of the late Baroque period. Much of his professional career was spent in the court of Frederick the Great. Quantz composed hundreds of flute ...

– instructor of Frederick the Great, and author of important treatise *

Jean-Pierre Rampal Jean-Pierre Louis Rampal (7 January 1922 – 20 May 2000) was a French flautist. He has been personally "credited with returning to the flute the popularity as a solo classical instrument it had not held since the 18th century." Biography Ea ...

* Joseph Rampal *

Kurt Redel Kurt Redel (8 October 1918 in Breslau, Silesia, now Wrocław – 12 February 2013 in Munich) was a German flautist and conductor. Early life Redel studied flute, violin, conducting, and composition, as well as music history and piano at the Bres ...

Jean Rémusat Jean Rémusat (1815–1880) was a French flautist, composer of music for the flute, and conductor. In later life he lived in Shanghai. Life Rémusat was born in Bordeaux in 1815. From 1830 he studied at the Paris Conservatoire with flautist Jean-L ...

Gwyn Roberts Gwyn Roberts, an American recorder and traverso soloist, and educator, is a founding co-director of the Philadelphia baroque orchestra Tempesta di Mare with Richard Stone. Roberts also serves as the Director of Early Music at the University of Pen ...

* Paula Robison *

Mindy Rosenfeld Mindy Rosenfeld is an American flutist, piper and harpist, noted as a founding member of the Baltimore Consort, specializing in Renaissance music. She is also credited as Mindy Rosenfeld Hedges. Life and career Mindy Rosenfeld, graduated with a B ...

Elizabeth Rowe Elizabeth Singer Rowe (née Singer, 1674–1737) was an English poet, essayist and fiction writer called "the ornament of her sex and age" and the "Heavenly Singer". She was among 18th-century England's most widely read authors. She wrote ma ...

* Jane Rutter * Gro Sandvik *

Federico Maria Sardelli Federico Maria Sardelli (born 1963) is an Italian conductor, historicist, composer, musicologist, comic artist, and flautist. He founded the medieval ensemble Modo Antiquo in 1984. In 1987, Modo Antiquo also became a baroque orchestra, debuting ...

* Adolf Scherbaum * Gary Schocker *

John Scott John Scott may refer to: Academics * John Scott (1639–1695), English clergyman and devotional writer * John Witherspoon Scott (1800–1892), American minister, college president, and father of First Lady Caroline Harrison * John Work Scott (180 ...

* Johann Sedlatzek *

Elaine Shaffer Elaine Shaffer (October 22, 1925 – February 19, 1973) was an American flutist and principal of the Houston Symphony Orchestra between 1948 and 1953. Biography Elaine Shaffer was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania. She attended the Curtis Inst ...

Felix Skowronek Felix Skowronek (August 21, 1935 – April 17, 2006) was an American flutist and professor of music. Education Skowronek studied in Seattle with Fred H. Wing and Frank Horsfall, and for a few summers with Donald Peck. He later studied with Wi ...

* Fenwick Smith *

Harvey Sollberger Harvey Sollberger (born May 11, 1938 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa) is an American composer, flutist, and conductor specializing in contemporary classical music. Life Sollberger holds an M.A. degree from Columbia University, where his composition instru ...

Ashley Solomon Ashley Solomon is a British flute and recorder player. He is both professor of recorder and head of the historical performance department of the Royal College of Music in London. He has taught there since 1994, and became the first head of th ...

* John Solum * Mark Sparks * Fritz Spiegl *

Christian Sprenger Christian David Sprenger (born 19 December 1985) is an Australian former breaststroke swimmer. He trains at the Commercial Swimming Club under Simon Cusack. Swimming career At the 2008 Australian Swimming Championships he qualified in the 10 ...

Simion Stanciu Simion Stanciu (23 December 1949 - 6 July 2010), also known by his stage-name Syrinx, was a Romanian Pan flute player and composer, who lived and worked in Switzerland. Simion Stanciu was born in Bucharest, Romania, into a musical family. His ...

* Sanja Stijačić *

Alexa Still Alexa Still (born 1962) is a New Zealand-born flutist based in Oberlin, Ohio, where she is an Associate Professor of Flute at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Still studied in the US with Samuel Baron at SUNY Stony Brook (MM, DMA) and with Tho ...

Mimi Stillman Mimi Stillman is a professional concert flutist. Career Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Stillman became, at the age of 12, the youngest flute player ever admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Julius Baker and Jeffrey ...

* Jiří Stivín * James Strauss * Lamar Stringfield *

Leoš Svárovský Leoš Svárovský (born 17 May 1961 in Jablonec nad Nisou, former Czechoslovakia) is a Czech flautist and conductor Conductor or conduction may refer to: Music * Conductor (music), a person who leads a musical ensemble, such as an orche ...

* Paul Taffanel *

Paul Taub The Seattle Chamber Players are a chamber ensemble focused on contemporary music, founded in 1989 in Seattle, Washington, U.S. In January 2004, the group was awarded the ASCAP/Chamber Music America Award for Adventurous Programming. , the core me ...

Mark Thomas Mark Clifford Thomas (born 11 April 1963) is an English comedian, presenter, political satirist, and journalist. He first became known as a guest comic on the BBC Radio 1 comedy show ''The Mary Whitehouse Experience'' in the late 1980s. He is ...

* Rudolf Tillmetz * Albert Tipton *

Manfred Trojahn Manfred Trojahn (born 22 October 1949) is a German composer, flautist, conductor and writer. Career Trojahn was born Cremlingen in Lower Saxony and began his musical studies in 1966 in orchestra music at the music school of Braunschweig. After g ...

* Johann George Tromlitz *

Vladimir Tsybin Vladimir Tsybin (; July 11, 1877 in Ivanovo-Voznesensk – May 29, 1949 in Moscow) was a flautist, composer and conductor. Born in a family of musicians - his father was a violinist and conductor of a small town orchestra, his mother had a goo ...

Jean-Louis Tulou Jean-Louis Tulou (born 12 September 1786 in Paris – died 23 July 1865 in Nantes) was a French flute teacher and player, composer, and instrument maker. Family and life His father, Louis-Prosper Tulou (1749–1799), was a bassoonist in the ...

* Owen Underhill * Pierre-André Valade *

Joaquín Valverde Durán Joaquín Valverde Durán (27 February 1846 in Badajoz – 17 March 1910 in Madrid) was a Spanish composer, conductor and flute, flautist. As a composer he is known for his Classical music written in collaboration, collaborations on zarzuelas (he ha ...

* Henk van der Vliet *

David Van Vactor David Van Vactor (May 8, 1906 – March 24, 1994) was an American composer of contemporary classical music. He was born in Plymouth, Indiana, and received Bachelor of Music (1928) and Master of Music (1935) degrees from Northwestern Universit ...

* Peter Verhoyen *

Linda Vogt Linda Caprice Vogt (28 September 1922 – 2 April 2013) was an Australian flautist. Vogt was born in 1922 in Melbourne, and began to learn the flute under Melbourne Symphony Orchestra second flute, Leslie Barklamb, in 1938. She joined the MSO in ...

* Adam Walker * Jim Walker * Robert Hugh Willoughby *

Meredith Willson Robert Reiniger Meredith Willson (May 18, 1902 – June 15, 1984) was an American flutist, composer, conductor, musical arranger, bandleader, playwright, and writer. He is perhaps best known for writing the book, music, and lyrics for the 1 ...

* Ransom Wilson *

Carol Wincenc Carol Wincenc ( ) born June 29, 1949 is an American flutist based in New York City. She is known for her solo and chamber music performances and her support of new music for the flute. She is on the faculty of the Juilliard School and Stony Brook ...

Johann Georg Wunderlich Johann Georg Wunderlich (also Jean-Georges Vounderlich, Wonderlich, Wounderlich) (2 February 1755 – 1819) was a German composer and flautist. He was first taught by his father, who was an oboist in the chapel of the principality of Ansbach. At a ...

* Charles Wyatt * Trevor Wye *

Robert Wykes Robert A. Wykes (May 19, 1926 in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania; - June 29, 2021 in St. Louis, Missouri) was an American composer of contemporary classical music and flautist. He began studying the flute as a child, then served in World War II. He then ...

* Carl Zerrahn *

Matthias Ziegler Matthias Ziegler (b. Bern, Switzerland, February 13, 1955) is a Swiss flautist and professor of flute who specializes in contemporary music for various sizes of flute (including flute, alto flute, bass flute, and contrabass flute). Early life a ...

Karlheinz Zöller Karlheinz Zöller (24 August 1928 – 29 July 2005) was a German flutist, and solo fluteplayer in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra between 1960–1969 and 1976–1993. Early life and education Karlheinz Zöller was born in Höhr-Grenzhausen (ne ...

* Jacques Zoon *

Eugenia Zukerman Eugenia Rich Zukerman (born September 25, 1944, Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American flutist, writer, and journalist. An internationally renowned flute virtuoso, Zukerman has been performing with major orchestras and at major music festivals ...

Ariel Zuckermann Ariel Zuckermann ( he, אריאל צוקרמן, born in 1973 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli conductor, since 2015 director and conductor of the Israel Chamber Orchestra. Career Ariel Zuckermann began his musical career as flautist. A student ...

Indian

* Devendra Murdeshwar *

Mayavaram Saraswathi Ammal Mayavaram Saraswathi Ammal (September 3, 1921 – August 17, 2013) was an Indian classical flautist The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make s ...

* K. Bhaskaran * Sikkil Mala Chandrasekar * Debopriya Chatterjee *

Hariprasad Chaurasia Hariprasad Chaurasia (born 1 July 1938) is an Indian music director and classical flautist, who plays the bansuri, in the Hindustani classical tradition. Early life Chaurasia was born in Allahabad (1938) (officially called Prayagraj) in the ...

* Rakesh Chaurasia *

Milind Date Milind Date (born 28 February) is an Indian flautist and music composer who plays the bansuri. He studied under Hariprasad Chaurasia and is known for his blowing technique and playing in various musical styles. Early life and career At the ag ...

Pannalal Ghosh Pandit Pannalal Ghosh ( bn, পান্নালাল ঘোষ; 24 July 1911 – 20 April 1960), also known as Amal Jyoti Ghosh, was an Indian flute ( bansuri) player and composer. He was a disciple of Allauddin Khan, and is credited with pop ...

Keshav Ginde Keshav Ginde (born 5 September 1942) is an Indian classical flutist. References External links * 1942 births Hindustani instrumentalists Indian flautists Bansuri players Living people People from Belgaum {{flautist-stub ...

Pravin Godkhindi Pravin Godkhindi (born 28 October 1973) is an Indian classical Hindustani flute (bansuri) player. He has mastered both the tantrakari and gayaki style of playing on the flute. He was called a top ranking artist in Hindustani bansuri, by Aka ...

* Steve Gorn *

Nityanand Haldipur Nityanand Haldipur (born 7 May 1948) is a performer and teacher of the Indian bamboo flute, known in India as the bansuri. He is a purist in the true Maihar Gharana tradition and learned from Ma Annapurna Devi, in Mumbai, India. He has been rat ...

Kudamaloor Janardanan Kudamaloor Janardanan ��ുടമാളൂര്‍ ജനാര്‍ദ്ദനന്‍(21 July 1969 – ) is an Indian flautist of the Carnatic music tradition. Early life and background Kudamaloor Janardanan was born into a musical fa ...

* Chetan Joshi * Naveen Kumar * T. R. "Mali" Mahalingam * Ronu Majumdar *

Pandit Niranjan Prasad Pandit Niranjan Prasad (11 November 1941 - 31 March 2013) was an Indian flutist. He belonged to Allahabad. Career Prasad belonged to Varanasi Gharana and was one of the principle disciples of Flute and Shehnai player, Shri Bholanath Prasanna. ...

* Raghunath Prasanna * Rajendra Prasanna *

Rishab Prasanna Rishab Prasanna ( hi, ऋषभ प्रसन्ना, ur, رشبھ پرسنا) is an Indian flute or bansuri player. He was born in New Delhi. He is the son of the flute and shehnai player Rajendra Prasanna. Career Rishab Prasanna learn ...

Raghavendran Rajasekaran Raghavendran Rajasekaran Tamil: ராகவேந்திரன் ராஜசேகரன் Devanagari Script: राघवेन्द्रन् राजशेखरन्, popularly known as ''Ragha'', is a classical flautist based i ...

H. Ramachandra Shastry H. Ramachandra Shastry (1906 – 1992) was an Indian Carnatic flautist. He belonged to the bani (music school) of Sarabha Sastri and learned music from Palladam Sanjiva Rao, a direct disciple of Sastri]. Shastry taught Carnatic flute at Ka ...

* N. Ramani, Natesan Ramani * Thiagarajan Ramani *

Vijay Raghav Rao Pandit Vijay Raghav Rao (born Vijaya Raghava Rao; 3 November 1925 – 30 November 2011) was an Indian flutist, composer, choreographer, musicologist, poet and fiction writer. He was awarded the Padma Shri by Government of India in 1970, and in 19 ...

G. S. Sachdev G. S. Sachdev (born Gurbachan Singh Sachdev, in Lyallpur, Punjab, 1935 – June 24, 2018) was an Indian performer of the ''bansuri'' (bamboo flute). He performed Hindustani classical music. Sachdev was on the advisory board of the World Flu ...

Palladam Sanjiva Rao Palladam Sanjiva Rao (1882–1962) was an Indian flautist and carnatic musician from the state of Tamil Nadu. Personal life Sanjiva Rao was born in 1882 in the town of Palladam near Coimbatore in a Thanjavur Marathi family. Sanjiva Rao learnt m ...

T. S. Sankaran T. S. Sankaran (1930-2015) was an Indian Carnatic instrumentalist (flute). T S Sankaran was one of the foremost disciples of the legendary 'Flute Mali' - T R Mahalingam. He is the recipient of several awards including the Sangeet Natak Akademi A ...

Tiruchy L. Saravanan Tiruchy L. Saravanan, also known as Flute Saravanan, is a prime disciple of Dr. N. Ramani, one of India's pioneer Carnatic flautists. Education Saravanan is also a disciple of the late Sri K. S. Narayanan (senior most disciple of Sri Mali), th ...

* Dipak Sarma * Sarabha Sastri * Raghunath Seth *

B. Shankar Rao B. Shankar Rao (10 May 1922 – 13 September 2020) was an Indian flautist who specialised in classical carnatic music. Biography After obtaining his initial music training from his sister Smt. Balaamba he got the opportunity to learn flute fr ...

Sikkil Sisters – Kunjumani & Neela Sikkil is an Indian unisex given name that may refer to * Sikkil Sisters – Kunjumani & Neela, Indian flute players *Sikkil Gurucharan (born 1982), Indian Carnatic musician, grandson of Kunjumani & Neela *Sikkil Mala Chandrasekar Sikkil Mala Cha ...

Prapancham Sitaram Prof Dr. Prapancham Sitaram was a Carnatic flautist from the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. Prof. Sitaram was a disciple of flautist T.R. Mahalingam and was a top artist in the All India Radio. He served as head of many institutions in And ...

T. N. Sivakumar Thalainayar Narayanaswamy Sivakumar (T. N. Sivakumar) ( ta, டீ.என் . சிவகுமார்),( te, తీ. ఎం. శివకుమార్) is a visually challenged carnatic flutist guru from Chennai. He is a disciple of Sr ...

* Shashank Subramanyam * Tanjore Viswanathan *

Ma Anand Yashu Ma Anand Yashu (9 October 1956 – 3 December 2007) was an Indian-Spanish flautist. She performed in a duo with Toti Soler in the early 1980s and was based in Barcelona for many years. In 2001, her album '' Shanti Shanti'' topped the New Age ...

Bapu Padmanabha Bapu Padmanabha, also known as Bapu Flute, is a musician and composer who performs Hindustani classical music on his bansuri, a type of bamboo flute. He was born on 18 November 1978 in Harihar which is in Davanagere District of Karnataka state i ...

Irish

* Harry Bradley * Vincent Broderick * Paddy Carty *

Catherine Coleman Catherine Grace "Cady" Coleman (born December 14, 1960) is an American chemist, an engineer, a former United States Air Force colonel, and a retired NASA astronaut. She is a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions, and departed the International ...

– astronaut * Kevin Crawford * Eddie Duffy * Packie Duignan * Brian Dunning * Séamus Egan * Brian Finnegan *

Michael Flatley Michael Ryan Flatley (born July 16, 1958) is an Irish-American dancer. He became known for Irish dance shows ''Riverdance'', '' Lord of the Dance'', ''Feet of Flames'', and '' Celtic Tiger Live''. Flatley's shows have played to more than 60 mil ...

Steph Geremia Steph Geremia is an Irish- American flute player and singer who lives in Galway, Ireland. Career Steph Geremia was born in an Italian/Irish neighborhood in New York. There she learned to play the Irish flute and first came into contact wit ...

* Carmel Gunning * Peter Horan *

Frankie Kennedy Frankie Kennedy (30 September 1955 – 19 September 1994) was a flute and tin whistle player born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was also the co-founder of the band Altan, formed with his wife Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh. The popular '' Frankie Ke ...

Joanie Madden Joanie Madden is an Irish-American flute and whistle player of Irish traditional music. She is best known as leader of the all-female group Cherish the Ladies, but has also recorded and performed with numerous other musicians, and as a solo a ...

* Josie McDermott *

Michael McGoldrick Michael McGoldrick (born 26 November 1971, in Manchester, England) is a folk musician who plays Irish flute, uilleann pipes, low whistle and bodhran. He also plays other instruments such as acoustic guitar, cittern, and mandolin. Bands M ...

* John McKenna * Matt Molloy *

Conal Ó Gráda Conal Ó Gráda (born in Cork 1961) is an Irish flute and tin whistle player and teacher. Career Conal's debut recording ''The Top of Coom'' in 1990 is still regarded as a seminal recording of flute-playing. Conal has played, toured and reco ...

Peadar O'Loughlin Peadar O'Loughlin (6 November 1929 – 22 October 2017) was an Irish fluter, fiddler, and piper from Kilmaley County Clare, Ireland who had been a fixture in Irish music since the late 1940s and was best known for having played on the highl ...

Marcas Ó Murchú Marcas Ó Murchú is an Ireland, Irish woodwind flute player from Belfast, Northern Ireland. In 1997 his album ''Ó Bhéal go Béal'' (CICD 126) was released and in 2013, he became the "Chief Bard of Irish Music". Musical background He became M ...

Francis O'Neill Francis O'Neill (August 28, 1848 – January 26, 1936) was an Irish-born American police officer and collector of Irish traditional music. His biographer Nicholas Carolan referred to him as "the greatest individual influence on the evolution o ...

* Mike Rafferty * Micho Russell *

Seamus Tansey Seamus Tansey, also spelled Séamus Tansey, was an Irish flute player born in Gorteen, County Sligo, Ireland in 1943. He won the All-Ireland flute title in 1965. Seamus Tansey died on July 9th, 2022. Discography *Various artists. ''The Breeze F ...

* Michael Tubridy

Japanese

Christopher Yohmei Blasdel Christopher Yohmei Blasdel (クリストファー遙盟、 born 1951 in Canyon, Texas) is a shakuhachi performer, researcher and writer specializing in the music of Japan and Asia. In 1972, while on foreign study in Tokyo, he was introduced to t ...

Watazumi Doso Roshi (November 20, 1911 - December 14, 1992) was a master of the end-blown Japanese bamboo flute. He studied Rinzai school, Rinzai Zen, attaining the title of rōshi. Born as Tanaka Masaru, he was also known as Tanaka Fumon, Itcho Fumon, Wataz ...

* Robin Hartshorne *

Yoshikazu Iwamoto Yoshikazu Iwamoto (born 1945) is a Japanese-born professional shakuhachi player living in the United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in E ...

Phil Nyokai James Phil Nyokai James is a professional shakuhachi ( Japanese bamboo flute) teacher and performer as well as avant-garde composer. Born in New York City in 1954, James studied shakuhachi with Ronnie Nyogetsu Reishin Seldin and Yodo Kurahashi. After ...

Kaoru Kakizakai is an internationally renowned performer and teacher of the ''shakuhachi'', a traditional vertical bamboo flute of Japan. Kakizakai studied under and recorded with Yokoyama Katsuya. He graduated from the NHK Traditional Music Conservatory and is ...

Masayuki Koga Masayuki Koga (born in Omuta City, Japan) is a shakuhachi player and former member of the Ensemble Nipponia. He studied Kinko shakuhachi with Kiichi Koga, his father, and Tozan Ryu shakuhachi with Kazan Saka, and teaches both schools. His students ...

* Ron Korb – also other world flutes * Kinko Kurosawa *

Ken LaCosse Ken LaCosse (April 9, 1960, in San Jose, California – June 28, 2019, in San Francisco, California) was an American maker of the shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute). He is known particularly for developing a large, wide bore style of shakuhachi ca ...

Riley Lee Riley Kelly Lee (born 1951) is an American-born Australian-based shakuhachi player and teacher. In 1980 he became the first non-Japanese person to attain the rank of Dai Shihan (grand master) in the shakuhachi tradition. He is a recipient of tw ...

Kōhachiro Miyata Kōhachirō Miyata (born 1938) 宮田耕八朗 is a shakuhachi flautist and composer. He performs both traditional and contemporary music. He recorded with Ensemble Nipponia in the United States in 1976. Among his students were Clive Bell, Fukuda ...

* John Kaizan Neptune * Kokū Nishimura * Atsuya Okuda *

Alcvin Ramos Alcvin Ryuzen Ramos is a shakuhachi teacher, performer, composer, and maker based in Canada. Born in Japan, Ramos has also lived in the United States and now lives in Western Canada. In 2003, he founded the Bamboo-In Shakuhachi Space on the Sunshi ...

* Rodrigo Rodriguez * James Nyoraku Schlefer * Ronnie Nyogetsu Reishin Seldin * Gorō Yamaguchi *

Hōzan Yamamoto Hōzan Yamamoto (山本邦山, ''Yamamoto Hōzan''; October 6, 1937 - February 10, 2014 in Ōtsu, Shiga prefecture) was a Japanese shakuhachi player, composer and lecturer. Yamamoto started playing the Japanese bamboo flute shakuhachi at the a ...

Katsuya Yokoyama was a Japanese musician who played the ''shakuhachi'', a traditional vertical bamboo flute. Early life He was born in Shizuoka Prefecture in 1934 and studied Kinko-ryu and Azuma styles of music with his father, Rampo Yokoyama, and grandfather ...

Masakazu Yoshizawa was a Japanese American flutist and musician, known for his mastery of the bamboo flute, specifically the shakuhachi. Yoshizawa also mastered several other traditional Japanese flutes, in addition to other Japanese and Western musical instruments ...

Native American

Bryan Akipa Bryan Akipa (Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate) is a Dakota flautist with five solo albums to date. He has been a featured artist at ''A Prairie Awakening'', an annual event held at the Kuehn Conservation Area near Earlham, Iowa. He is a member of the Si ...

Michael Graham Allen Coyote Oldman is a duo of new-age musicians consisting of Native American flute players Barry Stramp and Michael Graham Allen. The name Coyote Oldman is derived from the trickster archetype in Native American mythology. Michael Graham Allen met ...

Timothy Archambault Timothy Archambault (also known as Tim Archambault; born Willimantic, Connecticut, United States, February 9, 1971) is a Native American flutist, architect, and composer. Background Archambault is a member of the Kichesipirini Algonquin First N ...

* Jeff Ball *

Odell Borg Odell Borg is a native flute maker, teacher, and record producer. He has produced records with Jan 'Looking Wolf', Zach Farley, Harry Seavey, Travis Terry, and Naomi Littletree. Before making flutes, Odell was a leather craftsman and a draftsman ...

* Robert Tree Cody * Brent Michael Davids *

Joseph Fire Crow Joseph Fire Crow (March 29, 1959 – July 11, 2017) was a Cheyenne flutist. He released albums from 1992 to 2017. His album ''Cheyenne Nation'' was nominated for a Grammy in 2001. Fire Crow appeared many times as a guest musician on recordings ...

Mark Holland Mark Holland (born October 16, 1974) is a Canadian politician who serves as the current leader of the Government in the House of Commons. In the 2004 federal election he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a candidate of the Lib ...

Al Jewer Al Jewer is a Native American flutist originally from Detroit, Michigan. He has worked as a record producer and engineer, and as a studio musician, but he has become well known internationally for his work on the Native American flute. His ea ...

* Nicole LaRoche *

Hawk Littlejohn Hawk Littlejohn (1941 – December 14, 2000) was an American musician and carver of Native American flutes. He worked as an adjunct professor in Social and Administrative Medicine from 1982-1983 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ...

Charles Littleleaf Charles Littleleaf, a Native American flute player and flute maker, is a tribal member of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, Oregon. Charles is also an honorary member of the Piikani Nation, Alberta, Canada, and is the son of the late Chief Ja ...

* Kevin Locke *

Tom Mauchahty-Ware Tom Mauchahty-Ware (March 21, 1949 – November 3, 2015) was a Kiowa/Comanche musician. He was known for his work playing the Native American flute, and has been a successful American Indian dancer, and has sung in a popular blues band. He was also ...

* Bill Miller * Robert Mirabal * Michael Murphy * R. Carlos Nakai *

Sonny Nevaquaya Sonny Nevaquaya was a Comanche flute player and maker from Oklahoma. He began his professional career in 1993 when he recorded an album entitled ''Spirit of the Flute''. His second album, ''Viva Kokopelli'' was released in 1996. He has also rel ...

* Jay Red Eagle * Douglas Spotted Eagle *

Barry Stramp Coyote Oldman is a duo of new-age musicians consisting of Native American flute players Barry Stramp and Michael Graham Allen. The name Coyote Oldman is derived from the trickster archetype in Native American mythology. Michael Graham Allen met B ...

Gentle Thunder Gentle Thunder, born Lisa Carpenter, is a Native American flautist of Cree heritage with three solo albums to date. From Kirkland, Washington, Gentle Thunder also plays the hammered dulcimer and percussion instruments. In 2006 she released ''Beyond ...

* Andrew Vasquez * Tommy Wildcat *

Mary Youngblood Mary Youngblood (Aleut/ Seminole) is a Native American musician, and performer of the Native American flute. Life and career Mary Youngblood was born in Kirkland, Washington, and adopted as a child by Dr. Bob and Leah Edwards, both educators. S ...

Other traditional / Folk

Altamiro Carrilho Altamiro Carrilho (born Altamiro Aquino Carrilho; December 21, 1924 – August 15, 2012) was a Brazilian musician and composer. He is widely regarded as a master flutist and a major representative of the choro genre. Carrilho died of lung ca ...

– Brazilian * Joaquim da Silva – Brazilian *

Bora Dugić Borislav "Bora" Dugić ( sr-Cyrl, Борислав Бора Дугић, ; born 10 June 1949) is a Serbian musician and flautist having released a number of CDs and records as well as having performed at countless concerts. Early and professiona ...

– Serbian *

Avraham Eilam-Amzallag Avraham Eilam-Amzallag ( he, אברהם (אבי) אמזלג עילם; born 28 September 1941) is an Israeli musician and composer. Biography Avraham (Avi) Eilam-Amzallag was born in Casablanca, Morocco. He immigrated to Israel as a child. He firs ...

– Israeli *

Gilbert Favre Gilbert Favre (November 19, 1936 – December 12, 1998) was a clarinetist from Geneva, Switzerland. He trained at the Conservatory of Geneva, and also played jazz clarinet. In South America, he discovered the quena, and when he moved to Bolivia, he ...

– Bolivian * Julie Fowlis – Scottish * Hassan Kassai – Persian *

Liu Qichao Liu Qichao (; born in Shandong) is a Chinese-born American musician. He graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. He now lives in Los Angeles. Instruments Liu performs on an array of traditional Chinese instruments, including wind inst ...

– Chinese * Efraín Loyola – Cuban * Fănică Luca – Romanian * Yacouba Moumouni – Nigerian *

Chris Norman Christopher Ward Norman (born 25 October 1950) is an English soft rock singer. Norman was the original lead singer of the English rock band Smokie, (1964–1986), who found success in Europe in the 1970s. "Stumblin' In", a 1978 duet with Suzi ...

– Scottish *

Hossein Omoumi Hossein Omoumi (born 1944) is an Iranian-born master musician of the ney (reed flute), composer, scholar, and teacher of Persian traditional music. He is the Maseeh Professor in Persian Performing Arts in the department of music within the Claire ...

– Persian *

Hemapala Perera Kala Bhushana Vithanage Hemapala Perera (born on 20 October 1942 as හේමපාල පෙරේරා inhala, popularly as Hemapala Master, is a musician and renowned flautist in Sri Lankan cinema, theater and television. Personal life He ...

– Sri Lankan * Lou Pérez – Cuban * Pixinguinha – Brazilian *

Niyazi Sayın Niyazi Sayın (; born 1927), is a Turkish ''ney'' flautist and music educator. For a long time, he has performed duets with ''tanbur'' lute player Necdet Yaşar. He is regarded as the most important ''ney'' player in Turkish classical music. D ...

– Turkish * Omar Faruk Tekbilek – Turkish * Neyzen Tevfik – Turkish *

Henry Thomas Henry Jackson Thomas Jr. (born September 9, 1971) is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor and had a lead role in the film ''E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'' (1982), for which he won a Young Artist Award and received Golden Glob ...

– American *

Otha Turner Othar "Otha" Turner (June 2, 1907 – February 27, 2003) was one of the last well-known fife players in the vanishing American fife and drum blues tradition. His music was also part of the African-American genre known as Hill country blues. Ear ...

– American *

Uiliami Leilua Vi Uiliami Leilua Vi known by his Tongan noble title Hon. Lord Veehala (1925–1986) was a Tongan nobleman best known as a nose-flute player. He remains the most famous Tongan musician, both at home and abroad, and his recordings are still tradition ...

– Tongan *

Gheorghe Zamfir Gheorghe Zamfir (; born April 6, 1941) is a Romanian nai (pan flute) musician. Zamfir is known for playing an expanded version of normally 20-pipe nai, with 22, 25, 28 or even 30 pipes, to increase its range, and obtaining as many as eight ov ...

– Romanian

Jazz / New Age

* George Adams * Marshall Allen *

Curtis Amy Curtis Amy (October 11, 1929 – June 5, 2002) was an American jazz saxophonist. Biography Amy was born in Houston, Texas, United States. He learned how to play clarinet before joining the Army, and during his time in service, picked up the te ...

* Ashleigh Ball *

Phillip Bent Phillip Bent (born 16 September 1964) is an English jazz flautist from London, England, who was a member of the GRP All-Star Big Band. He has made references to a number of musicians as his inspiration, including Bobbi Humphrey, James Newton, K ...

* Sean Bergin * T. K. Blue *

Andrea Brachfeld Andrea Brachfeld is an American jazz and Latin jazz flutist. Brachfeld attended The High School of Music and Art and the Manhattan School of Music. She had her first professional performance at the age of 16. In 1974, she received the Louis Armst ...

Jane Bunnett Mary Jane Bunnett, (born October 22, 1956) is a Canadian musician and educator. A soprano saxophonist, flautist and bandleader, she is especially known for performing Afro-Cuban jazz. She travels regularly to Cuba to perform with Cuban musicians ...

Don Burrows Donald Vernon Burrows (8 August 1928 – 12 March 2020) was an Australian jazz and swing musician who played clarinet, saxophone and flute. Life and career Donald Vernon Burrows was born on 8 August 1928, the only child of Vernon and Beryl and ...

Wayman Carver Wayman Carver (December 25, 1905, Portsmouth, Virginia – May 6, 1967, Atlanta) was an American jazz flutist and reeds player. Carver was a rare jazz flautist active during the swing era, and was among the earliest soloists on his main instrume ...

* Danilo Caymmi *

Eugenio Colombo Eugenio Colombo (born 10 December 1953 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian saxophonist and flautist most associated with avant-garde jazz. A founding member of the Italian Instabile Orchestra, Colombo has worked with such musicians as Mario Schiano, Gi ...

John Coltrane John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Born and rai ...

Charles Compo Charles Compo is a contemporary American fine artist, composer and multi-instrumentalist. Family And Early Life Charles Compo was born in 1958 in Jamaica, Queens to jazz violinist Peter Compo and Broadway actress Faith Daltry Compo. He grew u ...

Hector Costita Hector Costita (born October 27, 1934) is a musician and composer. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. However, he is one of the most famous flutist and saxophonist in Brazilian music. He performed and recorded with Lalo Schifrin, Manfredo Fe ...

* Charles Davis * Jean Derome * Robert Dick * Marco Di Meco * Eric Dixon *

Fostina Dixon Fostina Dixon (born August 16, 1956, Wilmington, Delaware) is an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, flautist, and vocalist. Early life and studies Dixon was born in Wilmington, Delaware and began her career in the early 1970s, playing with ...

* Lyn Dobson *

Eric Dolphy Eric Allan Dolphy Jr. (June 20, 1928 – June 29, 1964) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, bass clarinetist and flautist. On a few occasions, he also played the clarinet and piccolo. Dolphy was one of several multi-instrumentalists to ...

* Bob Downes * Damian Drăghici *

Matt Eakle Matt Eakle is an American flute player and author who has been the flutist for the David Grisman Quintet since 1989. He plays jazz, blues, and classical flute. Career He has performed with Jerry Garcia, Stéphane Grappelli, Vassar Clements, ...

Marty Ehrlich Marty Ehrlich (born May 31, 1955) is a multi-instrumentalist (saxophones, clarinets, flutes) and is considered one of the leading figures in avant-garde jazz. Biography Though born in St. Paul, Minnesota, the portion of Ehrlich's youth spent i ...

* Kat Epple *

Joe Farrell Joseph Carl Firrantello (December 16, 1937 – January 10, 1986), known as Joe Farrell, was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist who primarily performed as a saxophonist and flutist. He is best known for a series of albums under his own name o ...

Sherry Finzer Sherry ( es, jerez ) is a fortified wine made from white grapes that are grown near the city of Jerez de la Frontera in Andalusia, Spain. Sherry is produced in a variety of styles made primarily from the Palomino grape, ranging from light versi ...

Sonny Fortune Cornelius "Sonny" Fortune (May 19, 1939 – October 25, 2018) was an American jazz saxophonist. Fortune played soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone saxophones, clarinet, and flute. Biography He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United Stat ...

* Peter Guidi * Guttorm Guttormsen *

Vincent Herring Vincent Dwayne Herring (born November 19, 1964) is an American jazz saxophonist, flautist, composer, and educator. Known for his fiery and soulful playing in the bands of Horace Silver, Freddie Hubbard, and Nat Adderley in the earlier stages of h ...

* Paul Horn *

Bobbi Humphrey Barbara Ann "Bobbi" Humphrey (born April 25, 1950) is an American jazz flautist and singer who plays jazz fusion, funk, and soul-jazz. She has recorded twelve albums and founded the jazz label Paradise Sounds Records. In 1971, she was the first ...

* Fred Jackson Jr. * Bobby Jaspar *

Simon Jensen Simon K. Jensen (born 3 February 1973) is a Denmark, Danish jazz flutist, composer and poet. He is active in several genres and leads his own band, Simon Jensen Band. He lives in Gothenburg, Sweden. Jensen was born in Copenhagen, the son of art ...

* Tom Keenlyside *

Stefan Keller Stefan Keller (born 1961) is a Swiss classical and jazz flute player and composer. He plays all kind of flutes like Quartertone, Glissando, Bebe, alto flute, and bass flute. Most unusual is his contrabass flute The contrabass flute is one of t ...

Wouter Kellerman Wouter Kellerman (born 20 September 1961) is a GRAMMY® Award-winning South African flautist, producer and composer who has won eight South African Music Awards. Using his classical training as a foundation, Kellerman has focused his attention ...

Rahsaan Roland Kirk Rahsaan Roland Kirk (born Ronald Theodore Kirk; August 7, 1935Kernfeld, Barry.Kirk, Roland" ''The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz'', 2nd ed. Ed. Barry Kernfeld. ''Grove Music Online''. ''Oxford Music Online''. Retrieved February 1, 2009-. "The year ...

* Moe Koffman *

Joe Kučera Joe Kučera (born Josef Kučera; 8 July 1943) is a Czech jazz saxophonist and flautist. He was born in Prague in Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (now the Czech Republic). He began playing clarinet at age of seventeen and later changed his ins ...

* Brian Landrus *

Prince Lasha William B. Lawsha, better known as Prince Lasha (), (September 10, 1929 – December 12, 2008) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, baritone saxophonist, flautist, clarinetist and English horn player. Life and career He was born in Fort Wort ...

Yusef Lateef Yusef Abdul Lateef (born William Emanuel Huddleston; October 9, 1920 – December 23, 2013) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and prominent figure among the Ahmadiyya Community in America. Although Lateef's main instruments ...

Hubert Laws Hubert Laws (born November 10, 1939) is an American flutist and saxophonist with a career spanning over 40 years in jazz, classical, and other music genres. Laws is one of the few classical artists who has also mastered jazz, pop, and rhyth ...

* Geoff Leigh * Björn J:son Lindh * Charles Lloyd * "Magic" Malik Mezzadri *

Herbie Mann Herbert Jay Solomon (April 16, 1930 – July 1, 2003), known by his stage name Herbie Mann, was an American jazz flute player and important early practitioner of world music. Early in his career, he also played tenor saxophone and clarinet (inc ...

Bill McBirnie Bill McBirnie is a jazz and Latin flautist, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was raised in the small town of Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada. Career His has studied with Canadian flautist Robert Aitken, American flautist Samuel Baron, and C ...

* Harold McNair * Lloyd McNeill *

Chris Michell Christine Margaret Michell (; born 1951) AKA Christa Michell, is an English flautist and composer of ambient-classic and New Age music; ''Dolphin Love'' album (1991) was an early example of the New Age genre, with dolphin, whale and sea sounds, in ...

Bobby Militello Robert Philip Militello a.k.a. Bobby M. (born 25 March 1950) is an American jazz saxophonist and flautist who was a member of the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Career During the 1970s, Militello went on tour with Maynard Ferguson. He returned to Buffalo ...

* Nicole Mitchell * James Moody * Ras Moshe *

Sam Most Samuel Most (December 16, 1930 – June 13, 2013) was an American jazz flutist, clarinetist and tenor saxophonist, based in Los Angeles. He was "probably the first great jazz flutist", according to jazz historian Leonard Feather. Biography He ...

Charlie Munro Charles Robert Munro (22 May 1917, in Christchurch – 9 December 1985, in Sydney) was a jazz reedist and flautist born in New Zealand but based chiefly out of Australia. Munro moved to Sydney when he was 21, and played in the bands of Myer ...

David "Fathead" Newman David "Fathead" Newman (February 24, 1933 – January 20, 2009) was an American jazz and Rhythm and blues, rhythm-and-blues saxophonist, who made numerous recordings as a session musician and leader, but is best known for his work as a sideman on ...

James Newton James W. Newton (born May 1, 1953) is an American jazz and classical flutist. Biography He was born in Los Angeles, California, United States. From his earliest years, James Newton grew up immersed in the sounds of African-American music, inclu ...

Andy Panayi Andy Panayi is a British jazz musician, skilled in performance, composition and arranging. He plays all the flutes and all the saxophones and leads a selection of jazz and classical groups. He also writes commissioned works and self commissione ...

* Eddie Parker * Greg Pattillo – beatboxing while playing the flute * Finn Peters * Jaime Prats * Raja Ram * Nelson Rangell * Niki Reiser *

Jerome Richardson Jerome Richardson (November 15, 1920 – June 23, 2000) was an American jazz musician, tenor saxophonist, and flute player, who also played soprano sax, alto sax, baritone sax, clarinet, bass clarinet, alto flute and piccolo. He played with Ch ...

* Sam Rivers *

Ali Ryerson Ali Ryerson (born 21 October 1952 in New York City) is a flutist with a background in both classical and jazz, as well as being an instructor. She has performed and toured worldwide with a wide range of artists including Billy Taylor, Kenny Barr ...

Pharoah Sanders Pharoah Sanders (born Ferrell Lee Sanders; October 13, 1940 – September 24, 2022) was an American jazz saxophonist. Known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on the saxophone, as well as his use of " sheets of sound", S ...

* Clifford Scott *

Bud Shank Clifford Everett "Bud" Shank Jr. (May 27, 1926 – April 2, 2009) was an American alto saxophonist and flautist. He rose to prominence in the early 1950s playing lead alto and flute in Stan Kenton's Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra and thr ...

Sahib Shihab Sahib Shihab (born Edmund Gregory; June 23, 1925 – October 24, 1989) was an American jazz and hard bop saxophonist (baritone, alto, and soprano) and flautist. He variously worked with Luther Henderson, Thelonious Monk, Fletcher Henderson, Tad ...

* Ronald Snijders * Alberto Socarras * Les Spann *

James Spaulding James Ralph Spaulding Jr. (born July 30, 1937) is an American jazz saxophonist and flutist. Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, United states, Spaulding attended the Chicago Cosmopolitan School of Music. Between 1957 and 1961, he was a member of Sun ...

Jeremy Steig Jeremy Steig (September 23, 1942 – April 13, 2016)Peter Keepnews, "Jeremy ...

* Nicola Stilo *

John Stubblefield John Stubblefield (February 4, 1945 – July 4, 2005) was an American jazz saxophonist, flautist, and oboist. Early life Stubblefield was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. He studied music at the Association for the Advancement of Crea ...

* Rowland Sutherland *

Lew Tabackin Lewis Barry Tabackin (born March 26, 1940) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist and flutist. He is married to pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi with whom he has co-led large ensembles since the 1970s. Biography Tabackin started learning flute at age 1 ...

* Joe Thomas * Frank Tiberi *

Fred Tompkins Fred Tompkins (born in St. Louis, Missouri, 1943) is an American jazz flautist and composer, best known for his work as a composer of third stream music. Early life Tompkins played in his native Missouri for several years after high school and a ...

* Néstor Torres * Theo Travis * Norris Turney * Dave Valentin * Harold Vick *

Miho Wada Miho Wada is a Japanese-born jazz musician from New Zealand. She plays flute and both alto and tenor saxophone, and is a founding member of Miho's Jazz Orchestra, which has toured internationally. She has been nicknamed "the flute ninja" for her fa ...

* Jim Walker *

Carlos Ward Carlos Ward (born May 1, 1940 in Ancón, Panama) is a funk and jazz alto saxophonist and flautist. He is best known as a member of the Funk and disco band BT Express as well as a jazz sideman. Biography Ward was raised in Panama City, and at a ...

Frank Wess Frank Wellington Wess (January 4, 1922 – October 30, 2013) was an American jazz saxophonist and flutist. In addition to his extensive solo work, Wess is remembered for his time in Count Basie's band from the early 1950s into the 1960s. Critic ...

* Steve Wilson *

Leo Wright Leo Wright (December 14, 1933 in Wichita Falls, Texas – January 4, 1991 in Vienna) was an American jazz musician who played alto saxophone, flute and clarinet. He played with Charles Mingus, Booker Ervin, John Hardee, Kenny Burrell, Jo ...

* Alexander Zonjic

Rock / Pop

Ian Anderson Ian Scott Anderson (born 10 August 1947) is a British musician, singer and songwriter best known for his work as the lead vocalist, flautist, acoustic guitarist and leader of the British rock band Jethro Tull. He is a multi-instrumentalist ...

– Jethro Tull *

India Arie India Arie Simpson (born October 3, 1975), also known as India Arie (sometimes styled as india.arie), is an American singer and songwriter. She has sold over five million records in the US and ten million worldwide. She has won four Grammy Awards ...

Kofi Burbridge Kofi Burbridge (September 22, 1961 – February 15, 2019) was an American keyboardist and flautist of the blues and blues rock group Tedeschi Trucks Band. Burbridge was a classically trained multi-instrumentalist who provided keyboards, organ ...

– Tedeschi Trucks Band * Barry Burns –

Mogwai Mogwai () are a Scottish post-rock band, formed in 1995 in Glasgow. The band consists of Stuart Braithwaite (guitar, vocals), Barry Burns (guitar, piano, synthesizer, vocals), Dominic Aitchison (bass guitar), and Martin Bulloch (drums). ...

Mel Collins Melvyn Desmond Collins (born 5 September 1947, Isle of Man) is a British saxophonist, flautist and session musician. Collins has played in several progressive rock groups, having been a member of King Crimson on two occasions (the first from ...

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King Crimson King Crimson are a progressive rock band formed in 1968 in London, England. The band draws inspiration from a wide variety of music, incorporating elements of classical, jazz, folk, heavy metal, gamelan, industrial, electronic, experime ...

Burton Cummings Burton Lorne Cummings (born December 31, 1947) is a Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter. He is best known for leading The Guess Who during that band's most successful period from 1965 to 1975, and for a lengthy solo career. Cummings has ...

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The Guess Who The Guess Who are a Canadian rock band formed in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1965. The band originated in 1962 and achieved an international hit single with a cover of " Shakin' All Over" in 1965 under the name Chad Allan and the Expressions. After ...

Charles DeChant Charles DeChant (born June 10, 1945) is an American saxophone and keyboard player known for his association with Hall & Oates. Career Born in Florida on June 10, 1945, DeChant has been playing in the band since 1976. Notable saxophone solos are ...

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Hall & Oates Daryl Hall and John Oates, commonly known as Hall & Oates, are an American pop rock duo formed in Philadelphia in 1970. Daryl Hall is generally the lead vocalist; John Oates primarily plays electric guitar and provides backing vocals. The two ...

* Jerry Eubanks – Marshall Tucker Band *

Peter Gabriel Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and activist. He rose to fame as the original lead singer of the progressive rock band Genesis. After leaving Genesis in 1975, he launched ...

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Genesis Genesis may refer to: Bible * Book of Genesis, the first book of the biblical scriptures of both Judaism and Christianity, describing the creation of the Earth and of mankind * Genesis creation narrative, the first several chapters of the Book o ...

* John Hackett * Tee Mac Iseli * David Jackson –

Van der Graaf Generator Van der Graaf Generator are an English progressive rock band, formed in 1967 in Manchester by singer-songwriters Peter Hammill and Chris Judge Smith and the first act signed by Charisma Records. They did not experience much commercial success ...

Sevan Kirder Sevan Kirder (born 9 February 1980) is the flutist/ bagpiper for the Swiss band Red Shamrock ( Celtic Folk). Career He is best known for his work in Eluveitie ( Pagan metal) which he left on 4 June 2008. Privates Sevan played a long time i ...

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Eluveitie Eluveitie ( ; )Chrigel Glanzmann: "...According to current research, it is pronounced in Bernese German as, i.e. ''"Elvèyti"''. But I don't know if this is correct. The gods know that.:: Metalist Magazine :: Interviews :: Eluveitie is a Swiss ...

* Andrew Latimer –

Camel A camel (from: la, camelus and grc-gre, κάμηλος (''kamēlos'') from Hebrew or Phoenician: גָמָל ''gāmāl''.) is an even-toed ungulate in the genus ''Camelus'' that bears distinctive fatty deposits known as "humps" on its back. ...

Lizzo Melissa Viviane Jefferson (born April 27, 1988), known professionally as Lizzo, is an American singer, rapper, and flutist. Born in Detroit, Michigan, she moved to Houston, Texas with her family when she was 10 years old. After college she ...

Rozalind MacPhail Rozalind MacPhail is a Canadian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Biography Rozalind MacPhail was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and grew up on Toronto Island. At the age of thirteen, she adopted the flute after her grandmother rea ...

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* Teddy Osei –

Osibisa Osibisa are a Ghanaian-British Afro-Rock band founded in London in the late 1960s by four expatriate West African and three London based Caribbean musicians. Osibisa were the most successful and longest lived of the African-heritage bands in ...

Walter Parazaider Walter Parazaider (born March 14, 1945) is an American woodwind musician best known for being a founding member of the rock band Chicago. He plays a wide variety of wind instruments, including saxophone, flute, and clarinet. He also occasiona ...

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Florian Schneider Florian Schneider-Esleben (7 April 194721 April 2020) was a German musician. He is best known as one of the founding members and leaders of the electronic band Kraftwerk, performing his role with the band until his departure in 2008. Early li ...

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Kraftwerk Kraftwerk (, "power station") is a German band formed in Düsseldorf in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider. Widely considered innovators and pioneers of electronic music, Kraftwerk were among the first successful acts to popularize t ...

Ray Thomas Raymond Thomas (29 December 1941 – 4 January 2018) was an English multi-instrumentalist, flautist, singer, founding member and composer in the English progressive rock band the Moody Blues. His flute solo on the band's 1967 hit single " Nigh ...

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The Moody Blues The Moody Blues were an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1964, initially consisting of keyboardist Mike Pinder, multi-instrumentalist Ray Thomas, guitarist Denny Laine, drummer Graeme Edge and bassist Clint Warwick. The group c ...

Thijs van Leer Thijs van Leer (pronounced: ; born 31 March 1948) is a Dutch singer and keyboardist, best known as the founding member of the rock band Focus as its primary vocalist, keyboardist, and flautist. Born and raised in Amsterdam among a musical famil ...

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Focus Focus, or its plural form foci may refer to: Arts * Focus or Focus Festival, former name of the Adelaide Fringe arts festival in South Australia Film *''Focus'', a 1962 TV film starring James Whitmore * ''Focus'' (2001 film), a 2001 film based ...

Tim Weisberg Jules Timothy Weisberg (born January 1, 1943) is an American flutist, vocalist, and record producer. Career In school he wanted to play drums, but instruments were chosen in order of the students' last names, and when Weisberg got his chance, hi ...

– jazz, rock, fusion * Ann Wilson –

Heart The heart is a muscular organ found in most animals. This organ pumps blood through the blood vessels of the circulatory system. The pumped blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the body, while carrying metabolic waste such as carbon diox ...

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Traffic Traffic comprises pedestrians, vehicles, ridden or herded animals, trains, and other conveyances that use public ways (roads) for travel and transportation. Traffic laws govern and regulate traffic, while rules of the road include traffi ...

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