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players, organized alphabetically by the musical genre in which they are best known.


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Richard Adeney Richard Gilford Adeney (25 January 1920 – 16 December 2010) was a British flautist who played principal flute with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the English Chamber Orchestra, was a soloist and a founding member of the Melos Ensemble. ...
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Egidius Aerts Egidius Aerts (1822–1853) was a Belgian flautist and composer. He was born in Boom, United Kingdom of the Netherlands. He studied under Jean François Joseph Lahon (1798-1847) in the Brussels Conservatory. From 1837 to 1840 he travelled pro ...
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William Alwyn William Alwyn (born William Alwyn Smith; 7 November 1905 – 11 September 1985), was a prolific English composer, Conducting, conductor, and music teacher who composed over 200 cinematic scores, of which some 70 were for full-length features, ...
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John Amadio John Amadio (15 November 1883 – 4 April 1964) was an Australians, Australian flute player, born in New Zealand, who performed with orchestras around the world and made a career as an international soloist and operatic accompanist. "He owed the b ...
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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 "withou ...
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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 club F ...
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Claudi Arimany Claudi Arimany i Barceló (born in Granollers, Catalonia, December 29, 1955) is an international flautist, considered the direct heir, both in interpretative style and in musical concept, of Jean-Pierre Rampal, his mentor and colleague in many conc ...
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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 beca ...
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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 Symp ...
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John Barcellona John Barcellona is the Director of Woodwind Studies and Professor of Flute at CSULB and flutist with Westwood Wind Quintet recorded on Columbia, Crystal, and Western International Music. Education He received his B.M. from Hartt School of Musi ...
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Samuel Baron Samuel Baron (April 27, 1925 in Brooklyn, New York – May 16, 1997 in New York City, United States) was an American flutist. He studied violin in high school and then attended The Juilliard School as a flute student of Georges Barrère and Arth ...
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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 ...
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Georges Barrère Georges Barrère (Bordeaux, October 31, 1876 - New York City, New York, June 14, 1944) was a French flutist.Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001) Early life Georges Barrère was the son of a cabinetmaker, Gabriel Barrère, and Marie P ...
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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 fa ...
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Jeanne Baxtresser Jeanne Baxtresser (born August 2, 1947) is an American flutist and teacher. She is most notable for her position as principal flutist of the New York Philharmonic for over 15 years, she decided to play the flute when she was only nine years ol ...
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Larry Beauregard Lawrence Michael "Larry" Beauregard (October 14, 1956 – September 4, 1985) was a Canadian flautist. He is best known for his work as first flute in the Ensemble InterContemporain, and for his work at IRCAM in the early 1980s, especially his co ...
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Michel Bellavance Michel Bellavance is a Swiss flautist of Canadian origin. Career Miyazawa Artist Bellavance has performed concertos by Ibert, Reinecke, Nielsen, Kabalevsky, Bernstein, Liebermann, Mozart, Bach and Vivaldi with orchestras both in Europe and La ...
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William Bennett William John Bennett (born July 31, 1943) is an American conservative politician and political commentator who served as the third United States secretary of education from 1985 to 1988 under President Ronald Reagan. He also held the post of d ...
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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 ...
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Henri Besozzi Henri Besozzi (born 1775 in Paris – d. ?) was an Italian flutist, and also one of the last members of an extensive and traditional Neapolitan family of musicians during the seventeenth, eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century. He was t ...
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Sharon Bezaly Sharon Bezaly (; born 1972) is an Israeli flautist. Bezaly was born in Israel, but lives presently in Sweden. She has been an international performer since 1997, when she began her solo flute career. She made her solo debut at 13 with Zubin Meh ...
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Lisa Beznosiuk Lisa Beznosiuk (born 20 August 1956 in Sheffield) is an English flautist of Ukrainian and Irish descent, specializing in period performance of baroque and classical music on historical flutes. Biography and career Lisa Beznosiuk trained at t ...
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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 pe ...
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Frances Blaisdell Frances Blaisdell (January 5, 1912 – March 11, 2009) was an American flautist, widely recognized as one of the first female professional flautists. She held positions with the National Orchestral Association, the New Opera Company and the New Fr ...
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Andreas Blau Andreas Blau is a German classical flautist. He is a former principal flautist of the Berlin Philharmonic. Early life Blau's father was a violinist with the Berlin Philharmonic, joining the orchestra in 1948, a year before Andreas was born. Blau ...
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Michel Blavet Michel Blavet (March 13, 1700 – October 28, 1768) was a French composer and flute virtuoso. Although Blavet taught himself to play almost every instrument, he specialized in the bassoon and the flute which he held to the left, the opposite of ho ...
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Vilém Blodek Vilém Blodek, born Vilém František Plodek (October 3, 1834, Prague – May 1, 1874, Prague), was a Czech composer, flautist, and pianist. Biography Blodek was born into a poor family and was educated at a German Piarist school in Prague. Af ...
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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 greatly improved the modern Western concert flute and its fingering system (now ...
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François Borne François Borne (1840–1920), sometimes spelled Bourne, was a French flautist playing with the orchestra of Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, composer and professor at " Conservatoire de Musique de Toulouse" (High School for Music in Toulouse). He is r ...
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Denis Bouriakov Denis Viktorovich Bouriakov (; born 25 October 1981, in Simferopol, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR) is a flautist. He is currently principal flutist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Biography Bouriakov was born in Simferopol, Ukrainia ...
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Adrian Brett Adrian Brett is a British flautist. In 1979, Brett released an album entitled ''Echoes of Gold'', Warwick Records which appeared in the Top 20 of the UK Albums Chart The Official Albums Chart is the United Kingdom's industry-recognised natio ...
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Giulio Briccialdi Giulio Briccialdi (1/2 March 1818 – 17 December 1881) was an Italian virtuoso flautist and composer, a technical innovator on his instrument and a professor of music. Briccialdi was born in Terni. He is commonly credited for inventing the ...
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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 Jona ...
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Katherine Bryan Katherine Bryan (born 1982) is a British flautist. She was appointed Principal Flute of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in Spring 2003, at the age of 21. Career Bryan was born in 1982 and educated at Chetham's School of Music in Mancheste ...
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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 ...
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Pierre-Gabriel Buffardin Pierre-Gabriel Buffardin (Toulon, 24 March 1693 - Paris, 13 January 1768) was a French flutist and composer of the late Baroque music, Baroque period. He was a son of Jean-Joseph Buffardin (Vaison-la-Romaine, 22 July 1664 - Avignon, 28 August 172 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. He ...
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Claire Chase Claire Chase (born 1978) is a soloist, collaborative artist, curator and advocate for new and experimental music. Chase has won the Avery Fisher Prize, which recognizes musical excellence, vision, and leadership. In 2012, Chase was awarded a MacA ...
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Jasmine Choi Jasmine Choi (Korean name: Choi Na-kyung (Korean: 최나경), born in Seoul, South Korea, May 23, 1983) is a Korean-born flautist, who was educated in the US and is currently living in Austria. Life Raised in Daejeon, Choi grew up in a musical f ...
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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 ...
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Valerie Coleman Valerie Coleman is an American composer and flutist as well as the creator of the wind quintet Imani Winds. Coleman is a distinguished artist of the century who was named Performance Today's 2020 Classical Woman of the year and was listed as ...
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Gaston Crunelle Gaston Crunelle (18 August 1898 in Douai – 13 January 1990) was a French classical flutist and teacher. After earning a first prize in flute in 1914 at the Douai Conservatory studying under Auguste Bernard, Crunelle studied in Paris with Adolp ...
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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 has ...
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Leonardo De Lorenzo Leonardo De Lorenzo (August 29, 1875 – July 29, 1962) was an Italian virtuoso flutist and music education, music educator. Biography Born at Viggiano, in the province of Potenza, De Lorenzo started playing the flute at the age of 8 and went to ...
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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 Tulo ...
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Abbie de Quant Abbie de Quant (born 1946, The Hague) is a Dutch flautist. She taught at the music academies of Amsterdam and Utrecht and had her own bi-annual concert series at the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam. Abbie de Quant studied with Koos Verheul at the Music ...
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François Devienne François Devienne (; 31 January 1759 – 5 September 1803) was a French composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period and professor for flute at the Conservatoire de Paris, Paris Conservatory. Career Devienne was born in Joinvill ...
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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 a ...
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Louis Drouet Louis-François-Philippe Drouet (14 April 1792 – 30 September 1873) was a 19th-century French flutist and composer. Biography Born of a French father expatriated in the Netherlands and barber by profession, Louis Drouet began learning to p ...
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Mathieu Dufour Mathieu Dufour (born 28 December 1973 in Paris) is a French classical flutist. He is a former principal flutist of the Berlin Philharmonic. Early life Dufour began playing the flute at the age of 8. He studied under Madeleine Chassang and Maxenc ...
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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 ...
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Hilary du Pré Hilary Anne du Pré (born 25 April 1942) is an English flautist and memoirist best known for her co-authorship of the book '' A Genius in the Family'' (1997) and contributions to the 1998 film ''Hilary and Jackie'', both of which relate the sto ...
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Elena Duran Elena may refer to: People * Elena (given name), including a list of people and characters with this name * Raymond Elena (1931-2024), French former professional racing cyclist. * Joan Ignasi Elena (born 1968), Catalan politician * Francine Ele ...
* Mario Duschenes * Doriot Anthony Dwyer * Alfred John Ellory * Timothy Essex *
Pedro Eustache Pedro Eustache (born August 18, 1959) is a Venezuelan flutist, reed player, woodwind player, composer, instrument maker, and collector. Education Eustache studied first in Venezuela under Michel Eustache (his brother), Ernesto Santini, Antonio ...
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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 ...
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Andrew Findon Andrew (Andy) Findon is an English woodwind player, educated at Harrow County School and The Royal College of Music. Since 1980, he has been a baritone saxophone and flute player in the Michael Nyman Band and is also a member of Home Service a ...
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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 bega ...
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Louis Fleury Louis Fleury (24 May 1878 – 10 June 1926) was a French flautist, a student and colleague of Paul Taffanel, a writer who advocated for the revival of Baroque music, and a musician who promoted contemporary composers by commissioning and performi ...
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John Fonville John Fonville is a flutist and composer. Fonville specializes in extended techniques on the flute, especially microtonality, and performs on instruments including a complete set of quarter tone ( Kingma system) flutes.Frederick the Great Frederick II (; 24 January 171217 August 1786) was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until his death in 1786. He was the last Hohenzollern monarch titled ''King in Prussia'', declaring himself ''King of Prussia'' after annexing Royal Prussia ...
– Prussian king and avid amateur * John Frohling *
Anton Bernhard Fürstenau Anton Bernhard Fürstenau (born 20 October 1792 in Münster; died 18 November 1852 in Dresden, Germany) was a German flutist and composer. He was the most famous virtuoso in Germany on his instrument and the most important Romantic flutist of the ...
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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 e ...
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Moritz Fürstenau Moritz Ludwig Carl Ignaz Franz August Fürstenau (born 26 July 1824 and died on 27 March 1889, also in Dresden) was a German flautist and music historian. He left only a few works that gained little significance, but was extremely helpful as a the ...
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Patrick Gallois Patrick Gallois (born 1956) is a French flutist and conductor. Gallois was born in Linselles near the town of Lille in the north of France. At the age of 17 he began studies at the Conservatoire de Paris with the celebrated flutist Jean-Pierre Ram ...
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James Galway Sir James Galway (born 8 December 1939) is an Irish virtuoso flute player from Belfast, nicknamed "The Man with the Golden Flute". After several years working as an orchestral musician, he established an international career as a solo flute pl ...
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Philippe Gaubert Philippe Gaubert (5 July 1879 – 8 July 1941) was a French musician who was a distinguished performer on the flute. He was a respected conducting, conductor and a composer, primarily for the flute.Edward Blakeman. 'Gaubert, Philippe' in ''Grov ...
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Severino Gazzelloni Severino Gazzellone (5 January 1919 – 21 November 1992), known as Severino Gazzelloni, was an Italian flutist. Biography He was born in Roccasecca and died in Cassino. Gazzelloni was the principal flautist with the RAI National Symphony Or ...
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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 P ...
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Jean-Claude Gérard Jean-Claude Gérard, a flutist born in Angers, he studied with Gaston Crunelle and Marcel Moyse at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris. He won several international competitions and began his career in Paris, playing wit ...
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Richard Giese Richard William Giese (30 April 1924 – 23 February 2010) was a New Zealand flautist and principal flautist with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra from 1962 to 1986. Giese's ancestors originated from Thuringia, Germany. His parents were Carl A ...
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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 ...
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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 on 23 August 1727 in Rudolstadt. He was trained by his father Johann Graf and then served as a drummer in a Dutch army regi ...
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Peter-Lukas Graf Peter-Lukas Graf (born 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 t ...
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Irena Grafenauer Irena Grafenauer (born 19 June 1957 in Ljubljana, Slovenia) is a Slovenian flute player and soloist, a pupil of Boris Čampa, Karlheinz Zöller and Aurèle Nicolet. Irena Grafenauer was born to father Stanko Grafenauer, a geologist, and to mot ...
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Uwe Grodd Uwe Grodd (born 26 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 Ha ...
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Ørnulf Gulbransen Ørnulf Gulbransen (19 December 1916 – 20 February 2004) was a Norwegian classical musician (flute) Career Gulbransen was born and died in Kristiania (Oslo), and had a leading position in Norwegian music for more than 50 years. In 1945 he m ...
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Nicholas Gunn Nicholas Gunn is a classically trained songwriter, lyricist, and music producer. He is known for his originating instrumental works and his current works featuring vocalists from the electronic music space across Trance, Melodic House, and Chill ...
* 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 ...
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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 * Katherine Hoover *
Jacques-Martin Hotteterre Jacques-Martin Hotteterre (29 September 167416 July 1763), also known as Jacques Martin or Jacques Hotteterre, was a French people, French composer and flautist who was the most celebrated of a family of wind instrument makers and wind perform ...
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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 ...
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Timothy Hutchins Timothy Hutchins is a Canadian classical flute player. Principal flute of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra since 1978, Timothy Hutchins has received international critical acclaim for his work as a concerto soloist, as a recitalist, and as a cham ...
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Christopher Hyde-Smith Christopher Hyde-Smith (11 March 1935 – 25 February 2024) was a British 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 sty ...
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Gerald Jackson Gerald Jackson (January 1900 – 1972 in Marylebone, London) was an English flautist particularly known as one of the four members of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra's so-called "Royal Family" of woodwind players. He had earlier been principal ...
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Sébastian Jacot Sébastian Jacot is a Swiss classical flutist. He has been one of the principal flutists of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra from November 2022 to November 2024. Early life Jacot began playing flute at age 8. He studied under Isabelle Giraud an ...
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André Jaunet André Jaunet (May 17, 1911 – December 13, 1988) was a French-Swiss flutist. In later years he worked as a teacher in Zürich, Switzerland, where he taught flautists Peter-Lukas Graf and Aurèle Nicolet, Conrad Klemm among others. Biography ...
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Jens Josef Jens Josef (born 5 August 1967) is a German composer of classical music, a flutist and academic teacher. Career Born in Solingen-Ohligs, Josef received flute instructions from Rita Eggenweiler and Klaus Grünow, principal flute of the Staatsth ...
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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 Jeffrey Khaner (born December 22, 1958) is the principal flutist of the Philadelphia Orchestra. He has also served as principal flutist with the Cleveland Orchestra and the Pittsburgh Symphony. Khaner teaches at the Curtis Institute of Music, The ...
* William Kincaid * Kristiyan Koev *
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 f ...
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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 *
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 Danis ...
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Barthold Kuijken Barthold Kuijken (; born 8 March 1949, Dilbeek) is a Belgians, Belgian flautist and Recorder (musical instrument), recorder player, known for playing baroque music on Historically informed performance, historical instruments and particularly kno ...
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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 * 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 ...
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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 ...
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Maxence Larrieu Maxence Larrieu (born 27 October 1934 in Marseille) is a French classical flautist. Career He studied flute from age 10 at the Marseille Conservatory of Music with Joseph Rampal, who was the father of Jean-Pierre Rampal. In 1958, Larrieu won t ...
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Nicholas Laucella Nicholas Laucella (born Nicola Laucella; July 1, 1882 – September 2, 1952) was an American concert flautist and composer. During the course of a professional musical career which spanned over three decades, he performed as the principal flute ...
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John Lemmone John Lemmone (22 June 1861 – 16 August 1949) was an Australian flute player and composer who was largely self-taught and who at the age of 12, paid for his first flute with gold he had panned himself on the goldfields at Ballarat. He had an in ...
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Hans-Martin Linde Hans-Martin Linde (born 24 May 1930 in Werne, Germany) is a German conductor, composer, and noted virtuoso flute and recorder player of (mainly) baroque and early music. He was educated at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg where he studied the flu ...
* 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 repertoi ...
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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 ...
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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 Marseill ...
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Jaime Martín Jaime Martín (born 1 September 1965) is a Spanish conductor and flautist. Early life Born in Santander, Spain, Martín began his music studies on the flute at age 8, and became a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Spain at age 13. He was ...
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Marya Martin Marya Martin is a New Zealand born American flautist, soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. Born Mary Martin in New Zealand, Martin studied at the University of Auckland, where she had lessons with Richard Giese, then principal flute in the ...
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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 subse ...
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Lorna McGhee Lorna McGhee (born 1972) is a Scottish flutist and teacher, who since 2024 holds the position of Principal Flute at the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She served as Principal Flute of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra from 2012 to 2024. In addition, she ...
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Demarre McGill Demarre McGill is an American classical musician who is principal flutist of the Seattle Symphony. He is also one of the few African-American musicians who hold positions in professional orchestras. Early life and education McGill began playing ...
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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 ...
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Victor McMahon Victor McMahon (1903 – 9 March 1992) was an Australian flute teacher and flautist. He was Professor of Flute at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and Supervisor of School (Flute) Bands with the New South Wales Department of Education. He is cr ...
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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 ...
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Ulla Miilmann Ulla Miimann is a Danish flutist. 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 Nati ...
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Claude Monteux Claude Monteux (October 15, 1920February 22, 2013) was an American flutist and conductor. Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, the son of conductor Pierre Monteux, Monteux studied flute with Georges Laurent, then the principal flutist of the Boston S ...
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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 Project as backup to Christa McAuliffe for the 1986 ill-fated STS-51-L mission of the Space Shuttle ' ...
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Tadashi Mori was a Japanese conducting, conductor and flautist. He performed as flautist in his young days. He studied conducting from Hideo Saito (musician), Hideo Saito, and started his career as conductor. Mori was a music director and principal conduc ...
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Louis Moyse Louis Moyse (pron. ''moh-EEZ''; 14 July 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 ...
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Marcel Moyse Marcel Moyse ( ɔiz May 17, 1889, in St. Amour, France – November 1, 1984, in Brattleboro, Vermont, United States) was a French flautist. Moyse studied at the Paris Conservatory and was a student of Philippe Gaubert, Adolphe Hennebains, and ...
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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 ...
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Milan Munclinger Milan Munclinger (3 July 1923, in Košice, Czechoslovakia – 30 March 1986, in Prague, Czechoslovakia) was a Czechoslovak flautist, conductor, composer and musical scientist. Biography Munclinger was the son of Josef Munclinger, an operatic bas ...
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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 o ...
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Charles Nicholson Sir Charles Nicholson, 1st Baronet (born Isaac Ascough; 23 November 1808 – 8 November 1903) was an English-Australian politician, university founder, explorer, pastoralist, antiquarian and philanthropist. The Nicholson Museum at the University ...
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Aurèle Nicolet Aurèle Nicolet (22 January 1926 – 29 January 2016) was a Swiss flautist. He was considered one of the world's best flute players of the late twentieth century. He performed in various international concerts. A number of composers wrote music ...
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Thomas Nyfenger Thomas Daniel Nyfenger (October 6, 1936 – June 12, 1990) was an American flutist and teacher known for his "intense and caring emotion for the flute" and described as “a thorough professional who programs interesting music and is not above havi ...
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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 ...
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Eleonore Pameijer Eleonore Pameijer (born 1960) is a Dutch flute player. She studied 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) ...
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Kathinka Pasveer Kathinka Pasveer (born 11 June 1959) is a Dutch flautist. Biography Kathinka Pasveer was born in Zaandam, The Netherlands, daughter of the conductor Jan Pasveer, who also taught at the Amsterdam Conservatory. She studied with Frans Vester at the ...
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Maggi Payne Maggi Payne (born 1945, Texas, United States) is an American composer, flutist, video artist, recording engineer/editor, and historical remastering engineer who creates electroacoustic, instrumental, vocal works, and works involving visuals (video ...
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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: Yal ...
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Marina Piccinini Marina Piccinini (born 1963) is an Italian-American virtuoso flautist. She is noted for her performances of compositions by Mozart and Bach, and has performed with many of the world's top orchestras and conductors. Early life and education Marina ...
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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 M ...
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Claire Polin Claire Polin (January 1, 1926 – December 6, 1995) was an American composer of contemporary classical music, musicologist, and flutist. Education She obtained three degrees in music from the Philadelphia Conservatory: a Bachelor, Masters and Doc ...
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Johann Joachim Quantz Johann Joachim Quantz (; 30 January 1697 – 12 July 1773) was a German composer, flute, flutist and flute maker of the late Baroque music, Baroque period. Much of his professional career was spent in the court of Frederick the Great, where he s ...
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Jean-Pierre Rampal 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, and spurring contemporary composers, ...
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Joseph Rampal Joseph Rampal (12 September 1898 – 12 January 1983) was a prominent and distinguished French flutist and flute teacher, and the father of the internationally-renowned soloist Jean-Pierre Rampal. Graduate of the French Flute School Born in P ...
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Jean Rémusat Jean Rémusat (1815–1880) was a French Western concert flute, 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 Conservatoir ...
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Paula Robison Paula Robison (born June 8, 1941) is a flute soloist and teacher. Early life and education Paula Robison was born in Nashville, Tennessee, the daughter of David V. and Naomi Robison, an actor. David Robison was a playwright and writer for film a ...
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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 ...
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Jane Rutter Jane Rutter (born 2 November 1958) is an Australian flautist. Her repertoire encompasses classical, jazz, and pop music. Career Rutter specializes in the French Flute School. She has lectured at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and formed ...
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Gro Sandvik Gro Schibsted Sandvik prof.em (born 2 October 1942 in Sarpsborg, Norway) has served as principal flute of the Bergen Philharmonic 1967-2004. She held the position from 1964 with Stavanger Symphony orchestra. Since 1967 she is a member of Berge ...
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Federico Maria Sardelli Federico Maria Sardelli (born 1963 in Livorno) is an Italian people, Italian conducting, conductor, Musical historicism, historicist-composer, musicology, musicologist, comic artist, and flautist, resident in Florence. He founded the medieval mu ...
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Gary Schocker Gary Schocker (born October 18, 1959) is an American flutist, composer, and pianist who has performed with the New York Philharmonic (at age 15, in a nationally televised Young People's Concert), the Philadelphia Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony ...
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Johann Sedlatzek Johann Jean Sedlatzek (also Johann John Sedlaczek; 6 December 1789 – 11 April 1866) was a Silesians, Silesian flautist born in Głogówek (Oberglogau),History of Oberglogau in Brief. "http://www.smarzly.de/6.html". Smarzly 2003. Retrieved on 16 ...
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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 Insti ...
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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 ...
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Fenwick Smith Fenwick Smith (1949 – July 19, 2017) was an American flutist. He studied under Joseph Mariano at the Eastman School of Music, graduating from there in 1972. Shortly thereafter he became a member of the New England Woodwind Quintet and began a ...
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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 instruc ...
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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 the ...
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John Solum John Solum (born 1935, Wisconsin) is an American musician, author, educator, and advocate for the arts. Professional career Early years Settling in New York City in 1958, John Solum launched an international solo and chamber music career. No ...
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Fritz Spiegl Fritz Spiegl (27 January 1926 – 23 March 2003) was an Austrian-born English musician, journalist, broadcaster, humorist and collector who lived in Britain from 1939. His works include compiling the Radio 4 UK Theme in 1978. Early life Spiegl ...
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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 1 ...
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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 fath ...
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Sanja Stijačić Sanja Stijačić (born 14 November 1965) is a Serbian flutist and Associate Professor of Flute at the University of Pristina (Kosovska Mitrovica) and University of East Sarajevo. Education Sanja Stijačić was born in Šabac, SR Serbia, SFR Y ...
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Alexa Still Alexa Still (born 1962) is a New Zealand-born flutist based in Oberlin, Ohio, where she is 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 Thomas Nyfenger ...
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Mimi Stillman Mimi Stillman is a professional concert flutist. Career Stillman was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She obtained her Bachelor of Music degree in 1999. Stillman received an MA in history and was a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania ...
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Jiří Stivín Jiří Stivín (born 23 November 1942 in Prague) is a Czech flute player and composer. Biography He graduated from the Film Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU). He also studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music a ...
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Lamar Stringfield Lamar Edwin Stringfield (October 10, 1897 – January 21, 1959) was a classical composer, flutist, symphony conductor, and anthologist of American folk music. Early career He was born in Raleigh, North Carolina and studied at Mars Hill College ...
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Leoš Svárovský Leoš Svárovský (born 17 May 1961 in Jablonec nad Nisou, former Czechoslovakia) is a Czech flautist The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound ...
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Paul Taffanel Claude-Paul Taffanel (16 September 1844 – 22 November 1908) was a French flautist, conductor and instructor, regarded as the founder of the French Flute School that dominated much of flute composition and performance during the mid-20th century. ...
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Mark Thomas Mark Clifford Thomas (born 11 April 1963) is an English comedian, best known for the political stunts that he performs on his show, ''The Mark Thomas Comedy Product'' on Channel 4. Thomas first became known as a guest comic on the BBC Radio 1 ...
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Rudolf Tillmetz Rudolf Tillmetz (1 April 1847 – 25 January 1915) was a flute virtuoso and pedagogue from Munich, Germany. He was a great contributor to modern ideas on interpretation on the flute with his teachings and his technical writings. As a child Rudo ...
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Albert Tipton Albert Tipton (March 16, 1917 – October 5, 1997) was an American flutist, pianist and conductor. In 1966, ''Time'' placed Albert Tipton amongst the "30 first-rate flutists" in the United States and Europe. He studied with William Kincaid at the ...
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Manfred Trojahn Manfred Trojahn (born 22 October 1949) is a German composer, flutist, conductor, writer and academic teacher. Career Trojahn was born Cremlingen in Lower Saxony and began his musical studies in 1966 in orchestra music at the music school of Brau ...
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Johann George Tromlitz Johann George Tromlitz (November 8, 1725 – February 4, 1805), born at Reinsdorf, near Artern, Germany, was a flautist The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aeroph ...
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Vladimir Tsybin Vladimir Tsybin (; July 11, 1877 in Ivanovo-Voznesensk – May 29, 1949 in Moscow) was a flautist, composer and Conducting, conductor. Born in a family of musicians - his father was a violinist and conductor of a small town orchestra, his mothe ...
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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 ...
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Owen Underhill Owen Underhill (born January 26, 1954) is a Canadians, Canadian composer, flute, flutist and Conducting, conductor based in Vancouver. He is currently a professor of music at Simon Fraser University. He has been an active contributor to the new mu ...
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Henk van der Vliet Henk is a Dutch male given name, originally a short form of Hendrik. It influenced " Hank" which is used in English-speaking countries (mainly in the US) as a form of "Henry". Academics * Henk Aertsen (born 1943), Dutch Anglo-Saxon linguist *H ...
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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 University ...
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Meredith Willson Robert Reiniger Meredith Willson (May 18, 1902 – June 15, 1984) was an American flautist, composer, conductor, musical arranger, bandleader, playwright, and writer. He is perhaps best known for writing the book, music, and lyrics for the 1 ...
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Ransom Wilson Ransom Wilson (born 25 October 1951 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama) is an American flutist, conductor, and educator. He currently is an Artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Artistic Director and Conductor of the Le Train Bleu ensemble, ...
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Trevor Wye Trevor Wye (born 6 June 1935) is a professional English flautist, flute instructor, and author of books about flute playing.. He was a founder of the British Flute Society and International Summer School for flute, serving as director of the latter ...
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Robert Wykes Robert A. Wykes (May 19, 1926 in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, 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 ...
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Carl Zerrahn Carl Zerrahn (28 July 1826 Malchow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin – 29 December 1909 Milton, Massachusetts) was a German-born American flautist and conductor. His widespread activity in the region made him an influential figure in New England and Bos ...
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Matthias Ziegler Matthias Ziegler (born in Bern, Switzerland on 13 February 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, contrabass flute, and double con ...
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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 (near ...
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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 i ...
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Ariel Zuckermann Ariel Zuckermann (; born in 1973 in Tel Aviv) is an Israelis, Israeli conductor, since 2015 director and conductor of the Israel Chamber Orchestra. Career Ariel Zuckermann began his musical career as flautist. A student of Paul Meisen and A ...


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Devendra Murdeshwar Devendra Murdeshwar (19 September 1923 – 29 January 2000) was an Indian bansuri flutist. Early life Murdeshwar was born in 1923 in a Brahmin family in Masur in the Mysore State in Karnataka. His father played the violin, tabla and the bansuri ...
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K. Bhaskaran K. Bhaskaran is an Indian Carnatic music flautist. Early life K. Bhaskaran was born on 30 April 1961 to Lakshmi Krishnamurthi and K. Krishnamurthi, and brought up in Mylapore, in the city of Chennai. Bhaskaran started formally learning the flu ...
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Sikkil Mala Chandrasekar Sikkil Mala Chandrasekhar (b 1963) is a noted South Indian carnatic flautist. Mala Chandrasekhar was born to a musical family. Mala Chandrasekhar started learning from Sikkil Sisters, her aunt Kunjumani and her mother Neela. In playing style ...
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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) (present day Prayagraj) in the Indian ...
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Rakesh Chaurasia Rakesh Chaurasia (born 10 January 1971) is an Indian flutist, who plays the bansuri, an Indian bamboo flute. He is the nephew of flautist Hariprasad Chaurasia. He was awarded 'Indian of the Year 2017.' Chaurasia has played and toured extensive ...
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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 technique and playing in various musical styles. Early life and career At the age of 21, ...
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Pannalal Ghosh Pandit Pannalal Ghosh (; 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 popularizing the flute as a concert instrument ...
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Keshav Ginde Keshav Ginde (born 5 September 1942) is an Indian classical flutist. Qualifications # B.E. (Mech), A.M.I.I.E (Ind. Eng) # Senior Fellowship - Conferred by Cultural Ministry (Govt. of India) # Doctorate in Music - From S.F. Pune University, ...
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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 ...
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Steve Gorn Steve Gorn (born 1944) in New York City) is a bamboo flautist and saxophone player.Allmusic/ref> Gorn has performed Indian classical music, jazz and new American music on the bansuri bamboo flute and soprano saxophone in concerts and festivals th ...
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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 wikt:purist, purist in the true Maihar Gharana tradition and learned from Ma Annapurna Devi, in Mumbai, India. He ha ...
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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 ...
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Chetan Joshi Chetan Joshi is a noted flautist in the Hindustani Music, Hindustani classical music tradition. He was born in Jharia and brought up at Noamundi and Bokaro Steel City. He was trained under Late Acharya Jagadish (Bokaro), Late Pandit Bholanath Pr ...
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Ronu Majumdar Ronu Majumdar is an Indian flautist (Bansuri player) in the Hindustani classical music tradition. Early life Ronu Majumdar was born in Benares. His father was a homeopathic doctor, oil painter, and amateur flautist who took lessons from Pandit ...
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Pandit Niranjan Prasad Niranjan Prasad (11 November 1941 – 31 March 2013) was an Indian flutist. Career Prasad was a disciple of bansuri and shehnai player Bholanath Prasanna, and belonged to the Banaras gharana. Prasad played the flute in Indian films and as ...
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Raghunath Prasanna Pandit Raghunath Prasanna (1913 – 6 June 1999) was a distinguished Indian classical musician and is regarded as one of the pioneering figures of the Indian flute tradition. Renowned for his mastery of both the shehnai and the bansuri (bamboo ...
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Rajendra Prasanna Rajendra Prasanna (; born 15 April 1956) is an Indian classical flautist and shehnai (Indian oboe) player from Benares Gharana. Career Rajendra was born in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. He learnt music from his father Raghunath Prasanna a ...
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Rishab Prasanna Rishab Prasanna (, ) is an Indian flute or bansuri player. He was born in New Delhi. He is son of flute and shehnai player Rajendra Prasanna. Career Rishab Prasanna learned Indian classical music from his grandfather, Raghunath Prasanna, hi ...
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Raghavendran Rajasekaran Raghavendran Rajasekaran, born 6 May 1988, professionally referred to as ''Ragha'', is a classical flautist based in Singapore. Trained in the traditional Indian ''baani'', he also performs Western music and experiments with different genres of ...
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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 K ...
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Thiagarajan Ramani Shri Ramani Thiagarajan (born 1962) is an Indian musician. He is the son of the Carnatic flutist N. Ramani. Ramani Thiagarajan is a musician who performs with a number of instruments, including the flute, the violin, and several Indian classic ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Dipak Sarma Dipak Sarma is a flutist from the Assam state of India. Recently, he has been critically unwell and is currently undergoing treatment in Guwahati Works Music director *''Jonky Panoi'' *'' Jatinga Ityadi'' *Working on Luitak Vetibo Kune Discogr ...
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Sarabha Sastri Sri Sarabha Sastri (1872–1904) was an Indian venu flute player, known as the first great Brahmin flutist. He brought the flute to the mainstream Indian Carnatic concert stage – until then, it was almost exclusively a folk instrument. To Sastri ...
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Raghunath Seth Pandit Raghunath Seth (1931 – 15 February 2014) was a noted Indian exponent of Hindustani classical music through the medium of Bansuri, or bamboo flute; he was also a noted film score composer. He has received Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 199 ...
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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 ...
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Sikkil Sisters – Kunjumani & Neela Sikkil Kunjumani (10 June 1927 – 13 November 2010) and Sikkil Neela (9 September 1938 – 17 September 2023) were sisters who played the carnatic flute, called Venu flute. Together they are more famously known as the Sikkil Sisters. Their fa ...
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T. N. Sivakumar Thalainayar Narayanaswamy Sivakumar (T. N. Sivakumar) is a visually challenged carnatic flutist guru from Chennai. He is a disciple of Sri T. R. Mahalingam. He has performed in various cultural concerts across the globe. He was told by Kanchi ...
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Shashank Subramanyam Shashank Subramanyam (born 14 October 1978) is a bamboo flute player from India. He was born in Rudrapatna, India. He and his wife Shirisha have a daughter and a son, and live in Chennai, India. References Living people 1978 births ...
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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 Ch ...
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Paddy Carty Paddy Carty (1929–1980) was a three-time all-Ireland champion Irish flute player from Loughrea, County Galway. He was well known for his flowing rhythm and his virtuoso skill on his Radcliff System flute, on which he could play freely in key ...
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Catherine Coleman Catherine Grace "Cady" Coleman (born December 14, 1960) is an American chemist, engineer, former United States Air Force colonel, and retired NASA astronaut. She is a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions, and departed the International Space St ...
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Kevin Crawford Kevin Crawford (born in Birmingham, England) is an Irish flute, tin whistle, low whistle and bodhrán player. He was born in England to Irish parents from Milltown Malbay, County Clare. He later moved to West Clare to improve his music and bec ...
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Eddie Duffy Eddie Duffy (1894–1986) was a traditional Irish musician. Many of his songs and tunes came from his mother, who played the accordion. Music He was influenced by the playing of William Carroll and Laurence Nugent, from Lack, County Fermanagh. ...
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Packie Duignan Patrick "Packie" Duignan (5 May 1922 – 1992) was an Irish flute player, very well known by music lovers of his time. He was born in Aughabehy, in the Arigna Mountains of County Roscommon, Ireland. Duignan started learning to play on a Clarke' ...
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Séamus Egan Seamus Egan is an Irish-American musician. Early days Seamus Egan was born in Hatboro, Pennsylvania to Irish immigrants Mike and Ann Egan. At the age of three his parents moved the family back home to County Mayo, Ireland. He learned accordio ...
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Brian Finnegan Brian Finnegan (born 20 August 1969) is an Irish flute and tin whistle player from Armagh. Finnegan began playing whistle at age 8 and flute at age 10 as a student of the Armagh Pipers Club under the tuition of the Vallely family. He first cam ...
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Michael Flatley Michael Ryan Flatley (born July 16, 1958) is an American former professional performer and choreographer of Irish dance. Flatley is credited with reinventing traditional Irish dance by incorporating new rhythms, syncopation, and upper body movem ...
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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 ...
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Carmel Gunning Carmel Gunning is an Irish composer and musician, from Sligo, Ireland. Gunning is one of Ireland's most accomplished tin whistle players who is also known for her singing and Irish flute, flute playing and also plays guitar and button accordion. ...
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Peter Horan Peter Horan (1926 – 17 October 2010) was an Irish flute and fiddle player from Killavil, County Sligo County Sligo ( , ) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Northern and Western Region and is par ...
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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 ...
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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 art ...
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Josie McDermott Josie McDermott (1925–1992) was a traditional Irish musician: a flute and tin whistle player, composer and singer. Background McDermott was born, and lived all of his life, in the townland of Coolmeen, County Sligo, just outside Bally ...
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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 McG ...
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John McKenna John McKenna (; 3 January 1855 – 22 March 1936) was an Irish businessman, professional rugby player, and the first manager of the Liverpool Football Club which has since gone on to become the most successful football club in England. Ear ...
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Matt Molloy Matt Molloy (born 12 January 1947) is an Irish musician, from a region known for producing talented flautists. As a child, he began playing the flute and won the All-Ireland Flute Championship at nineteen. Considered one of the most brilliant ...
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Conal Ó Gráda Conal Ó Gráda (born in Cork 1961) is an Irish flute The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produ ...
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Peadar O'Loughlin Peadar O'Loughlin (; 6 November 1929 – 22 October 2017) was an Irish fluter, fiddler, and piper from Kilmaley County Clare, Ireland Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Nor ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Micho Russell Micho Russell (25 March 1915 – 19 February 1994) was an Irish musician and author best known for his expert tin whistle performance. He also played the simple-system flute and was a collector of traditional music and folklore. Biography Ru ...
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Michael Tubridy Michael "Mick" Tubridy (born 6 August 1935 at Kilrush, County Clare, Ireland) is an Irish musician, step dancer and structural engineer. Career In November 1962, he was a founder member of the traditional Irish music group, The Chieftains, ...


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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. He studied under well known masters, holds a 5th-degree black belt ...
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Watazumi Doso Roshi (November 20, 1911 - December 14, 1992) was a master of the end-blown Japanese bamboo flute. He studied Rinzai Zen, attaining the title of . Born as Tanaka Masaru, he was also known as Tanaka Fumon, Itcho Fumon, Watazumi Fumon, and Wataz ...
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Robin Hartshorne __NOTOC__ Robin Cope Hartshorne ( ; born March 15, 1938) is an American mathematician who is known for his work in algebraic geometry. Career Hartshorne was a Putnam Fellow in Fall 1958 while he was an undergraduate at Harvard University (under ...
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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 r ...
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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 i ...
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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 ...
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Ron Korb Ron Korb is a Grammy-nominated Canadian flutist (flautist) and composer. Musical style Korb is best known for writing culturally diverse music and his mastery of a wide array of world music wind instruments. His work spans a range of genres incl ...
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Kinko Kurosawa was an 18th-century komusō of the Fuke sect of Zen Buddhism. A former samurai, he became a shakuhachi instructor and founded the Kinko-Ryu ( ja) school of shakuhachi. Commissioned to travel around Japan to research and collect spiritual shakuh ...
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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 ...
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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 two o ...
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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 ...
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John Kaizan Neptune John Kaizan Neptune (born November 13, 1951, in Oakland, California, United States) is an American player and builder of the shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute). He is known particularly for his use of the instrument in non-traditional contexts, ...
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Atsuya Okuda Atsuya Okuda (奥田 敦也 ''Okuda Atsuya'') is a Japanese-born master player and teacher jinashi shakuhachi, an unrefined bamboo flute. Prior to dedicating his efforts to the bamboo flute, he was a professional jazz trumpet player from approxima ...
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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 Ronald Nyogetsu Reishin Seldin ( July 3, 1947 – May 30, 2017) born in Brooklyn, New York (state), New York, was a noted ''shakuhachi'' player. Seldin studied theology at the New School for Social Research, then went to Japan where he studied th ...
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Gorō Yamaguchi Gorō Yamaguchi (山口 五郎; February 26, 1933 – January 3, 1999) was a Japanese shakuhachi player who worked in both solo and ensemble performances. He was noted for his influential recordings of traditional Japanese music and one of his ...
* Hōzan Yamamoto *
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, ...
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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. ...


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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 citizen of the S ...
* Michael Graham Allen *
Timothy Archambault Timothy Archambault (born 1971) is an American composer and musician who plays Native American flute. He lives in Miami, Florida. Early life and education Timothy Archambault was born on February 9, 1971, in Willimantic, Connecticut. Archamba ...
* Jeff Ball * Odell Borg *
Robert Tree Cody Robert Tree Cody (April 20, 1951 – September 14, 2023) was an American musician, dancer, and educator. He graduated from John Marshall High School in 1969. Robert was an adopted son of Hollywood actor Iron Eyes Cody. Personal life Robert Tree ...
* Brent Michael Davids * Joseph Fire Crow *
Mark Holland Mark Holland (born October 16, 1974) is a Canadian politician who served as Minister of Health (Canada), Minister of Health from July 26, 2023 to March 14, 2025. A member of the Liberal Party of Canada, Liberal Party, Holland represented Ajax ...
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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 earl ...
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Nicole LaRoche Nicole Laroche (née Schrottenloher) (20 July 1945 - 28 May 2019) was a French engineer. In 1964, she became the first female Gadzarts, the nickname given to students attending the ''École nationale supérieure d'arts et métiers'' (ENSAM) engine ...
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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 to 1983 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel H ...
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Charles Littleleaf Charles Littleleaf, a Native American flute player and flute maker, is a tribal citizen 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 J ...
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Kevin Locke Kevin Locke may refer to: *Kevin Locke (musician) (born 1954 - passed October 1, 2022), Native American musician *Kevin Locke (rugby league) (born 1989), New Zealand rugby league footballer See also * Kevin Lock (born 1953), English former footbal ...
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Tom Mauchahty-Ware Tom Mauchahty-Ware (March 21, 1949 – November 3, 2015) was a Kiowa/Comanche musician. He was a Southern Straight dancer and a member of the Kiowa O-Ho-Mah Lodge society. Early life Thomas Ware was born on March 21, 1949, to Wilson Ware (Kiowa ...
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Robert Mirabal Robert Mirabal (born October 6, 1966) is a Pueblo musician and Native American flute player and maker from Taos Pueblo, New Mexico. His flutes are world-renowned and have been displayed at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of the American Ind ...
* Michael Murphy *
R. Carlos Nakai Raymond Carlos Nakai (born April 16, 1946) is a Native American flutist of Navajo and Ute heritage. Nakai played brass instruments in high school and college, and auditioned for the Armed Forces School of Music after a two-year period in the ...
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Sonny Nevaquaya Joyce Lee "Doc" Tate Nevaquaya (July 3, 1932 – March 5, 1996) was a Comanche flute player and painter from Apache, Oklahoma. He is known for his contribution to the Native American flute music. His efforts in learning how to make Comanche flut ...
* Jay Red Eagle *
Douglas Spotted Eagle Douglas Spotted Eagle (born Douglas Wallentine)Douglas Spotted Eagle
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Gentle Thunder Gentle Thunder, born Lisa Carpenter, is an American player of Native American flute. She also plays the hammered dulcimer and percussion instruments. Gentle Thunder is from Kirkland, Washington and has said she has Cree ancestry through her mothe ...
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Andrew Vasquez Andrew Jacob Vasquez is a Native American flute player of the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma. He has released four albums to date, ''Vasquez'', the award-winning ''Wind River'', ''V3: An American Indian'', and ''Togo'', all released by Makoché Records ...
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Tommy Wildcat Tommy Wildcat (born May 3, 1967) is a Native American musician and academic. Background Cherokee Nation National Treasure Tommy Wildcat is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation, Tulsa Indian Alliance Lifetime Cultural Achievement Award Recip ...
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Mary Youngblood Mary Youngblood is an 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 a white couple, Dr. Bob and Leah Edwards, both educators. She has bee ...


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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 ...
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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 professional ...
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Avraham Eilam-Amzallag Avraham Eilam-Amzallag (; 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 first studied the flute and later compositional ...
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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 ...
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Julie Fowlis Julie Fowlis (born 20 June 1979) is a Scottish folk singer and multi-instrumentalist who sings primarily in Scottish Gaelic. Early life Fowlis was born and grew up on North Uist, an island in the Outer Hebrides, in a Gàidhealtachd, Gaelic-s ...
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Hassan Kassai Hassan Kassai (‎; 25 September 1928 – 14 June 2012) was a musician and player of Persian classical music. He played the ney, the traditional reed flute of Persia/Iran and the setar A setar (, ) (lit: "Three String (music), Strings") is ...
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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 ...
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Efraín Loyola Efrain Loyola (December 18, 1916 – April 2, 2011) was a Cuban flautist from Cienfuegos, who had the distinction of being one of the oldest active flautists in the world, had a career that spanned over 7 decades and for a period, was a captain in ...
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Fănică Luca Fănică Luca (born Ştefan Luca Iordache; 5 April 1894 – 26 October 1968) was a Romani-Romanian musician and a Romanian pan pipe ('' nai'') virtuoso, who was the first to make this instrument popular outside his own country. Background He le ...
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Yacouba Moumouni Yacouba Moumouni is a Nigerien singer and flute, flautist. As the leader of the jazz-folk music, ethnic band Mamar Kassey, he is one of the best-known Music of Niger, Nigerien musicians outside Niger. He is from the Songhai proper, Songhai ethnic ...
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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 (band), Smokie (1964–1986), which found success in Europe in the 1970s. "Stumblin' In", a 1978 ...
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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 ...
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Hemapala Perera Kala Bhushana Vithanage Hemapala Perera (born on 20 October 1942 as :si:හේමපාල පෙරේරා, හේමපාල පෙරේරා inhala, popularly as Hemapala Master, is a musician and renowned flautist in Cinema of Sri La ...
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Pixinguinha Alfredo da Rocha Viana Filho (May 4, 1897 – February 17, 1973), better known as Pixinguinha, () was a Brazilian composer, arranger, flutist, and saxophonist born in Rio de Janeiro. He worked with Brazilian popular music and developed the '' c ...
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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. ...
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Omar Faruk Tekbilek Omer Faruk Tekbilek (, born 1951) is a Turkish musician and composer, who plays a wide range of wind, string, percussion and electronic instruments. He has developed a style that builds on traditional Sufi music, but includes inspiration from ambi ...
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Neyzen Tevfik Tevfik Kolaylı (March 24, 1879 – January 28, 1953), better known by his pen name Neyzen Tevfik (often misrendered as "Neyzen Teyfik"), was a Turkish poet, satirist, and ''neyzen'' (a " ney performer" in Turkish). Tevfik was born in Bodru ...
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Henry Thomas Henry Jackson Thomas (born September 9, 1971) is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor and had the lead role of Elliott Taylor in the film '' E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'' (1982), for which he won a Young Artist Award and rece ...
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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. Ea ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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André 3000 André Lauren Benjamin (born May 27, 1975), known professionally as André 3000, is an American rapper. Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, he was one half of the hip-hop duo Outkast along with rapper Big Boi, which the two formed in 1992. Benj ...
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Marshall Allen Marshall Belford Allen (born May 25, 1924) is an American free jazz and avant-garde jazz alto saxophone player. He also performs on flute, oboe, piccolo, and the EWI. Allen is best known for his work with Sun Ra, having recorded and performed ...
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Curtis Amy Curtis Edward Amy (October 11, 1927 – 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 t ...
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Ashleigh Ball Ashleigh Adele Ball (born March 31, 1983) is a Canadian voice actress and singer. She is known for voicing characters in several toyetic movies and television series, notably the ''Barbie'' film series, ''Bratz'', ''Johnny Test'', '' Care Bea ...
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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, Ka ...
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Sean Bergin Sean Bergin (29 June 1948 – 1 September 2012) was an avant-garde jazz saxophonist and flautist from South Africa. Bergin was born in Durban on 29 June 1948. He was a saxophonist, flautist, composer, educator and bandleader. In his youth Bergi ...
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T. K. Blue Eugene Rhynie (born February 7, 1953),TK Blue Artist Profile
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 an ...
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Wayman Carver Wayman Carver (December 25, 1905, Portsmouth, Virginia – May 6, 1967, Atlanta) was an American jazz flutist and reeds player. He is considered as a pioneer of the use of the flute in jazz. Carver was a rare jazz flautist active during the swin ...
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Danilo Caymmi Danilo Candido Tostes Caymmi (born March 7, 1948) is a Brazilian musician, singer, composer and arranger. Danilo was born in Rio de Janeiro, the youngest son of Dorival Caymmi and Stella Maris, and brother of Dori and Nana Caymmi. Brought up by ...
* Eugenio Colombo *
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 Jazz#Post-war jazz, history of jazz and 20th-century musi ...
* Charles Compo *
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 Fes ...
* Charles Davis *
Jean Derome Jean Derome (born June 29, 1955) is a French Canadian avant-garde saxophonist, flautist, and composer. A prominent figure in the Montreal ''musique actuelle'' (new music) scene, Derome has been a member of experimental, jazz, and rock groups, and ...
* Robert Dick *Marco Di Meco * Eric Dixon * Fostina Dixon *
Lyn Dobson Lyn Dobson (born 22 June 1939 in Bedford) is an English musician, noted as a jazz-rock flautist and saxophonist. He appeared with Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames and Manfred Mann in the mid-1960s, and then with Soft Machine and Keef Hartley, as w ...
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Eric Dolphy Eric Allan Dolphy Jr. (June 20, 1928 – June 29, 1964) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and bandleader. Primarily an alto saxophonist, bass clarinetist, and flautist, Dolphy was one of several multi-instrumentalists to gain ...
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Bob Downes Robert George Downes (born 22 July 1937 in Plymouth) is an English avant-garde jazz flautist and saxophonist. He is known for his work with Mike Westbrook and for leading the Open Music Trio since 1968. Downes is also a composer, arranger, and ...
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Damian Drăghici Damian Drăghici (born 31 March 1970, Bucharest) is a Romanians, Romanian musician of Romani people, Romani origin. He is a musician, best known as the leader of the Damian and Brothers band and a nai (pan flute), nai player and is a noted ex ...
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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 in ...
* 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 ...
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Sonny Fortune Cornelius "Sonny" Fortune (May 19, 1939 – October 25, 2018) was an American jazz saxophonist. He played soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone saxophones, clarinet, and flute. Biography He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Af ...
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Peter Guidi Peter Guidi (14 September 1949 – 17 April 2018) was a jazz saxophonist and jazz flutist whose main instruments were the flute, alto and bass flute, alto and soprano saxophones. Biography Born in Scotland of Italian parents, Guidi was a self-t ...
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Guttorm Guttormsen Guttorm Guttormsen (born 28 June 1950) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (flute, clarinet, alto saxophone), arranger and composer. Career Guttormsen was born in Mo i Rana. After moving to Oslo (1969), he appeared with Ivar Antonsen's Band at «Fe ...
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Vincent Herring Vincent Dwyne 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. She has recorded twelve albums over the course of her career, mostly playing jazz fusion, funk, and soul-jazz. In 1971, she was the first female instrume ...
* Fred Jackson Jr. *
Bobby Jaspar Bobby Jaspar (20 February 1926 – 28 February 1963) was a Belgian cool jazz and hard bop saxophonist, flautist and composer. Early life Born in Liège, Belgium, Jaspar learned to play piano and clarinet at a young age. Later, he took up the ...
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Simon Jensen Simon K. Jensen (born 3 February 1973) is a 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 artist Ste ...
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Tom Keenlyside Thomas William Keenlyside (born 1950) is a Canadian saxophonist and flautist from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Biography Born and raised in Vancouver, Keenlyside grew up hearing many genres of music on the radio that his parents left tu ...
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Wouter Kellerman Wouter Kellerman (born 20 September 1961) is a three-time Grammy Award-winning South African flautist, producer and composer who has won nine South African Music Awards. Classically trained, Kellerman performs primarily World, Roots and New Ag ...
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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 Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Grove Music Online''. ''Grove Dictionary of M ...
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Moe Koffman Morris "Moe" Koffman, OC (28 December 1928 – 28 March 2001) was a Canadian jazz saxophonist and flautist, as well as composer and arranger. During a career spanning from the 1950s into the 2000s, Koffman was one of Canada's most prolific musici ...
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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 ...
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Brian Landrus Brian Landrus (born September 14, 1978) is a jazz saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, and educator. Career Landrus was born in Reno, Nevada, where he began playing professionally at the age of 13. He earned a degree in saxo ...
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Prince Lasha William B. Lawsha, better known as Prince Lasha (), (September 10, 1929 – December 12, 2008) was an United States of America, American jazz alto saxophonist, flautist, baritone saxophonist, flautist, clarinetist and English horn player. Life a ...
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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 the United States. Although Lateef's main i ...
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Hubert Laws Hubert Laws (born November 10, 1939) is an American flutist, piccoloist and saxophonist with a career spanning over 50 years in jazz, classical, and other music genres. Laws is one of the few classical artists who has also mastered jazz, pop ...
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Geoff Leigh Geoff Leigh (born 5 October 1945) is an English jazz and progressive rock musician, playing primarily soprano saxophone and flute. He was a member of the English avant-rock group Henry Cow and founded several bands himself, including Red Balu ...
* 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, flute player and important early practitioner of world music. Early in his career, he also played tenor saxophone and clarinet ...
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Bill McBirnie Bill McBirnie is a Juno Award-nominated and widely acclaimed jazz/Latin flautist, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was raised in the small town of Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada. Career He studied with Canadian flautist and composer Robert ...
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Harold McNair Harold McNair (5 November 1931 – 7 March 1971) was a Jamaican-born saxophonist and flautist. Early life McNair was born in Kingston, Jamaica. He attended the Alpha Boys School under the tutelage of Vincent Tulloch, while playing with Joe ...
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Lloyd McNeill Lloyd McNeill (born in Washington, D.C.) was a jazz flutist and visual artist based out of New York City. He is generally recognized as a jazz flutist of eminent ability, alongside James Newton, Yusef Lateef, Sam Rivers, James Moody, Bobbi Hump ...
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Bobby Militello Robert Philip Militello a.k.a. Bobby M. (born 25 March 1950 in Buffalo) is an American jazz saxophonist and flautist who was a member of the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Career Militello was one of a number of talented musical artists who were groomed ...
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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 wa ...
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David "Fathead" Newman David "Fathead" Newman (February 24, 1933 – January 20, 2009) was an American jazz and 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 seminal 1950s an ...
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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 ...
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Andy Panayi Andy Panayi is a British jazz musician, composer and arranger. He plays flute, saxophones and clarinet and leads a selection of jazz and classical groups. British Jazz Scene Born in Islington in north London and interested in music from an ear ...
* Eddie Parker * Greg Pattillo – beatboxing while playing the flute *
Finn Peters Finn Peters is a flautist and saxophonist. "After the best part of a decade immersed in dance, hip hop, Afro-Cuban, electronica and contemporary classical musics, flautist and saxophonist Finn Peters returned to his jazz roots with ''Su-Ling'' (Ba ...
* Jaime Prats * Raja Ram *
Nelson Rangell Nelson Rangell (born March 26, 1960) is an American smooth jazz musician and composer from Castle Rock, Colorado. Although he is known for his work with the tenor, alto, and soprano saxophone, his primary instrument is the piccolo, which he beg ...
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Niki Reiser Niki Reiser (born 12 May 1958) is a Swiss film score composer and flautist. He is considered one of the most outstanding film composers of the German-speaking countries, winning the German Film Award five times. His debut was in 1986 the score for ...
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Jerome Richardson Jerome Richardson (December 25, 1920 – June 23, 2000) was an American jazz musician and woodwind player. He is cited as playing one of the earliest jazz flute recordings with his work on the 1949 Quincy Jones arranged song "Kingfish". Caree ...
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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 Barron ...
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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", San ...
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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 thro ...
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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 ...
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Ronald Snijders Ronald Snijders (born April 8, 1951) is a Dutch jazz musician and author of Surinamese origin. The Western concert flute, flute is his main instrument. Biography Snijders was born in Paramaribo as son of Surinamese composer Eddy Snijders and ...
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Les Spann Leslie Spann Jr. (May 23, 1932 – January 24, 1989) was an American jazz guitarist and flautist. As a sideman he recorded with Nat Adderley, Benny Bailey, Bill Coleman, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Curtis Fuller, Red Garland, Benny Goodman, Sam ...
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James Spaulding James Ralph Spaulding Jr. (was 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 ...
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Jeremy Steig Jeremy Steig (September 23, 1942 – April 13, 2016)Peter Keepnews, "Jeremy ...
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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 ...
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Rowland Sutherland Rowland Sutherland is a British flautist, who studied flute at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama mainly with Kathryn Lukas. He also had lessons with Philippa Davies and Peter Lloyd and participated in master classes given by the late Geoffr ...
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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 ...
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Frank Tiberi Frank Tiberi (born December 4, 1928) is an American saxophonist and the leader of the Woody Herman Orchestra. He was born in Camden, New Jersey, United States. He was picked by Woody Herman shortly before Herman's death and has led the band sinc ...
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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 ...
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Néstor Torres Néstor Torres (born 25 April 1957) is a Puerto Rican jazz flautist, born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. He took flute lessons at age 12 and began formal studies at the Escuela Libre de Música, eventually attending Puerto Rico’s Inter-American U ...
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Theo Travis Theo Travis (born 7 July 1964) is a British saxophonist, flautist and composer. He is a member of Soft Machine which he joined in 2006 while the group was still using the "Legacy" suffix and was a member of Gong from 1999 to 2010. Biography Tra ...
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Norris Turney Norris Turney (September 8, 1921, Wilmington, Ohio, United States – January 17, 2001, Kettering, Ohio) was an American jazz flautist and saxophonist. Biography Turney began his career in the Midwest, playing in territory bands such as the Jete ...
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Dave Valentin David Peter Valentin (April 29, 1952 – March 8, 2017) was an American Latin jazz flautist of Puerto Rican descent. Life and career Valentin was born to Puerto Rican parents in The Bronx in New York City. He attended The High School of Mus ...
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Harold Vick Harold Vick (April 3, 1936 – November 13, 1987) was an American jazz saxophonist and flautist. Biography Harold Vick was born on April 3, 1936, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. At the age of 13, he was given a clarinet by his uncle, Prince Rob ...
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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 ...
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Frank Wess Frank Wellington Wess (January 4, 1922 – October 30, 2013) was an American jazz saxophonist and flutist. He was renowned for his extensive solo work; however, he was also remembered for his time playing with Count Basie, Count Basie's band duri ...
* 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 Booker Ervin, Charles Mingus, John Hardee, Kenny Burrell, Johnny C ...
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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 Ch ...
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Ian Anderson Ian Scott Anderson (born 10 August 1947) is a British musician best known for being the chief vocalist, Flute, flautist, and acoustic guitarist of the British rock band Jethro Tull (band), Jethro Tull. He is a multi-instrumentalist who also p ...
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India Arie India Arie Simpson (born October 3, 1975) is an American singer and songwriter. She rose to prominence with her debut album, '' Acoustic Soul (2001),'' which was a commercial and critical success. She has since released the albums '' Voyage to ...
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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, ...
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Tedeschi Trucks Band The Tedeschi Trucks Band () is an American blues and blues rock group based in Jacksonville, Florida. Formed in 2010, the band is led by married couple Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks. Their debut album, '' Revelator'' (2011), won the 2012 Gr ...
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Barry Burns Barry Burns is a Scottish musician best known for his work with post-rock band Mogwai. Early life Burns went to Cardinal Newman High School in Bellshill before enrolling with the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, taking u ...
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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). Mogwa ...
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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 were an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968 by Robert Fripp, Michael Giles, Greg Lake, Ian McDonald (musician), Ian McDonald and Peter Sinfield. Guitarist Fripp remained the only constant member throughout the ...
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Burton Cummings Burton Lorne Cummings (born December 31, 1947) is a Canadian musician 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 been induc ...
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The Guess Who The Guess Who was a Canadian rock band formed in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1965. The band found their greatest success in the late 1960s and early 1970s, under the leadership of singer/keyboardist Burton Cummings and guitarist Randy Bachman, wit ...
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Charles DeChant Charles DeChant (born June 10, 1945) is an American musician. He is best known for his association with Hall & Oates. Career Born in Florida on June 10, 1945, DeChant has been playing in Hall & Oates since 1976. Notable saxophone solos are hear ...
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Hall & Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates, commonly known as Hall & Oates, were an American Rock music, rock duo formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1970. Daryl Hall was generally the lead vocalist, while John Oates primarily supplied electric guitar and ba ...
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Jerry Eubanks Jerry Eubanks (born March 9, 1950) is an American musician best known as the original saxophonist, keyboardist and flautist for The Marshall Tucker Band. His flute and sax solos were a signature of the band. Eubanks left the Marshall Tucker Band ...
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Marshall Tucker Band The Marshall Tucker Band is an American rock band from Spartanburg, South Carolina. Noted for incorporating blues, country and jazz into an eclectic sound, the Marshall Tucker Band helped establish the Southern rock genre in the early 1970s. Whi ...
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Peter Gabriel Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer, songwriter, musician, and human rights activist. He came to prominence as the original frontman of the rock band Genesis. He left the band in 1975 and launched a solo career wit ...
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Genesis Genesis may refer to: Religion * Book of Genesis, the first book of the biblical scriptures of both Judaism and Christianity, describing the creation of the Earth and of humankind * Genesis creation narrative, the first several chapters of the Bo ...
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Barry Hay Barry Andrew Hay (born 16 August 1948) is an Indian-born Dutch musician; he was the lead vocalist and frontman of Dutch rock band Golden Earring from 1967 until their disbandment in 2021. He has also released three solo albums. Early life and ...
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Golden Earring Golden Earring were a Dutch rock music, rock band, founded in 1961 in The Hague as The Tornados. They achieved worldwide fame with their international hit songs "Radar Love" in 1973, which went to number one on the Dutch chart, reached the top ...
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David Jackson David Jackson or Dave Jackson may refer to: Academics *David Jackson (art historian) (born 1958), British professor of Russian and Scandinavian art histories * David J. Jackson, American political scientist * David M. Jackson, Canadian mathematics ...
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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 Judge Smith, Chris Judge Smith. They were the first act signed by Charisma Records. They did not experience much ...
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Sevan Kirder Sevan Kirder (born 9 February 1980) is the flutist/ bagpiper for the Swiss band Red Shamrock ( Celtic Folk). He hosts a Boardgame Podcast since April 2019 "Der Brettspiele Podcast, den die Welt nicht braucht". Career He is best known for his w ...
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Eluveitie Eluveitie ( ; )Chrigel Glanzmann: "Eluveitie is a name in Gaulish language, which is an ancient Celtic language. Since it's not a living language anymore, nobody really knows how it's pronounced like. All we have today of this language is scient ...
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Terry Kirkman Terry Robert Kirkman (December 12, 1939 – September 23, 2023) was an American singer and songwriter best known as a vocalist for the pop group The Association and the writer of several of the band's hit songs such as " Cherish", " Everything T ...
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The Association The Association is an American sunshine pop band from Los Angeles, California. During the late 1960s, the band had numerous hits at or near the top of the Billboard charts, ''Billboard'' charts (including "Windy (The Association song), Windy" ...
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Andrew Latimer Andrew Latimer (born 17 May 1949) is an English musician and composer. He is a founding member of the progressive rock band Camel and the only member who has been with them since their formation in 1971. Although he is best known as a guitarist ...
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Camel A camel (from and () from Ancient Semitic: ''gāmāl'') is an even-toed ungulate in the genus ''Camelus'' that bears distinctive fatty deposits known as "humps" on its back. Camels have long been domesticated and, as livestock, they provid ...
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Lizzo Melissa Viviane Jefferson (born April 27, 1988), known professionally as Lizzo (), is an American singer and rapper. Born in Detroit, Michigan, she moved to Houston, Texas, with her family at the age of ten. After college, she moved to Minn ...
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King Crimson King Crimson were an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968 by Robert Fripp, Michael Giles, Greg Lake, Ian McDonald (musician), Ian McDonald and Peter Sinfield. Guitarist Fripp remained the only constant member throughout the ...
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Teddy Osei Francis Osei (17 December 1935 – 14 January 2025), known as Teddy Osei, was a Ghanaian musician who was a saxophone player, drummer and vocalist, and best known as the leader of the Afro-pop band Osibisa, founded in 1969. Born in Kumasi, Osei ...
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Osibisa Osibisa is a Ghanaian-Caribbean Afro rock band founded in London in the late 1960s by four expatriate West African and three London-based Caribbean musicians. Osibisa was the most successful and longest lived of the African-heritage bands in ...
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Walter Parazaider Walter Parazaider (born March 14, 1945) is an American woodwind musician who is a founding member of the rock band Chicago. He is best known for being one-third of Chicago's brass/woodwind section alongside Lee Loughnane and James Pankow. Para ...
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Chicago Chicago is the List of municipalities in Illinois, most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of Unite ...
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Edwin Rist Edwin Rist, also known by the pseudonym Edwin Reinhard, is an American flautist, Fly tying, fly-tyer, and Burglary, burglar known for stealing 299 rare or extinct Bird specimen, bird specimens from the Natural History Museum at Tring, England, in ...
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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 (, ) is a Germany, German Electronic music, electronic band formed in Düsseldorf in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider. Widely considered innovators and pioneers of electronic music, Kraftwerk was among the first successful a ...
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Ray Thomas Raymond Thomas (29 December 1941 – 4 January 2018) was an English musician, singer and songwriter. He was best known as a founding member of the English progressive rock band the Moody Blues. His flute solo on the band's 1967 hit single " Ni ...
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The Moody Blues The Moody Blues were an English rock band formed in Birmingham in May 1964. The band initially consisted of Graeme Edge (drums), Denny Laine (guitar/vocals), Mike Pinder (keyboards/vocals), Ray Thomas (multi-instrumentalist/vocals) and Clint W ...
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Thijs van Leer Thijs van Leer (; 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 family, van Leer ...
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Focus Focus (: foci or focuses) may refer to: Arts * Focus or Focus Festival, former name of the Adelaide Fringe arts festival in East Australia Film *Focus (2001 film), ''Focus'' (2001 film), a 2001 film based on the Arthur Miller novel *Focus (2015 ...
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Tim Weisberg Jules Timothy Weisberg (born January 1, 1943) is an American flutist, vocalist, and record producer. A collaboration album with singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg, " Twin Sons of Different Mothers," achieved platinum status from the Recording Indus ...
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Ann Wilson Ann Dustin Wilson (born June 19, 1950) is an American singer best known as the lead singer of the rock band Heart. Wilson has been a member of Heart since the early 1970s; her younger sister, Nancy Wilson, is also a member of the band. One o ...
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Heart The heart is a muscular Organ (biology), organ found in humans and other animals. This organ pumps blood through the blood vessels. The heart and blood vessels together make the circulatory system. The pumped blood carries oxygen and nutrie ...
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Flautists
Flautists This is a list of notable flute players, organized alphabetically by the musical genre in which they are best known. Western Classical *Richard Adeney *Egidius Aerts *Robert Aitken (composer), Robert Aitken *Wellington E. Alves *William Alw ...