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Harry Bradley; Vincent Broderick; Paddy Carty; Catherine Coleman – astronaut; Kevin Crawford; Eddie Duffy; Packie Duignan; Brian Dunning; Séamus Egan; Brian ...
Sir James Galway OBE (born 8 December 1939) is an Irish [1] [2] virtuoso flute player from Belfast, nicknamed "The Man with the Golden Flute". [3] After several years working as an orchestral musician, he established an international career as a solo flute player.
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 old, as an author (Orchestral Excerpts for Flute with Piano Accompaniment), and as a professor and master teacher.
Masakazu Yoshizawa (吉沢 政和, September 10, 1950 – October 24, 2007) 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 . [ 1 ]
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" [1] and described as “a thorough professional who programs interesting music and is not above having a good time while playing it.” [2] He taught at the Yale School of Music, played piccolo for the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and held ...
Chaurasia was born in Allahabad (1938) (present day Prayagraj) in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. [2] His mother died when he was six years old. He had to learn music without his father's knowledge, as his father wanted him to become a wrestler.
Marcel Moyse ([mɔiz]; [1] 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 Paul Taffanel; all of whom were flute virtuosos in their time. [2]
Doriot Anthony Dwyer (/ ˈ d ɔːr i oʊ /; [1] March 6, 1922 – March 14, 2020) was an American flutist.She was one of the first women to be awarded principal chair for a major U.S. orchestra (following hornist Helen Kotas, who was appointed principal horn of the Chicago Symphony in 1941 [2]).