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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;
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.
Galway was born in North Belfast as one of two brothers. His father, who played the flute, was employed at the Harland & Wolff shipyard until the end of the Second World War and spent night-shifts cleaning buses after the war, while his mother, a pianist, was a winder in a flax-spinning mill.
Sharon Bezaly (Hebrew: שרון בצלי; born 1972) is an Israeli flutist.. Bezaly was born in Israel, but lives presently in Sweden. [1] She has been an international performer since 1997, when she began her solo flute career.
She has been a prizewinner in the 2001 Paris/Ville d’Avray International Flute Competition and Alphonse Leduc Prize, 1984 New York Flute Club competition, [6] 1990 National Flute Association's Young Artists Competition [7], Artists International, Ima Hogg, and Flute Talk competitions.
Emmanuel Pahud (born 27 January 1970) is a Franco-Swiss flautist.. He was born in Geneva, Switzerland.His father is of French and Swiss background and his mother is French. The Berlin-based flutist [1] is most known for his baroque and classical flute repertoir
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 Indian.
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]).