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Flautists From Northern Ireland
This is a list of flute players, organized alphabetically by the musical genre in which they are best known, and whose notability is established by reliable sources in other Wikipedia articles. In the final section below, any appropriate External links should satisfy roughly the same criteria as this list, and should ''not'' be individual homepages, discussion groups, or social media sites. Western Classical *Richard Adeney * Egidius Aerts * Robert Aitken * Wellington E. Alves *William Alwyn * John Amadio * Neville Amadio * Joachim Andersen *Claudi Arimany * Andrew Ashe * Nina Assimakopoulos *Johann Jacob Bach * Julius Baker *John Barcellona * Samuel Baron * Huáscar Barradas * Georges Barrère * Francesco Barsanti * Jeanne Baxtresser * Larry Beauregard * Michel Bellavance * William Bennett *Atarah Ben-Tovim * Henri Besozzi *Sharon Bezaly * Lisa Beznosiuk * Boris Bizjak * Frances Blaisdell *Michel Blavet * Vilém Blodek * Theobald Boehm – also inventor of predecessor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flute
The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening. According to the instrument classification of Hornbostel–Sachs, flutes are categorized as edge-blown aerophones. A musician who plays the flute is called a flautist or flutist. Flutes are the earliest known identifiable musical instruments, as paleolithic examples with hand-bored holes have been found. A number of flutes dating to about 53,000 to 45,000 years ago have been found in the Swabian Jura region of present-day Germany. These flutes demonstrate that a developed musical tradition existed from the earliest period of modern human presence in Europe.. Citation on p. 248. * While the oldest flutes currently known were found in Europe, Asia, too, has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Symphony and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Background Baker was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and at age nine started flute lessons with his Jewish-Russian immigrant father. Later he studied with August Caputo and local flautist Robert Morris. He attended the Eastman School of Music, where he was pupil of Leonardo De Lorenzo, and the Curtis Institute, where he studied with William Kincaid and had classes with Marcel Tabuteau. Upon graduation in 1937, Baker returned to Cleveland to play second flute in the Cleveland Orchestra, conducted by Artur Rodziński, and in the section led by Maurice Sharp.''Flute Talk'', October 2003. He went on to a distinguished and long tenure as principal flute in the New York Philharmonic. Career Teaching, perf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 the Guildhall School of Music in London, England. She studied modern flute with Kathryn Lukas and wooden flute with Stephen Preston, which developed her interest in early period instruments. She made her solo London debut in 1983. She has been a member of period-instrument orchestras The English Concert, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the English Baroque Soloists, The Academy of Ancient Music, the London Classical Players and New London Consort. In her roles as soloist and orchestral principal, she has travelled throughout Europe, the Far East, and North and South America. She is professor of early flutes at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Royal Academy of Music, Royal College of Music, Royal Northern College of Mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharon Bezaly
Sharon Bezaly ( he, שרון בצלי; born 1972) is a flutist. 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 Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic. Her flute was made by Muramatsu Flutes out of 24- carat gold. Appearances Sharon Bezaly has appeared with leading symphony and chamber orchestras in Japan, China, Israel, Central and Western Europe, England, North and South America, Australia and Scandinavia. She has also performed at venues including the Vienna Musikverein, Châtelet in Paris, Tokyo's Suntory Hall, and at festivals with Gidon Kremer of the Bartók Quartet. In May 2006, she appeared at Orchestra Hall (Minneapolis) with Osmo Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra. Dedicated works Concertante *Kalevi Aho: Concerto for flute (+alto) and orchestra *Sally Beamish: Concerto for flute and orchestra * Daniel Börtz: Concerto fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Besozzi
Henri Besozzi (born 1775 in Paris – d. ?) was an Italian flutist The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ..., 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 the son of Girolamo Besozzi and father of Louis Désiré Besozzi, having played at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. References 1775 births Italian flautists Year of death unknown {{italy-composer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 (née Carengold). Her early years were spent in Ealing, London. Ben-Tovim played her first television concert live at the Royal Albert Hall, at the age of fourteen. She was principal flautist with the National Youth Orchestra, and then from 1963 to 1975 principal flautist with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. She left the RLPO to found Atarah's Band in 1975, a group which sought to improve children's experiences with classical music. Ben-Tovim guested on several British television and radio shows, including ''Pebble Mill at One'' on BBC TV, ''The John Dunn Show'', ''Start the Week'' and ''Kaleidoscope''. In the late 1980s, BBC Radio Three made the programme ''Atarah's Music Box'', all about children and music. ''Omnibus'' devot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Bennett (flautist)
William Ingham Brooke Bennett (7 February 1936 – 11 May 2022) was a British flautist and teacher. He played in many English orchestras and chamber music ensembles, and as a soloist. He made more than 100 recordings, including chamber music with partners including George Malcolm, Osian Ellis, and Yehudi Menuhin. He premiered flute concertos written for him, by William Mathias, Diana Burrell and Raimundo Pineda. Bennett taught at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg in Germany and the Royal Academy of Music, and held master classes worldwide. Early life and studies William Ingham Brooke Bennett was born in London to parents who were both architects. He boarded at Beltane School until he was 16, starting his school life as a seven-year-old during the Second World War. He started playing the recorder at the age of 8 and the flute at 12. He studied the flute in London with Geoffrey Gilbert from the age of 15 and went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama a year later. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Latin America, including the Geneva Chamber Orchestra, the Lisbon Gulbenkian Foundation Orchestra, the Bahia Symphony Orchestra, the Mendoza Philharmonic Orchestra, the Maracaibo Symphony Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra of Peru. He has appeared at festivals in Switzerland, the United States, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Costa Rica, on radio broadcasts for the Radio Suisse Romande, the CBC, and National Public Radio (USA), and has given recitals in cities such as Geneva, Zürich, Basel, Paris, London, Prague, Barcelona, Madrid, Montréal, Ottawa, Washington DC, Sydney, Auckland, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, São Paulo, Brasília, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Bogotá and Lima. His discs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 collaboration with Barry Vercoe on the Synthetic Performer project. Biography Early life and musical studies Larry Beauregard was born in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, the third of six children of Jean-Pierre Beauregard, a French-Canadian aerospace engineer, and Irish-Canadian Michaela Moloney. He spent his childhood and teenage years in Montreal. He took up flute in his early teens, and was a private student of Abe Kestenberg (who also taught at the McGill Conservatory of Music), and Gail Grimstead at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Hull from which he graduated with a Premier Prix in 1977. In 1977, he moved to Paris to study under Alain Marion at the Conservatoire de Paris. Professional career Upon leaving the Conservatoire d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 old, as an author (''Orchestral Excerpts for Flute with Piano Accompaniment),'' and as a professor and master teacher. Previous positions include professor of flute at The University of Montréal, The University of Toronto, Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, New England conservatory and Carnegie Mellon University. She received the National Flute Association's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006. She has been credited with "upholding an increasingly higher standard of artistic excellence for the flute." Biography Jeanne Baxtresser was born August 2, 1947, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to Earl and Margaret (Barthel) Baxtresser. The eldest of six children, Baxtresser was surrounded by music in her childhood as her mother was an awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 father may or may not have been the opera librettist Giovanni Nicolao Barsanti (''Il Temistocle'') but this has never been proved. He studied law in Padua as a young man, but abandoned it to pursue a career in music. In 1714 Barsanti emigrated to London with Francesco Geminiani, another musician from Lucca who was several years his senior. He played oboe and recorder, and soon obtained a post in the opera orchestra at the Haymarket where Handel's operas were being produced. Nerici reports that he returned briefly to Lucca in 1717 and again in 1718 to play in the Festival of the Holy Cross, 'for a very high salary.' According to Hawkins and other authorities, in 1735 Barsanti left London for Edinburgh in Scotland where he obtained a post as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Barrère
Georges Barrère (Bordeaux, October 31, 1876 - 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 Périne Courtet, an illiterate farmer's daughter from Guilligomarc'h. They married in 1874. They had previously had a son Étienne, out of wedlock, in 1872. George did not regard his parents as musical although his father wished he had been a tenor instead of a carpenter. In 1879, the family moved to Paris. By the year 1886, they had moved to Épernon near Chartres.Nancy Toff (2005) ''Monarch of the Flute'', Oxford University Press US The story goes that Étienne had a tin whistle which he discarded in favour of a violin. Georges got the whistle and later boasted that he had become a virtuoso on the six-holed instrument while Étienne was still struggling with elementary scales on the fiddle. The boys went to École Drouet, the village school and althou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
