James Strauss (b. November 29, 1974
Recife
That it may shine on all ( Matthew 5:15)
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) is a Brazilian
flautist
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and
musicologist
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.
Biography
Strauss began taking violin lessons from his father when he was four years old, but switched to the flute a few years later. He graduated from the
Paris Conservatory
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with
, Maurice Pruvot, and Lazslo Hadadi. Concurrently he studied Flute with
Jean-Pierre Rampal
Jean-Pierre Louis Rampal (7 January 1922 – 20 May 2000) was a French flautist. He has been personally "credited with returning to the Western concert flute, flute the popularity as a solo classical instrument it had not held since the 18th ce ...
. His career as a flute soloist started in 1991 with his performance with the Festival Orchestra of the 23rd Music Festival in
Campos do Jordão
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, conducted by
Júlio Medaglia.
In 1999, he moved to
Finland
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, and began looking for
Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky's legendary "Flute Concerto", of which Rampal had seen a page in the 1960s in the
Soviet Union
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. He eventually found three pieces of the original composition (one in
St. Petersburg
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, one in Finland, one in
Klin
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) and reconstructed from them the
Concertstück for Flute, TH 247, now catalogued as a posthumous work by Tchaikovsky. From 2017 to 2020 James Strauss publishes the albums Mozart Discoveries, Latin Connections, Venezuelan Elegy,
produced by
Danilo Alvarez
Appearances
Strauss has performed with leading symphony and chamber orchestras in Japan, Israel, Central and Western Europe, and Scandinavia. He has also performed at venues including the
Châtelet in
Paris
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,
Tokyo
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's
Suntory Hall,
NJPAC in
New Jersey
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,
Sala São Paulo
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in
São Paulo
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, and at festivals in
France
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,
Brazil
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, the
United States
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,
Argentina
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and
Israel
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. In January 2007, he appeared at the Orchestra Hall in
Oxford
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,
Ohio
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, with the Oxford Chamber Orchestra.
Commissioned concertos
René Gerber, Solfa Carlile, Dimitri Cervo,
Daisuke Soga, Kenny Choy, João Linhares, Antonio Ribeiro and Glenn Roger Davis have composed commissioned concertos for him; more are being composed.
Flute
His 14-carat gold flute was made by the
Powell Flutes team.
Discography
Strauss has released two CDs with the
Israeli Virtuosi, and four more in 2007 with repertoire ranging from
Antonio Vivaldi to modern Brazilian music. He has also recorded the 24
Paganini Caprices, arranged for flute.
*James Strauss Plays Beethoven
James Strauss, flute; Regina Glasunova, piano; Miyo Umezu, Violin; Olli Varonen, cello
*Raiders of the lost Tchaikovsky (CD/DVD)
Heitor Villa-Lobos, Haydn, Paganini, Ponce, A. Tchaikovsky, P. Tchaikovsky, Dinicu, Rimsky-Korsakov
January 31 recording of The Oxford Chamber Orchestra conducted by Ricardo Averbach.
*Made in Brazil
James Strauss, flute; Israeli Virtuosi; Ada Pelleg, conductor
*Tchaikovsky Flute Concerto
James Strauss, flute; Israeli Virtuosi; Ada Pelleg, conductor
*Portrait (CD sample 1999, Point Classics)
Vivaldi · Ribeiro · Gluck · Liebermann · Mercadante · Debussy · Randall
James Strauss, flute; Orquestra de Camara Theatro São Pedro, Capriccioso Chamber Orchestra, Antunes Câmera
Honors
*UFAM Concours International de flute, first prize, 1998
*UFAM Concours International de Chamber Music, first prize, 1999
*Concours International de flute de la Ville de Lempdes, first prize, 1997
Reference
External links
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1974 births
Living people
Classical flautists