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Flautist

"Flutist" is the earlier term in the English language, dating from at least 1603 (the earliest quote cited by the Oxford English Dictionary), while "flautist" is not recorded before 1860, when it was used by Nathaniel Hawthorne in The Marble Faun.


7714 Briccialdi

The asteroid was named after the Italian flautist and composer Giulio Briccialdi.

Ali Ryerson

She has performed and toured worldwide with a wide range of artists including Billy Taylor, Kenny Barron, Stephane Grappelli, Frank Wess, Red Rodney, Laurindo Almeida, Art Farmer, Maxine Sullivan, Roy Haynes, and (as principal flautist with the Monterey Bay Symphony) with Luciano Pavarotti.

Ani Choying Drolma

Ani Choying Dolma is part of a fairly large group of musicians in the Tibetan tradition now active outside Tibet, including the singers Techung, Karjam Saeji, Phurbu T Namgyal, Amchok Gompo Dhondup, Yungchen Lhamo, flautist Nawang Khechog, and Jewish-American Tibetan-genre performer Amalia Rubin.

Arne Nordheim

Written in memory of the Norwegian flautist Alf Andersen, who died that year at a very young age, the work incorporated Salvatore Quasimodo's poem Ed è sùbito sera.

Assagai

It consisted of five members: drummer Louis Moholo, trumpeter/flautist Mongezi Feza, tenor saxophonist Bizo Muggikana, guitarist Fred Cocker, and alto saxophonist Dudu Pukwana.

Bart Berman

Current collaborations include flautist Abbie de Quant (since 1970), Duo 4 with pianist Meir Wiesel, the Tamar Piano Trio with violinist Itzhak Segev and cellist Louis Rowen, as well as ensembles with several vocalists among whom Bat-Sheva Zeisler.

Carlos Ward

Carlos Ward (born May 1, 1940 in Ancón, Panama) is a jazz alto saxophonist and flautist.

Chetan Joshi

Chetan Joshi is a noted flautist in the Hindustani Classical Music tradition and also the former Senior Headmaster of Delhi Public School, Bokaro.

Clive Williamson

Clive Williamson formed the UK group Symbiosis in 1987, making ambient, soundtrack and healing music with founder-members flautist John Hackett and Richard Bolton (guitars and cello).

Constantin Bakaleinikoff

His brothers were Nikolai Bakaleinikov (flautist, composer and conductor), Vladimir Bakaleinikov (violist, composer and conductor), and Mikhail (Mischa) Bakaleinikoff (composer).

Correggio, Emilia-Romagna

It is also the birthplace of composer Bonifazio Asioli, the world famous flautist Andrea Griminelli, the pedagogue Loris Malaguzzi, the Venetian School composer Claudio Merulo, the rock singer Luciano Ligabue, the famously disqualified 1908 Summer Olympics marathon runner Dorando Pietri, and the novelist Pier Vittorio Tondelli.

Debtera

Jazz flautist James Newton wrote a song titled "The Dabtara" for his album Axum.

Emily Beynon

Emily Beynon is principal flautist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam.

Fernando Otero

He has collaborated with one-time Bill Evans sideman Eddie Gomez, flautist Dave Valentin and pianist/film composer Dave Grusin, among others, and he sat in with Arturo O'Farrill’s Jazz Orchestra during their Sunday night residency at New York City’s Birdland, performing his compositions with this large jazz ensemble also at Lincoln Center and Symphony Space.

Florin Cezar Ouatu

Son of the late flautist and former teacher at Mozarteum University of Salzburg, Florin Ouatu, he was born into a family of musicians in Ploieşti.

Gary Arbuthnot

Gareth "Gary" Bernard Arbuthnot (born 6 September 1972 in Northern Ireland) is a flautist who studied with Colin Fleming and then at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Sebastian Bell and Michael Cox, at McGill University in Montreal with Timothy Hutchins, and later with Sir James Galway and Emmanuel Pahud.

Gentle Thunder

Gentle Thunder, born Lisa Carpenter, is a Native American flautist of Cree heritage with three solo albums to date.

George Golla

In 1959, he commenced a long-term working musical partnership with clarinetist/flautist/saxophonist Don Burrows that continued for almost forty years.

Giuseppe Gariboldi

Giuseppe (Francesco Gabriele Patrizio Gaspare) Gariboldi (17 March 1833, Macerata – 12 April 1905, Castelraimondo) was an Italian flautist and composer.

Jadwiga Kotnowska

She has been First Solo Flautist with the Gulbekian Symphony Orchestra in Lisbon and the Royal Flemish in Antwerp.

Jaspar

Bobby Jaspar (1926–1963), cool jazz and hard bop saxophonist, flautist and composer born in Liège, Belgium

Joe Beck

In the 1980s Beck recorded several CDs for the DMP Digital Music Products label, including co-billed work with the noted flautist Ali Ryerson.

Karel Velebný

In 1961, Velebný and flautist Jan Konopásek co-founded SHQ, initially part of the Spejbl and Hurvínek Theatre (thus Spejbl and Huvínek Quintet), but later extending into independent performances.

Lotos Club

The Lotos Club issues a Medal of Merit; previous recipients include general David Petraeus, scientist James D. Watson, flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal, and puppeteer Bil Baird.

Maria Kalaniemi

She has also worked and recorded with the Swedish fiddler Sven Ahlbäck, the popular Finnish singer Katri Helena, singer/actor/flautist Vesa-Matti Loiri, Finnish accordionist Kimmo Pohjonen and many others.

Music conservatories of Naples

Another student was Leonardo De Lorenzo, flautist of many american orchestras and teacher at the Eastman School of Music.

Natchez people

Tommy Wildcat (b. 1967), traditionalist, Native American flautist, cultural historian

Orient, the Festival of Eastern Music

The festival has featured Oriental musicians such as Indian flautist Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, sitarists Pandit Ravi Shankar and Anoushka Shankar, the Japanese giant drum ensemble "Kodô", the Tuvinian guttural singers "Huun-Huur-Tu", Tibetan Buddhists monks of Gyuto and Gyume monasteries, the Turkish percussionist Burhan Öçal, the Armenian dudukist Jivan Gasparyan, and the Azeri muqam singer Alim Qasimov.

Orpheus Club of Philadelphia

These have included Maude Powell, violinist, who accompanied and played in no less than seven formal concerts between 1886 and 1897; Victor Herbert, cellist (1896); Pablo Casals, cellist (1904); Marcel Tabuteau, oboist: William Kinkaid, flautist: Louise Homer, operatic contralto; David Bisham, baritone (coincidentally a member of the Orpheus Club and a star of the Metropolitan Opera); Noah Swayne and Wilbur Evans, bassos (also members of the Orpheus Club).

Phillip Bent

He has made references to a number of musicians as his inspiration; these include Bobbi Humphrey, James Newton, Kathryn Lukas (who was also one of his teachers), William Bennett and James Galway.

Pierre Verany

Artists associated with the label include Paul Kuentz, flautist Christian Mendoze, harpsichordist Laurent Stewart, singers Isabelle Poulenard, Philippe Cantor, conductor Gilbert Bezzina, Françoise Lasserre and Akadêmia.

Prešeren Award

From the field of music, the awardees have been mainly composers and conductors, with the only instrumentalist being the flautist Irena Grafenauer.

Shiv-Hari

Shiv-Hari refers to the Indian music director duo of Shivkumar Sharma, an eminent Santoor player and Hariprasad Chaurasia, a virtuoso flautist.

Sonata in C major for flute or recorder and basso continuo

For example in complete Bach recordings, Stephen Preston on Brilliant Classics (originally recorded by CRD UK) is accompanied by harpsichord and viola da gamba while on Hänssler Classic Jean-Claude Gérard is accompanied by piano and bassoon.

That's Nifty!

It was produced by Swedish musician and fellow Four Leaf Clover artist Lasse Samuelson and Swedish flautist, keyboardist and composer Björn J:son Lindh, who also released albums under Four Leaf Clover Records.

Tierney Sutton

She has recently also been performing in a trio format with flautist Hubert Laws and guitarist Larry Koonse.

Tsybin

Vladimir Tsybin (1877–1949), Russian flautist, composer and conductor

William David Smith

Yaroslav Senyshyn will be releasing two of his Images ("Image" 1 and 2, Op. 33) on the Albany Records label in a 'live' album along with Susan O'Neill-Senyshyn (flautist).

Yaroslav Senyshyn

Yaroslav Senyshyn will be releasing two of William David Smith's compositions, Images ("Image" 1 and 2, Op. 33) on the Albany Records label in the near future in a 'live' album along with his wife, Susan O'Neill-Senyshyn (flautist).


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