Professional Flutists List
Included here is a comprehensive, though not complete, list of professional flutists who have careers as soloists, orchestral flutists or flute professors around the world. This list was compiled by Northern Arizona University flute majors as part of a year-long studio research project. It includes the flutists’ names and their major positions.
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Jean Pierre Rampal – international
recording artist
James Galway – international
recording artist
Jim Walker – jazz
and classical recording artist, professor at University of Southern
California
Mike Mower – jazz
influenced composer/ studio flutist
Carol Wincenc – Julliard
professor, winner of the Naumburg Award
Emmanuel Pahud – soloist, principal flute of the Berlin Philharmonic
Fenwick Smith – recording
artist, Boston Symphony second flutist
Walfrid Kujula – former
piccolo player with Chicago Sym.
Marcel Moyse – soloist,
co-founder of Marlboro School of Music
William Kincaid soloist – former principal
flutist of the Philadelphia Orchestra
Jeanne
Baxstresser – New England Conservatory professor, soloist
Trevor Wye – former
professor at Guild Hall, Royal College and Royal Northern College of Music,
soloist
Elizabeth Buck – principal
Phoenix. Sym., Arizona State University professor
Trygve Peterson – retired
professor Arizona State University
Alexa Still – University
of Colorado-Boulder professor, soloist
Stephanie Jutt – University
of Wisconsin-Madison professor
Ransom Wilson – Yale
University professor
Paul Taffanel – Paris
Conservatory professor, founder of the French Flute School
Phillip Gaubert – Paris
Conservatory professor
Herbert Lindholm – Kuopio
Consevatoire of Music and Dance, Finnish composer
Susan Milan – 1st
woman principal of Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (1974)
Mark Tucker – soloist
and recording artist
Mimi Stillman – soloist
and chamber player
Philip Swanson – Tuscon
flute club founder, retired professor Northern Arizona University –
Geri Rotella studio
musician and teacher
William Bennett – soloist
and teacher, conducts many master-classes around the world
Gary Schocker – soloist,
composer and teacher
Timothy Hutchins – Principal
flute of Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Principal flute of
the Pittsburgh Symphony for 2003-04 season, and teaches at McGill University
Viviana Guzman – soloist
and flutist in “Festival of Four”
Marina Piccinini – soloist
and teacher at Peabody Conservatory of Music
Timothy Day – former
principal flutist of Balitmore Symphony, currently teaches at San Francisco
Conservatory and principle of California Symphony.
Robert Dick – soloist,
teacher, composer, and author of books about contemporary flute techniques
Robert Langevin – former
principal of Pittsburgh Symphony, currently the principle of New York Philharmonic
and professor at Manhattan School of Music
Katherine Hoover – composer,
conductor
Peter-Lukas Graf soloist and conductor and teaches at Basle
Music Academy
Michel Debost – former
Principal flute in the “Orchestre de Paris”, soloist and teaches
at Oberlin College Conservatory
Göran Marcusson – soloist
from Sweden
Hubert Laws – famous
jazz soloist
Leone Buyse – former
Principal flutist of Boston Symphony Orchestra, soloist, currently professor
of flute and chamber music at Rice University Sheppard School of Music.
Thomas Robertello – former
principal of Pittsburgh Symphony, currently teaches at
Indiana School of Music in Bloomington
Paula Robison – soloist,
winner of the Geneva Competition
Zizi Mueller – former
professor at Fairfield University, International soloist and
performs with her chamber group Mosaic
Maxence Larrieu – former
teacher at Geneve Conservatoire, soloist
Gunilla von Bahr – Prolific recording
artist and musical director
Julius Baker – Former
principal of the New York Philharmonic
Sam Baron – Former
flutist of the New York Woodwind Quintet
Laura Barron – Principal
of the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra and professor at Northern Arizona University
Bonita
Boyd – Professor
at Eastman School of Music
Mathieu Dufour – Principal
of the Chicago Symphony
Paul Edmund-Davies – Principal
of the London Symphony
Alain Marion – Former
professor at the Paris Conservatory
Elizabeth Ostling – Principal
of the Boston Pops and assistant Principal of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Jonathan
Snowden – Former
principal of the London Symphony and a recording artist
Manuela Weisler – Recording
artist; studied with James Galway
Petri Alanko – Finnish
Flutist
Claudia Anderson – Solo
performer and adjudicator
Gary Arbuthnot – Solo
performer
Jan Bengston – Solo
performer with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Carolyn Brown – Principal
Flutist with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra
Torkil Bye – Principal
Flutist of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Daniel Cassamagnaghi – Solo
Perfeormer with the Milanese orchestras, Teatro all Scala
Ian ClarkeSoloist
for the British Flute Society and Composer
Tadeu CoelhoProfessor
of Flute at the North Carolina School of the Arts
Patria Davila – Chamber
Musician and founder of UpTown Flutes
William Dowdall – Principal
Flutist of the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland
Moshe Epstein – Solo
Performer of the Israel Sinfonietta
Janette Erickson – Principal
Flutist of the Fresno Philharmonic Orchestra
Jill Felber – Performed
solo recitals, chamber music, and concertos on four continents
Cathy Herrera – Concert
artist, orchestral performer and flute professor
Michelle LaPorte – Professor
of Flute Studies at Five Towns College
Ilari LehtinenSolo
Flutist of the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra since 197
Joanie Madden – Leader
of Cherish the Ladies, a leading group in the Irish world
Laurel Ann Maurer – Concerto
soloist with the Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra
Jennifer McKenzie – Member
of the Dallas Opera Orchestra and the Texas Chamber Orchestra
Clare Southworth – Professor
of Flute at the Royal Academy of Music in London
Laurel Zucker – Solo
performer with the Sacramento Philharmonic
Toke-Lund Christiansen student of Marcel Moyse, Lecturer at Royal Danish Academy
of Music.
Brooks DeWetter – Smith graduate of NEC and Juilliard, faculty at UNC Chapel
Hill, former President
of NFA, studied with Galway and Rampal, recording artist
Robert Aitken – Canadian
composer, studied flute with Moyse and Rampal, extensive artist.
Georges Barrere – Student
of Altes and Taffanel, taught at Juilliard for 39 years, inspired Varese, “Density
21.5” and Griffes, “Poem”
Jan Gippo – piccolo
for St. Louis Orchestra, regular columnist for Flute Talk Magazine, graduate of NEC
Wissam Boustany – soloist
who was born in Lebanon and studied in Britain.
Bart Feller – Principal
of the New Jersey Symphony and teaches at Rutgers
Camilla Hoitenga – soloist
who has performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and The
London Philharmonic
Jane Lenoir – jazz
influenced soloist.
Henrik Weise – principal
of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.
John Wion – former
principal of the New York City Opera from 1965-2002.
Helen Bledsoe – contemporary
soloist and chamber musician who studied in Russia.
Carol Dale – associate
Professor of music at the University of Mississippi and Principal
of the Tupelo Symphony
Elena Duran – soloist
who teaches at the Birmingham Conservatory in the UK.
Debora Harris – Associate
professor of flute at Concordia College in Minnesota
Richard Ingamells – Soloist
from the UK who has played with trios and rock bands.
Jadwiga Kotnowska – soloist
from Warsaw, Poland
Chris Norman – Born
in Nova Scotia. Plays a wooden flute on movie soundtracks with a Celtic flavor.
David Oliver – teaches
at the Trinity College of Music in London.
Kirsten Sprattsoloist
Davide Formisano – Italian
flutist
George Pope – Professor
of Flute at the University of Akron, Former Principal Flute of the
Akron Symphony
Jeffery Zook – flutist
and piccolist of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Frederick Wilkins – Soloist
Kay Gardnernew – age
performer
Sebastian Caratelli – Performer
and Recorder Moyse, Marcel
Keith Bryanperformer – Former Professor at Michigan State
Jonathan Keeble – performer
in the Prairie Winds quintet out of Chicago
Sharron Sparrow – performer
Nestor Torres – Grammy-Award
winning Jazz flutist
Danilo Lozano – Latin
and African American specialty music
Jeffrey Khaner – Principal
Flute of the Philadelphia Orchestra
Vanessa Whang – plays
various flutes in a group called Altazor
Harvey Boatright – Principal
Flute of the Dallas Symphony and performs also with Voices of Change
Richard Egues – Principal
Flute in Orchestra Aragon
G.S. Sachdev:performs
on the Bamboo flute
Paddy Moloney – performs
on the tin whistle with The Chieftains
Matt Molloyalso – performs with The Chieftains on flute
Werner Tast – performs
with the C.P.E. Bach Chamber Orchestra
Monika Hegedus – performs
with the Budapest Strings
TimCrawford – performs
on Native American Flute
David Odselashvilli – Principal
Flute of the Tbilis Symphony Orchestra
Jeremy Barlow – director
and performer for the Broadside Band
Hanz Friedrichperforms
with the Vienna Mozart Ensemble
Eberhard Zummach – performs
on treble recorder with the Cologne Concerto Orchestra
Eckart Haupt – performs
on treble recorder and flute with the C.P.E. Bach Chamber Orchestra
Karl-Heinz Passin – performs
with the New Leipzig Bach Collegium Musicum
Helmut Rucker – performs
with the Dresden Philharmonic
Kurt Berger – performs
with the Vienna Mozart Ensemble
Martin Sandhoff – performs
on the treble recorder with the Cologne Concerto Orchestra
Cordula Breuer – performs
on the treble recorder with the Cologne Concerto Orchestra
Jeanne Galway – has
performed with many orchestras and studied with James Galway, Marcel Moyse,
and Ransom Wilson
Gilbert Valdez – performed
with the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band
Leo Wright – performed
on flute and alto saxophone with the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band
Madalyn Blanchett – performs
on flute and the whole family of recorders with the Alice Gomez – Group
Troy Carthew – performs
with the Darlene Zschech Band
Clair Evans – performs
with the Darlene Zschech Band
Paul Horn – performs
on the whole family of flute and is the director of the Multi-Flute Orchestra
Gary Barnacle – performs
on flute and alto saxophone with The Jazzmasters Band
Randy Mead – performs
on flute, bass flute, alto and soprano recorder, panpipes
Forest Shomer – performs
on penny whistle and Andean flute
Paul Becker – performs
on soprano recorder
Lory Lacy – performs
with her own Jazz combo
George Tortorelli – plays
various flutes with Lisa Lynne Group
Herbie Mann – performed
with various Jazz groups but especially with Bill Evans
Karlheinz Zoeller – performs
with the English Chamber Orchestra
Wolfgang Schulz – performs
with the Wiener Philharmoniker
R. Carlos Nakai – performs
on Native American Flute
Al Block – performed
with the Charlie Parker Band
Bettine Clemen Ware – performs
on the whole flute family with the Patterson Duo
Wendy H. Musk – plays various flutes with the Xingu Group
Jerome Richardson – performed
on flute and soprano & baritone saxophone with the Charlie Mingus Band
Dick Hafer – performed
on flute, clarinet, and tenor saxophone with the Charlie Mingus Band
Eric Dolphy – performed
on flute and alto saxophone with the Charlie Mingus Band
Claudi Arimany – performed
as soloist – with various orchestras
Danny Wolinski – performs
on flute and alto saxophone with the Carlos Santana Band
Craig Bailey – performs
on flute, alto flute, and alto saxophone with the Rufus Reid Jazz Band
Ron Korbplays
– on various flutes and performs with Tapestries
Collin Tillton – performs
on flute and tenor saxophone and performed with Van Morrison
Andrew Vasque – performs
on Native American Flute
Tim Wheater – performs
on bass flute
Amy Porter – Former
Associate Principal, Atlanta SO, U-Michigan
Garner, Bradley – Principal, Atlantic Sinfonietta,
UCC-CM
Wellbaum, Jack – Former
Piccolo, Cincinnati SO, UCC-CM
Zuckerman, Eugenia – Recording
Artist
Koregelos, Angela – Recording
Artist
Parloff, Michael – Principal,Metropolitan
Opera Orchestra, Manhattan School of Music
Dwyer, Doriot-Antony – Former Principal Flute, BSO, Boston University
Barrere, Georges – brought
Paris Conservatory tradition to the U.S., Principal of NY Symphony, Prof. Flute,
Julliard
Boehm, Theobald – Performer,
composer, teacher, inventor , designed revolutionary “Boehm flute” system,
Invented alto flute
Gaubert, Phillipe – famous
flutist and conductor of Paris Opera, Prof. of composition at Paris Conservatory
Kuhlau, Friederich – Principal,
Denmark’s Royal Orchestra, Composer of operas and chamber music
Moyse, Marcel – 1
of the greatest flutists and teachers of the 20th century”, Toured world
as soloist and performed under the baton of many famous conductors, Prof. of
flute at Paris and Geneva Conservatories, Co-founded the Marlboro School of
Music
Taffanel, Claude-Paul – Principal,
Grand Opera and conductor later on, Prof., Paris Conservatory