List of flautists

Contents 1 Flautists 1.1 Classical 1.1.1 Western 1.1.2 Indian 1.1.3 Japanese 1.2 Jazz 1.3 Bossa Nova 1.4 Folk 1.5 Native American 1.6 Rock 2 References

Flautists

Classical

Western

• Richard Adeney
• Julius Baker
• Jeanne Baxtresser
• William Bennett
• Michel Blavet
• Theobald Boehm - also inventor of predecessor of modern flute (material, keying, tone holes, headjoint)
• Hariprasad Chaurasia
• Ian Clarke
• Albert Cooper - also flute maker and inventor of Cooper scale
• Robert Dick
• Albert Franz Doppler
• Paul Lustig Dunkel
• Doriot Anthony Dwyer
• Louis Fleury
• Frederick the Great - Prussian king and avid amateur
• James Galway
• Philippe Gaubert
• Severino Gazzelloni
• Pannalal Ghosh
• Geoffrey Gilbert
• Pravin Godkhindi
• Peter-Lukas Graf
• Irena Grafenauer
• Nityanand Haldipur
• Timothy Hutchins - Principal flute of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal since 1978.
• Jens Josef
• Jeffrey Khaner
• William Kincaid
• Ron Korb-Canadian flautist who is also renowned for playing various woodwinds from around the world.
• Ernesto Kohler
• Jadwiga Kotnowska
• Frederich Kuhlau
• Sidney Lanier
• Hans-Martin Linde
• Gareth McLearnon
• Barbara Morgan - Educator astronaut.
• Tadashi Mori
• Gareth Morris
• Marcel Moyse
• Milan Munclinger
• Aurèle Nicolet
• Emmanuel Pahud
• Pan - from Greek mythology
• Walter Parazaider - Woodwind Player of the American Jazz-Rock Band Chicago
• Greg Pattillo
• Stephen Preston - pioneer of the baroque and early classical flute
• Johann Joachim Quantz - instructor of Frederick the Great, authored important treatise
• Jean-Pierre Rampal
• Paula Robison
• Gary Schocker
• Elaine Shaffer
• Shashank
• Fritz Spiegl
• Simion Stanciu
• Sanja Stijačić
• Alexa Still
• Mark Thomas
• Claude-Paul Taffanel
• David Van Vactor
• Peter Verhoyen
• Ransom Wilson
• Meredith Willson
• Trevor Wye
• Karl-Heinz Zöller

Indian

• S. Akash
• Sikkil Mala Chandrasekar
• Mohit Chauhan
• Hariprasad Chaurasia
• Milind Date
• Pannalal Ghosh
• Keshav Ginde
• Nityanand Haldipur
• Kudamaloor Janardanan
• Chetan Joshi
• Ronu Majumdar
• Natesan Ramani
• Thiagarajan Ramani
• Palladam Sanjiva Rao
• Vijay Raghav Rao
• Gurbachan Singh Sachdev
• Tiruchy L. Saravanan
• Raghunath Seth
• T. N. Sivakumar
• Shashank Subramanyam
• Tanjore Viswanathan

Japanese

Shakuhachi

• Christopher Yohmei Blasdel
• Yoshikazu Iwamoto
• Phil Nyokai James
• Kaoru Kakizakai
• Kenya Kawaguchi
• Ken LaCosse
• Riley Lee
• Kōhachiro Miyata
• John Kaizan Neptune
• Kokū Nishimura
• Atsuya Okuda
• Alcvin Ramos
• Rodrigo Rodriguez
• James Nyoraku Schlefer
• Ronnie Nyogetsu Reishin Seldin
• Watazumi Doso
• Gorō Yamaguchi
• Hōzan Yamamoto
• Katsuya Yokoyama
• Masakazu Yoshizawa

Jazz

• George Adams
• Walter Bell
• Don Burrows
• Wayman Carver
• John Coltrane
• Robert Dick
• Eric Dolphy
• Joe Farrell
• Sonny Fortune
• Paul Horn
• Bobbi Humphrey
• Simon Jensen
• Ron Korb
• Roland Kirk
• Moe Koffman
• Yusef Lateef
• Hubert Laws
• Thijs van Leer
• Charles Lloyd
• Herbie Mann
• Bill McBirnie
• Harold McNair
• Lloyd McNeill
• Bobby Militello (current sax and flute player with the Dave Brubeck Quartet)
• James Moody
• Sam Most
• James Newton
• David "Fathead" Newman
• Magic Malik (French article)
• Greg Pattillo (beatboxing while playing the flute)
• Nelson Rangell
• Jerome Richardson
• Sam Rivers
• Pharoah Sanders
• Bud Shank
• Sahib Shihab
• Jeremy Steig
• Nicola Stilo
• Lew Tabackin
• Nestor Torres
• Dave Valentin
• James Walker^[1]
• Frank Wess
• Leo Wright
• Alexander Zonjic
• Danilo Caymmi- also a Bossa Nova flautist, composer, arranger, singer

Bossa Nova

• Danilo Caymmi- also a Jazz flautist, composer, arranger, singer

Folk

• Henry Thomas
• Otha Turner
• Michael Flatley
• Julie Fowlis
• Gheorghe Zamfir

Native American

• Jeff Ball
• Robert Tree Cody
• Joseph Firecrow
• Charles Littleleaf
• Kevin Locke
• Robert Mirabal
• R. Carlos Nakai
• Jay Red Eagle
• Tommy Wildcat
• Mary Youngblood

Rock

• Ian Anderson - Leader of Jethro Tull
• India Arie
• Barry Burns of the post-rock group Mogwai.
• Mel Collins - Second lineup of King Crimson
• Burton Cummings
• Jerry Eubanks - Former flautist of The Marshall Tucker Band
• Peter Gabriel - Former lead singer of Genesis
• John Hackett - Younger brother of former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett; often collaborated with his brother
• Marcus James Henderson - The Marshall Tucker Band
• David Jackson - Van der Graaf Generator
• Carl Cadden-James - Shadow Gallery
• Andrew Latimer - Camel
• Thijs Van Leer - Focus
• Ian McDonald - First lineup of King Crimson
• Florian Schneider - Early lineup of Kraftwerk
• Ray Thomas - The Moody Blues
• Ann Wilson - Heart
• Chris Wood - Traffic

References