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Our Team
Pasha Mansurov
Pasha (Pavel) Mansurov was born in Russia and started playing flute at the age of 6. He moved to the USA where he studied with Dr Bradley Garner of the Juilliard School for the majority of his early teenage years. He then moved to the UK and attended the Purcell...
Zacharias Tarpagkos
Zach Tarpagos is recognized as one of the leading flutists of his generation. Born in Greece in 1983, he studied Music at the Aristoteles' University of Thessaloniki and Flute Performance at the Greek Conservatory of Athens, before furthering his studies at the Royal...
Michael Cox
Michael Cox is one of Britain's best known flautists. He is principal flute of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and the London Sinfonietta, professor of flute at the Royal Academy of Music and artistic director of the flute website...
Our Artists
Julien Beaudiment
Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Lyon
Juliette Bausor
First Flute London Philharmonic Orchestra
Matvey Demin
First Flute Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich
Peter Verhoyen
First Piccolo Antwerp Symphony
Walter Auer
First Flute Vienna Philharmonic
Michael Cox
First Flute BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jim Walker
Former First Flute Los Angeles Philharmonic
Lorna McGhee
First Flute Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Paul Edmund-Davies
Former First Flute London Symphony Orchestra
Denis Lupachev
First flute of the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg
Aldo Baerten
First Flute – Royal Flemmish Philharmonic
Katherine Bryan
First Flute of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Lisa Beznosiuk
First Flute Orchestra of the Age of Enlightment
Nikolai Popov
First flute of the Bolshoi Theatre – Moscow
Christopher Green
Principal Piccolo – Royal Opera House (Covent Garden)
Patricia Morris
Former Principal Piccolo BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrea Oliva
Principal Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Gareth Davies
First Flute of the London Symphony Orchestra
Emily Beynon
First Flute of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Katherine Baker
First Flute Royal Opera House (Covent Garden)
Claire Wickes
First Flute English National Opera
Karen Jones
Freelancer and Recording Artist
Robert Winn
Professor at Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln