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Also known as Sir James Galway

Irish flute player

Person · Open Library

Works
40

Top works

  • Serenade
  • Serenades du Soir
  • Maritana Fantasy : on V. Wallace's Opera
  • G'aimes Golṿai Musiḳah be-khol ha-zemanim
  • Gaubert Essential Library for Flute and Piano - Book 2

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Film & TV

Acting · Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

Sir James Galway (born 8 December 1939) is an Irish virtuoso flute player from Belfast, nicknamed "The Man with the Golden Flute". He established an international career as a solo flute player. In 2005, he received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music at the Classic Brit Awards. Galway was born in North Belfast as one of two brothers. His father, who played the flute, was…

Known for

  • Henry Mancini: 100 at the Hollywood Bowl — Self2024
  • James Galway at the BBC — Self2019
  • Karajan's Magic and Myth — Self2014
  • Legends — Self (archive footage)2006
  • Legends — Self2006
  • Sternstunde Kunst — Self1998
  • Roger Waters: The Wall - Live in Berlin — Self - Flute1990
  • Le monde est à vous — Self1987
  • Royal Variety Performance 19841984
  • Andy Williams' Early New England Christmas — Self1982

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Sir James Galway OBE (born 8 December 1939) is a virtuoso flute player from Belfast, Northern Ireland, nicknamed "The Man With the Golden Flute". Following in the footsteps of Jean-Pierre Rampal, he became one of the first flute players to establish an international career as a soloist. Galway went to London as a teenager to study the flute. He studied at the Royal College of Music under John Francis and then at the Guildhall School of Music under Geoffrey Gilbert. <a href="https://www.last.fm/

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