James Galway

Person · Open Library

Born

1939-08-12

Works

40

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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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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

GB

Active from

1939-12-08

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

56,181

Total plays

532,735

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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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews

   · 2021 · cited 76,915x

2. Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations

   · 1976 · cited 67,092x

3. Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

   · 2012 · cited 64,963x

4. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 34,535x

5. Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.

   · 1988 · cited 31,223x

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Key dates

Born

12 August 1939

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

James

Gender

male

Citizenship

United Kingdom

Place of birth

Belfast

Occupation

musician

Educated at

Royal College of Music

Languages spoken

English language

Noble title

Knight Bachelor

Genre

classical music