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Birth: | 8th December, 1939 |
Nationality: | Irish |
Profession: | Flautist |
Sir James Galway was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is an Irish Flautist, nicknamed "The Man With the Golden Flute". He subsequently went to London to study the flute at the Royal College of Music under John Francis and then at the Guildhall School of Music under Geoffrey Gilbert. He then studied at the Paris Conservatoire. He has played with Sadler's Wells Opera, Covent Garden Opera, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He auditioned for the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Herbert von Karajan, and was principal flute of that orchestra from 1969 to 1975. In June 2008, he was inducted into the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame along with Liza Minnelli and B. B. King. He received the 2014 Gramophone Lifetime Achievement Award.
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