James Strauss (flutist)

James Strauss (flutist)

James Strauss (b. November 29, 1974 Recife, Pernambuco) is a Brazilian virtuoso flautist and musicologist. He is an internationally known performer whose virtuosity has drawn comparisons to Jascha Heifetz and Vladimir Horowitz.

Biography

He began taking violin lessons from his father when he was 4 years old, but switched to the flute a few years later. He graduated from the Paris Conservatory with Pierre Yves Artaud, Maurice Pruvot, and Lazslo Hadadi. Concurrently he studied Flute with Jean-Pierre Rampal. His career as a flute soloist started in 1991 with his performance with the Festival Orchestra of the 23rd Music Festival in Campos do Jordão, conducted by Júlio Medaglia.

In 1999, he moved to Finland, and began looking for Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky's legendary "Flute Concerto", of which Rampal had seen a page in the 1960s in the Soviet Union. He eventually found three pieces of the original composition (one in St. Petersburg, one in Finland, one in Klin) and reconstructed from them the Concertstück for Flute, TH 247, now catalogued as a posthumous work by Tchaikovsky.

Appearances

Strauss has performed with leading symphony and chamber orchestras in Japan, Israel, Central and Western Europe, and Scandinavia. He has also performed at venues including the Châtelet in Paris, Tokyo's Suntory Hall, NJPAC in New Jersey , Sala São Paulo in São Paulo, and at festivals in France, Brazil, the United States, Argentina and Israel. In January 2007, he appeared at the Orchestra Hall in Miami, Ohio with the Oxford Chamber Orchestra.

Commissioned concertos

René Gerber, Solfa Carlile, Dimitri Cervo, Daisuke Soga, Kenny Choy, João Linhares, Philip Czaplowski, Antonio Ribeiro and Glenn Roger Davis have composed commissioned concertos for him, more are currently being composed.

Flute

His 14-carat gold flute was made by the Powell Flutes team.

Discography

Strauss has released two CDs with the Israeli Virtuosi, and four more in 2007 with repertoire ranging from Antonio Vivaldi to modern Brazilian music. He has also recorded the 24 Paganini Caprices, arranged for flute.

*James Strauss Plays Beethoven James Strauss, flute; Regina Glasunova, piano; Miyo Umezu, Violin; Olli Varonen, cello

*Raiders of the lost Tchaikovsky (CD/DVD ) Heitor Villa-Lobos, Haydn, Paganini, Ponce, A. Tchaikovsky, P. Tchaikovsky, Dinicu, Rimsky Korsakov January 31st recording of The Oxford Chamber Orchestra conducted by Ricardo Averbach.

*Made in Brazil James Strauss, flute; Israeli Virtuosi; Ada Pelleg, conductor

*Tchaikovsky Flute Concerto James Strauss, flute; Israeli Virtuosi; Ada Pelleg, conductor

*Portrait (CD sample 1999, Point Classics) Vivaldi · Ribeiro · Gluck · Liebermann · Mercadante · Debussy · Randall
James Strauss , flute; Orquestra de Camara Theatro São Pedro, Capriccioso Chamber Orchestra, Antunes Câmera

Honors

*UFAM Concours International de flute, first prize, 1998
*UFAM Concours International de Chamber Music, first prize, 1999
*Concours International de flute de la Ville de Lempdes, first prize, 1997
*Concours International de flute Morangis, first mention, 1997

External links

*Official|http://www.jamesstrauss.com

Persondata
NAME = Strauss, James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES =
SHORT DESCRIPTION = classical flutist from Brazil
DATE OF BIRTH = November 29, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH = Recife, Brazil


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