EmmanuelPahud
- Flute
About Emmanuel
Emmanuel Pahud enjoys an extensive international career as soloist and chamber musician and, aged 22, joined Berliner Philharmoniker as Principal Flute, a position which he still holds today.
He appears regularly in concert series, festivals and with orchestras worldwide, collaborating with conductors such as Antonini, Barenboim, Boulez, Fischer, Gergiev, Gardiner, Harding, Järvi, Nézét-Séguin, , Pinnock, Rattle & Zinman.
Emmanuel gives recitals with pianists Eric Le Sage, Alessio Bax and Yefim Bronfman. In 1993, he founded the Salon de Provence Festival with Eric Le Sage and Paul Meyer and gives chamber music performances and recordings with them and François Leleux, Paul Meyer, Gilbert Audin and Radovan Vlatkovic as part of Les Vents Français.
He is committed to expanding flute repertoire with new commissions by composers such as Elliott Carter, Marc-André Dalbavie, Toshio Hosokawa, Michaël Jarrell, Philippe Manoury, Matthias Pintscher, Christian Rivet, Luca Francesconi and Erkki-Sven Tüür.
Emmanuel records exclusively for Warner Classics and has received the Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his contribution to music, is HonRAM of the Royal Academy of Music, an Ambassador for Unicef and recipient of the Léonie Sonning Music Prize for 2024.
Representation
Season Highlights
Video
- Playing
Emmanuel Pahud plays Mozart: Sonata No. 27 in G Major, K. 379: I. Adagio (Excerpt)
Emmanuel Pahud plays the adagio from Sonata K. 379. Originally written for violin, this transcription for flute of Sonata K 379 features a melancholic adagio in the opening movement. The work is one of many transcriptions that form part of Emmanuel Pahud’s album Mozart Stories featuring pianist Eric Le Sage. w.lnk.to/mozstorLY __________ Warner Classics ► Website: http://www.warnerclassics.com Credit: Warner Classics
Emmanuel Pahud records C.P.E. Bach with Trevor Pinnock
CPE Bach Flute Concertos With Trevor Pinnock & Kammerakademie Potsdam Warner Classics 4 Nov 2016 Barcode: 0825646276790 Credit: Warner Classics
Carnegie Hall Flute Master Class with Emmanuel Pahud: Samuel Zyman’s Flute Sonata
World-renowned flautist Emmanuel Pahud coaches Juhee Kang on Samuel Zyman’s Flute Sonata. One of today’s most celebrated and wide-ranging artists, Emmanuel Pahud led a two-hour master class devoted to sonatas for flute and piano and answered audience members’ questions, focusing on important issues that every performing musician faces. Visit http://www.carnegiehall.org/workshops for more information about Carnegie Hall’s workshops and master classes. [Published on Jan 7, 2014] Credit: Carnegie Hall
Recording CD ‘Revolution’
See Emmanuel Pahud and Giovanni Antonini recording their new disc ‘Revolution’. Credit: Warner Classics
Bach Flute Sonatas with Trevor Pinnock and Jonathan Manson.
Credit: EMI Classics
Photos
News
Press
Dalbavie Flute Concerto - Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal
Maison Symphonique de MontréalJan 2023In much of the Dalbavie concerto, passages in the solo flute part fly by at warp speed, so much so that only a Pierre Boulez could discern if the soloist is in fact hitting all the notes. Not only was Pahud up to the challenge, but even when his fingers were moving at lightning speed, he still sculpted melodic lines and clearly delineated phrasal arrival points.
- Ian Cochrane, bachtrack
- 29 January 2023
Concert with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal
Maison Symphonique de MontréalOct 2023There could be little argument that Pahud is currently the planet’s number one flutist. He continues the line of French masters that began with Claude-Paul Taffanel and Marcel Moyse and progressed through Jean-Pierre Rampal and Aurèle Nicolet (Pahud’s teacher). Pahud manifests stunning control in all registers and at all dynamic levels; he can weave long seamless phrases by taking a catch breath while the sound of the previous note is still resonating. His musical imagination is sagacious.
- bachtrack
- 16 October 2022
Mozart and Flute in Paris
Album ReviewOct 2021Those aforementioned first few seconds, courtesy of Philippe Hersant’s Dreamtime for solo flute and orchestra, are in fact also some of the most instantly beguiling and exciting bars of music I’ve heard open a disc in some time.
- Charlotte Gardner, Gramophone
- 01 October 2021
Solo
Album ReviewJul 2018The eccentric programme is carefully considered; repeated listening reveals new parallels between the pieces. It's like eating a bag of pick 'n' mix where every sweet is deliciously interesting, and the aleatory element merely enhances the enjoyment... The flautist's customary rounded sound is pristinely captured throughout this quirky collection.
- BBC Music Magazine
- 01 July 2018
