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Ransom Wilson (* 1951 in Tuscaloosa / Alabama ) is an American flautist and conductor.

Wilson attended North Carolina's School of the Arts from age 14 and then the Juilliard School of Music . He studied flute with Alain Marion , Sandra Taylor , Lawrence Morgan , Philip Dunigan , Severino Gazzelloni , Julius Baker , Christian Lardé and Arthur Lora . A scholarship from the Fondation Atlantique enabled him to study for a year in Paris, where he took private lessons with Jean-Pierre Rampal .

An album with duets for flute, which he recorded in 1974 with his teacher Rampal, started his international career as a solo flutist. He then worked with orchestras such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra , the Philadelphia Orchestra , the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra and musicians such as Frederica von Stade , Jessye Norman , Thomas Hampson , Susan Graham , Dolora Zajick , Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg , Hilary Hahn , James Galway , Barry Douglas , Peter Frankl and Robin Sutherland together.

In the early 1980s he became interested in conducting and took lessons from Roger Neirenberg , James Dixon and Otto Werner Mueller . With thirty musicians he founded Solisti New York , with which he officially debuted in 1983 at Lincoln Center . In addition to standard works for chamber orchestras by Bach , Handel , Mozart and Vivaldi , the ensemble's repertoire also included works by 20th century composers such as Samuel Barber , Aaron Copeland , Ralph Vaughan Williams , Francis Poulenc and Zoltán Kodály .

Wilson has also commissioned contemporary composers such as Steve Reich , John Harbison , George Tsontakis , Jean Françaix , Carlos Surinach , Martin Bresnick , Richard Danielpour , Aaron Jay Kernis , Peter Schickele , Joseph Schwantner , Jean-Michel Damase , Carlos Surinach and Deborah Drattell . He has directed symphony orchestras such as the Houston Symphony Orchestra , the Denver Symphony Orchestra , the San Francisco Chamber Symphony Orchestra and the Budapest Strings , with whom he has worked with internationally renowned musicians such as Itzhak Perlman , André Watts , Frederica von Stade , Nadja Salerno Sonnenberg , Joshua Bell and Garrick Ohlsson , Jeffrey Kahane and Hilary Hahn accompanied. Since 1978 he has an exclusive contract with EMI / Angel . There he released more than thirty albums as a flautist and conductor, three of which were nominated for a Grammy .

Wilson has been a member of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 1991 . He was also musical director of the Idyllwild Arts Academy Orchestra and artistic director of the OK MOZART International Festival in Oklahoma and is artistic director of the New York ensemble LE TRAIN BLEU . Wilson is a professor of flute at Yale University and gives master classes and summer courses, among others. a. in Nice and at the Juilliard School.

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SURNAME	Wilson, ransomware
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American flautist and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH	1951
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tuscaloosa