Emmanuel Pahud (born January 27, 1970) is a French-Swiss flute player. January 27 is the 27th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. ...

He started to learn the flute at the age of 6 and in 1990 graduated with the Premier Prix from the Paris Conservatoire before continuing his studies with Aurèle Nicolet. He took first prizes at the international competitions of Kobe, Duino and Geneva. Conservatoire de Paris, or Paris Conservatoire, has been central to the evolution of music in France and Western Europe. ...

At the age of 22 he was appointed principal flute of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Claudio Abbado, having previously held the same chairs in Basel and Munich. He was at the time the youngest principal in the great Berlin orchestra, a position to which he returned in 2002 after leaving it in 2000 to take over the virtuosity flute class at the Geneva Conservatory for one year. The Berlin Philharmonic rehearsing in the Berliner Philharmonie. ... Claudio Abbado (born June 26, 1933) is a noted Italian conductor. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...

He appears as a soloist across the world and has been acclaimed for his versatility, the beauty of his tone, his innate musicality and his extraordinary technique and flair. He is also a regular collaborator in chamber music and along with his regular accompanist Eric Le Sage and clarinet player Paul Meyer was the co-founder of the Musique a l'Emperi festival in France.

Since 1996 he has had a solo recording contract with EMI. His acclaimed discs include a CD of the Mozart Concertos (including the flute and harp concerto with Marie Pierre Langlamet) with the Berlin Philharmonic under Claudio Abbado, "Paris" (a CD of 20th century French flute music by Poulenc, Milhaud, Sancan, Jolivet, Dutilleux and Messiaen), the Mozart Flute Quartets, Telemann concertos with the Berlin Baroque Soloists, a Bach disc (also with the Berlin Baroque Soloists), the concertos of Khachaturian and Ibert with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra under David Zinman, a CD including the Prokofiev sonata and music by Debussy and Ravel, Gubaidulina's Music for Flute, Strings and Percussion with the London Symphony Orchestra under Rostropovich, sonatas by Franck, Strauss and Widor and French chamber music with Paul Meyer, Francois Meyer and Le Sage. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (IPA: , baptized Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart) (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. ... Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (IPA: ) (January 7, 1899 - January 30, 1963) was a French composer and a member of the French group Les Six. ... Darius Milhaud Darius Milhaud (IPA: ) (September 4, 1892 – June 22, 1974) was a French composer and teacher. ... Henri Dutilleux (born January 22, 1916 in Angers, France) is one of the most important French composers of the second half of the 20th century, producing work in the tradition of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Albert Roussel, but in a style distinctly his own. ... Olivier Messiaen It has been suggested that List of students of Olivier Messiaen be merged into this article or section. ... Georg Philipp Telemann. ... Bach in a 1748 portrait by Haussmann Places in which Bach resided throughout his life Johann Sebastian Bach (pronounced ) (21 March 1685 O.S. – 28 July 1750 N.S.) was a prolific German composer and organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra and solo instruments drew together the... Aram Ilich Khachaturian (Armenian: Արամ Խաչատրյան, Aram Xačatryan; Russian: Аpaм Ильич Xaчaтypян, Aram Ilič Hačaturjan) (June 6, 1903 – May 1, 1978) was a composer of classical music. ... Jacques François Antoine Ibert (August 15, 1890 – February 5, 1962) was a French composer of classical music. ... David Zinman (born New York, 10 July 1936) is an American conductor. ... Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (Russian: , Sergej Sergeevič Prokof(i)ev; April 121, 1891–June 28, 1953) was a Russian and Soviet composer who mastered numerous musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. ... Achille-Claude Debussy (IPA ) (August 22, 1862 – March 25, 1918) was a French composer. ... Maurice Ravel in 1912. ... Sofia Gubaidulina in Sortavala 1981 Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina, (Russian София Асгатовна Губайдулина) (born October 24, 1931) is a Russian-Tatar composer of deeply religious music. ... The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) is one of the major orchestras of the United Kingdom. ... Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich (Russian: Мстисла́в Леопо́льдович Ростропо́вич, Mstislav Leopoldovič Rostropovič, IPA pronunciation ), (March 27, 1927 – April 27, 2007), known to close friends as “Slava”, was an ethnically Russian cellist and conductor. ... César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck (December 10, 1822 – November 8, 1890), a composer, organist and music teacher of Belgian origin who lived in France, was one of the great figures in classical music in the second half of the 19th century. ... This article is about the German composer of tone-poems and operas. ... Charles-Marie Jean Albert Widor (February 21, 1844 – March 12, 1937) was a French organist, composer and teacher. ...

In 2005, Emmanuel collaborated with the NHK Symphony Orchestra, recording the original soundtrack Komyo ga Tsuji (功名が辻) to support the NHK Taiga drama series under the same name. The recording was released in Japan under the EMI label in 2006. Tracks where his flute takes the lead include Diamond Dust Memory ~Winter~ and Green Breeze ~Spring~. Following this were released the Vivaldi Flute Concertos with the Australian Chamber Orchestra lead by Richard Tognetti. The NHK Symphony Orchestra (NHK交響楽団) in Tokyo, Japan began as the New Symphony Orchestra on October 5, 1926 and was the countrys first professional orchestra. ... Taiga drama (大河ドラマ) is the name NHK gives to the annual, year-long historical fiction television series it broadcasts in Japan. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...