Emmanuel Pahud

Award-winning, Swiss-French flautist Emmanuel Pahud began his music studies at the age of six in Rome with Francois Binet. His family saw that he received lessons with some of Europe's finest players, including Michel Moinil and Carlos Bruneel in Brussels, and Peter-Lukas Graf in Basle. He attended the Paris Conservatory, studying with Michel Debost, Alain Marion, Pierre Artaud, and Christian Larde. Even before graduating, he won international music competitions in Duino in 1988 and Kobe in 1989, and was principal flute with the Basle Radio Symphony and Munich Philharmonic. Af...