biography
pronunciation:
[gawlway]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1939– )
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| biography:
| Flautist, born in Belfast, NE Northern Ireland, UK. He studied in London and Paris, and played in various orchestras in London and in the Berlin Philharmonic (1969–75). He became a soloist in 1975, and has since followed a highly successful solo career, playing on a solid gold flute of remarkable tonal range. He published an autobiography in 1978, and was involved in a TV series, James Galway's Music in Time, in 1983. He received a knighthood in 2001. |
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