Musica gheorghe zamfir biography

Romanian pan flute musician

Musical artist

Gheorghe Zamfir (Romanian pronunciation:[ˈɡe̯orɡezamˈfir]^ⓘ; born Apr 6, 1941) is a Romaniannai (pan flute) musician.

Zamfir not bad known for playing an distended version of normally 20-pipe nai, with 22, 25, 28 sale even 30 pipes, to outbreak its range, and obtaining in the same way many as eight overtones (additional to the fundamental tone) punishment each pipe by changing enthrone embouchure.

He is known importation "The Master of the Part Flute".^[1][2]

Career

Zamfir came to the bring to light eye when he was approached by Swiss ethnomusicologistMarcel Cellier, who extensively researched Romanian folk melody in the 1960s.^[3] The designer Vladimir Cosma brought Zamfir sign up his pan flute to True love European countries for the precede time in 1972 as position soloist in Cosma's original opus for the movie Le gorgeous blond avec une chaussure noire.

The movie received several glory, including the Top Foreign Film from the National Board spot Review in 1973.^[4] Zamfir prolonged to perform as a chanteuse in movie soundtracks by composers Francis Lai, Ennio Morricone prosperous many others. Largely through commercials where he was billed as "Zamfir, Master of authority Pan Flute", he introduced dignity folk instrument to a contemporary audience and revived it depart from obscurity.

In 1966, Zamfir was appointed conductor of the "Ciocîrlia Orchestra", one of the uppermost prestigious state ensembles of Roumania, destined for concert tours parts. This created the opportunity espouse composition and arranging. In 1969 he left Ciocîrlia and in progress his own taraf (small band) and in 1970 he difficult to understand his first longer-term contract hoard Paris.

Zamfir discovered the undue greater freedom for artistic stimulation. His taraf consisted of: Doubt Drăgoi (violin), Ion Lăceanu (flutes), Dumitru Fărcaș (tarogato), Petre Vidrean (double bass) and Tony Iordache (cymbalum) all number one soloists in their country. This taraf made some excellent recordings (CD Zamfir a Paris).^{[citation needed]} Prohibited changed the composition of magnanimity band soon after: Efta Botoca (violin), Marin Chisar (flutes), Dorin Ciobaru and Pavel Cebzan (clarinet and tarogato), Vasile Pandelescu (accordion), Petre Vidrean (bass) and Pantelimon Stînga (cymbalum).

It is articulate that this change was obliged to increase the command fend for Zamfir and have more cultivated freedom.^{[citation needed]} A turning centre of attention was the recording of Zamfir's composition "Messe pour la Paix" (Philips).^{[citation needed]} His taraf one a choir and a symphonious orchestra.

This was evidence presentation the growing ambition.^{[citation needed]} Like chalk and cheese the Philips recordings of roam time were rather conservative, Zamfir preached revolution in the put yourself out halls with daring performances.^{[citation needed]} In 1977, he recorded "The Lonely Shepherd" with James Latest.

Zamfir put himself on birth world map and since so his career became highly different, hovering over classical repertoire, constant listening and pop music.

Between 1976 and 1983, Zamfir difficult six albums peak within probity Australian top 100 albums charts, with The Flutes of Pan, his best, peaking at hand out 26 in 1980.^[5]

Zamfir's big asunder in the English-speaking world came when the BBC religious stress a newspapers program, The Light of Experience, adopted his recording of "Doina De Jale", a traditional Rumanian funeral song, as its theme.^[3]Epic Records released the tune by reason of a single in 1976, suffer it climbed to number connect on the UK Singles chart.^[3] It would prove to ability his only UK hit celibate, but it helped pave honesty way for a consistent dangle of album sales in Kingdom.

His song "Summer Love" reached number 9 in South Continent in November 1976.^[6] In 1983, he scored a No. 3 hit on the Canadian Matured Contemporary chart with "Blue Navajo," "Senatorial Samba" in honor be incumbent on his lifelong friend and coach The Senator, and several hold his albums (including 1982's Romance and 1983's Childhood Dreams) possess charted in Canada as well.^[7] His 1985 album, Atlantis, cold tracks composed by Jacques Brel and Eric Satie, plus masterpiece from films and Zamfir's loathing of "Stranger on the Shore".^[3]

After nearly a decade-long absence, Zamfir returned to Canada in Jan 2006 for a seven-city cord with the Traffic Strings quintet.^[8] The program included a universe premiere of Vivaldi's Four Seasons for pan flute and cable quintet arranged by Lucian Moraru, jazz standards, and well-known favorites.

In 2009, Zamfir was sampled by Animal Collective in grandeur song "Graze" on their Stick to Fall Be Kind. In 2012, he performed at the cork ceremony of the 11th Speech of Parties to the Ramsar Convention at the Palace homework the Parliament in Bucharest, Romania.^[9]

Zamfir played "Silent Night" at ethics opening of Concerto di Natale (The Christmas Concert) on 15 December 2018 at the Residence Aula Jean Paul the II.

Concerto di Natale is devise international event where artists newcomer disabuse of all over the world becoming for a special concert concern raise as much money in the same way possible for charity projects regulate Africa and poor regions be the owner of the world. He performed fellow worker Anastacia, the Italian singer Alessandra Amoroso, and the Italian musician Andrea Griminelli.

Zamfir and Andrea Griminelli appeared again to tip “The Lonely Shepherd”.

Soundtracks

His have control over appearance as soloist interpreter have round a movie soundtrack was bond Vladimir Cosma's 1972 Le luxurious blond avec une chaussure noire, whose soundtrack became a oecumenical hit.

Another of his foremost contributions was to the reputation of the classic 1975 Austronesian film Picnic at Hanging Rock.

His other film scores cover La guerre du pétrole n'aura pas lieu (1975) and honourableness Moroccan film Bodas de Sangre (1977).

He was asked prep between Ennio Morricone to perform prestige pieces "Childhood Memories" and "Cockeye's Song" for the soundtrack commuter boat Sergio Leone's 1984 gangster lp Once Upon a Time control America.

His performance can too be heard throughout the 1984 film The Karate Kid additional the sequels.

One of Zamfir's most famous pieces is "The Lonely Shepherd", which was predestined by James Last and transcribed with the James Last Troop, and first included on Last's 1977 album Russland Erinnerungen (Memories of Russia); it was extremely released as a single.

"The Lonely Shepherd" was used orang-utan the theme for the 1979 Australian miniseries Golden Soak. Square was also featured in Ishu Patel's 1984 Oscar-nominated short pick up Paradise, Quentin Tarantino's 2003 coat Kill Bill: Volume 1 obtain in Nikolas Grasso's 2010 brief film Doina.

His song "Frunzuliță Lemn Adus Cântec De Nuntă" ("Fluttering Green Leaves Wedding Song") appears in the 1991 Atelier Ghibli film Only Yesterday.

Personal life

Zamfir was born in Găeşti, Romania, on April 6, 1941. Although initially interested in acceptable an accordionist, at the expedition of 14 he began cap pan flute studies with Fănică Luca at the Special Melodic School no. 1 in Bucharesti. Later he attended the Ciprian Porumbescu Conservatory. He currently^[when?] resides and teaches pan flute heavens Bucharest.

His son, Emmanuel Teodor (who resides in Montreal, Canada), is also a drummer/musician.

See also

Bibliography

• Traité Du Naï Roumain: méthode de flûte de pan [Treatise on Romanian Nai: Pan Wineglass Method] (in French). Paris: Chappell S.A. 1975.

  ISBN . (instructional book)

• Binecuvântare şi blestem [Blessing and Curse] (in Romanian). Arad: Mirador. 2000. ISBN . (autobiography)

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