Dieter Flury

Flutist Dieter Flury was born in Zürich, where he received his elementary and secondary school education. From 1972 to 1976 he studied mathematics at the Technical College. He studied the flute (from 1962 to 1971) first with Hans Mayer, the soloist of the famous Tonhalle Orchestra, than with André Jaunet at the Zürich Music College and later with the renowned Aurèl Nicolet. Since 1977 he was the flutist in the Vienna State Opera and since 1981 the principal flutist of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. He is one of the founders and members of the Vienna Wind Ensemble the Vienna Virtuosi and the Klangforum Wien ensemble. He performed as soloist with the Zürich Chamber Orchestra, the Festival Strings Luzern, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the New Japanese Philharmonic Orchestra, etc. He played at the major Swiss and Austrian music festivals and worked with prestigious contemporary composers such as György Ligeti, Klaus Huber, Hans Zender, Beat Furrer, Salvatore Schiarrino, Herbert Willi and others. He has released numerous recordings among which particularly successful were those with the pieces by Bach, Telemann, Haydn, Mozart, Varèse, Scelsi, Beri and Halffter. Particularly well received was his CD with the pieces by the French Les Six released by the Camerata from Tokyo. Since 1996 he has been a professor at the Arts University in Graz, the lecturer at the International Summer Academy in Lenk and held numerous master courses (Madrid, Sapporo, etc.).