Gheorghe Zamfir
Gheorghe Zamfir (born April 6, 1941, in Gaesti, Romania) is a Romanian musician, who is a virtuoso of the pan flute. Originally wanting to become an accordionist, at the age of 14 he began his pan flute studies and was initially self-taught. He continued his education at the Bucharest Academy of Music where he was a student of Fanica Luca at the Conservatory of Bucharest (1968). He came to the public eye when he was "discovered" by Swiss ethnomusicologist Marcel Cellier who extensively researched Romanian folk music in the 1960s. He expanded the traditional Romanian-style pan flute ("nai") of 20 pipes to 22, 25, 28 and 30 pipes to increase its range, obtaining as many as nine tones from each pipe by changing the embouchure.
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Throughout his 50-year-long career, Gheorghe Zamfir has won an overall 120 golden and platinum disc awards and sold over 120 million albums.
Zamfir wrote an instructional book, "Trait Du Naï Roumain: méthode de flûte de pan", Paris: Chappell S.A., 1975, ISBN 88-8291-286-8, and an autobiography "Binecuvântare si blestem" ("Blessing & Curses)", Arad: Mirador, 2000, ISBN 973-9284-56-6.
Zamfir currently resides and teaches panpipe in Bucharest, Romania (2006).
Largely through the numerous television commercials for his many albums, he introduced the pan flute to a modern audience and revived it from obscurity. One of his most famous contributions was to the soundtrack for the classic Australian film Picnic at Hanging Rock. His music has also been heard on the soundtracks of many Hollywood movies. He was asked by Ennio Morricone to perform the pieces "Childhood Memories" and "Cockeye's Song" for the soundtrack of Sergio Leone's classic 1984 gangster film Once Upon A Time In America, his music is heard throughout the 1984 film The Karate Kid, and his song "The Lonely Shepherd", penned by James Last and recorded with the James Last Orchestra, is featured in Quentin Tarantino's film Kill Bill Vol. 1.
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Sep 18, 2010 @ 10:12 pm | delete
- I love the pan flute and there is no one who plays it like Zamfir! How impressive that he taught himself to play. It just goes to show that we need to honor our natural gifts instead of forcing ourselves to follow in another's path.
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May 21, 2008 @ 5:09 am | delete
- daca cineva e ffffinteresat de muzika
maebe if u like the music serch Sa intimplat in amerika; once opouse in time in america, aici ve ti auzii naiul fermecat marca Zamfir ; here it s moust virtuous Zamfir and u know what mins muzic roumanian muzic like G. Enescu that it.
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- Hi Dougeby, Kewl Pan Flute lens. Zamfir is good. I liked the Immortal meets Zamfir vid. The still shot looked like the witch from the Wizard of Oz, so I had to check it out :) You are a true music resource! ~Music Resource~
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Oct 22, 2007 @ 3:47 pm | delete
- I was surprised to find out that Samfir is from Romania. I love his pan pipe music. Are pan pipes originally from Romania? You might enjoy the Lemmi Stick video on www.squidoo.com/Hands-onLearning
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