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Solo repertoire

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Alto flute

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Ran Shulamit

Aitken, Robert

Arnold, Malcolm

Barber, Samuel

Bartók, Béla Viktor János

Beaser, Robert

Bennet, Richard Rodney

Berio, Luciano

Bernstein, Leonard

Bloch, Ernest

Bolling, Claude

Boulanger, Marie-Juliette

Bozza, Eugène Joseph

Brown, Elizabeth

Brun, Georges

Burton, Eldin

Büsser, Henri

Camus, Pierre

Carter, Elliott

Casella, Alfredo

Clarke, Ian

Colquhoun, Michael

Copland, Aaron

Corigliano, John

Dahl, Walter Ingolf Marcus

Damase, Jean-Michel

Davidovsky, Mario

Debussy, Claude

Del Tredici, David

Denisov, Edison

Dick, Robert

Dohnányi, Ernő

Dutilleux, Henri

Enescu, George

Feld, Jindřich

Ferroud, Pierre-Octave

Foote, Arthur

Foss, Lukas

Françaix, Jean

Fukushima, Kazuo

Gaubert, Philippe

Gieseking, Walter

Gordeli, Otar

Griffes, Charles Tomlinson

Grovlez, Gabriel

Guarnieri, Mozart Camargo

Hanson, Howard Harold

Harsányi, Tibor

Harty, Hamilton

Heiss, John

Heith, David

Higdon, Jennifer

Hindemith, Paul

Honegger, Arthur

Hoover, Katherine

Hosokawa, Toshio

Hovhaness, Alan

Hüe, Georges Adolphe

Ibert, Jacques

Ichiyanagi, Toshi

Ittzés, Gergely

Jacob, Gordon

Jemnitz, Sándor

Jirák, Karel Boleslav

Jolivet, André

Karg-Elert, Sigfrid

Kennan, Kent Wheeler

Kornauth, Egon

La Montaine, John

Liebermann, Lowell

Martin, Frank

Martino, Donald

Martinů, Bohuslav

Messiaen, Olivier

Mihalovici, Marcel

Milhaud, Darius

Mouquet, Jules

Mower, Mike

Muczynski, Robert

Nielsen, Carl

Offermans, Wil

Piazzolla, Astor

Piston, Walter

Poulenc, Francis

Prokofiev, Sergey

Rachmaninoff, Sergei

Ran, Shulamit

Ravel, Maurice

Reynolds, Verne

Rivier, Jean

Rota, Nino

Roussel, Albert

Rutter, John

Saariaho, Kaija

Sancan, Pierre

Schulhoff, Erwin

Schwantner, Joseph

Sciarrino, Salvatore

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Sibelius, Jean

Tailleferre, Germaine

Takemitsu, Tōru

Taktakishvili, Otar

Varèse, Edgar

Vasks, Pēteris

Weigl, Vally

Williams, Ralph Vaughan

Yun, Isang

East Wind for flute solo

East Wind for flute solo

By Ran Shulamit

Shulamit Ran: East Wind for solo flute was written in 1987 by comission of the National Flute Association as a work for its annual Young Artists Competition. The composition was dedicated to memory of Karen Monson, a friend and a music critic who struggled with cancer and died at the age of 42.

Nina Assimakopoulos

2011

East Wind

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Molly Barth

2022, recorded at Vanderbilt University Blair School of Music, Continuous Motion Productions

East Wind

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Ran Shulamit

Shulamit Ran (1949) is an Israeli-American composer who has received many musical awards (Pulitzer Prize, Guggenheim Foundation fellowships etc.). Born in Israel, she moved to New York at the age of 14 to study music at the Mannes College of Music where she studied composition with Norman Dello Joio and Ralph Shapey. She joined faculty of University in Chicago in 1973 where she taught composition until 2015. Her musical style has been described as "dissonant musical universe to create impassioned, personal statements" by music critics.
Among her most notable works: Symphony (1990) for orchestra; Legends (1993) for orchestra;  Vessels of Courage and Hope (1998) for orchestra; etc. Other compositions for flute: Sonatine for Two Flutes (1961) and Birds of Paradise for flute and piano (2014).