Flutists and flautists: biography, notable interpretations.
Collection of notable flutists who have made publicly available recordings of the flute repertoire represented on the MASTERING the FLUTE website.
Remarkable flutists
Schütz, Karl-Heinz
Karl-Heinz Schütz is a renown Austrian flutist, the Solo Flute of Wiener Philharmoniker and the Wiener Staatsoper.
Prior that he was solo flutist with the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker and the Wiener Symphoniker.
Born in Innsbruck and raised in Landeck, Tyrol, he received his musical education at the Landeskonservatorium in Vorarlberg with Eva Amsler, Conservatoire national supérieur de musique in Lyon with Philippe Bernold, and with Aurèle Nicolet in Switzerland.
He won first prizes at the Carl Nielsen International Music Competition in 1998 und the International Flute Competition Kraków in 1999. He has performed as soloist across Europe and Japan, with performances of the important flute concertos with Wiener Philharmoniker and Wiener Symphoniker as well as NHK Tokyo and Sapporo symphony orchestras.
Karl-Heinz Schütz is a Professor of Flute at the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität Wien and has held several guest professorships.