RANSOM WILSON, Flutist/Conductor

Resume 2011

 




Education

North Carolina School of the Arts        High School Diploma

The Juilliard School                               Bachelor of Music

Post-Graduate

Atlantique Fellowship                          1 Yr. in France-Studies w/ J.P. Rampal  (Institute of International Education)                           
    
Private Study                                         Leonard Bernstein, Otto-Werner Mueller, James Dixon, Roger Nierenberg

Honorary Doctorate Degree                University of Alabama, 2003

 Awards          

NARAS “Grammy” nominations          Three times nominated

NY Times Foundation                          Alabama Prize (first time awarded)

National Public Radio                          Wulsin Award, “Best Performance”
 Republic of Austria                              “Award of Merit” in Gold  (For efforts on behalf of Mozart’s music in America)


Foreign Languages Spoken
 Italian- Fluent
 French- Fluent
 Spanish- Strong Conversational
 German- Conversational

 
Current Positions Held
As Flutist

Yale University School of Music                       Prof (Adjunct) of Flute (1991-present)
Chamber Music Northwest                                Flutist (1982-present)
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center     Artist Member (1989-present)
Round Top Festival                                             Flutist (2011-present)

 
As Conductor

Metropolitan Opera                                             Assistant Conductor (2006-present)
LE TRAIN BLEU ensemble                               Artistic Director (2010-present)                                   
Solisti New York Orchestra                               Music Director (1982-present)

 

Previous Positions Held
SUNY Purchase Conservatory                        Guest Conductor (2011-12)
UNC School of the Arts                                      Director of Orchestras, Artist-Teacher of Conducting (Graduate School) (2007-2010)
Idyllwild Arts Academy                                       Music Director, Orchestra (1997-2007
OK Mozart International Festival                      Artistic Director (1984-2005)
Sugar Creek Symphony & Song                      Music Director (2003-4)
San Francisco Chamber Symphony               Music Director  (1993-95)
Opera Omaha                                                      Music Director  (1992-93)
Flint Symphony Orchestra                                 Principal Guest Conductor (1985-87)
Tuscaloosa Symphony                                      Music Director (1984-1991)

 
                                                                                   

COLLABORATIONS

 

As Conductor (Orchestras, Opera)

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, New Jersey Symphony, Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra, Juilliard Symphony Orchestra, New York City Opera, Korean Broadcasting Orchestra), Chamber Music Northwest, Fort Worth Symphony, Orchestra of Illinois, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Hartford Symphony, Symphony Nova Scotia, Tulsa Philharmonic, Budapest Strings, Hallé Orchestra, Berkeley Symphony, San Francisco Chamber Symphony, Denver Symphony, Metropolitan Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Minnesota Opera, Opera Omaha, Tulsa Opera, Portland Opera, Festival La Quincena Musical (Spain)

 

As Conductor (Soloists)

Itzhak Perlman, Andre Watts, Claude Frank, Joshua Bell, Hilary Hahn, Frederica von Stade, Jean-Pierre Rampal, David Jolley, David Shifrin, Robert van Sice, James Galway, John Browning, Joseph Swensen, Garrick Ohlsson, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Barry Douglas, Sarah Chang, Jennifer Larmore, Philippe Bernold, Robert McDuffie, Lynn Harrell, Paul Neubauer, Jeffrey Kahane, Nancy Allen, Gary Hoffman,  Robin Sutherland, Edgar Meyer, Patrick Gallois, Milan Turkovic

 

As Flutist (Concerti)

English Chamber Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Ensemble, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, I Solisti Veneti, Prague Chamber Orchestra, Cologne Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Nice, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic (2 worldwide tours, L. Bernstein, cond.), San Francisco Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony

 

As Flutist (Recital/Chamber Music)

Jean-Pierre Rampal, Garrick Ohlsson, James Galway, Jessye Norman, Christopher O’Riley, Thomas Hampson, Robert Blocker, David Shifrin, Robin Sutherland, Tokyo Quartet, Emerson Quartet, Erie Mills, Nancy Allen, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Anne-Marie McDermott, Paul Neubauer, Ani Kavafian, Fred Sherry, Joseph Swensen, Gary Hoffman, Ellis Marsalis, Sasha Cooke, Ken Noda

 

 

Premieres

Jacob Druckman, Steve Reich, John Harbison, John Adams, Aaron Jay Kernis, Richard Danielpour, Joseph Schwantner, Ezra Laderman, Lawrence Dillon, Lee Hyla, Randall Woolf, Martin Bresnick, Jonathan Dove, Miguel Kertsman, Tania Leon, George Tsontakis, Stephen Paulus, Christopher Rouse, Bruce Adolphe, Amy Beach, Kenneth Frazelle, Jean Françaix, Jean-Michel Damase, Peter Askim, Glenn Buhr, Judith Shatin, Melinda Wagner, Pierre Jalbert, Huang Ruo, Philippe Hersant