Name Fenwick Smith Role Musical Artist | ||
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Albums Holiday Pops, Saturday Night Fiedler, Fiedler's Favorite Marches, Christmas Favorites, Pops Britannia Similar People Sally Pinkas, Randall Hodgkinson, Erwin Schulhoff, Edwin Barker, Arnold Schoenberg | ||
Education Eastman School of Music Music group Boston Pops Orchestra | ||
Fenwick Smith Taktakishvili's Flute Sonata (SiMon)
Fenwick Smith (1949 – July 19, 2017) was an American flutist. He studied under Joseph Mariano at the Eastman School of Music, graduating from there in 1972. Shortly thereafter he became a member of the New England Woodwind Quintet and began a thirteen-year membership with Boston Musica Viva. He became the assistant principal flutist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1978, serving in that position until September 2006. During this time he was also principal flutist of the Boston Pops Orchestra. Smith was also a member of the Boston Chamber Music Society since 1984, and since 1983 gave annual recitals at Jordan Hall.
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Smith had a reputation for playing new works and has notably made numerous premiere recordings of works by composers like Copland, Foote, Gaubert, Ginastera, Koechlin, Dahl, Harbison, Cage, Pinkham, Erwin Schulhoff, Schuller, Schoenberg, Ned Rorem, and Reinecke.