William Bennett

中文名：威廉姆·班内特

国籍：英国

生日：1936-02-07

职业：长笛演奏家

威廉姆·班内特William Bennett（1936年2月7日——）生于英国伦敦，是英国著名的长笛演奏家。与高威一样，班内特也在Guildhall School of Music 跟随杰弗里·吉尔伯特Geoffrey Gilbert[ 著名的英国长笛演奏家。](1914–1989)学习长笛，而后，来到巴黎是师从让·皮埃尔·郎帕尔。1958年，班内特在日内瓦国际长笛比赛中胜出，并于1965年跟随莫伊斯学习。在随后的几十年里，班内特不仅在英国皇家音乐学院和德国弗莱堡音乐学院担任长笛教授。还是一位英国著名的长笛演奏家。他曾在英国许多的知名交响乐团演奏，如，伦敦交响乐团、英国室内乐交响乐团、圣-马丁室内乐团等担任首席长笛。同时，他也以独奏家的身份录制了大量巴洛克时期，以及古典时期作品的唱片，而他的富有表现力的演奏特点和美妙的音色也使得更多的人认识了他。

在他早期的职业生涯当中，班内特作为第一位英国长笛演奏家，不仅完成了亨德尔的整套奏鸣曲，同时也完成了很多近现代作品的录制，包括布列兹的《小奏鸣曲》、贝里奥的《模进》、梅西安的《黑鸟》等等。除了录制这些大量巴赫、亨德尔、维瓦尔第、莫扎特等等脍炙人口的长笛作品外。他还会很重视十九世纪被忽略的音乐作品，如塔法奈尔的长笛作品等等。近几年来，他也在世界各地举办了很多场音乐会，如 ，美国，日本、瑞士、中国等等。

1995年英国女王为了表彰他在音乐方面做出的突出贡献为她颁发了大英帝国勋章。不仅如此他还发明了一种乐器，叫做巴塞长笛。这种乐器比现在传统长笛在音域上要低小三度。在他的唱片里，在演奏莫扎特协奏曲K218的时候就显示出了这一功能。

同时，在上世纪60年代后期，班内特就关注于长笛声学方面的工作，他与其他英国的长笛演奏家以及乐器制造者阿尔伯特·库珀合作共同研究这个项目，目的是能够更好地提升现代长笛的音准。而这种方式上的突破，使得班内特获得了国家长笛学会2002年颁发的终身成就奖。

从艺历程：He boarded at Beltane School until he was 16, starting his school life as a seven-year-old during the Second World War. He started playing the recorder at the age of 8 and the flute at 12. He studied the flute in London with Geoffrey Gilbert from the age of 15 and went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama a year later. Instead of doing two years of compulsory national military service after the war, he chose instead to serve three years in the Scots Guards band, which allowed him to continue his studies at the Guildhall School of Music. He went to Paris on a French government scholarship at 21, where he had lessons with Fernand Caratgé and Jean-Pierre Rampal. Later he studied with Marcel Moyse.

At the age of 22, he started working in his first principal flute position in the BBC Northern orchestra (now the BBC Philharmonic). He has played with most of the major British orchestras, including the BBC Northern (Philharmonic), Sadlers Wells Opera, the London Symphony Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra and the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields. He has played and recorded with chamber music ensembles, including the Melos Ensemble.[1], Nash Ensemble, Vesuvius Ensemble, Prometheus Ensemble and English Baroque Ensemble . As a soloist he has had partnerships with harpsichordist George Malcolm (with whom he recorded the complete Bach flute sonatas and Mozart concertos) and with pianist Clifford Benson and harpist Osian Ellis, with whom he has recorded extensively. In his solo recordings he has partnered Yehudi Menuhin, the Grumiaux Trio, I Musici, the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, and the English Chamber Orchestra, and has also recorded with artists such as Jimi Hendrix and Wynton Marsalis. He has made over 100 CDs as a soloist. He has received international acclaim and enthusiastic reviews in record and CD journals. Early in his career he made the first English recording of the complete Handel flute sonatas with Harold Lester, and of contemporary works including Boulez's Sonatine, Berio's Sequenza, Messaien's Merle Noir, and Richard Rodney Bennett's Winter Music (which was specially written for him.) In addition to recording the standard flute repertoire of Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Mozart, etc., he has made pioneer recordings of many neglected 19th century works, such as music by Ries, Romberg, and Taffanel. He premiered concertos by William Mathias, Diana Burrell and Venezuelan composer Raymund Pineda, all of which were specially written for him. He has his own record label, "Beep Records". In the 1980s, he was Professor of Flute at the Freiburg Hochschule of Music in Germany, and he now teaches at the Royal Academy of Music in London and at masterclasses all over the world. His highly acclaimed International Flute Summer School has enjoyed 30 years of success.

荣誉记录：In 1984 he was given the title of Professor by the District of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In 1987 he was made an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music. In 2002 he was awarded the National Flute Association's Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2003 he was appointed the British Flute Society's Flautist Laureate. In 2004 he was awarded the title of Flute of Gold from the Italian Falaut Flute society. In 2007 he was made Honorary President of the Guangzhou Flute Association, China. In 2009 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Chicago Flute Club. He is President of the British Flute Society. He was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in January 1995 for his distinguished Services to Music.

演奏风格：His playing is distinguished by his wide repertoire (baroque to through classical and romantic to contemporary). His playing is also distinguished by his wide range of tone colours, which he developed through his association with the guitar and his wish to emulate the changing colours used by the guitarist Julian Bream. He also studied composition at music college, having already written a sonatina for flute and piano whilst at school, and then a concerto for flute, clarinet and strings before he was 18. His compositional skills have aided him in writing numerous realisations of continuo parts, in composing several cadenzas for classical concertos, (which can be heard on his recordings), and in making many arrangements for the flute of important pieces which were originally written for other instruments.

刊物：My Favorite Encores (Southern Music)

Paul Taffanel: Mignon Fantasie (Southern Music)

J.S. Bach: Six Sonatas for Flute and Keyboard (Vol. 1 and 2) (Chester)

Sir Arthur Sullivan Twilight for 2 Flutes and Piano (Emerson Edition)

Paul A. Genin: Air Napolitain (Alry Publications)

Faure: Fantaisie for 2 Flutes and Piano (Alry Publications)

J.S. Bach: Sinfonia Cantata No.209 (Pan Educational Music)

Chopin: Nocturne in D-flat. for 2 Flutes and Piano (Alry Publications)

C.Benson : Song for Wibb (Pan Educational Music)

W.A.Mozart: Adagio and Rondo (Pan Educational Music)

Paul Taffanel : Jean de Nivelle (Broekmans en Van Poppel B.V)

Paul Taffanel : Francesca di Rimini (Broekmans en Van Poppel B.V)

个人生活：Usually known by his initials, WIBB, Bennett has two daughters from his first marriage in 1961 to cellist Rhuna Martin. His eldest daughter, Vanora Bennett, is a writer; his second daughter works at the United Nations. In 1981, he remarried Michie a fellow flautist who is now producer and director of Beep Records; they have one son, a Sinologist. Michie has run the International flute Summer School for 29 years.

Having grown up in a family circle of artists and painters, Bennett is a talented artist and cartoonist who draws with great pleasure and designs many of his own album covers.

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