Gheorghe Zamfir is a flutist born on April 6, 1941 in Găești, Romania,
world-renowned for popularizing the pan flute (nai) beyond the boundaries of
folk music and introducing it to classical, popular and cinematic repertoires.
Trained at the Bucharest Conservatory, he studied panpipes under Fănică Luca
(1894-1968), considered the founder of the modern Romanian school of the
instrument. From the 1960s, Zamfir developed a virtuoso and expressively rich
technique, increasing the number of pipes on his flute to extend its tessitura,
and transcribed great classical works for his instr...