Gheorghe Zamfir
Gheorghe Zamfir (born
April 6,
1941) is a famous
Romanian musician who is a virtuoso on the
pan pipes. He was initially self-taught and continued his education at the Bucharest Academy of Music and the Conservatory of Bucharest (1968). He came to the public eye when he was 'discovered' by Swiss
ethnomusicologist Marcel Cellier who extensively researched Romanian
folk music in the 1960s.
Largely through the numerous television commercials for his albums, he introduced the panflute to a modern audience and revived it from obscurity. He has made many albums of panflute music
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