Ransom Wilson & Le Train Bleu

Ransom Wilson hails from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and was educated at the North Carolina School of the Arts, The Juilliard School and studied privately with Jean-Pierre Rampal in Paris. He has appeared with major orchestras around the world and has performed with many of the greatest musicians of our time.

Mr. Wilson is also an orchestral conductor of growing reputation, and he is the founder and conductor of Solisti New York Orchestra and been guest conductor at the New York City Opera and the Metropolitan Opera and he’s worked with Leonard Bernstein, Roger Nierenberg, James Dixon and Otto-Werner Mueller, in addition to works with the Houston Symphony, Hallé Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.

Ransom has recorded 30 albums as both flutist and conductor, and was three times nominated for the Grammy award. Other awards he has received include the Alabama Prize from the New York Times Foundation, and the Award of Merit in Gold, from the Republic of Austria. In addition to instructing flute at Yale University, he is an Artist Member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Music Director of the Idyllwild Arts Academy orchestra, and Artistic Director of Oklahoma’s OK MOZART International Festival.

We’re proud to be working with Ransom, and we think that you’ll love what he creates– we do.

Ransom Wilson’s collaboration with Lar Lubovitch Dance at Galapagos this past March. Click here to read the New York Times review of this stunning production of Stravinsky’s Histoire du Soldat.

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