1. Ransom Wilson currently is an Artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Artistic Director and Conductor of the Le Train Bleu ensemble, Music Director of the Redlands Symphony, and he performs concerts and recitals in notable venues worldwide.
Ransom Wilson attended the North Carolina School of the Arts, receiving this high school diploma in 1969, before entering the Bachelor of Music program at The Juilliard School.
Ransom Wilson's private conducting studies began with Roger Nierenberg in 1979 and later included James Dixon, Otto-Werner Mueller, and Leonard Bernstein.
Ransom Wilson has released 27 albums as a flute soloist, with three Grammy nominations along the way.
Ransom Wilson's latest recording, In the Age of Debussy, was released on the Nimbus label in 2021.
Ransom Wilson has collaborated with keyboardists Peter Frankl, Robin Sutherland, John Gibbons, Jean-Philippe Collard, Francois Dumont, and Christopher O'Riley.
Ransom Wilson plays exclusively a flute hand made for him by the Wm.
Ransom Wilson has been a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 1991, performing and recording with his colleagues hundreds of times.
Maestro Ransom Wilson was appointed Music Director and Conductor of the Redlands Symphony in 2016 as well as the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company in 2000.
Ransom Wilson has founded two ensembles: Le Train Bleu in 2010 and Solisti New York in 1981, with which he appeared as conductor in hundreds of concerts and recordings.
Ransom Wilson has released over 35 commercial recordings as a soloist, chamber musician, and conductor, earning three Grammy Awards nominations.
Ransom Wilson taught at the Yale School of Music, where he was a member of the woodwind and chamber music faculties for 31 years from 1992 to 2023.
In 2019, Ransom Wilson was appointed Director of Orchestral Programs at the Idyllwild Arts Academy in California which ended in 2020.
Ransom Wilson is the former Director of Orchestras at his alma mater, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.