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Paul Fried Paul Fried is widely regarded as one the foremost flutists of his generation. He currently has nine flute CDs available at CDBaby.com, Paulfried.com and Simplicityrecords.com.

Paul has flute recordings available in a variety of styles and by a wide variety of composers. He has recorded classical, baroque, easy listening and contempory music in solo, duo (with guitar, piano, oboe, harpsichord, and others), chamber, and full orchestra settings. Composers and pieces include the Mozart Flute Quartets, Opera Arias for flute and oboe, Don Giovanni, Magic Flute, Marriage of Figaro, and Abduction of Seraglio; JS Bach's Flute Sonatas; Syrinix by Debussy; Poulenc's Flute Sonata; flute music by Varese; Fantasy by Hüe; Dinicu's Hora Staccato; Gabriel Faure's Fantasie; Haydn's London Trio #1; Ibert's Entre'acte; flute music by Camille Saint-Saëns; Cécile Chaminade's Flute Concertino; Cesar Franck's flute sonata; traditional English and Celtic music; and popular songs by The Beatles, Frank Sinatra, and more. Many of these selections of flute music are available as flute video recordings on this website and on YouTube.

His newest recording is his Music Minus One Recording and arrangement of the Vivaldi Seasons, with the Czech Symphony Chamber Orchestra. In 2004 he performed at the First China Flute Convention held in Shenyang China. In 2005, he performed, gave a master class and recorded in Japan with Nobutaka Shimizu and composer Jean Michel Damase playing piano. This recording of works by Damase is on the Nami Records label. Paul Fried teaches flute privately in Los Angeles.