Kevin Budd

Canadian musician Kevin Budd has specialized in the pan flute as both a composer and performer for over two decades. A consummate wind musician, he also plays transverse flute, recorder, trumpet, the Eastern European caval and guitar.

An ancient instrument, the pan flute is used, in some form, throughout much of the world. According to Greek myth, it was invented by the god Pan as an instrument of consolation for love lost. The Romanian-style pan flute or nai played here has a single line of bamboo tubes which produce an extraordinarily clear, natural and haunting sound.

Kevin Budd is North America's most renowned builder of professional pan flutes. He has taught at the Arosa Music Festival in Switzerland, performs as a soloist for Canadian regional orchestras, and has played for movie soundtracks, commercials, and recordings. Mr. Budd has brought disparate elements of the international pan flute community together by creating the first Internet web page devoted to the instrument as well as its first Internet-based discussion group, Pan Flute World.

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