Gaby Pas-Van Riet

* in Essen (Belgium); flautist; studied in Antwerp, Brussels and Basel with Aurèle Nicolet; principal flautist of the SWR-Radiosinfonieorchester Stuttgart; professor of flute at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken and visiting professor in Antwerp. She received her training at the Hochschule Antwerpen, at the Musikhochschule Köln in the concert class of Wilhelm Schwegler and in the master class of Peter-Lukas Graf at the Basel Conservatory. She is a prizewinner of the ARD-Wettbewerb München and of Belfius Classics Brussels; she is a member of the Bayreuther Festspielorchester and, since the 2000/2001 season, a permanent guest as principal flautist of the Berliner Philharmoniker, where she has worked with Claudio Abbado, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Esa-Pekka Salonen, among others. She played premieres of numerous works, some of them dedicated to her, for example by Helmut Lachenmann, and performed rediscovered Romantic flute concertos by Hendrik Waelput and Peter Benoît. In 2014 she took part in the album Jacqueline Fontyn and the Concerto for Cybele Records.