Tadeu Coelho
Tadeu Coelho
Tadeu Coelho playing the flute
Sound · Breath · Imagination

Flutist · Artist · Educator

Tadeu
Coelho

It begins with air. One breath, moved through metal, carried from São Paulo to Carnegie Hall — and handed, note by note, to the next generation.

Scroll to breathe ↓
The hands of Tadeu Coelho on the keys of his flute
01 — Origin

Origin

His father put the flute in his hands.

Brazil, decades before the concert halls. He studied with Spartacco Rossi, João Dias Carrasqueira and Jean Noel Sagaard, and found his footing inside the São Paulo State and Municipal symphonies.

São Paulo, Brazil
Tadeu Coelho beside a grand piano
02 — The Crossing

The Crossing

Brazil to New York, one breath at a time.

1992New York debut — Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
1996Guest appearance with the Boston Symphony
DMAManhattan School of Music — Julius Baker, Ransom Wilson

First solo flutist of the Santa Fe Symphony, the Hofer Symphoniker in Germany and the Spoleto Festival Orchestra in Italy.

Rockefeller · Fulbright · CAPES
Tadeu Coelho performing in recital
03 — The Stage

The Stage

An advocate for music that doesn’t exist yet.

Commissioning, premiering and recording new work from across the Americas — now building seamless concert experiences and free improvisation. Performance made to breathe rather than recite.

Miyazawa Artist
Tadeu Coelho speaking to an audience, flute in hand
04 — The Studio

The Studio

What he was given, he gives forward.

Professor of Flute at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. North Carolina Board of Governors Excellence in Teaching Award, 2014 — and the UNCSA Excellence in Teaching Awards of 2013 and 2020.

UNCSA · Winston-Salem

The Records

Ten albums.
One voice.

Portrait of Tadeu Coelho

He has also published the complete works of Pattápio Silva, a collection of daily flute exercises, and his own transcription of Paganini’s Caprice No. 24 — bringing the flute part closer to the original violin score. Available through the shop and Flute World.

Tadeu Coelho with the flute at his lips

Now, exhale

Come and study with Tadeu.