Dieter Flury (born 8 July 1952) is a Swiss classical flutist who was the principal flute of the Vienna Philharmonic from 1981 to 2017.
[2] Flury studied with Hans Meyer and André Jaunet at the Zurich University of Music, where he graduated in 1976.
[5] He has been a full-time professor at the University of Fine Arts in Graz, Austria since 1996.
[6][7] Flury has sparked controversy over comments that accepting women and/or people of color into the Vienna Philharmonic takes away from the musical tradition of the orchestra and that musicians outside of Europe do not have the same standards.
Therefore, I am convinced that it is worthwhile to accept this racist and sexist irritation, because something produced by a superficial understanding of human rights would not have the same standards.He also told Westdeutscher Rundfunk that accepting women would be "gambling with the emotional unity that this organism currently has".