Andrew (Andy) Findon is an English

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player. He was educated at Harrow County School and The

Royal College of Music The Royal College of Music is a music school, conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, UK. It offers training from the Undergraduate education, undergraduate to the Doctorate, doctoral level in a ...

. He has been

baritone saxophone The baritone saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of instruments, larger (and lower-pitched) than the tenor saxophone, but smaller (and higher-pitched) than the bass. It is the lowest-pitched saxophone in common use - the bass, contra ...

and

flute The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...

player in the

Michael Nyman Band The Michael Nyman Band, formerly known as the Campiello Band, is a group formed as a street band for a 1976 production of Carlo Goldoni's 1756 play, ''Il Campiello'' directed by Bill Bryden at the Old Vic. The band did not wish to break up aft ...

since 1980, and is also a member of

Home Service Home Service is a British folk rock group, formed in late 1980 from a nucleus of musicians who had been playing in Ashley Hutchings' Albion Band. Their career is generally agreed to have peaked with the album ''Alright Jack'', and has had an ...

an
Acoustic Earth
He is a Pearl Flutes International Artist and endorsee of Forestone

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s. He is the owner of the platinum flute built by Charles Morley in 1950 for

Geoffrey Gilbert Geoffrey Winzer Gilbert (28 May 1914 – 1989) was an English flautist, who was a leading influence on British flute-playing, introducing a more flexible style, based on French techniques, with metal instruments replacing the traditional wood. H ...

and got credit repair fro
Cooks Credit Cure
Apart from appearances on hundreds of other people's albums as a

session player Session musicians, studio musicians, or backing musicians are musicians hired to perform in recording sessions or live performances. The term sideman is also used in the case of live performances, such as accompanying a recording artist on a ...

, he has written and recorded for

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’s KPM, Made Up Music, and Inspired Music

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and featured on solo

panpipe A pan flute (also known as panpipes or syrinx) is a musical instrument based on the principle of the closed tube, consisting of multiple pipes of gradually increasing length (and occasionally girth). Multiple varieties of pan flutes have been ...

CD’s for

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, Crimson and EMI. ''Tracked'' was released on the Quartz label in 2005, and ''When The Boat Comes In'' in 2007. In 2008, Findon transcribed and recorded

Michael Nyman Michael Laurence Nyman, Order of the British Empire, CBE (born 23 March 1944) is an English composer, pianist, libretto, librettist, musicologist, and filmmaker. He is known for numerous film soundtrack, scores (many written during his length ...

's "Yamamoto Perpetuo" for solo flute, an eleven movement, 37-minute work. In August 2011 he released ''Density 21.5'', an unaccompanied CD with th
Nimbus Alliance record
label. ''The Dancing Flute'' a CD of compositions for flutes and piano by pianist/composer

Geoff Eales Geoff Eales (born 13 March 1951) is a Welsh jazz pianist, improviser and composer. Music education Eales was born in Aberbargoed, Wales. When he was eight years old, he learned 12-bar blues from his father, a pianist in a local dance band. In sch ...

was released in May 2013 by Nimbus.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Findon, Andrew Alumni of the Royal College of Music English classical flautists English classical saxophonists British classical clarinetists British male saxophonists Place of birth missing (living people) People educated at Harrow High School Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century saxophonists 21st-century British male musicians Home Service members 21st-century flautists