Widely experienced London session player, all styles covered, having worked for decades in the London studios and appeared on hundreds of movies, including Star Wars, Harry Potters, Bond movies. Played for artists, including Stevie Wonder, Pat Metheny, Joni Mitchell, Mcartney. Home recording for more than 10 years. Fast, efficient and creative.
Andy Findon is Europe's most recorded flute player who can be heard on countless movie and TV soundtracks, alongside albums for a long list of international artists. His own releases include groundbreaking and innovative premieres, including his own arrangements of work by composers such as Michael Nyman. Andy is the longest serving member of The Michael Nyman Band, playing baritone saxophone and flutes on Michael's soundtracks and concert tours since the early 1980's.
He is in the iconic, award winning (BBC Radio 2 Best Live Act 2012) "folk-rock" band The Home Service, the legendary "medieval prog-rock" band Gryphon and plays regularly with the major London Symphony orchestras as well as chamber orchestras and groups across the capitol.
Andy is also known as London's foremost "ethnic" instrumentalist, performing on a kaleidoscopic array of unusual woodwind instruments, alongside the more common instruments of the flute, saxophone and clarinet families. He has contributed extensively to the “Spitfire” sample library with work on both orchestral and ethnic instruments, including the release of the his own credited series of specialist flutes. As a composer, he has produced and performed hundreds of music "library" tracks which are played across the media regularly.
Andy is a "Pearl Flutes International Artist".
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Credits
- Damon Albarn
- Richard Sherman
- Chris Moyles
- Fishermen's Friends
- Rhydian
- Indica
- Madness
- Tina Arena
- Mark Ronson
- Brynn Terfel
- Hope
- Rufus Wainwright
- Ryan Dan
- Katherine Jenkins
- Mig Ayesa
- DIANA ROSS
- Josh Groban
- Anja Garbarek
- Paul Hartnoll
- The Beautiful South
- The Guillemots
- Giorgia Fumani
- Amy Nuttall
- david gray
- Il Divo
- Nightwish
- westlife
- Jermaine Jackson
- Delta Goodrem
- Brian McFadden
- Chris Botti
- Deborah Bonham
- Michael McDonald
- Shonagh Daly
- Omara Portuondo
- PAT METHENY
- Will Young
- Cleo Lane
- Lesley Garrett
- Charlotte Church
- Andrea Bocelli
- Bjork
- Pulp
- Russell Watson
- Lulu
- Robbie Williams
- Julian Lloyd Webber
- Ralph M'ctell
- Gordon Giltrap
- Beth Gibbons
- Spiritualised
- The Adventures
- Duncan Sheik
- Swing Out Sister
- Julie Andrews
- Kylie Minogue
- Michael Ball
- Lalo Schifrin
- Sarah Brightman
- Kiri Te Kanawa
- Beverly Craven
- Paul M'cartney
- Pet Shop Boys
- Selena Jones
- Shirley Bassey
- Joan Viskant
- Annie Lennox
- Cilla Black
- Elvis Costello
- John Williams
- Harry Secombe
- Jose Carreras
- Judy Collins
- Sir Cliff Richard
- Played with Joni Mitchell
- Harry Potter (movie)
- James Bond
- Star Wars
- Tina Turner
- Stevie Wonder
- The Eurovision Song Contest
- London Olympics 2012
- Mike Oldfield
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Sir Simon Rattle
- Leonard Bernstein
- Marvin Hamlish
- Steven Sondheim
- Michael Nyman Band
- Gryphon