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 and flute player in the Michael Nyman Band since 1980, and is also a member of Home Service an
Acoustic Earth
He is a Pearl Flutes International Artist and endorsee of Forestone reeds. 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
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Apart from appearances on hundreds of other people's albums as a session player, he has written and recorded for EMI’s KPM, Made Up Music, and Inspired Music

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and featured on solo

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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, CBE (born 23 March 1944) is an English composer, pianist, librettist, musicologist, and filmmaker. He is known for numerous film scores (many written during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Green ...

'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 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