Finn Peters is a flautist and saxophonist. "After the best part of a decade immersed in dance, hip hop, Afro-Cuban, electronica and contemporary classical musics, flautist and saxophonist Finn Peters returned to his jazz roots with ''Su-Ling'' (Babel, 2006)." This was followed by ''Butterflies'', which added "strings, a Balinese gamelan ensemble, kora, synths, a few choruses of birdsong and some inventive sound processing". The Finn Peters Quintet (or 'Finntet') won the best jazz group category of the

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Discography

* ''Dr Seus EPs 1 and 2'', (Mantella 2002) * ''Bansuri'', (Traficante, 2005) * ''Suling'', (

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, 2006) * ''Butterflies'', (Accidental, 2008) * ''Music of the Mind'', (Mantella, 2010) * ''Purple and Yellow'', (Mantella, 2011) * ''Red, Green and Blue'', (Mantella, 2024)

References

External links

* – official site *
''Suling''
review on

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F-IRE Collective: Finn Peters
{{DEFAULTSORT:Peters, Finn Year of birth missing (living people) Living people British male saxophonists British jazz saxophonists British jazz flautists People educated at Plymouth College 21st-century saxophonists 21st-century British male musicians British male jazz musicians The Spatial AKA Orchestra members Alumni of Goldsmiths, University of London 21st-century flautists