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NATIONAL CONCERT BAND SYMPOSIUM 10 Priestley Drive Tonbridge Kent TN10 4RS e. [email protected] w. concertbandsymposium.co.uk t. +44 (0)1732 366 500 Dear player, It is my great pleasure to invite you to participate in the Andy Findon Masterclass at the National Concert Band Symposium in Canterbury on Sunday 28 June. The masterclass will take place in the Gulbenkian Theatre at the University of Kent from 10.00 – 12.00. Andy will then be performing as part of ‘An Audience With Andy Findon’ at 16.00, where he will be discussing his experiences as a professional musician in an ever changing musical world. These are both events not to be missed. The masterclass will take the form of a woodwind ensemble workshop and performance of Michael Nyman’s In Re Don Giovanni, specially arranged for the event. We are looking for flutes, oboes, clarinets, saxophones and bassoons of varying ability to form a 25-30 strong ensemble. If you would like to participate, simply fill in the details below and return to [email protected] or post to the above address. Entrance is on a first come first serve basis and you will be notified via email whether your application is successful. It would be great to welcome you on Sunday 28 June. Yours sincerely, Jonathan Crowhurst Director National Concert Band Symposium ANDY FINDON WOODWIND ORCHESTRA MASTERCLASS Name: Age: Address: Contact details Phone: Email: Instrument(s): Standard (Grade if applicable): If under 18 please provide contact details of parent/guardian/next of kin below: Andy Findon Biography 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. Other formative influences were gained working for well known British Dance Band leaders Joe Loss, Nat Temple, Eric Delaney and Sidney Lipton whilst and shortly after studying at the Royal College of Music, following membership (as principal flute) of The National Youth Orchestra. Thus, although training originally as a classical flautist,, these experiences led his career to diversify, covering almost every musical genre, duetting with Pat Metheny, playing with artists such as Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell, Tony Bennett, Cilla Black and Katherine Jenkins to name but 5 widely contrasting singers. Andy also appears regularly performing works by Karl Jenkins and other successful composers, such as Hans Zimmer, most recently performing the solo Duduk in live performances of his Gladiator movie score. In 1998 Andy performed live in the interval act at the Eurovision Song Contest in Birmingham and was Mike Oldfield's recorder player (in Dulci Jubilo) at the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony. Among many appearances in London's West End theatre, he has worked over the years on shows and projects for Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, notably featuring on The Beautiful Game, Bombay Dreams (by Indian composer A.R Rahman) and recording Sir Andrew's "Variations" theme tune for The South Bank Show alongside his brother, Julian. Andy played on the movie soundtracks of musicals, including Phantom Of The Opera, Sweeney Todd, Cats, Evita and Mama Mia. He appeared on the 25th anniversary DVD performances of Sir Cameron Mackintosh's Les Miserables and the 2009 DVD of Chess at The Royal Albert Hall. He is in the iconic, award winning (BBC Radio 2 Best Live Act 2012) "folk-rock" band The Home Service and plays regularly with the major London Symphony orchestras as well as chamber orchestras and groups across the capitol. He is a close collaborator with pianist/composer Geoff Eales and is pioneering Geoff's significant flute repertoire with the album "The Dancing Flute". 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. 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" and the proud owner of the platinum flute built for Geoffrey Gilbert in 1950 by Charles Morley. .