Andy Quin
@JimmyHillside
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Leading Production Music composer since the 80s. Film/tv/VGM FairlightCMI sampling pioneer, improvising concert-pianist, organist, Dad. You’ve heard my music!
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Anyone out there on ‘X’ actually love music?… Or am I just screaming into the void?!🤦♂️🤷😉🎼
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@Hplayspiano
My daughter intimidated by a bloke in a late night train day before yesterday! She sought out the guard, I hope you are ok! The prevalence of this sort of thing is just awful!
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I know I’ve said similar before, but just having this beauty in the house so I can play for an hour or two whenever I like is a real life-saver!🙏🎹
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@cellojohnston
@LibrarySheet
My daughter started like that…ended up doing this around the world! Good luck to you!👍❤️💃🩰
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Fascinating that upcoming
#musicians
I follow, often don’t follow back🤦♂️. Glad that they are doing so well that they’re not bothered when a significant
#composer
takes an interest🤔.Fortunately for me there are thousands of equally talented musicians out there!😉🎼
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Well, I’ve dedicated a lifetime to making music, but experience on this platform has shown me conclusively: the way to minimise engagement is to post up some of my music!😂🤦♂️🤷🎼
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I have had the great good fortune to spend a lifetime composing and recording more music in more different genres and styles, and for more different line ups of instruments & tech than you can probably imagine😉 I’m here to help young composers/musicians if I can👍🎼
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I’ve spent a lifetime
#composing
#recording
#performing
#music
. Thousands of tracks, tens of thousands of broadcasts globally, millions of streams. I’m not a music
#teacher
, but if I can mentor or advise, please don’t be afraid to ask!🙏👍🎼
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I have lived here in Surrey for over 20 years. I still find if breathtakingly beautiful! Have a great week!🙏🎼
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My wife Anne has been my ‘muse’ for 45 years. I wrote this one for her when we were courting teenagers back in the 70s!❤️😍🥰🙏🎹🎼
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No apologies for our extended celebrations…how often in life do you get to enjoy a 40th wedding anniversary?😉🙏My wife doesn’t like photos of her, but she is still the loveliest thing I have ever seen.❤️
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My
#wife
’s xx birthday tomorrow 🥳 We started dating in 1978. I wrote this for her when she was 18. My passion for her remains the same.❤️🎼
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Look, I know I’ve been so incredibly lucky, but would you spend much time doing anything else if this greeted you every morning!😂👍🙏🎹
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Just a quick reminder why you should come see me live in
#concert
before I get too old!👴🏻😉. No
#composer
transcriptions, just full on, mistakes ‘n’ all, no holds barred
#live
#improvisation
, you know as well as I do where this is going!😂🎹
#Gershwin
#IGotRhythm
#exciting
#jazz
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I’ve given 100’s of recitals to considerable acclaim, I have over 2 billion streams on YouTube, but when I write to music promoters etc. I rarely ever get a reply! What on earth must it be like for new artists, & what has happened to the music biz? Just an acknowledgment plz?🤷🎼
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Serious ‘atmosphere’ tonight. Good thing I don’t get spooked easily when out walking at night!😱😉
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After a hard physical day in the garden ( literally shovelling a ton of gravel), just wonderful to unwind for an hour or two with this beautiful instrument…the aches & pains & tension just melt away!🙏🎹
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Transposing John Coltrane’s Giant Steps live in real time is always a good exercise!😉🎹🙏
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I started dating Anne when I was 17. As we’re out tonight celebrating our 39th wedding
#anniversary
at posh restaurant/theatre, it’s humbling to remember she loved me when I had nothing… just a head, heart and hands full of
#music
, and of course,
#love
❤️🎼
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A little clip of a masterclass
#improvising
on ‘Lullaby of Birdland’…before too many comments about my scrappy playing, this is not a concert/recital as such, I’m demonstrating improv techniques such as playing with metre and style & transposition.
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Organs, drumming, composing, computers, synths, arranging, producing…, but my first love,
#piano
improvisation has remained the mainstay of my music life for 60yrs! 🙏🎹❤️ ( demo/masterclass not a recital!).
#WorldPianoDay
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I walk & compose music here nearly every day. It’s like paradise. I wish it could be like this for everyone. What have we done to this amazing, beautiful world?🤷
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On this lovely crisp Saturday morning, I Got Music! You?😉👍🎼
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Handel has been a significant influence! Here, nearly 40 years ago, I used a short phrase from one of his operas to generate the very first TV theme ever produced entirely on digital computer!🙏🎼
Love to see you tomorrow afternoon, the historic 'Handel' organ of Holt Trinity Church, Gosport. In all it's 300 years, I doubt it has ever been played like this! (Noodling to get used to instrument!)🙏🎹
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Very few days pass, when I see & hear the beauty of this thing, without me saying a few quiet words of thanks!
#piano
🙏🙏🎹
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For those of you working hard or even struggling in the arts, I worked as a pro in the music biz for over a decade before getting my first really big break! Keep at it, you never know! 👍🙏🎼
#MondayMotivation
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I have to admit it is still such a thrill and I consider myself so lucky to be able to just step into this amazing creative space every day where so much
#music
has been born👍🎼
#lucky
#recordingstudio
#composer
#musician
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@AlexaCoghlan
This is sadly typical. I usually get round by doing a paid concert/performance/masterclasses as well as a talk. But past experience: do something as a favour you are treated like dirt, charge a big fee and you become the VIP!!🎼
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40+yrs in
#recording
#studios
but
#livemusic
still the lifeblood of being a
#musician
for me! Do come see me live soon…yep I’m getting old but still one of the most exciting, dynamic live-
#improvising
#ConcertPianists
around!! I need your support!🙏🎹
#JohnColtrane
#GiantSteps
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My career has yielded so many delights. I just got this delightful watercolour sent to me in the post this morning, from a gig last month! Love it!🙏🙏🎹🎼
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If Twitter folds, just to say apart from the odd troll/weirdo, it has been a lot of fun, highly entertaining, a great many laughs and a wonderful way of discovering new music and brilliant artists. I wish you all the great joy I have had from a lifetime in music. Thank you!🙏🎼
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I’m an ‘organ nut’,no apologies! These instruments & their mechanisms have underpinned much of my understanding of the world for over 50 yrs. Physics, mechanics, sound & acoustics, electronics. But also emotional response to music, & for want of a better word, ‘spirituality’!🙏
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Now I’m getting old & my fingers have a touch of arthritis after 60yrs of playing, I usually warm up gently for practise sessions with a few arpeggios. Keep warm, good night!🙏👍🎹
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A clip of my solo piano composition, ‘Toccata No. 2 in F’ performed live in concert by me in 2015.
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#Happiness
is: successfully negotiating the really tricky
#piano
part you have written yourself, when you are
#recording
with the world’s finest
#musicians
!! ( Members of the
@londonsymphony
)😂🙏🎹
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Music has been and is my life. I’ve been lucky. I wish it could be so for all you aspiring musos out there. There is no better life to live!🙏🎼
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So lucky to have been in the
#music
biz for 50yrs but hopefully still relevant! You’re probably unlikely to sit down to tv viewing without hearing something of mine! Listen out for me on
#soundtrack
of Latest
#Netflix
#truecrime
#drama
#DahmerNetflix
@deWolfeMusic
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Composers… do you find listening to brilliant instrumental performers inspiring?🎼
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A little clip of me talking about accompanying silent films. No other living person on the planet learnt the art from original masters, and continues the practice, as well as composing & recording current tv & film music! It’d be great to see you this coming Wednesday.🙏🎞️
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For nearly 60yrs, music has been my life, & over 40 of those I have shared with my lovely wife…who could indeed ask for anything more?!😉🙏🙏🎼🎹❤️
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A little 'Pennies From Heaven' improv in a stride style to get the fingers moving!
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The season of childhood wonderment may have just gone, but there’s still plenty of magic out there! Good morning!🙏🎼
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At least (unlike the
#UK
#Government
) I get to finish my
#HS2
attempts!😉🎹
#livemusic
#piano
#stride
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@MrPLitchfield
I don’t know you, but this made me stop & think. There is great sadness here. I hope you are ok.🎼
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Had a few visits of people wanting to film me at work in my studio…you’ll have to wait!😉In the meantime, the only bit of
#studio
footage… not really work, just fun finger exercise noodling!🙏🎹
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Honoured to have been invited to sit on the Advisory Board to the School of Performing & Digital Arts
@RoyalHolloway
. It has of the finest music departments in the UK👍🎼🙏
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Why are so relatively few modern living ‘
#classical
’ music
#composers
seemingly so reticent to incorporate electronic
#music
#technology
instruments in their works? After all, it’s been around for a century or so. Is it considered too ‘lowbrow’?
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Some days are so special! 4 months ago my eldest son got married!❤️
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Off to play this little beaut today… one of the first Wurlitzers I ever played over 50 years ago!😉👍🎹
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Sleep well Astrud, you’ll always be the one who made us go ‘Ah’.😔🙏🎼
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I used to think being a poor, white working-class lad from a single parent family was my biggest problem! True, it has created such an impossible hurdle in music. But I now realise it’s my super-power! When you’ve had nothing, you truly appreciate everything!🙏🙏🎼
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A composer at work is possibly not the most visually dynamic thing to post on social media!🎼😂🤷♂️🤦♂️
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Please send your best wishes for the wedding of my eldest son & his lovely bride tomorrow, they are a wonderful couple! Really looking forward to the Chinese tea ceremony!!👍🙏
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2022 marks 50 years as a pro
#musician
. I started getting paid gigs in the early 70s and ploughed all spare cash back into my home
#recording
#studio
. Pic of my studio from mid 1970s, all
#analogue
,
#tape
loops abound😉👍🎼
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#WednesdayMotivation
A musician from a poor background has to be resourceful. Before
#music
success, I designed & built music-tech gear & sold it. I gigged with my own stuff but rarely recorded. The lead on this 1987 track: Yamaha
#DX7
, through my own little fuzz/distortion fx!
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With all this talk of
#HS2
, I can’t help thinking of this little bit of ridiculousness!
#stride
#piano
fun
#live
#improvisation
😉🎹
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I don’t have much ‘non-copyright’ vid of her dancing on my phone & I know I have posted this before, but here the ‘Spanish Princess’ from Swan Lake. What a dancer & absolute joy of a daughter she is!😍🩰👏❤️🎼🙏
A slightly belated (we went out for dinner/theatre last night), Happy Birthday to my amazing daughter yesterday!! Here pictured after her incredibly emotional last performance lead role as Odille/Odette in Swan Lake in Estonia.😍🙏🩰🥳
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Glad to be back in the warm after cold & wet dog walk in the dark. Time for some ‘Tea for Two’ 😉🫖☕️! Live improvisation/demonstration at Coventry Uni.🙏🎹
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Actually knocking together my first demo ( midi/sample tracks to be replaced by live instruments) for next album on my new home studio system! Mac Studio M2 Ultra, 192GB, 8TB. All seems to be working so far!!🤞
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A single stream of my music please!!😂😉👍🎼🤑
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Despite the countless times I’ve done this before, finishing off an album is an intensely emotional time for me! I guess it’s the last moments spent with your ‘creative babies’ before they are sent off out into that big, scary world!🎼🙏
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I’m so proud of my youngest son: After long days work ( 10pm yesterday) grabs a quick bite of pizza & straight out to the thankless task of trying to represent some of the less well-off in our community! (A Labour councillor in a traditionally staunchly Tory area) well done!👏👏
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My brilliant
#piano
technician, Martin Sheargold, over once again to re-voice the grand for a particular
#recording
project. Total expertise!🙏🎼🎹
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Warning, camera in firing line! Enjoyed tea with missus, must dash!😉🎹💨
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Time for a break for lunch…almost certain to include Tea for two!😉🫖☕️
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#Improvising
in the
#recordingstudio
My solo
#piano
@deWolfeMusic
#Christmas
#Album
a couple of years ago. The beauty of some songs is eternal 🙏🎹
#silentnight
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With the 40th wedding anniversary to my wonderful wife Anne coming up this weekend, I am reminded of the music I wrote for her when we were both eighteen.❤️
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Thanks to all who responded to this!🙏If you do love music, please don’t forget there are many LIVING creators who really need your support! Just a like/retweet/kind comment can really make a musician’s day! Enjoy your music-making/listening!👍🙏🎼
Anyone out there on ‘X’ actually love music?… Or am I just screaming into the void?!🤦♂️🤷😉🎼
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We planted this gorgeous
#tree
in the garden for my daughter some 20 years ago.
#CherryBlossomPink
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I hope the New Year brings you peace and joy. ( Life tip: music helps a bit😉).
Have a great one!🙏🙏🎼
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Very much looking forward to my upcoming return visit to Coventry Uni, recital & masterclasses. A little bit of live improvisation:
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Barney is 14 today. The best companion one could ever want for. 😍🐾
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Sitting improvising/noodling here, within a few seconds, something totally unique happens. No one in the history of the world has ever played the exact same sequence/rhythm of notes! Nor will they ever be heard again..Unless I use them in a composition! 🤯🙏🎹
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One of the real upsides to prepping for live recitals is having a legit excuse to spend more time with this gorgeous monster!😉👍🙏🎹
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#weekendfun
There aren’t really any rules in
#jazz
#improvisation
, but one common unwritten; inc. little ‘in jokes’ for those ‘in the know’! 😉Here snippets from genius
#Bird
Charlie Parker’s ‘Donna Lee’ infiltrating George Shearing’s classic ‘Lullaby of Birdland’!😂🎹
#piano
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Apart from the 3 people who liked it (🙏🙏🙏) anyone else inspired by Celtic music/culture etc?🤷
It’s been a long time since I visited the land of my ancestors! I have the ‘Time And Wisdom’ to go back very soon!
@deWolfeMusic
2014🇮🇪🍀
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Looking back on my 50 yrs as a pro
#musician
, I find if hard to believe there is any other
#artist
anywhere in the world to have had such a breadth of
#music
making experience!
#Variety
has certainly been the spice of my musical life!🙏😂👍🎼
#composerlife
#jazz
#classical
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What age were you when you started playing? I started playing piano at four, and then organ & drums around eight. So celebrating 60 yrs of piano playing this year!🙏🎹
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Now all the ‘hard work’ composing for my latest album is done, out walking the dogs & in the garden, time to have fun ‘realising’ it, arranging, engaging appropriate musicians, & using all this lovely tech! Best job in the world!🙏🙏🎼
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