It is always a great pleasure to work with musical artists to help them realise their vision. Sometimes it is as simple
as picking the right instrument off the shelf. Other times it is a full-on consultation, back and forth with ideas, prototypes,
sound recordings and so on. Here are a few of the more notable people who own some of my hand-crafted instruments:
Invididual artists:
- Andrew Barnard (AB Percussion)
- Bashiri Johnson (Michael Jackson)
- Billy Hulting (Zappa Plays Zappa, Barry Manilow)
- Bob Becker (Nexus)
- Dame Evelyn Glennie (solo percussion)
- Damon Reece (Massive Attack)
- Daniel Pemberton (movie soundtrack composer)
- Danny Elfman (movie soundtrack composer)
- Danny Farrant (Buzzcocks, Movie and TV scoring)
- Dave Mattacks (Fairport Convention)
- Edward Freytag (Aretha Franklin)
- Emil Richards (so many movie scores!)
- Fergus Gerrand (Madonna, Sting)
- Jerome Deupree (Morphine)
- Joe Travers (Zappa Plays Zappa)
- Jon Scott (Kairos 4Tet)
- Lea Mullen (George Michael)
- Lisa Pegher (solo percussion)
- Louis Conte (Madonna)
- Luke Flowers (Cinematic Orchestra, Corrine Bailey Rae)
- Pat Mastelotto (King Crimson)
- Pete Lockett (Peter Gabriel)
- Sebastian Rochford (Polar Bear)
- Scott Amendola (Mike Patton)
- She-e Wu (solo percussion)
- Terry Bozzio (Frank Zappa)
- Thomas Adès (composer)
- Tom Stubbs (St Louis Symphony)
- Will Calhoun (Living Colour)
- William Winant (John Zorn, Secret Chiefs 3)
Special projects:
- Andy Cavatorta (synthesiser consultation)
- Between Music: Aquasonic (Underwater instruments)
- Björk (Gamelan-Celeste Hybrid)
- Ed Carter (Electromagnetically "bowed" bell plates)
- Stella Artois (Chalice Symphony glass instruments)
- Wolfgang Tillmans (24 carat gold gong)
Orchestras:
- Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
- Amsterdam Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
- Bath Philharmonia
- BBC National Orchestra of Wales
- BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
- BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
- Bergen Philharmonic
- Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Le Cercle De L'Harmonie
- Colorado Symphony
- City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong
- Cleveland Symphony
- Ensemble Bash
- Dallas Symphony Orchestra
- Deutsche Opera, Berlin
- Finnish National Opera
- The Florida Orchestra
- Graz Opera (Austria)
- The Halle Orchestra
- Houston Symphony
- Hungarian National Philharmonic
- Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
- Israel Philharmonic
- The Juilliard School of Music
- London Symphony Orchestra
- Nashville Symphony
- National Symphony Orchestra of London
- NDR Symphony Orchestra (Hamburg)
- New York Metropolitan Opera
- Opera Australia (Sydney Opera House)
- Opera North
- Oslo Philharmonic
- Philharmonia Orchestra
- The President's Own US Marine Band
- Pulse (Belgian Percussion Quartet)
- Orchestra of the Royal Opera House (Covent Garden)
- RTE Symphony Orchestra (Dublin)
- San Antonio Symphony
- Savaria Symphony Orchestra (Hungary)
- Seoul Philharmonic
- St Louis Symphony Orchestra
- Stockholm Opera
- Stockholm Symphony
- Orchestra of the Swiss Romande
- Welsh National Opera
- West Australian Symphony Orchestra
Portrait and background image
by Andy McCreeth
by Andy McCreeth
