Andy Quin

Career

Born in London, Quin has recorded more than 60 albums for the De Wolfe Music production music library since 1984. His first album Mirage (DWCD 0001) was the first album of the World's first music library series released on CD and was recorded on the Fairlight CMI. He graduated with a BA in Music and Electronics from the University of Keele in 1982 where he studied composition with Tim Souster, Roger Marsh, Trevor Wishart and Prof. Peter Dickinson, jazz with Prof. Cecil Lytle from the Juilliard School, and classical piano with Peter Seivewright.

He formed and played in a number of bands whilst at Keele and in 1981 became the drummer in Jeff Kent's folk-rock band, The Witan, which released the single "Butcher's Tale"/"Annie, with the Dancing Eyes" the same year, and the two-part environmental concept album Tales from the Land of the Afterglow in 1984 on Witan Records. In 1998 six of his world music songs were released on the Global Television Ltd. album One World, including "Bombay Mix" by Ravi Sari. In 1999, his track "Navajo Dawn" was used as the opening music for the Imax documentary film Wolves. He has composed and recorded music for dozens television shows, films and adverts. In the 1990s he composed and recorded theme tunes for Central Television including Central Weekend, Something to Treasure and Quest. He has contributed background music to hundreds of productions throughout the world such as Coronation Street, Boardwalk Empire, After Eight, Britannia Building Society, Pedigree Chum, Fairy Snow, Nancy Drew, Definitely Maybe. His song "Awakening" is used in the 2013 movie trailer to The Wonder, directed by Terrence Malick. He is a concert performer and jazz pianist.