{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''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)."<ref name="AAJ">{{cite web |last=May |first=Chris |date=5 May 2008 |title=Finn Peters: Butterflies |url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/butterflies-finn-peters-accidental-records-review-by-chris-may.php |website=AllAboutJazz }}</ref> This was followed by ''Butterflies'', which added "strings, a Balinese gamelan ensemble, kora, synths, a few choruses of birdsong and some inventive sound processing".<ref name="AAJ" />
The Finn Peters Quintet (or 'Finntet') won the best jazz group category of the BBC Jazz Awards in 2007.<ref>{{cite news |last=Fordham |first=John |date=3 March 2008 |title=Finn Peters |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/mar/03/jazz |work=The Guardian }}</ref> His ''Music of the Mind'' album "explores the possibilities of music coupling regular ensemble playing to computer sounds generated by directly tapping brainwaves".<ref name="JF2010" /> He has played with Dizzee Rascal and Matthew Herbert.<ref name="JF2010">{{cite news |last=Fordham |first=John |date=28 October 2010 |title=Finn Peters: Music of the Mind – Review |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/oct/28/finn-peters-music-of-mind-review |work=The Guardian }}</ref>
== Discography == * ''Dr Seus EPs 1 and 2'', (Mantella 2002) * ''Bansuri'', (Traficante, 2005) * ''Suling'', (Babel, 2006) * ''Butterflies'', (Accidental, 2008) * ''Music of the Mind'', (Mantella, 2010) * ''Purple and Yellow'', (Mantella, 2011) * ''Red, Green and Blue'', (Mantella, 2024)
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==External links== *{{official website|http://www.finnpeters.com|Finn Peters}} – official site *{{SoundCloud}} *[https://www.allaboutjazz.com/su-ling-finn-peters-babel-label-review-by-chris-may ''Suling''] review on All About Jazz *[https://web.archive.org/web/20071020174205/http://www.f-ire.com/people/finn_peters.php F-IRE Collective: Finn Peters]
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