Jonny Maudling

{{BLP sources|date=February 2010}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}} {{Use British English|date=April 2018}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Jonny Maudling | image = JonnyMaudling.jpg | caption = | background = non_vocal_instrumentalist | origin = Sidcup, Kent | birth_name = Jonathan Maudling | instrument = Keyboards/synthesizer, guitar, piano, drums | genre = Metal/soundtrack/ambient | occupation = Composer/Musician/Sound Engineer | years_active = 1988–present | associated_acts = My Dying Bride Elvenking Bal-Sagoth Semargl Kull Sermon of Hypocrisy Igniter Keep of Kalessin | website = {{URL|http://www.facebook.com/pages/Waylands-Forge-Recording-Studio/129234190490863}} }}

'''Jonny Maudling''' (born '''Jonathan Maudling''') is an English keyboard player and drummer, former bassist with the unsigned UK thrash band Igniter and principal music composer for the UK symphonic metal band Bal-Sagoth.<ref name="bal">{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p406937/biography|pure_url=yes}}|title=Biography Bal-Sagoth|last=Ankeny|first=Jason|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=22 February 2010}}</ref> He is now the composer/ keyboardist with the band Kull, and has on occasion collaborated with the band My Dying Bride. Maudling's primary instruments are Roland synthesizers when playing live. He comes from a musical family and was classically trained on piano from an early age.{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}} He has contributed to three My Dying Bride studio albums, provided session orchestration on material by Sermon of Hypocrisy, played guest keyboards on a full-length release by the Ukrainian metal band Semargl, and played keyboards on the 2023 album "Katharsis" by Norwegian extreme metal band Keep of Kalessin. In 2024, Maudling played keyboards on the album "Riddle of Steel Beyond Ultima Thule" by Turkish symphonic metal band Dragonborn. In 2025, Maudling expanded into the pop music genre, being involved in the composition of three tracks by LGBTQ dance-pop artist Sebastian Prince.<ref>{{cite web|title=My Desire by Sebastian Prince & Jono Muso on Apple Music |url=https://music.apple.com/gb/song/my-desire/1806195400}}</ref> He also composed music for the unreleased video game Adellion. Currently Maudling is a producer and engineer, operating his own recording studio called Wayland's Forge Studios in Yorkshire, England.{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}

Although he composes music mostly in the symphonic metal/black metal genres, Maudling's main influences include mostly non-metal bands such as The Police, Tangerine Dream, Queen, Pat Metheny, as well as classical composers such as Wagner, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Messiaen and Holst.{{Citation needed|date=April 2012}}

== Keyboard equipment == Maudling has used various keyboards and synthesizers over the years including Casio CZ-1000, Yamaha Dx21, Korg M1, Roland XP-50 and Roland Fantom X7, Korg Kronos X.{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}

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==External links== * [http://www.facebook.com/jonny.maudling/ Jonny Maudling facebook page] * [http://www.facebook.com/pages/Waylands-Forge-Recording-Studio/129234190490863 Wayland's Forge Studio official site] * [http://www.facebook.com/Kullmetal/ Kull band page] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110928174531/http://www.bal-sagoth.com/ Bal-Sagoth official site] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20100918135907/http://www.mydyingbride.org/ My Dying Bride official site]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Maudling, Jonny}} Category:English audio engineers Category:English heavy metal keyboardists Category:English heavy metal drummers Category:Living people Category:Black metal musicians Category:Bal-Sagoth members Category:Year of birth missing (living people)