Finnegan Tui

Finnegan Tui is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer from New Zealand. Ever since his first gig at the age of six he has been obsessed with creating music and has decided his life to sound. After moving to England, he received a scholarship to study Jazz and Electronic Music at the Guildhall School of Music. Alongside his university work he took every opportunity he could get; playing hundreds of shows around the city and composing music for full orchestras, and taking commissions from the Museum of London, Channel 4 and exhibiting sonic works in the Tate Modern and the Barbican. Three years into the course he met his manager and began the journey of recording and releasing his own music. This was all he had ever wanted to do and so he dropped out of Guildhall, to commit full time to begin his career as an artist and create his debut album Zephyr.  He is now 21 and halfway through the project having produced the first tracks with Matt Lawrence ( Mumford and Sons + Bjork ) and Charlie Andrew ( Alt-J + Jonny Flynn ). And the debut Single 'Once I'm Gone is scheduled for release on June the 18th. In an attempt to create immersive sonic worlds for his tracks, Finn has worked on incorporating intricate sound design into the songs with Niv Adiri ( Gravity + Batman ) Though at times his personality resembles that of an excitable child, his compositions and lyrics explore the depths of being human in dark folk-inspired ballads. His playfulness comes through in his productions which feature sounds he collects from forests or his kitchen, a-top mountains or rooftops, out in the ocean, a stream or anywhere and everywhere in-between. His music is an attempt to translate the power of nature into sound, and the story of being human into song. An avid traveller and adventurer, Finn's curiosity feeds into all of his work as he translates the world around him into song.