Jonny Maudling
| Jonny Maudling | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Jonathan Maudling |
| Origin | Sidcup, Kent |
| Genres | Metal/soundtrack/ambient |
| Occupation(s) | Composer/Musician/Sound Engineer |
| Instruments | Keyboards/synthesizer, guitar, piano, drums |
| Years active | 1988–present |
| Associated acts |
My Dying Bride Kull Bal-Sagoth Semargl Sermon of Hypocrisy Igniter |
| Website | jonnymaudling.com |
| Notable instruments | |
| Roland Fantom x7 | |
Jonny Maudling (born Jonathan Maudling) is an English composer, keyboard player and former drummer for the band Bal-Sagoth, keyboardist with the band Kull, former bassist with the unsigned UK thrash band Igniter, and frequent collaborator 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. He has contributed to three My Dying Bride studio albums, provided session orchestration on material by Sermon of Hypocrisy, and played guest keyboards on a full-length release by the Ukrainian metal band Semargl. He composed music for the video game Adellion. Currently Maudling is a producer and engineer, operating his own recording studio called Waylands Forge Studios in Yorkshire, England.
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.
Maudling was born in Kent in 1971, and grew up in Sheffield, Yorkshire. In Kent, Maudling's parents lived opposite a music store. The store owner, Terry Bradford, who ended up representing Britain on the TV show A Song For Europe in the 1970s, was a friend of Maudling's father and received free records, most of which were classical, contemporary music and Jazz.Jonny grew up listening to these records, educating himself in a wide variety of musical styles. He had private piano instruction, working through the Royal Academy of Music grade system under Elizabeth Hydes.
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