ABOUT

Finlay Waugh is a London-based composer, orchestrator, conductor, bandleader and jazz trumpeter. He studied music at the University of Cambridge before pursuing a career in media scoring.

Finlay has a wealth of experience scoring and working in theatre and musical theatre in particular and is currently scoring “Ivy Day,” an original play written by Arianna Muñoz (Golden Goose Theatre, London).

He has also worked as a musical director for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and The Drowsy Chaperone (ADC Theatre). Finlay was the musical director of the Cambridge University Jazz Orchestra and collaborated with celebrated British Jazz artists such as trumpeter and former NYJO Bandleader Mark Armstrong, vocalist and composer Zara McFarlane, and trumpeter Mark Kavuma. In his final year at Cambridge, Finlay wrote and premiered an original Opera: The Ransom of Johnny Dorset, a contemporary and jazzy comic opera for four voices and pitched percussion ensemble.

Outside of the stage and screen, Finlay plays trumpet in two bands. Temor is a modern jazz quartet with hip-hop and neo-soul influences, and are about to release their first EP. Big Huge New Circle is an alternative indie band in which Finlay plays both trumpet and synths (https://open.spotify.com/album/0WCaCQ4bfW0zf3Exeb3Zja?si=NgOt5L6CSUK69LCGT0N_oQ).