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Finn Collinson is a recorder player, multi-instrumentalist, folk musician and composer based in Suffolk, UK.
Widely regarded as one of the foremost recorder players on the English folk circuit, Finn has released two solo albums, Call To Mind (2019) and The Threshold (2022), to critical acclaim. He has completed numerous national tours with The Finn Collinson Band, which currently features leading folk virtuosos Evan Carson (Sam Kelly, iamthemorning, The Drystones) on bodhran and Archie Churchill-Moss (Sam Sweeney Band, Seth Lakeman, Honey & The Bear) on diatonic accordion and guitar. Finn’s latest album The Threshold was described by Folk World EU as “cutting-edge English folk”.
Aside from his solo work, Finn is in high demand as a session musician and guest artist. As a founder member and guitarist with the busy ceilidh band Stroma, Finn has performed for hundreds of folk dance events across the UK and Europe. In 2025 Finn will begin new collaborations with traditional singer Jennie Higgins and an exciting commission to compose music for a theatre production of Ronald Blythe's Akenfield with SHAKE Festival.
A diverse performance career has seen Finn play on the main stages of many of England’s biggest folk festivals, and venues ranging from tiny 50-capacity arts centres to the Royal Albert Hall. Finn also performed in the orchestra for the English National Opera’s Olivier Award-winning production of Noye’s Fludde in July 2019.
As an educator, Finn works extensively with FolkEast (notably as curator of the festival's Youth Moot workshop programme). In 2022-23 he was a lead tutor on the East Anglian Traditional Music Trust’s youth showcase project, and he has also undertaken visiting teaching roles with the English Folk Dance & Song Society, Newcastle University and Britten Pears Arts.
Finn graduated from the world-leading Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2021. His classical training continues to inform his performance and composition within the folk world, where he often uses fragments of historical music and collaborates with a range of different performers from varied backgrounds.
Finn’s music pushes boundaries, challenging listeners to consider repertoire and instruments in new and exciting settings. With a respectful eye on the past, but a firm grounding in the present, Finn Collinson is a recorder player and folk musician for the 21st Century.
“Collinson has both the chops and the vision to take his music in many directions” – RNR Magazine
