Rowland Sutherland

Flautist Rowland Sutherland enjoys an international career in many different fields of music. He studied flute at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Kathryn Lukas, Philippa Davies and Peter Lloyd and participated in master classes given by the late Geoffrey Gilbert. Sutherland regularly performs in new music ensembles, jazz groups, symphony orchestras, various non-Western groups, pop outfits and as a soloist. Many of Sutherland's solo contemporary flute performances have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3. He has also composed and arranged music for groups, ensembles and for the BBC.

Rowland is a professor at both the Trinity College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He has given consultations, workshops and/or coached at York and Durham Universities as well as The Centre for Young Musicians, Morley College.

Rowland Sutherland fronts his own band, the critically acclaimed Mistura, who perform Brazilian jazz fusion alongside Afro-Cuban and pan-African grooves and have released the album "Coast to Coast".

Rowland has played and recorded with many new music ensembles and dance companies in Britain. These include New Music Players, Ixion, Icebreaker, Lontano, London Musici, Uroboros, Music Projects/London, Phoenix Dance, Jazz Xchange Music and Dance and Rambert Dance Company. In 2003 the New Music Players the CD "Crying Bird, Echoing Star" featuring Sutherland's composition "Timeless Odyssey".