About

Flynn Sturgeon is an in-demand musical director, orchestrator and accordionist who enjoys a busy career working in musical theatre. He is also a specialist in folk and traditional music, and is a choir director.

Flynn was the MD of 42 Balloons by Jack Godfrey, which opened to critical acclaim at The Lowry.

In 2025, Flynn MD'd two productions with the third years at ArtsEd - High Society and Crazy For You - both of which he reorchestrated. He also MD'd and conducted Carousel with NYMT, which featured a cast of 44 young performers and an orchestra of 33 young musicians. Flynn has been a cover conductor, rehearsal pianist and dep. accordionist on Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club for the past four years, and is a regular dep. accordionist on Oliver!. 

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Flynn regularly develops new writing and has been involved in multiple successful workshops of new musical theatre. Recent workshops have featured music from a huge array of cultures, including folk, Bollywood, Korean traditional music and pop. He MD's a variety of concerts with talents from the West End, Broadway, classical ensembles and opera. Since 2018 Flynn MD'd, orchestrated for, and co-organised the successful concert series Roles We'll Never Play, which has performed in multiple West End venues, and has become a staple at West End Live every year.

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In education, Flynn frequently teaches at ArtsEd, where he takes ensemble and repertoire classes, as well as leading projects. He has also covered at Urdang, Trinity Laban, London Theatre Runway, London Studio Centre, Performance Preparation Academy, Mountview and Associated Studios.

Flynn is a winner in the 2020 Creative Courage for Life Awards, in the category of Outstanding Singing Teacher for his work as a children’s vocal coach and teacher.

He read music (BMus) at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he was awarded a first-class degree with honours. Flynn studied piano with Eleanor Hodgkinson and voice with Lizzie Byrne. Flynn specialised in orchestral conducting, orchestration, and Orientalism/race studies within musical theatre and opera. 

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Flynn leads all his work with a positive, friendly attitude and holds himself to very high professional and musical standards. He has a DBS on the update service, a UK drivers licence, and speaks Spanish.