Nicholas Gunn – Platinum selling Flautist and CEO of Gemini Sun Records, Inc.

Classically trained, and with a reputation as one of the world’s best selling flutists, Nicholas Gunn is in the upper echelon of contemporary instrumentalists. Having sold over two million albums, making him a double platinum artist, he is also the owner and CEO of Gemini Sun Records, based in Malibu, CA.

“It has been a wonderful journey so far” says Nicholas. With an unrivaled enthusiasm for the music business, Nicholas has obtained a level of success hard to find - one of both successful business owner and musician! “I just love the music business and being a part of it, the knowledge I have gained from understanding the mechanics behind music sales has been invaluable to me.” It is this knowledge that has placed Nicholas ahead of the competition by developing and nurturing a network of contacts and distribution that would make most green with envy. By gaining the confidence and support of his peers through his musical prowess, as well as an unprecedented ability to choose and target the labels core customers, Gemini Sun Records is now considered the front runner of Lifestyle, Instrumental, World, and New Age Music. On his own recordings, Gunn, who handles the arrangements and production, performs primarily on the concert classical C flute, but also plays bamboo flutes, wooden and tin whistles, synthesizers and a wide variety of drums and percussion. Having been born in England, Nicholas studied at Great Britain’s prestigious Royal School of Music. In the early Nineties, Gunn’s album titled “The Sacred Fire” was released and became a best seller at national retail chains such as Natural Wonders and the Nature Company. Nicholas’ subsequent albums each became highly successful and went straight to the Billboard New Age charts, where they maintained success for many years. With his music featured on more than one hundred compilation albums and serving as high fidelity presentation music for the speaker company Bose Audio, Mercedes Benz, and Chrysler Corporations to name a few, Nicholas continues to be an innovator and highly respected musician of almost mythical proportions. This unusual level of respect has been obtained through his consistent awareness of nature and through the thousands of dollars already donated to our National Parks through his music sales. Appearances on multiple morning news shows across America and on the NPR syndicated show “Echoes” led him to be recognized as “The Flutist of the Forest” in a New York Times crossword puzzle. “It’s interesting now to look back at my musical training and see how it came to serve me well in my recording career as well as running Gemini Sun Records. By learning two of music’s basic elements, rhythm through percussion and melody through flute, it gave me a solid foundation for understanding music’s basic form” Gunn explains. It was also in these early years that Nicholas began to build his own recording studio, learn production techniques, and understand music marketing which gave him the foundation for becoming a fantastic business entrepreneur! “I want my music, as well as all the music on Gemini Sun Records, to stand on it’s own as an enjoyable experience with memorable and engaging melodies that is timeless and socially aware. It’s music that illuminates your life…”