Paul Edmund-Davies established his international reputation as flautist and soloist in the twenty years that he was Principal Flute of the London Symphony Orchestra and then a further five years at the Philharmonia Orchestra. He has performed concerti with Leonard Bernstein, Slava Rostropovich and Pierre Boulez.

In June 2007 his book, The 28 Day Warm up Book for all Flautists…eventually! was first published. This 150 page technical book, now in its sixteenth edition, has been translated into Japanese, Spanish and Russian and has reached most corners of the world.

As a result of the success of this book, Paul launched a flute focused online educational website. Simply Flute (www.simplyflute.com) is a platform dedicated to providing instruction and exercises to help flute players of all stages and ages on their respective musical journeys with the instrument. In the past two years, it has steadily become an online flute method.

His second book, A Consequence of Sequences, was published in February 2018, with the third, Coffee Noodles in 2021.

Paul’s fourth method book, Daily Exercises, A Progressive Journey For Flute, Vol. 1,  a 144 page practice book was released in April 2024 and has received critical acclaim.

He is a professor of flute holding the only named chair (Charles Nicholson) in the department at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

Paul has also played on many Hollywood blockbuster film soundtracks, From Star Wars and the early Harry Potter films to Mission Impossible, Interstellar, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them, Beauty and the Beast, Wonder Woman, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Victoria and Abdul. And more recently Godzilla, Shazam, Angry Birds 2, Dora and the Lost City of Gold, Wonder Woman 1984 and the James Bond movie, No Time to Die. Most recent work on film scores has included Guardians of The Galaxy, Vol. 3, Wonka, Wicked, Beetlejuice 2 and Lion King, Mufasa. 

He is equally very honoured to be Officier de l’Ordre des Coteaux de Champagne.