- Matthew Garrison, (Paul Simon, Herbie Hancock, Chaka Khan)

Johnny Copland is a professional bass player and producer based in London, UK. He is involved in many styles of music including RnB, Jazz, Rock, Funk, Pop and Hip-Hop.

Johnny’s recent Credits include playing, touring and recording with the following musicians & producers:

Andrew Whitmore (Producer for Lemar, Atomic Kitten, Danni Minogue)
Artcha (Leona Lewis, Kele Le Roc)
Nick Howard – (US singer featured on ‘The Hills’, MTV)
Bianca Nicholas – (X Factor 2008 Christmas Charity Single)
Tony Laf – (‘Britain’s Got Talent’ ITV Finalist 2008)
Desi Valentine – (‘Live and Unsigned’ ITV2 finalist 2009)

West End…

Johnny has performed as bassist for the hit Michael Jackson musical “Thriller Live”, at the Lyric Theatre in the West End of London and is currently one of the deps for permanent bassist Oli Latka.

He also toured Europe in Jan/Feb 2010 as bassist for the touring version of “Thriller Live” playing to arenas of over 5000 people.

In Jazz…

Johnny has played with… Jim Mullen, Frank Gambale, Steve Hunt (Allan Holdsworth) Pierrick Pedron, Sebastiaan Cornilissen (Gary Willis), Dave O’Higgins, Paul Mills, Malcolm Macfarlane, John Burgess, Kevin Mackenzie, Konrad Wiszniewski, and many others.

And in Film Scores….

Collaborations with Scottish Classical Composer Stuart Mitchell
(Seven Wonders Suite for Orchestra)