Jonathon Xavier Coudrille, writer, painter, romantic and musician, received his first guitar, a (beautifully) homemade orange box special from his father - the artist Frances Coudrille - at the age of four, learning to play from the musicians he met on the road in the 1940s. 

Although the music of the Gypsies is central to his inspiration, he has performed in many genres, having commenced at sixteen as broadcasting singer-songwriter and political satirist, worked on film scores in Rome in the sixties, experimented with chamber ensembles and electric underground bands in the seventies (his instrument is predominantly the Spanish guitar, yet he was named top rock-folk soloist by Melody Maker in 1974) whilst acting as musical director for sadly missed Southern Television; since when he has been know to play gutsy bar piano and fretless banjo, given a master class to guitar students at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, duetted with Russian domra wizard Alyosha Zolotuhin and Yugoslav guitarist  Dusko Popovic, toured the world with the celebrated Kazatka Cossacks and the Albion Trio, prior to premiering his acclaimed "Caballetta" guitar suite as soloist in convert with the National Symphony Orchestra at London's Festival Hall. 

He has returned to live in West Cornwall, playing with balalaika virtuoso John Holden as "Muzika Muzikantov": and of course, still a formidable solo performer in his own right, as himself.

Coudrille acknowledges both Tarrega and Django Reinhardt, and latterly Celso Machado and the very remarkable flamenco innovator Esteban Antonio as influences, while his instrumental compositions, which range from the jazzily catchy to the austere and emotionally profound, remain memorably and distinctively his own….

For fun he plays "Rough Jazz" with the local Cadgwith Rough Jazz Organisation.