Yves-Andre Schaeffer

Welcome to my little spot on YouTube.
My day job is as an NHS Radiographer 🩻which I love. I also have a wide range of eclectic hobbies.

I’m an amateur trumpet player, with more trumpets than sense (only 3 short of having 1 in at least every key), as my wife will attest to. I play trumpet orchestrally, and wield the Soprano Cornet in local Brass Bands. 🎺 

I enjoy photographing landscapes, especially using Near-infrared photography, loving its eerie other-worldliness. You can see some examples here. 📸 

I’ve been composing music on and off since my late teens, usually in a Romantic style. 🎻 I will slowly but surely be posting digitally-synthesised versions of the works I deem worthy enough. Apologies for the poor audio quality. Maybe one day they could be replaced by recordings of real players. 🙏🏻

My eclectic musical tastes include Bartók, Louis Armstrong, Rachmaninoff, Rammstein, Liszt, Led Zeppelin, Shostakovich to Cradle of Filth, and especially Tangerine Dream. 

Enjoy!