Mr. Kevin Budd, born in Toronto, completed high school at Upper Canada College before going to York University. There, he finished a Fine Arts degree in Music, French, and Spanish, and later, a Bachelor of Education Degree from the University of Toronto.

Looking for new directions, he went to Romania to study the panflute, their national instrument! The panflute is also known as the pan flute, the "nai" (Romanian), the pipes of pan, panpipes, Pan's pipes, pan pipes, and syrinx. Kevin Budd plays and makes panflutes, and writes music for it as well. Kevin makes the beautiful curved Romanian style, with from 15 to 29 bamboo tubes. Kevin was the only other pan flute player to play at a Toronto workshop with the great Gheorghe Zamfir.(see a photo of Zamfir & Kevin) He has made special instruments for several international opera companies' productions of "The Magic Flute", and for a Shaw Festival production of "Peter Pan".

In the U.S., he recorded the album "Tender Panflute Favorites" and played for a year with the Boston group, The Mandala Folkdance Ensemble. Kevin has also played on t.v. commercials and on film soundtracks, including "The Last Winter", and "Mazes and Monsters", for which the late Hagood Hardy wrote the music.

He has performed at weddings, restaurants and other events for many years. Three times, he has attended the Arosa pan flute festival in Switzerland, once as an honoured guest and twice as a teacher.

Kevin studied pan flute with Dragu Voiculets in Romania and Chicago, and with Damian Draghici, in Boston and California.

In 2006 Kevin completed his fine CD, "Deep Breath", available here: DEEP BREATH CD" featuring 12 original melodies and one Sting song. On the album he plays pan flute, silver flute, alto flute, recorders, and even trumpet, guitar, and bouzouki.