Stewart French is a British classical guitarist, filmmaker, and producer, and the founder of Fly On The Wall.
Before establishing Fly On The Wall in 2015, he built an international career as a performer, appearing as soloist with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, performing twice at the Royal Albert Hall, and recording for labels including Harmonia Mundi USA and Naxos. He was a permanent member of Tetra Guitar Quartet, widely regarded as one of the world’s leading guitar quartets for over two decades.
Fly On The Wall grew out of French’s long-standing preoccupation with how musical performance can be truthfully represented through technology. As Creative Director, he is responsible not only for the artistic direction of each project, but for the conception and development of its underlying method — integrating musical judgment, camera movement, sound capture, spatial design, and continuity into a single, coherent process.
Since 2015, he has personally led the creation of over 300 films and recordings with institutions including the V&A, British Library, and Science Museum, and with artists such as Marc-André Hamelin, Angela Hewitt, and Viktoria Mullova. His work is characterised by minimal editorial intervention, long-form continuity, and a resistance to optimisation in favour of preserving the lived reality of performance.
Alongside his practical work, French pursues an ongoing, research-driven enquiry into the relationship between music, perception, and recording technology, informed by his mathematics work at Cambridge University. His projects combine artistic ambition with exacting production standards, and his work has been featured by BBC Newsnight, BBC Four, Apple Music, and publications including The Times, Gramophone, and BBC Music Magazine.
Ivan Moshchuk is a pianist and cultural producer, and Director of Research and Innovation at Fly On The Wall.
His work centres on research-driven development and institutional partnerships, with particular emphasis on the conceptual and methodological processes involved in translating complex musical ideas into film.
Before joining Fly On The Wall, he established an international performing career, appearing as a soloist in major venues including the Concertgebouw, Suntory Hall, and the Accademia Filarmonica Romana. In 2017, he conceived and led Detroit Sessions, a self-directed project combining performance, recording, and immersive presentation, which marked the beginning of his collaboration with Fly On The Wall.
Within Fly On The Wall, Ivan works at the intersection of artistic vision and institutional presentation, collaborating with artists and cultural organisations to develop and deliver new approaches to musical documentation and collaboration.
His approach is informed by his recently completed doctoral research at the Royal Academy of Music, which examined how live musical performance can be translated into filmed form. This research informs his contribution to Fly On The Wall, bringing a research-led perspective to the development of new projects.