Visiting Artists
Cath roberts visiting artist
Cath Roberts’ work explores free improvisation, composition and the music at their meeting point. Her primary outlet as a composer and improviser on baritone saxophone is the quintet Sloth Racket, which has toured widely and released several albums as well as expanding into the ten piece improvising ensemble Favourite Animals.
Tom Ward visiting artist
Tom Ward is a musician, composer and computer programmer from Yorkshire, currently based in London. His primary instrument is the saxophone, but in recent years he has also been involved in a variety of projects playing clarinets and flute.
two new duo visiting artists
A cello and trombone duo specializing in the performance of contemporary music. Both musicians are active collaborators with young and established composers and have performed together throughout Europe.
loraine james visiting artist
Loraine James is an electronic music producer and performer, releasing albums with Hyperdub Records. She lives in London.
lucy goddard visiting artist
Lucy Goddard is a London-based mezzo soprano, conductor and teacher with a passion for new music, old music and opera.
angharad davies visiting artist
Angharad Davies is a Welsh violinist working with free-improvisation, compositions and performance. Her approach to sound involves attentive listening and exploring beyond the sonic confines of her instrument, her classical training and performance expectation.
Adam harper visiting lecturer
Dr Adam Harper is a musicologist and music critic specialising in historical and contemporary ideas surrounding 'progressive' music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and their technological platforms.
kathy hinde visiting speaker
Kathy Hinde’s work grows from a partnership between nature and technology expressed through audio-visual installations and performances that combine sound, sculpture, image and light.
tonia ko visiting speaker
Tonia Ko’s creative evolution is largely guided by three conceptual pillars: texture, physical movement, and the relationship between melody and memory.
liza lim visiting speaker
Liza Lim is an Australian composer whose music focusses on collaborative and transcultural practices. Ideas of beauty, ecological connection and ritual transformation are ongoing concerns in her compositional work.
exaudi ensemble in residence
EXAUDI is one of the world’s leading vocal ensembles for new music. Founded by James Weeks (director) and Juliet Fraser (soprano) in 2002, EXAUDI is based in London and draws its singers from among the UK’s brightest vocal talents.
Cath roberts improvisors quartet visiting ensemble
Cath Roberts’ work explores free improvisation, composition and the music at their meeting point.
george barton & siwan rhys piano & percussion duo visiting ensemble
The duo of George Barton (percussion) and Siwan Rhys (piano) is acquiring a national reputation for exceptional interpretations of the existing piano-percussion repertoire, well-chosen commissions, and committed performances of new works.
loadbang visiting ensemble
New York City-based music chamber group loadbang is building a new kind of music for mixed ensemble of trumpet, trombone, bass clarinet, and baritone voice.
sherelle visiting artist
Sherelle is a DJ, record label owner (Hooversounds) and radio broadcaster (BBC Radio 1).
Zöllner-roche duo visiting ensemble
Clarinettist Heather Roche and accordionist Eva Zöllner are two of contemporary music’s most versatile and adaptable voices. Adventurous music-making, creative risk-taking and innovation characterize their work.
thor magnusson visiting speaker
A worker in rhythm, frequencies and intensities. Research and development in the areas of music and technology.
Catherine Kontz Visiting Artist
Catherine Kontz is a London-based composer whose works explore nonlinear form, visual/spatial elements, and musical theatricality.
Holon Scratch orchestra visiting ensemble
The orchestra was formed on the premise that anyone who wants to play music can, through participation in the creation of meaningful new music. Their work is developed under the coordination of Amnon Wolman, Dan Weinstein and Tom Soloveitzik.
john d’arcy visiting speaker
John Darcy’s work involves live performance and technology, voice-based intermedia artwork, and site-specific storytelling and song-making.
Ain bailey visiting artist
Ain Bailey is a sound artist, DJ and workshop facilitator.
Annie mahtani visiting artist
Annie Mahtani is an electroacoustic composer, sound artist and performer.
UNION DIVISION VISITING ensemble
Union Division brings compositional structures into the improvised situation, and explores the power dynamics at play within large ensemble interaction.
THOMAS MEADOWCROFT VISITING Performer
Thomas Meadowcroft is a composer, arranger and musician.
ATAU TANAKA VISITING Performer
Atau Tanaka uses muscle sensing with the EMG signal in musical performance where the human body becomes a musical instrument.
Jo THOMAS VISITING PERFORMER
Jo Thomas is a London-based electronic music composer.
Sean clancy VISITING artist
Seán Clancy is an Irish composer who writes music for electronic and acoustic instruments (sometimes at the same time).
BERNHARD LANG VISITING artist
Bernhard Lang is an Austrian composer, improvisor and programmer of musical patches and applications.
THOMAS BUCKNER VISITING artist
Thomas Buckner is a baritone who has dedicated himself to the promotion and performance of new and improvised music.
MANUELLA BLACKBURN VISITING artist
Manuella Blackburn is an electroacoustic music composer who specializes in acousmatic music creation.
SARAH NICOLLS VISITING ARTIST
Sarah Nicolls is a UK-based experimental pianist, at the forefront of innovations in piano performance.
EXAUDI ensemble in residence
EXAUDI is one of the world’s leading vocal ensembles for new music. Founded by James Weeks (director) and Juliet Fraser (soprano) in 2002, EXAUDI is based in London and draws its singers from among the UK’s brightest vocal talents.
PLUS-MINUS ENSEMBLE ENSEMBLE IN RESIDENCE
Plus-Minus Ensemble is a London based collective committed to commissioning new work and placing it alongside recent and landmark modern repertoire. Formed in 2003 by Joanna Bailie and Matthew Shlomowitz, +- is distinguished by its interest in performative, electroacoustic and conceptual pieces, and experimental open works such as Stockhausen‘s 1963 classic, from which the group takes its name.
LINE UPON LINe VISITING ENSEMBLE
Formed in 2009, line upon line percussion consists of its three original members, Adam Bedell, Cullen Faulk and Matthew Teodori. To date, the Austin-based trio has commissioned and premiered fifteen new works, four of which appear on their full-length, self-titled album. The group’s in-house creative project, seeing times are not hidden, won top prize at the 2011 Music in Architecture-Architecture in Music Symposium at the University of Texas at Austin.
Nabihah iqbal visiting artist
Nabihah Iqbal is a musician, producer, DJ and broadcaster from London.
Lee Gamble Visiting Artist
Lee Gamble is an artist, producer, label owner and DJ of exploratory electronic/dance music. Over the last several years Lee’s music has released a string of critically acclaimed albums and EPs on labels PAN and Hyperdub. He founded his own UIQ imprint in late 2015.
EVELYN FICARRA VISITING SPEAKER
Evelyn Ficarra is a composer and sound artist. Her work finds expression across a range of forms including music theatre, multi media, installation, dance, film and the concert hall.
SIMON EMMERSON VISITING SPEAKER
Simon Emmerson is a composer of electroacoustic music. He is committed to live performance with electronics.
AMNON WOLMAN VISITING SPEAKER
Amnon Wolman is a sound artist and composer. He works in four arenas: sound art, performance sound-art, composition and collaborative projects.
ÚNA MONAGHAN VISITING SPEAKER
Úna Monaghan is a composer, harper and sound engineer. Her work fuses experimental and Irish traditional music with electronics and improvisation.
Mari Ohno visiting speaker
Mari Ohno is a sound artist based in London and Tokyo.
James Saunders visiting speaker
James Saunders is a composer who makes open form compositions that explore group behaviours and decision making.
Janek Schaefer visiting speaker
Janek Schaefer is an artist who makes site-specific installations, sonic sculptures, exhibition & dance soundtracks, albums, and immersive performances.