Christopher Fox
Christopher Fox, born in York in 1955, studied composition with Hugh Wood, Jonathan Harvey and Richard Orton at Liverpool, Southampton and York Universities and was awarded the degree of DPhil in composition from York University in 1984. In 1981 he won the composition prize of the Performing Right Society of Great Britain. Between 1984 and 1994 he was a member of the composition staff of the Darmstadt New Music Summer School. During 1987 he lived in West Berlin as a guest of the DAAD Berlin Artists Programme. In 1994 he joined the Music Department at the University of Huddersfield, eventually becoming Professor in Composition. Since April 2006 he has been Research Professor in Music at Brunel University.
Fox’s work has been performed and broadcast world-wide and has featured in many of the leading new music festivals, from the Amsterdam PROMS to the BBC Proms and from St Petersburg to Sidney. He has enjoyed long and close relationships with some of the world's finest new music ensembles and soloists, including Apartment House, Elizabeth Hilliard, EXAUDI, the Ives Ensemble, Zubin Kanga, KNM Berlin, Anton Lukoszevieze, Ensemble Offspring, ensemble recherche and Heather Roche.
His writings on music have also been published widely, in the journals Contact, Contemporary Music Review, Musical Times and TEMPO (of which he was an editor), and deals principally with new music, in particular experimental, minimalist and complex tendencies in American and European music. A book about his music, Straight lines in broken times: perspectives on the music of Christopher Fox was published by Routledge in 2016.
Fox's work regularly extends beyond the conventional boundaries of the concert hall and includes a number of extended works that defy categorisation, such as the radio piece Three Constructions after Kurt Schwitters, commissioned by the BBC in 1993, the ensemble installation Everything You Need To Know (2001, Ives Ensemble), the music-theatre documentary Widerstehen (2014, ensemble recherche) and, most recently, A New Ocean, premiered in 2019 in the Negev Desert.
Christopher Fox, born in York in 1955, studied composition with Hugh Wood, Jonathan Harvey and Richard Orton at Liverpool, Southampton and York Universities and was awarded the degree of DPhil in composition from York University in 1984. In 1981 he won the composition prize of the Performing Right Society of Great Britain. Between 1984 and 1994 he was a member of the composition staff of the Darmstadt New Music Summer School. During 1987 he lived in West Berlin as a guest of the DAAD Berlin Artists Programme. In 1994 he joined the Music Department at the University of Huddersfield, eventually becoming Professor in Composition. Since April 2006 he has been Research Professor in Music at Brunel University.
Fox’s work has been performed and broadcast world-wide and has featured in many of the leading new music festivals, from the Amsterdam PROMS to the BBC Proms and from St Petersburg to Sidney. He has enjoyed long and close relationships with some of the world's finest new music ensembles and soloists, including Apartment House, Elizabeth Hilliard, EXAUDI, the Ives Ensemble, Zubin Kanga, KNM Berlin, Anton Lukoszevieze, Ensemble Offspring, ensemble recherche and Heather Roche.
His writings on music have also been published widely, in the journals Contact, Contemporary Music Review, Musical Times and TEMPO (of which he was an editor), and deals principally with new music, in particular experimental, minimalist and complex tendencies in American and European music. A book about his music, Straight lines in broken times: perspectives on the music of Christopher Fox was published by Routledge in 2016.
Fox's work regularly extends beyond the conventional boundaries of the concert hall and includes a number of extended works that defy categorisation, such as the radio piece Three Constructions after Kurt Schwitters, commissioned by the BBC in 1993, the ensemble installation Everything You Need To Know (2001, Ives Ensemble), the music-theatre documentary Widerstehen (2014, ensemble recherche) and, most recently, A New Ocean, premiered in 2019 in the Negev Desert.
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