Martin Iddon
Martin Iddon was born in Manchester in 1975. He studied composition and musicology at the Universities of Cambridge and Durham and studied composition privately with Steve Martland, Chaya Czernowin, and Steven Kazuo Takasugi. He is Professor of Music and Aesthetics at the University of Leeds.
His music has been performed in North America, Europe, and Australasia by Ensemble SurPlus, Distractfold, ekmeles, the Kairos Quartett, Ensemble Interface, the Quiet Music Ensemble, Heather Roche, Eva Zöllner, Rei Nakamura, Jeffrey Gavett, Jack Adler-McKean and others. His 2014 CD, pneuma, was followed in 2021 by Sapindales and, in 2022, Naiads. Between 2006 and 2009, Iddon was a shortlisted composer of the Society for the Promotion of New Music and was a finalist in the 2012 Christoph Delz Foundation Competition for Composers. His string trio, Danaë, won the 2014 British Composer Award for chamber music and Lampades the 2021 Ivor Novello award for solo composition.
His books New Music at Darmstadt, John Cage and David Tudor, and John Cage and Peter Yates are published by Cambridge University Press. John Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra, co-written with Philip Thomas, is published by Oxford University Press.
Martin Iddon was born in Manchester in 1975. He studied composition and musicology at the Universities of Cambridge and Durham and studied composition privately with Steve Martland, Chaya Czernowin, and Steven Kazuo Takasugi. He is Professor of Music and Aesthetics at the University of Leeds.
His music has been performed in North America, Europe, and Australasia by Ensemble SurPlus, Distractfold, ekmeles, the Kairos Quartett, Ensemble Interface, the Quiet Music Ensemble, Heather Roche, Eva Zöllner, Rei Nakamura, Jeffrey Gavett, Jack Adler-McKean and others. His 2014 CD, pneuma, was followed in 2021 by Sapindales and, in 2022, Naiads. Between 2006 and 2009, Iddon was a shortlisted composer of the Society for the Promotion of New Music and was a finalist in the 2012 Christoph Delz Foundation Competition for Composers. His string trio, Danaë, won the 2014 British Composer Award for chamber music and Lampades the 2021 Ivor Novello award for solo composition.
His books New Music at Darmstadt, John Cage and David Tudor, and John Cage and Peter Yates are published by Cambridge University Press. John Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra, co-written with Philip Thomas, is published by Oxford University Press.
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