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Jonty Harrison Jonty Harrison (born 1952) studied with Bernard Rands at the University of York, UK, gaining his DPhil in Composition in 1980. Between 1976 and 1980 he worked at the National Theatre and City University in London. In 1980 he joined the Music Department of The University of Birmingham, where he is now Professor of Composition and Electroacoustic Music and Director of BEAST (Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre) and the Electroacoustic Music Studios. He has made conducting appearances with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (most notably conducting Stockhausen's Momente in Birmingham, Huddersfield and London), the University New Music Ensemble and the University Orchestra. He was a Board member of Sonic Arts Network for many years. His work has received several awards (Bourges, Prix Ars Electronica, Musica Nova (Prague), the Lloyds Bank National Composers' Award, the PRS Prize, an Arts Council Composition Bursary and a Leverhulme Research Grant) and commissions (GRM, GMEB, ICMA, MAFILM/Magyar Rádió, IRCAM/Ensemble InterContemporain, BBC, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Fine Arts Brass Ensemble, Nash Ensemble, Singcircle, John Harle, Harry Sparnaay and Jos Zwaanenburg). His music is performed and broadcast worldwide, and several works are available on two 'solo' CDs (Articles indéfinis and Évidence matérielle) on the empreintes DIGITALes label (Montréal), and on compilation CDs on various labels: NMC (London), Mnémosyne Musique Média (Bourges, France), CDCM/Centaur (Baton Rouge, Louisiana), Asphodel (New York) and on Clarinet Classics (London).

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