Roger Redgate (born 1958) is a British composer, conductor and improvisor. Born in Bolton, he began his musical training at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester, then attended the Royal College of Music where he studied with Edwin Roxburgh and Lawrence Casserley. Under a DAAD (German Academic Exchange) scholarship he also studied with Brian Ferneyhough and Klaus Huber in Freiburg. In 1984, with the new complexity composers Richard Barrett and Michael Finnissy, he co-founded Ensemble Exposé. [1]
Redgate has worked in the fields of jazz, improvised music, film and television. His piano works have been recorded by Nicolas Hodges. [2]
In September 1996 Redgate took up the position of Professor in Composition and Director, Contemporary Music Research at Goldsmiths, University of London. [3] His compositions are published by Editions Henry Lemoine, Paris, United Music Publishers, London and the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. [4]
Brian John Peter Ferneyhough is an English composer. Ferneyhough is typically considered the central figure of the New Complexity movement. Ferneyhough has taught composition at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and the University of California, San Diego; he teaches at Stanford University and is a regular lecturer in the summer courses at Darmstädter Ferienkurse. He has resided in California since 1987.
Michael Peter Finnissy is an English composer, pianist, and pedagogue. An immensely prolific composer, his music is "notable for its dramatic urgency and expressive immediacy".
Edwin Roxburgh is an English composer, conductor and oboist.
New Complexity is a label principally applied to composers seeking a "complex, multi-layered interplay of evolutionary processes occurring simultaneously within every dimension of the musical material".
John Roger Smalley was an Anglo-Australian composer, pianist and conductor. Professor Smalley was a senior honorary research fellow at the School of Music, University of Western Australia in Perth and honorary research associate at the University of Sydney.
Larry Goves is a British composer.
John White is an English experimental composer and musical performer. He invented the early British form of minimalism known as systems music, with his early Machines.
Peter Ane Schat was a Dutch composer.
Hugh Seymour Davies was a musicologist, composer, and inventor of experimental musical instruments.
Richard Bernas is a British-based conductor.
Andrew John Preston "Andi" Spicer was an English electroacoustic classical music composer who used electronics in his compositions.
Aaron Cassidy is an American composer.
Kenneth Hesketh is a British composer of contemporary classical music in numerous genres including dance, orchestral, chamber, vocal and solo. He has also composed music for wind and brass bands as well as seasonal music for choir.
Richard Barrett is a Welsh composer.
David Sawer, is a British composer of opera and choral, orchestral and chamber music.
Roger Briggs is an American composer, conductor, pianist, and educator.
Francisco Coll is a Spanish composer.
Ola Gjeilo is a Norwegian composer and pianist, living in the United States.
John Lely is British experimental composer, improvising musician and curator based in London, UK.
Gwyn Pritchard is a British composer, ensemble and festival director, and teacher.