Our alumni

John Aulich is a British composer currently based in Manchester, whose works have been performed internationally by leading ensembles such as ELISION and International Contemporary Ensemble. His music is characterised… Read More

John Pfumojena (John Falsetto) is an award winning Zimbabwean composer, musical director, vocalist, and theatre-maker whose work bridges traditional Southern African music with contemporary performance. A virtuoso of the mbira… Read More

Johnny Campbell is a multidisciplinary Folk musician based in Yorkshire. His main focus is promoting the radical history of Northern English working class struggles and celebrations in original and traditional… Read More

Johnny Hunter is a northern UK-based drummer and composer who comes from a background of both the Avant-Garde and the more mainstream Jazz. His own “chordless” quartet, set up to… Read More

Composer, pianist and conductor Jonathan Brigg was born in Bradford in 1984. He read music at the University of Manchester, where he studied with Kevin Malone, John Casken and Deniz… Read More

Jonathan Higgins is a composer and performer based in London. His music focuses on exploring how noise can be utilised as a creative and generative tool. He works across a… Read More

Jonathan Pitkin’s work increasingly uses technology to expand or reconfigure familiar instruments, making them behave in unexpected ways as if to suggest that they have minds of their own. He… Read More

Joseph Graydon is a UK based composer whose output ranges from intimate music for soloists and chamber ensembles, to work for symphony orchestras, sound installations, and settings for contemporary dance.… Read More

Joshua Brown (1989) is a composer from Lancashire, and completed his PhD in Composition with Professor Philip Grange at the University of Manchester in 2018. From 2019-2020 he was Artist in… Read More