Sturmen composes exclusively using deep learning technologies. (That's a joke.)

John was born in Hampshire but spent his early childhood in Kenya and Uganda. In 1999, he moved to Scotland and in 2005, was awarded a place at St Mary’s Music School in Edinburgh. Whilst there, he won the Isobel Dunlop Prize for Composition, judged by James MacMillan, whilst studying under Tom David Wilson. He furthered his composition studies at the University of York (BA) with Roger Marsh, Bill Brooks and Thomas Simaku, and at the Royal Academy of Music (MA) with Philip Cashian, passing with distinction. He is also a graduate of Darwin College, Cambridge (PGCE and MEd), where he was Choral Director. He is a winner of the Alan Bush Prize and recipient of the NCEM 2015 Young Composers Award (19-25). John’s piece, Morph, for recorder quartet, has recently been selected for the finals of the innaugral Society of Recorder Players Composition Competition 2019, and will be performed by BLOCK4 in Ushaw College, Durham.

He has taught Academic Music and Composition at the Purcell School for Young Musicians and is currently Head of Music Technology at an independent school in South London. He also teaches 1:1 composition and songwriting at JASSPA. His music has been performed by ensembles including CHROMA, the Dunedin Consort, Blossom Street Singers, the Meridian Piano Quartet, and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, and in concerts internationally.

Weirdo alt-rock from York. More groove than a lathe operators convention.

Telepathic Teddy Bear is a one-man outfit based out of Monterrey, Mexico. TTB creates dreamy and sometimes very upbeat and light-hearted electronic music. You could easily go from listening to TTB while running a 5k and get right into "bedtime mode" with more whimsical tunes like "The Stars That Left". Unfortunately, unlike many familiar friends like Postal Service, Styrofoam, Dntel and numerous others, TTB doesn't get the recognition he deserves. Regardless of listens or play statistics, this is a very bright and promising electro-synth one-man show. Keyboard delicious from beginning to end.

Contact: telepathicteddybear@gmail.com

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