Langham Research Centre (Felix Carey, Iain Chambers, Philip Tagney, Robert Worby) create new music from vintage analogue devices: open-reel tape, sine wave oscillators, phonograph cartridges and other discarded technology. langhamresearch@gmail.com

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The vibes of Shawarma Bar of Berber & Q restaurant group

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Ólafur Arnalds is a BAFTA-winning multi-instrumentalist and producer from Mosfellsbær, Iceland. Ólafur Arnalds mixes strings and piano with loops and beats crossing over from ambient/electronic to pop.

Charlie Usher (BE/UK) is a composer living in Brussels, working with heart-on-sleeve cultural samples, rotary and handmade speaker installations, live instruments, and horizontal
time structures.

Max Richter trained in composition and piano at Edinburgh University, at the Royal Academy of Music, and with Luciano Berio in Florence.

On completing his studies, Max co-founded the iconoclastic classical ensemble Piano Circus, where he stayed for ten years, commissioning and performing works by Arvo Pärt, Brian Eno, Philip Glass, Julia Wolfe and Steve Reich.

In the late 90s he worked with a number of electronic artists, notably Future Sound of London on their album 'Dead Cities". He subsequently collaborated with FSOL over a period of two years, also contributing to the albums "The Isness" and "The Peppermint Tree and Seeds of Superconsciousness". Max also collaborated with Mercury Prize winner Roni Size, on "In the Mode".

In June 2002, Max released his debut solo album, "memoryhouse", recorded with The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. This was followed in March 2004 by FatCat's release of "The Blue Notebooks", with featured readings by Tilda Swinton.

In 2005 Max produced Vashti Bunyan's outstanding comeback album "Lookaftering".

2006 saw the release of "Songs From Before" based on Haruki Murakami texts read by Robert Wyatt. That same year, Max began performing "from The Art of Mirrors", an evolving score to previously unseen Super 8mm films of Derek Jarman.

Max's more recent work continues to stretch the notions of what Classical music is.  ‘24 Postcards In Full Colour’, released in August 2008, is an experimental work made up of 24 composed ringtones.

Max works widely in film music, installation and the theatre, most recently on INFRA, made with Wayne MacGregor and Julian Opie for The Royal Ballet, London. The Ballet was the subject of a BBC 'making of' documentary.

Max was named 2008 European Composer Of The Year for his score to Ari Folman's Waltz With Bashir, for which he was also nominated for the Prix France Musique.

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English composer, multi-instrumentalist, and tutor Jake Bradford-Sharp is a technically proficient artist working in many musical fields: writing and recording music for TV and film, session work, regular gigging, and tutoring drums and music. Born in Enfield, London in 1992, Jake first began playing the drums at the age of 8 and began formal lessons at the age of 10.

Initially inspired by classic rock icons such as John Bonham, Ian Paice and Keith moon, Jake quickly discovered his love of progressive rock music and its blend of rock, jazz, fusion, and many others. He immersed himself in these very sophisticated drumming styles, and at the age of 16 joined his first professional band, The Reasoning, and honed his craft on the touring and recording circuit. In 2010 he was crowned the “5th Best Drummer of 2010” by readers of Prog magazine. Jake continues to work with bands, of which more information can be found here.

In the downtime between touring, Jake fell in love with composing for TV, films, and games. His ability to jump between styles and genres effortlessly, yet still bring a unique and recognizable sound to every project is creatively showcased in his latest works. This led Jake to work with independent filmmakers and compose for library music companies.

Over the years Jake has experimented with multiple genres and styles of music, finding steady success with his own unique take on the Electro Swing genre. Jake continued to expand his compositional skills and since first being introduced to the worlds of writing to picture and production music, continues to successfully release unique albums. As he continues his journey into composition for TV, film, library and game music, you can keep up to date with his releases by following Jake’s official Spotify artist page.

Outside of composing music and performing drums, teaching is a passion of Jakes. He is a tutor at Bang Drum School in London. Jake has also released drum videos on YouTube showcasing yet another side of his writing, and performance and technical ability on the drum kit.

Being an active session musician, Jake has been hired to work with many artists at some of the worlds’ most prestigious recording studios in his hometown of London. He is available for session work and can be contacted directly at info@jakebradford-sharp.com.

Gary Carpenter studied composition at the Royal College of Music with John Lambert. He has lived in Holland and Germany and has written operas, musicals, ballets (mostly for Nederlands Dans Theater) and a radio music-drama - The One Alone with Iris Murdoch - as well as a substantial amount of concert music. Musical director and/or arranger-orchestrator on many stage shows and films (including The Wicker Man), he won the British Clavichord Society Composition Competition in 2004 (Van Assendelft’s Vermeer) and a 2006 British Composer Award with his harp trio Azaleas. A portrait CD - Die Flimmerkiste is available on NMC.
Recent works include The Listening Project Symphony (Radio 4, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra,– nominated for Prix Europa 2013), Fred and Ginger (LSO, Daniel Harding) Bassoon Concerto (Alan Pendlebury, RLPO, Vasily Petrenko, Piano Trio [Fournier Trio, Wigmore Hall, RPS Prize Nomination 2012)], SET – Concerto for Tenor Saxophone and Orchestra [Iain Ballamy (tenor sax)/BBC Philharmonic Orchestra/HK Gruber, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester], The Food Of Love – a sequence of 12 Shakespeare songs in four books for choirs and piano commissioned by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust to celebrate the anniversaries of the Shakespeare’s birth (1564/2014) and death (1616/2016) and Dadaville for The First Night of the 2015 Proms. 
Gary is Professor of Composition at the RNCM, Manchester and a professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Music, London. He was elected an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music (HonRAM) in 2013.


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