ALT His music is championed by leading artists, ensembles and orchestras including guitarist Fabio Zanon and Smaro Gregoriadou, the Fidelio Trio, Barry Guy, Maya Homburger, the National Symphony of Ireland, the Irish Chamber Orchestra, the Santos Symphony Orchestra and the Callino Quartet. Major works such as Umbilical and what is the word are released on Diatribe Records, the latter was launched at the Dublin New Music Festival at the National Concert Hall in 2019. His latest work, SacrumProfanum, will be premiered alongside it’s Farpoint Recordings launch at Chapter Arts, Cardiff, and live-streamed to Dublin, Belfast and Galway in February 2022. Noted for his cross-disciplinary work, Dwyer is a member of TIN—the Transdisciplinary Improvisation Network; and is founder of Coterminous—a collective merging dance, music, film and philosophy in its projects. As a free improviser, Dwyer has performed with other renowned musicians including Barry Guy, Garth Knox, Perter Evans, Lucas Niggli,

ALT Tansy specializes in solo and collaborative sound performances incorporating electric violin, looping devices, and objects related to the given performance space; and she has a particular interest in materiality in sound. Tansy has performed in venues such as the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Camden Arts Centre, Brighton Fringe Festival and Wimbledon Space among others; and her site-specific performance spaces include a sea fort off the north Kent coast, staircases, lifts, a market arcade and on top of a windmill. She has exhibited widely both at home and abroad, and is a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Middlesex University.

ALT Jonathan’s professional and research activities cover many aspects of contemporary musical practice, as a trumpet player, composer and theorist. His research is concerned with the discourses and practices of contemporary musical creativity, particularly the nature of the contemporary technologically-situated musical artefact. His work in the spaces between composition and improvisation has led to continuous research in the areas of interactive systems and interfaces.

ALT Kate has had many works created for her by composers in the UK and abroad. Kate has co-founded several ensembles combining the prepared piano with other instruments including the harpsichord, Dan Tranh (Vietnamese zither) and sonic art based in Sweden. She has toured worldwide, and has curated events at London’s South Bank Centre for their Massed Piano weekend, and for the Cornelius Cardew Festival. Current research interests include working with augmented instruments and developing new techniques, music and memory (with Dr Marilyn Wyers), and researching the music of transatlantic women composers. Book your tickets at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-pathways-in-improvisation-mdx-tickets-180347914467

ALT Robert Vesty is Senior Lecturer on the Theatre Arts Performance programme at Middlesex University. He maintains a performance practice that draws on a training in acting, and a background in dance, particularly improvisatory practice. Robert performs regularly in dance contexts using improvisation as a tool for making, often including voice and poetic text as part of the immediately choreographed material. He is a member of the five-strong performance collective anthologyofamess. Robert is a certified practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method, which heavily informs a pedagogical practice largely focused on movement/training for performers.