Richard Barrett

Richard Barrett (born in Swansea in 1959) is internationally active as both composer and improvising performer, and has collaborated with many leading performers in both areas, while developing works and ideas which increasingly leave behind the distinctions between them. Long-term collaborations include the electronic duo FURT which he formed with Paul Obermayer in 1986, composing for and performing with the ELISION ensemble since 1990, regular appearances with the Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble since 2003 and a duo with acoustic/electric harpist Milana Zarić. He studied composition principally with Peter Wiegold, is based in Belgrade and currently teaches at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague alongside being Professor of Creative Music at Leiden University, having previously held a professorship at Brunel University in London. His book Music of Possibility was published by Vision Edition in 2019.

Biography

Richard Barrett (born in Swansea in 1959) is internationally active as both composer and improvising performer, and has collaborated with many leading performers in both areas, while developing works and ideas which increasingly leave behind the distinctions between them. Long-term collaborations include the electronic duo FURT which he formed with Paul Obermayer in 1986, composing for and performing with the ELISION ensemble since 1990, regular appearances with the Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble since 2003 and a duo with acoustic/electric harpist Milana Zarić. He studied composition principally with Peter Wiegold, is based in Belgrade and currently teaches at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague alongside being Professor of Creative Music at Leiden University, having previously held a professorship at Brunel University in London. His book Music of Possibility was published by Vision Edition in 2019.

Recordings by this composer

Recordings
Vanity Cover

Vanity

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Negatives Cover

Negatives

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transmission cover

transmission

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Dark Matter cover

Dark Matter

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Compilations with this composer

Compilations
A Round-up of NMC cover

A Round-up of NMC

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Tracts cover

Tracts

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New Music Collections: Electronic cover

New Music Collections: Electronic

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New Music Collections - Piano

New Music Collections - Piano

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