Perks Ensemble

Oscar Perks enjoys a varied performing career playing both violin and viola. For two years he has been the second violinist of the Dante Quartet, and also works as an assistant violin teacher at the Yehudi Menuhin School while pursuing an interest in composing and arranging. Perks also leads the Perks Ensemble, a flexible chamber group he co-founded with his brother and sister, Elliott and Ursula. They have performed widely around the UK and have developed a reputation for their energetic and committed performances, playing their own arrangements of other composers alongside the great chamber music classics. They recently collaborated with Shadwell Opera for a critically acclaimed rendition of Philip Glass’ “In the Penal Colony” in the West End.

http://www.elliottperks.com/the-perks-ensemble

Michael Finnissy

Michael Finnissy was born in Brixton (south London) in 1946. He started composing aged 4, and was self taught until he gained a Foundation Scholarship to the Royal College of Music in 1965, where his principal mentor was Bernard Stevens. Whilst there he secretly planned that his future work would assemble a ‘cabinet of curiosities’ - an individualised account of world music, representing (with affection and irony) all periods and genres. His ideology and aesthetics have been influenced by Underground and avant-garde cinema: Markopoulos, Brakhage, Jack Smith, Warhol, Pasolini, Jarman and Godard; the painters Hokusai, Cézanne, Degas, David Hockney and Robert Rauschenberg; and composers Erik Satie and Charles Ives. He served as president of the ISCM/IGNM from 1990 until 1966. His work has also focussed on theatre (vocal and dance) and on non-professional music-making, with CoMA (Contemporary Music for All) and church choirs. He is an Emeritus Professor of Composition at the University of Southampton (UK).

John Wall

Born 1950.
Started composing 1990 and still going.
Played and collaborated with some good people.
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go here https://johnwall.bandcamp.com/
and here https://utterpsalm.blogspot.com/