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Martin Suckling is a composer and violinist; he is also Professor and Head of Music at the School of Arts and Creative Technologies at the University of York. His compositions have been championed by many leading orchestras and ensembles including the London Sinfonietta, Scottish Ensemble, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

From 2013-18 Suckling was the Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s Associate Composer, a partnership which resulted in Six Speechless Songs, a concerto for pianist Tom Poster, and Meditation (after Donne) for chamber orchestra and electronics. Suckling also enjoys a close relationship with the Aurora Orchestra, with commissions ranging from Psalm, for harp and spatialised ensembles, premiered at the Royal Academy of Arts as part of Edmund de Waal’s ‘white’ project in 2015 to an adaption of the Barnett / Klassen children’s book The Wolf, the Duck and the Mouse in 2023.

This Departing Landscape, commissioned by the BBC Philharmonic, gives its name to a critically acclaimed orchestral portrait disc released by NMC in 2021. these bones, this flesh, this skin, Suckling’s interactive web-based collaboration with Scottish Ensemble and Scottish Dance Theatre received both a Scottish Award for New Music and a Classical:NEXT Innovation Award in 2021. A chamber portrait disc, The Tuning, was released by Delphian in January 2022, was subsequently shortlisted for a Gramophone Award, and won a 2Scottish Award for New Music in 2023.

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Frances Leviston's first book of short stories, The Voice in My Ear, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2020. She has also written two collections of poetry: Public Dream (2007), which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, and Disinformation (2015), shortlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Award. She is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Manchester, and lives in Northumberland.

Loré Lixenberg studied composition with Woolrich, Vores and Saxton, also masterclasses with Peter Maxwell Davies.Having gone on to study singing with Powell, Mason, Isepp and Vishnevskaya she went on to apply bel canto singing to physical theatre, comedy and free improv, working with Simon Munnery, Richard Thomas, Stewart Lee, Complicite & Simon Mcburney . She has since performed internationally on concert platforms and galleries, opera houses, in operas and in new installations and vocal performances with experimental visual and sound artists like Stelarc, Bruce Mclean, ORLAN and David Toop.Performed the works of composers such as Aperghis, Burrell, Beat, Howard, Baukholt, Sörensen, Oehring, Osborn, Turnage,Ligeti,Stockhausen,Furrer, Birtwistle, Earle Brown, Ferrari, Barry, Oliveros, Acquaviva, Niblock, Dufour, Fujikura, Hind, Rønsholdt, Johnson, Power among others, performing with many ensembles in contemporary music festivals worldwide premiering hundreds of new works. She has made numerous experimental opera series for BBC2 and Channel 4 such as ‘The Kombat Operas’ and ‘Attention Scum’, and Strings Bows and Bellows. She has performed many classics of the contemporary repertoire such as the first complete recording on CD of John Cage’s ‘Songbooks’ for Sub Rosa with Greg Rose and Rob Worby. As director, she directed works by Kagel, Sciarrino, Berio and Wishart (most recently directing/curating Nam June Paik ’Symphony for 20 Rooms with Scenatet at Den Frie in Copenhagen, the Scandinavian birthplace of fluxus) performer of her own works in pieces such as ‘BIRD’ or her series of “Singterviews' (PANIC ROOM - THE SINGTERVIEWS)”.Also her real-time political opera installation 'https://www.lorelixenberg.art/pret-a-chanterPRET A CHANTER'. She published an artist book ‘Memory Maps’, monographic CD ‘The afternoon of a phone’ (£@B) and the real time opera 'SINGLR' that takes the form of an app. She started THE VOICE PARTY standing in British election of 2019, music rules. She Runs Berlin based art space La Plaque Tournante with composer Frederic Acquaviva , a space devoted to exhibitions, installations and performances of avant garde. Her vinyl release NANCARROWKARAOKE, a record of Nancarrow piano rolls she transcribed for her own voice multitracked, , will be November 2020 on the De Player label.

Jonathan Morton is a violinist who enjoys collaborating with musicians and artists from different traditions.

He is Artistic Director at Scottish Ensemble, where his eclectic and engaging programming has been enthusiastically praised by audiences internationally, offering fresh perspectives on familiar repertoire and championing new works. Under his leadership Scottish Ensemble has been collaborating increasingly with other art forms such as dance, visual arts, & theatre.

Recent critically acclaimed projects include 20th Century Perspectives with artist Toby Paterson, Goldberg Variations with Andersson Dance and Anno with Anna Meredith & Eleanor Meredith.

Jonathan is also Principal First Violin at London Sinfonietta, where he has been given the opportunity to work closely with many of today's leading composers and performers, including Steve Reich, Harrison Birtwistle, Mica Levi, Oliver Knussen, Marius Nesset, Tansy Davies, Jonny Greenwood, Louis Andriessen, Hannah Kendall, Martin Suckling, and Dai Fujikura.

Jonathan has been invited as a guest leader with groups such as BIT20 in Bergen, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia and Musikkollegium Winterthur. He is committed to sharing ideas with the next generation of string players and has directed projects at the Royal Northern College of Music, the Royal College of Music, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and the University of Auckland.

Jonathan regularly contributes to film & TV soundtracks at Abbey Road Studios and Air Lyndhurst Studios, where he has been leading studio orchestras for film composers including Dario Marianelli, Rael Jones, Benjamin Wallfisch, Daniel Pemberton, Patrick Doyle, Alex Heffes, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Christian Henson, Craig Armstrong, Frank Illfman, and Hauschka.

Jonathan also plays with the Colin Currie Group, with recent performances in Europe, the USA and Japan.

Alex Mackay is a musician from Scotland, working internationally

Alex makes music from experimental approaches to electronic music, contemporary composition and instrumental performance, utilising synthesis, manipulated acoustic instrumentation and experimental guitar techniques to create immersive sonic environments that fuse a minimalist focus with a metallic intensity.

Alex’s live and recorded work takes varying forms, from solo productions and performances to commissions (from solo and small ensemble up to full orchestral works) and collaborations with other musicians and artists in the worlds of visual art, dance, film and performance.

Alex's debut album Targazer was released by Forwind on 1 October 2020.

Alex has been a touring member of Mogwai since 2016, playing electric guitar and keyboards.

Alex studied composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Marco Ng is an Interactive Media (with a Year In Enterprise) student at the University of York graduating in 2024.

He is an interactive experience designer, as well as an experienced game developer whose skills span multiple areas - Programming, 3D Design, VR, etc., and has created a multitude of games with different genres.

Marco is also a developer of award-winning pieces including EMITIME (Interactive Media Showcase 2021 - Audience Favorite Award), and Party Animals -Hospital Rush- (Interactive Media Showcase 2022 - The Technical Award).

His non-linear narrative-driven game, Workshop No.25 is also one of the official game selections in the Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2023.

In 2023, Marco founded the Overworld Games Studio, a game studio with a particular focus on combining non-linear narrative with different types of gameplay. ( https://overworldgamesstudio.com/ )

You can learn more about his personal projects here: https://ngkaihei2002.wixsite.com/my-site

John Gray is a software developer.