Board

A list of current Sound and Music board members

David Aspinall

David is founder and Chief Executive of Aspinalls Group which is now responsible for client wealth in excess of £250M. With 28 years experience in financial planning and wealth management, David was previously Managing Director of Hambro Fraser Smith, a national firm that pioneered financial planning joint ventures with legal and accountancy practices. A music graduate and university organ scholar, David was formerly a professional freelance musician and remains an active keyboard player and choral conductor. David was a founder trustee of the Queille Festival in the south of France and was a long-standing trustee of the Society for the Promotion of New Music, one of the Founder Members of Sound and Music.

Simon Emmerson

Simon Emmerson has been Professor of Music, Technology and Innovation at De Montfort University, Leicester since 2004. He has written Living Electronic Music (Ashgate, 2007) as well as numerous articles and conference presentations. His most recent compositions include Resonances (electroacoustic, IMEB/Bourges commission, 2007), Stringscape (violin and electronics, Darragh Morgan commission, 2010) and Memory Machine (electroacoustic, Inventionen Berlin commission, 2010). He has two solo CDs on Sargasso. ]

He was elected board member of EMAS/Sonic Arts Network from 1979–2004 and then an honorary member. He is a member of the Académie Internationale de Musique Électroacoustique (Bourges), British Academy of Composers and Songwriters, RSM, and a board member of the Institute of Musical Research.

Cliff Fluet

Biography to follow

Chrisopher Fox

Christopher Fox (b.1955) is a musician who sometimes writes about music too. He has established an international reputation as one of the most original British composer of his generation, creating music which draws on elements of the experimental, spectral and minimalist traditions. Innately independent, he has chosen to conduct his compositional career at a tangent to the mainstream music industry, basing it instead around close collaborations with a number of performers, most notably the clarinettist Roger Heaton, the Ives Ensemble, Apartment House and their director Anton Lukoszevieze, and, most recently, EXAUDI. He lives in London and is Professor in Music at Brunel University.

Debra King

Debra King is an independent producer, programmer and project development director. She has an extensive knowledge of the arts sector and 15 years’ experience of working in arts management at a senior level. She has worked as the Director of Women in Music London; Music Officer at the Arts Council England, North West; Creative Producer for the Commonwealth Games Cultural Programme and as the Programme Manager for Undergrowth, a two-year programme of Australian Contemporary Arts in the UK. Debra is also the co-director of Fkuk, a partnership that aims to present and produce contemporary international performance, and the co-producer for the Nitin Sawhney project, Aftershock.

Michelle Wright

Michelle Wright is a Director of Cause4 – www.cause4.co.uk - an enterprise supporting charities and social enterprises in organisational development and fundraising across the community, arts, sport and education sectors. A chartered marketer and fundraiser, Michelle has held senior development and communications roles across the arts and charity sectors including devising new fundraising, marketing, PR and digital strategies at organisations such as the London Symphony Orchestra, Four Communications, Toynbee Hall and Youth Music. Michelle's successes in private sector fundraising led to her being judged the Best Upcoming Fundraiser at the National Fundraising Awards in 2008. Michelle trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and played the violin professionally. She remains an active musician leading various semi-professional ensembles including Sinfonia Tamesa, Pegasus and Cranbourne Ensembles and Ensemble 168.