General Manager, New Music Players

New Music Players was founded by composer Ed Hughes in 1990. Early projects included commissions by Michael Finnissy and Howard Skempton, and the first UK performance of John Cage's Europera 5. The ensemble has presented concerts in the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the Brighton Festival and other prestigious concert series and held residencies at York, Bristol and Nottingham Universities.
The ensemble features some of the UK’s finest musicians; core members are also members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra; Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden; Manchester Camerata; the English Chamber Orchestra; Psappha; and a wide variety of early music ensembles and jazz bands.
New Music Players feature on several recordings including a world première recording of five New Music Players commissions on the London Independent Records label, funded by the Foundation for Sport and the Arts and a disc of works by Japanese composer Jo Kondo.
www.newmusicplayers.org.uk