Christopher Fox (b.1955) is a composer who sometimes writes about music too. He studied composition with Hugh Wood, Jonathan Harvey and Richard Orton at Liverpool, Southampton and York Universities and was awarded the degree of DPhil in composition from York University in 1984. Between 1984 and 1994 and again in 2014 he taught at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse für neue Musik. During 1987 he lived in West Berlin as a guest of the DAAD Berlin Artists Programme and since 2006 he has been Professor of Music at Brunel University. He is widely regarded as one of the most individual composers of his generation, often working at a tangent to the musical mainstream. He has chosen to based his compositional career around close collaborations with a number of performers, including the instrumental groups the Ives Ensemble, KNM Berlin and Apartment House, and the vocal ensembles The Clerks and EXAUDI. His work regularly extends beyond the conventional boundaries of the concert hall and includes the radio piece Three Constructions after Kurt Schwitters, commissioned by the BBC in 1993 and nominated for the Prix Italia, the evening-long ensemble installation,Everything You Need To Know (2000-1), and the music-theatre documentary Widerstehen (2012). He lives in London with his wife, the writer Susan McNally, and is Professor of Music at Brunel University.
