Bryn Harrison is a composer and Professor in Composition at the University of Huddersfield from where he obtained a doctorate in composition in 2007. He has developed a close working relationship with ensembles such as Plus Minus, Asamisimasa, Elision, Exaudi, Apartment House, Bozzini Quartet, and Wet Ink as well as with soloists such as Philip Thomas, Mark Knoop, and Aisha Orazbayeva. In addition, his pieces have been performed by ensembles such as Ensemble Recherche, Klangforum Wien, the London Sinfonietta, and the London Symphony Orchestra. As a composer, he has a long-held fascination with notions of musical time. In his twenties and early thirties, he developed an individual approach to dealing with time as a circular and repeating entity. Many of his subsequent works operate at a speed and density that cannot be easily or immediately apprehended; they gradually draw the listener into an experience of the passage of time. More recently, he has continued to work with cyclical structures in a series of compositions of long duration and his compositional research has focused upon the ways in which memory operates in music. His latest works consider the use of highly repetitive digital loops within the context of live instrumental settings. He has co-authored two books: Overcoming Form: Reflections on Immersive Listening, with Richard Glover (2013); and with Jennie Gottschalk and Richard Glover, Being Time: Case Studies in Musical Temporality (2018). Harrison is a recipient of the prestigious Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Composers. https://pure.hud.ac.uk/en/persons/bryn-harrison/
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