Richard Barrett
Richard Barrett is professor of Research in Creative Music at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA).
He is internationally active as a composer and performer and teaches at the Institute of Sonology at KC. His musical work encompasses a range from free improvisation to intricately-notated scores, and from acoustic chamber music and orchestral composition to innovative uses of digital technology. He was awarded a PhD at the University of Leeds in 2018 for his thesis Music of Possibility, published in book form by Vision Edition in 2019.
His research focuses on developing new concepts for relating improvisation to other compositional methods, both in pedagogical contexts – such as directing the Sonology Electroacoustic Ensemble – and within his own creative practice. His most recent book, Transforming Moments (Vision Edition 2023), is based on three years of research in the context of the KC Lectorate Music, Education & Society.
