Roger Heaton / clarinet

Roger Heaton. clarinetist and conductor, studied at the Royal Academy of Music, King’s College London and Huddersfield University. He has worked closely with some of the world's leading composers including Henze, Feldman and Ferneyhough and performs with such groups as the Fidelio and Archduke Trios, Kreutzer and Smith String Quartets. Heaton was a member of the London Sinfonietta and Ensemble Modern, and has been a member of the Gavin Bryars Ensemble since the early 1980s. He was Music Director and Conductor of Rambert Dance Company during the 1990s, Clarinet Professor at the Darmstadt Ferienkurse für Neue Musik (1982-94). He is currently Professor of Music at Bath Spa University.