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.