About John Butcher
John Butcher is well known as a saxophonist who attempts to engage with the uniqueness of time and place. His music ranges through improvisation, his own compositions, multitracked pieces and explorations with feedback and extreme acoustics.
Butcher began playing saxophone whilst also studying physics, but after publishing a PhD in quantum chromodynamics (1982), he left academia to take off with music and has since collaborated with hundreds of artists.
Recent compositions include ‘Fluid Fixations’ for fourteen performers at HCMF 2021.
He has received a Paul Hamlyn Award for composers and been shortlisted for a British Composer’s Award.
About Rhodri Davies
Rhodri Davies is immersed in the worlds of improvisation, musical experimentation, composition and contemporary classical performance. He plays harp, electric harp, live-electronics and builds wind, water, ice, dry ice and fire harp installations. David Sylvian, Jenny Hval, Derek Bailey, Sofia Jernberg, Lina Lapelyte and Pat Thomas are some of the musicians he has worked with. For the last ten years he has been closely associated with the pioneering composer Eliane Radigue performing eighteen of her pieces.
In 2012 he was the recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Grants to Artists Award and in 2017 he received a Creative Wales Award. He is a co-organiser of the NAWR concert series in Swansea.
