Fox, Christopher

Christopher Fox (b.1955) is a composer who also writes about new music. He studied music at the universities of Liverpool, Southampton and York. From 1984 to 1996 he was a member of the composition faculty at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse für neue Musik, returning again in 2014, and was a guest of the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm in 1987. From 1994 to 2006 he was a member of the music faculty at the University of Huddersfield and from 2006 to 2021 he was Professor of Music at Brunel University, London. In 2021 he was elected as a member of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin.

At the heart of his work are close collaborations with the musicians and ensembles who regularly perform his music, including the pianists John Snijders and Kate Ledger, cellist Anton Lukoszevieze, soprano Elizabeth Hilliard, clarinettist Heather Roche, and the ensembles Apartment House and EXAUDI, all of whom have also recorded his music, with portrait CDs on Ergodos, HatHut, Kairos, Divine Art and NMC. His writings on music have also been published widely, in the journals "Contact", "Contemporary Music Review", "The Guardian", "Musical Times" and "TEMPO" (which he has edited since 2015). A book on his music, "Perspectives on the music of Christopher Fox: Straight lines in broken times" (edited by Rose Dodd), was published in 2017 by Routledge.