Biography

Jim Aitchison is a composer based in the South West, a music teacher and instrumental tutor of 17 years experience, a lecturer and a full member of the Incorporated Society of Musicians.

Jim Aitchison’s practice as a composer engages with a variety of contemporary and historical sources, in music, art and literature, initiating encounters with work by visual artists including Antony Gormley, Doris Salcedo, Peter Randall-Page, Anish Kapoor, Richard Deacon and John Hoyland. He works with musicians, concert venues, galleries and academic institutions throughout the UK and abroad including Tate, the Royal Academy of Arts, the British Museum and Kings Place.

The composer trained at Nottingham University, where his Masters Degree earned the University’s Halward Prize in Composition, and then at UCE in Birmingham where he qualified as a teacher.

Since 1996 he has worked as a freelance composer and teacher building long term links with the Royal Academy of Music where he was a Henry Moore Fellow in 2007/2008. He is also a part time music lecturer at University College Falmouth.

For more information visit www.jimaitchison.com