About John Habron

John Habron was born in Huddersfield in 1978. While a student at the University of Durham he conducted the University Symphony Orchestra. In 2000 he studied with Michael Finnissy at the University of Southampton and there gained a distinction in his MA.

In 2001 John was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 to write a piece for the Belcea String Quartet, 'The Sudden Walk', which was premiered in August 2002 and has been broadcast twice. His music has also been performed at festivals in Brighton, Huddersfield, York and Edinburgh and he has enjoyed close working relationships with groups such as EXAUDI, The Hola, IXION, the New Music Players, Capricorn, Gemini, The Arianna Consort and the Cornelius Cardew Ensemble.

As an active tutor and animateur, John has recently completed a three-year association with Winchester College, where he established the college's 'Music in Context' seminar series. He has also mentored the CoMA Yorkshire and CoMA South Composers' Groups (Contemporary Music Making for Amateurs) and has worked as an animateur for the Pennine Spring Music Festival (2003-06) and the South Tyneside Music and Animation Summer School (2003).

John is a keen scholar whose interests include musicology and the philosophy of music. He has recently completed a PhD at the University of Southampton and is now an Early Career Teaching Fellow in Music for the university, where he lectures in composition, orchestration, harmony and counterpoint, and late twentieth-century music.