Biography
Monty Adkins is a composer, performer, and lecturer of experimental electronic music and audio art. He has created installations, concert and audio-visual works, and a number of collaborations with contemporary dance. His works have been commissioned by Ina-GRM, IRCAM,BBC Radio 3, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (HCMF), SpACE-Net and Sonic Arts Network (SAN), among others.
For his works he has been awarded over 20 international prizes including the Stockholm Electronic Arts Award (Sweden), Grand Prize at Musica Nova (Prague, Czech Republic), and five prizes at the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition (France).
Having read music at Pembroke College (Cambridge, England, UK) Adkins then studied electronic music with Jonty Harrison at the University of Birmingham where he performed across Europe with the Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre (BEAST), and Simon Waters at the University of East Anglia (Norwich, England, UK).