Born Kendal, UK 1974. A former Guardian ‘Artist of the Week’, his diverse work has been written about in publications such as Time Out, Dazed & Confused, Flash Art and Art Review. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Hayward Gallery, London, The Getty Museum, LA and the Kunst Museum, Bonn. As likely to shoot a drum kit as he is to fabricate a bouncy castle out of black leather, his witty and unpredictable approach lent itself perfectly to the challenge of collaborating with a composer, a string quartet and a table tennis team to produce Ping! A Graduate of Goldsmiths infamous Fine Art course, he completed his doctoral research at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. In December 2014, a solo exhibition at the John Hansard gallery, Southampton, supported by the Henry Moore foundation, will present an extensive new body of work accompanied by a publication.

Nick Fells is based at the University of Glasgow where he runs programmes in sonic arts. As a composer and performer, he aims to refine ways of improvising with the manipulation of recorded sound, working closely with other performers. His main concern is nurturing a poetic sensitivity or delicacy in technologically mediated sound work, leading to a wide variety of soundworlds and listening experiences. Recent pieces have included Other Islands for ensemble Intégrales, sublimation for Scottish Opera, and rifts, a work using wavefield synthesis surround sound, played at the Sónar Festival in Barecelona in 2012.

Andy Ingamells is an experimental musician working with alternative methods of composition that question the distinction between composer and performer. Examples of his work include a 24-hour performance disseminating brief instructions via the internet to be interpreted in over 30 countries worldwide, expanding the notion of musical indeterminacy to read aspects of everyday life as notation, and a five-day performance-journey across Europe inspired by organ music. He has performed his own and other people’s work in venues such as Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ (Amsterdam), Ikon Gallery (Birmingham), El Niu de la Guatlla (Barcelona), Café Oto (London), Schlosshof (Göppingen) and Kongernes Lapidarium (Copenhagen). He is a graduate of the Master Artistic Research programme at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, and completed his bachelor study at Birmingham Conservatoire, winning the BMus Prize and the Orchestral Composition Prize, in addition to the Composition Department Prize for his destructive Piano Recital.

Coull Quartet have been the Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Warwick since 1977. Having performed and broadcast extensively throughout the UK, the USA and Western Europe, they have also toured China, India, the Far East, South America and Australia. The Quartet has appeared at most of the major music societies and festivals in the UK, and gives an annual series of recitals at Warwick Arts Centre, where it is actively involved in the University of Warwick’s flourishing musical life. The Coull Quartet currently records for Somm Records, and their disc of quartets by Maw and Britten has received universal acclaim. In addition to being featured in ‘Editor’s Choice’ in The Gramophone, it was also described as the ‘Benchmark Recording’ by BBC Music Magazine. Their latest two CDs, of music by Sibelius and Ian Venables have recently received excellent reviews in the major musical publications. In addition to performing most of the standard string quartet repertoire, the Coull Quartet often features modern British repertoire in its programmes. Their impressive list of commissions includes works by Sally Beamish, Edward Cowie, Joe Cutler, David Matthews, Nicholas Maw, and Robert Simpson.