Roger Redgate is a British composer, conductor and improvisor. He was born in Bolton, Lancashire. He graduated at the Royal College of Music, where he won prizes for composition, violin performance, harmony and counterpoint. A DAAD scholarship enabled him to study with Brian Ferneyhough and Klaus Huber in Freiburg. From 1984 and 1994 he was a member of the Composers Forum at the Darmstadt summer school, where he received the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis for composition in 1988. From 1989 to 1992 he was Northern Arts Fellow in Composition at the universities of Durham and Newcastle. He is conductor and artistic director of Ensemble Exposé, which he founded in 1984 together with Richard Barrett, and with which he performs regularly at European festivals and on BBC Radio 3 and has released recordings, including a CD of the chamber music by Brian Ferneyhough. He has worked in the fields of jazz, improvised music, film and television (including programmes for the BBC and Channel 4), and performance art. His compositions have been performed extensively throughout Europe, Australia and the United States and he has received commissions from the BBC, Biennale, and Ensemble 21 New York. He has published articles on music and culture, the music of Brian Ferneyhough and Michael Finnissy, including a chapter in the book Uncommon Ground: The Music of Michael Finnissy. CD recordings of his works are available on the NMC and Edition Zeitklang labels and further recordings are in preparation due for release on the Metier and NMC labels. His compositions are published by Éditions Henry Lemoine, Paris, United Music Publishers, London and the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. Since 1997 Roger Redgate has been a lecturer in Goldsmiths College, University of London where he is Professor of Composition and Director of the Contemporary Music Research Unit.