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Last updated 18th April 2024

Professor Monty Adkins is currently Acting Pro Vice Chancellor for Research, Innovation, and Knowledge Exchange. Since 2020 he has been Dean of the Graduate School. 

As a composer and performer of electronic music he has created installations, concert and audio-visual works, and a number of collaborations with contemporary performers, video artists and photographers including Claire Barber, Yan Wang Preston, Brass Arts, Andy Fullalove, Deborah Templeton, and Nic Clear. His work has been released by Audiobulb, Cronica, Eilean, and empreintes DIGITALes. Since 2020 he has worked in the field of dark ambient music producing a number of critically acclaimed albums for the US-based Cryo Chamber label.

His works have been commissioned by Ina-GRM, IRCAM, BBC Radio 3, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, SpACE-Net, ZKM (Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe) and Sonic Arts Network, among others. For his oeuvre he has been awarded over 15 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 (University of Cambridge) where he studied French medieval and Italian Renaissance music, 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.

Adkins is also active as a writer and concert curator. He completed his first book with Pip Dickens (University of Lancaster) in 2011 on the relationship between art and music (Shibusa – Extracting Beauty), followed by four further edited collections  on the music of Roberto Gerhard. Adkins has also contibuted journal articles to Organised Sound and the Journal of Music Technology and Education, book chapters on music education, mixed music and the electronic music of Christopher Fox amongst others. 

He has received grants from the Leverhulme Foundation, British Academy, Arts and Humanities Research Council and has mentored successful Marie Curie EU-funded post-doctoral research fellowships. He is currently PI for the AHRC-funded 'Ernest Berk: An Expressionist Outsider' (see Ernest Berk: Diversed Tapes – NMC Recordings). 

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Website: https://monty-adkins.com/