Paul Clift

Paul's music often attempts to make abstract associations with a diverse variety of concepts and disciplines, such as linguistics, modernist literature & painting, cognitive phenomena, and extra-European musical traditions, in particular the Shona tradition of Zimbabwe. His compositional outlook is marked by formative studies with George Benjamin, Jean-Luc Hervé, Fred Lerdahl, Philippe Leroux, Fabien Lévy & Tristan Murail. His works have been featured in festivals such as Agora, MATA & ISCM, and he has participated in festivals & master-classes including Royaumont Voix Nouvelles, Acanthes, Domaine Forget, IMPULS, June in Buffalo, MATRIX, Internationale Sommerakademie der MDW & Darmstadt Ferienkursen.