Official launch of UK leading contemporary music centre at world premiere

Composers Richard Barrett and Christopher Fox are to join Brunel University's School of Arts as research professors. The appointments will arguably give Brunel university the most significant concentration of specialist composers in a UK university.

Its new Centre for Contemporary Music Practice will be officially launched at a reception at LSO, St Lukes, in central London, on the opening night of the iF:06 festival, which follows an all-day conference aimed at performers, composers, academics and others, entitled