Jeremy Peyton Jones is a composer with a particular interest in the intersection between music / theatre / performance / live art and other time based media. He studied at Dartington College of Arts and Goldsmiths and in the 1970’s worked with John Cage and Christian Wolff. His work has been performed across the UK, Europe, Australia and North America and is regularly broadcast in the USA, Australia and the UK. Commissions include works for The Balanescu Quartet, The Harmonie Band, a chamber opera for The Royal Opera House's Garden Venture, the Australian contemporary music ensemble Topology and BBC Radio 3. Recently he has written works for the Canadian electric guitarist Tim Brady, harpsichordist Jane Chapman and the keyboard duo Keynote+. In 2002 he was composer in residence at the Queensland Conservatorium, Brisbane.
He is conductor and artistic director of the ensemble Regular Music II, with whom he has recorded two albums and performed across the UK, at European festivals and on BBC Radio 3. The ensemble was voted among the top 18 international contemporary music ensembles by Gramophone Magazine and their CD North South East West was voted “Best Modern Composition CD” by The Wire in 1996.
Two years spent programming new music and live performance at the Midland Group Arts Centre in Nottingham brought him into contact with experimental live art, theatre and dance companies and he subsequently worked collaboratively with several theatre companies writing scores for the seminal A Place in Europe for Impact Theatre Cooperative, large-scale site-specific works for Lumiere & Son Theatre Company, several collaborations with director Pete Brooks and Insomniac Productions. He has worked closely with writers setting texts by Claire MacDonald, Russell Hoban, Kathy Acker, David Gale, Tim Etchells and Deborah Levy.  His current music theatre project is Against Oblivion, part 1 of which was premiered at Toynbee Studios in 2007 and part 2 at the Tête á Tête Opera Festival in 2009.
Web: http://www.gold.ac.uk/music/staff/peytonjonesmrjeremy/ (2011)