Ed McKeon

Ed McKeon leads the Masters module on Music Management. As founder and Director of Third Ear Music he collaborates with contemporary musicians, composers and artists to produce new work in the borderlands between music and other disciplines, as a creative space that enables different publics to encounter their own and others' imaginations in unexpected forms. He has been a promoter (running Oxford Contemporary Music, producing Spitalfields Festival), funding manager and policy maker (Arts Council of England), strategic development manager (London Sinfonietta), programme director (Society for the Promotion of New Music), artistic director (British [now ‘Ivor Novello’] Composer Awards), and broadcaster (Radio 3's Hear and Now). As well as producing new work, Ed is a Trustee (Hinrichsen Foundation, NMC Records), panellist (ISCM British section, LSO Panufnik Scheme), writer and researcher (AHRC funded PhD on the musicality of curatorial praxis, at Birmingham City University through Midlands 4 Cities DTP).