Roger Heaton, clarinettist and conductor, studied at the Royal Academy of Music, King’s College London and Huddersfield University. He performs with such groups as the Kreutzer and Smith String Quartets, was a member of the London Sinfonietta and Ensemble Modern, and is a member of the Gavin Bryars Ensemble. He was Music Director and Conductor of Rambert Dance Company during the 1990s, Clarinet Professor at the Darmstadt Ferienkurse für Neue Musik (1982-94) and is currently Professor of Music at Bath Spa University. His most recent CDs include chamber music of Hugh Wood on Toccata, music by Tom Johnson on the Ants/Silenzio label, and clarinet quintets by Morton Feldman and Christopher Fox on Metier. His book The Versatile Clarinet (Routledge) was published in 2006; he has contributed a chapter to the Cambridge Companion to Recorded Music (2008) and a chapter on recent instrumental music for the Cambridge History of Musical Performance (forthcoming 2012).