Henry McPherson is a composer, performer, artist, and improviser. His practice involves the production of scores, prompts, stimulus material, and standalone pieces in various forms of media, for interpretation through sound, movement, and other performance. He maintains a focus on score (in its various definitions) as interface, document-object, and archive, capable of generating unlimited avenues of interpretive and communicative possibility.
Henry McPherson is a composer, performer, artist, and improviser. His practice involves the production of scores, prompts, stimulus material, and standalone pieces in various forms of media, for interpretation through sound, movement, and other performance. He maintains a focus on score (in its various definitions) as interface, document-object, and archive, capable of generating unlimited avenues of interpretive and communicative possibility.
Henry is a founding member of UK-based interdisciplinary collective EAST (Experimental Artists Social Theatre), and is one third of the Queer chamber trio Savage Parade. He has recently held the position of artist in residence at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (Alberta, Canada), and at Despina gallery (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) with the Fruitmarket gallery (Edinburgh).
He is a graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and is an award holder of the Help Musicians Transmission Fund (2018); the Harriet Cohen Memorial Music award (2018); the Patron’s Prize for Composition (2017); Opera Sparks (2017 – Scottish Opera); and the Dinah Wolfe Memorial Prize for Composition (2013).
