Lifemusic

Rod Paton, D.Phil

Rod Paton, D.Phil, is a musician, composer and workshop leader of wide interests and long experience. He read music and philosophy in Southampton before continuing postgraduate studies at the Janacek Academy in the former Czechoslovakia where he specialised in horn playing and composing. Since then he has worked as an orchestral player, jazz musician/composer, community musician and music therapist and is currently Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Chichester where he teaches improvisation, composition, community music and cultural theory. He is a director of Sound Sense, the UK’s development agency for community music and runs regular Lifemusic workshops at home and abroad for people of all backgrounds and abilities, including those working in corporate environments. His book, Living Music, guidelines for group improvisation, is widely used by community musicians and teachers. He is an active jazz and improvising horn player, working alongside some of the cream of European musicians in this field with whom he has broadcast on BBC R3. He also leads the modern jazz ensemble, Cornucopia and the “Afro-Balkan” Jazzrock band Hornutopia.

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