Professor John Michael Clarke is Director of the Electroacoustic Music Studio at the

University of Huddersfield , mottoeng = Thus not for you alone , established = 1825 – Huddersfield Science and Mechanics' Institute1992 – university status , type = Public , endowment = £2.47 million (2015) , chancellor = George W. Buckley , vice_chancell ...

. He graduated from

St Chad's College, Durham , motto_English = Not what you have, but who you are , scarf = , established = 1904 , principal = Margaret Masson , senior_tutor = Eleanor Spencer-Regan , undergraduates = 409 , postgraduates = 150 , website = , coordinates = , location_map ...

. As a composer his works (which include both acoustic and electroacoustic pieces, most often combining these media) have received many performances and broadcasts throughout the world. In 1983 ''Soundings'' (cello and tape) won the CIM France prize at Bourges, in 1984 ''Uppvaknande'' (computer generated tape) was awarded the Chandos Prize at Musica Nova in Glasgow and in 1997 he was awarded the Musica Nova Prize in Prague for the

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tape work ''Tim(br)e''. More recent works include ''Prism and Cascade'' for the trumpeter Stephen Altoft, ''Constellations'' (for piano, percussion and computer) commissioned for the Verblendungen festival in Belgium, ''ThreeFour'' for the Goldberg Ensemble and ''Enmeshed'' written for L a u t and premiered at the 2005 Sonorities Festival in Belfast. A CD of four of his works (''Refractions'', ''Mälarsång'', ''Epicycle'' and ''Uppvaknande'') is available under the collective title ''Refractions'' (MPSCD003).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Clarke, J. Michael Alumni of St Chad's College, Durham Academics of the University of Huddersfield Living people British composers Year of birth missing (living people)