Joe
Cutler was born in London in 1968 and studied at the Universities of
Huddersfield and Durham before spending three years at the Chopin
Academy, Warsaw as the recipient of a Polish Government Scholarship. In
2000, he co-founded the new music collective Noszferatu and since
August 2005 he has been Head of Composition at Birmingham
Conservatoire. Recent commissions include Macedonia for Darragh Morgan
and COMA London Ensemble, Sikorski for Noszferatu (commissioned by the
2005 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival), Cinnamon Street for the
Scottish and Swedish Chamber Orchestras and Ulf for the London
Symphony Orchestra. Without Fear of Vertigo has been recorded by the
London Sinfonietta for NMC (on Live from State of the Nation 2001, NMC
D078).
