Will Dutta is a passionate and entrepreneurial artist and composer with a restless inventiveness for the how and why we make sound. His breadth of work has reached all corners of the music industry: from performances, such as Ether Festival at Southbank Centre, to stage managing Pete Tong and the Heritage Orchestra, to publishing original research, and producing two studio albums, Parergon (Just Music, 2012) and bloom (SWD, 2017), that feature collaborations with Plaid and Friendly Fires’ front-man Ed Macfarlane. Over a 15-year career he has supported the creation of radical new work with far-reaching impact, including Gabriel Prokofiev’s now iconic Concerto for Turntables and Orchestra. He was creative director of the concert production of The Little Prince, composed by the late-Nicholas Lloyd Webber and James D Reid, and his studio’s most recent production, Roshanarar bagan, an immersive exhibition that explores decadence in the context of the attention industry, recently ended a five week-run at the Austrian Cultural Forum London.

Will, who is of British-Bengali background, is a Fellow of the Institute of Cultural and Creative Industries at the University of Kent where he is exploring human and machine creativity, and he recently held teaching positions at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and The King’s School in Canterbury. He has a PhD in Creative Practice (Music) from City, University of London.