Andrew Hugill

Andrew Hugill (born 1957) is a British composer, writer and academic. He is both a professor of music and a professor of creative computing. He directs the Creative Computing programme at University of Leicester. Biography Andrew Hugill studied composition with Roger Marsh at the University of Keele between 1976 and 1980, and in 1983 he founded the ensemble “George W. Welch”. He began lecturing at Leicester Polytechnic in 1986, working alongside Gavin Bryars and Dave Smith, eventually becoming subject-leader for the BA Performing Arts: Music. He taught composition, performance and music history. He founded the Music, Technology and Innovation programme in 1997 at De Montfort University and taught Creative and Negotiated Projects, Musicianship and Internet Music. In 2006 he founded the Institute of Creative Technologies and was its director until 2012. In 2013, he set up Creative Computing at Bath Spa University. In 2018, he founded the Creative Computing programme at University of Leicester. Hugill is a Principal Fellow and a National Teaching Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Hugill has had a huge impact on the views of Aural Diversity. Compositions Hugill’s compositions inc