Dr Kim Ashton

Dr Ashton's pieces have been played throughout Europe and are recorded on LSO Live, LORELT and NONCLASSICAL labels. Recent works have been performed by the LSO, Ensemble InterContemporain, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Orchestra of Opera North, Orquestra Gulbenkian, and players from the Budapest Symphony Orchestra. Three of his chamber operas have been performed at the Tête à Tête Opera Festival (two with Arts Council funding), while RPS award winner Clare Hammond recently performed his most recent major work, Ornithology, at the National Gallery.

With a PhD from King’s College London, Dr Ashton is now an affiliated lecturer at the Music Faculty in Cambridge. Alongside his musical career Dr Ashton is currently starting up a garden design and permaculture business with a view to single-handedly mitigating the worst effects of climate change and biodiversity loss. He also runs Work that Reconnects workshops which support people to reconnect with their enthusiasm and agency during the ecological crises. Kim coordinates the Ely branch of Extinction Rebellion.