Joe Cutler is a British

United Kingdom

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 composer

Composer

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 who studied music at the Universities of Huddersfield and Durham, before a scholarship at the Chopin Academy in Warsaw

Warsaw

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, Poland

Poland

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. He has taught composition at the Birmingham Conservatoire since 2000, and since 2005 he has been the Head of Composition there. He is also the co-founder of the instrumental ensemble Noszferatu.
During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Cutler, like many of his generation, including Americans composers Michael Gordon

Michael Gordon

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 and David Lang

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, and British composer Steve Martland

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, was influenced by the minimalist music of Louis Andriessen

Louis Andriessen

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