About Us

FOCAM aims to increase awareness, participation and critique of new music through performance, composition and criticism.

One of our central aims is to increase the opportunities for live concert performances of student compositions and new music repertoire. Central to this objective is to bridge the gap between performers and composers, allowing fruitful exploration of instrumental and electro-acoustic possibilities.

FOCAM will run a series of performance-led workshops in addition to regular calls-for-works, a series of talks by leading musicologists, composers and performers from outside the University and a social calendar to include excursions to new music gigs and pubs.

Committee Members

This year's committee are:

President - Joey Pollock

Secretary - Jess Ward

Treasurer - Lauren Redhead

Lauren Redhead is currently in the first year of her PhD, she is from Manchester. She attended Leeds University for both her Undergraduate and Master's degrees and obviously likes it here. As a composer she is interested in nonlinearity.

Lauren is the FOCAM treasurer and will happily take your money from you for the society! If you would like to join, or if you have an idea for an event you would like to discuss, please get in touch with her.

Events Manager - Joanna Heaton

Jo is currently in her thrid year of studying BA music at Leeds University. She plays and teaches the cello and the piano, and this year is the events manager of FOCAM music society. Next year Jo is hoping to do a masters in composition.

Website Manager - Tomas Brennan

Tomas is a third year Computing-Music student with an interest in electronic and electro-acoustic music. His job is to keep this website up and running and manage other technical issues within the society.