Percussionist, composer and electronic
musician N. Cameron Britt has performed extensively with the North Carolina
Symphony as well as numerous orchestras throughout the Southeast including the
Charleston Symphony Orchestra, the Alabama Symphony Orchestra and the Macon
Symphony. In addition he is active as a creator and interpreter of new music
and performs with cellist Tom Kraines in the free improvisation duo Dithyramb.
Mr. Britt’s performances can be heard on Tzadik, Opus 3 Records, Innova
Records. He is currently teaching percussion at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
As a composer he has worked with the Brentano
String Quartet, So Percussion, Ensemble Klang, janus, NOW Ensemble and the
electronica duo Matmos and his works for percussion have been performed at
universities throughout the country. He is a member of the laptop-centric
ensemble Sideband and has worked closely its progenitor PLOrk (the Princeton
Laptop Orchestra) as a composer, performing member and assistant director.
In 2005 he was awarded a Fulbright to work
with vibraphone virtuoso Anders Åstrand in Stockholm, Sweden. He holds degrees
in music theory, percussion performance and composition from Northwestern
University and the University of South Carolina and he is currently a PhD
candidate in composition at Princeton University.