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Work title: Dean of Research and Impact, Ulster University
Work place/organisation: Creative Industries Institute/ Ulster University
Frank Lyons MBE is Professor of Music and Associate Dean of Research and Impact in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Ulster University. He has developed an international profile as a composer and researcher with over 150 performances and exhibitions of his works having been given in China, Japan, Australia, South Africa, the US, Europe, the UK and Ireland and broadcast on BBC, RTE, NPR and ABCFM by some of the world’s leading soloists and ensembles.
In 2010 he was awarded the Japanese Agency of Cultural Affairs Media Art Prize with media artist Masaki Fujihata for their interactive installation piece Simultaneous Echoes which has been exhibited in Canada, Germany, Japan and Poland. His intermedia piece The River Still Sings, co-commissioned by the City of London Festival and Derry~Londonderry City of Culture 2013, was premiered by the Fidelio Trio in June 2013. His groundbreaking piece, NonZeroSum for inclusive ensemble was performed across Europe in 2017 to widespread acclaim.
He has developed an international network of research collaborations in the field of creative technologies and disability under the ‘Inclusive Creativity’ banner; this work was rated as ‘world-leading’ in the recent research assessment exercise REF2014.
Frank recently co-ordinated the successful Future Screens NI bid to AHRC Creative Industries Clusters programme which secured funding of £13million to support development of creative industries in Northern Ireland.
Frank is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
– I have been working with ShareMusic for twenty years and with ShareMusic Sweden since its inception under the leadership of Sophia Alexandersson. I have been inspired by the growth in capacity of the organisation and by the confidence with which it has challenged accepted norms around the position of creative arts in society and of the role technology has to play in inclusive practice. I’m delighted to be able to contribute in some small way to assisting with the positive trajectory of Share Music Sweden in the coming months and years.
