Dr Mike Fletcher

Mike Fletcher is a woodwind multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and researcher who works predominantly in the fields of jazz and improvised music.

His research spans jazz, traditional, and improvised music practice, musicology and philosophy. He is a founder committee member of the International Network for Artistic Research in Jazz (INARJ), has presented his work at conferences across Europe, and his academic writing has been published by Routledge and Leuven University Press.

His most recent research project, funded by AHRC, investigated the musical and cultural impact of saxophonist Ornette Coleman’s early music. He was recently awarded Arts Council England funding to develop an improvisation methodology based on the bagpipe traditions of Northumbria and the Scottish borders.