OHMI welcomes Dr Andrew McPherson to its Board of Trustees

Dr Andrew McPherson, OHMI's Newest Trustee

​We are delighted to announce that Dr Andrew McPherson has joined the OHMI Board of Trustees.
Andrew is Reader in Digital Media at Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL). He is part of the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science’s Centre for Digital Music, and leads the Augmented Instruments Laboratory. In addition to its research and performance activities, the lab has led to the successful launch of two spinout companies: Touchkeys and Bela. 
His activities as a composer and researcher in augmented instruments, new performance interfaces and expressive performance modelling, were the catalyst for Andrew’s involvement in the Trust, which now spans a period of some seven years.

Dr Stephen Hetherington, OHMI’s Chairman, comments,

​​“Andrew has been an avid champion of OHMI for some years, expertly supervising PhD students each summer during their placement projects with OHMI. The first was our 2017 OHMI Competition winner, Duncan Menzies, who created the P-bROCK Digital Bagpipe Chanter, which later featured on BBC Breakfast News. Andrew’s skill in adapted instrument research and production, has, more recently, led to him joining the judging panel for OHMI’s biennial competition. The natural next step was clearly as Trustee, and I’m delighted that he has accepted the invitation.”

Andrew adds,
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“I am very much looking forward to the value I can bring in building greater partnerships between the academic and music communities; making sure that adapted instrument design is based firmly on musicians’ needs, rather than on our assumptions about what’s needed. Our ultimate aim, of course, is to get those instruments into the hands of the musicians that need them, as quickly as possible.”