Michael Begg

Michael Begg is an award winning composer, sound and recording artist based in East Lothian, Scotland.

Creative Climate Data Workshop

Creative Climate Data Workshop

I was pleased to contribute to an online workshop organised by Edinburgh’s Creative Informatics team on 22nd October. (https://creativeinformatics.org/) The...
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New in 2024

Live accompanied film of the 2024 Antarctic residency
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“Michael Begg is one of Scotland’s most innovative and emotionally affecting musicians. His work bridges science and art, classical and contemporary, breaking new ground while thrilling audiences.”

Alan Morrison, Head of Music, Creative Scotland

Michael Begg Mexico City 2018
About Michael Begg

Michael Begg is an award winning composer and sound artist, based in East Lothian, Scotland. He is an Associate Artist at The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, and has held residencies with the European Marine Board, Ocean ARTic Partnership, the Mexican Centre for Music and Sound Art, and Friends of the Scott Polar Research Institute.


He won the New Music Scotland Award for Sound Art in 2018, for his site specific sound work, TITAN, a Cryptic commission for Sonica, located in the wheelhouse of Clydebank's iconic shipyard crane.

He is the musical director of Black Glass Ensemble. The Ensemble was featured in a two day showcase, Black Glass In Pieces, in the Made In Scotland showcase at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe.

“one of the most important experimental composers of our time”

CCD Radio, Mexico