Jez Pritchatt
BSc (Hons)

Jez Pritchatt is Course Leader for the Foundation Degrees and BA Sound Design, and teaches modules in the music industry, business, music theory and synthesis on all the College’s HE courses.  His areas of specialism are 1970s Punk Rock and ‘bubblegum’ pop.

Jez studied for a BSc (Hons) in Music Technology.  Before joining Leeds College of Music he held posts as a Music Technology & Popular Music lecturer in London & Doncaster.

Jez has been a guitarist and songwriter in various rock & pop bands since the 1970s.  He has released various recordings by ‘Girls At Our Best!’ & ‘The Tall Boys’ and has performed extensively, including in USA and Europe.  Career highlights include a No.1 single in UK Indie chart with ‘Girls At Our Best!’, ‘The Tall Boys’ contributing to the soundtrack of George Romero's 'Return of The Living Dead', and ‘Sadodada!’ with Jonny Slut of ‘Nag Nag Nag’.  He was also booking manager at the Marquee Club. 

As a composer, Jez was commissioned to write a musical, ‘Alice’, for Settle Youth Theatre in 2002.  Three of his compositions reached the finals and semi-finals of the 'UK National Songwriters Contest' in 2005.  He is also a member of PRS.