British pianist whose artistic path is marked by the names of a number of avant-garde composers of the second half of the 20th century, as well as improvisation concerts that put him alongside the artists. He began learning to play the piano at the age of 9, after the end of World War II; he went on to study at the Royal College of Music, and his traditional educational path was crowned by studies with Zbigniew Drzewiecki in Warsaw. Ultimately, however, it was not the standard repertoire of pianistic masterpieces that caught the attention of the winner of the Dutch Gaudeamus competition in 1968. He was fascinated by the personality of composer Cornelius Cardew (1936-1981), who was one of the founders of the Scratch Orchestra, in which Tilbury played (he later also joined the AMM free improvisation ensemble) – being a friend, he later became the composer’s biographer, and his views undoubtedly had a great influence on the pianist. At the same time, he devotes himself to the music of other composers, including being one of the most important performers of Morton Feldman’s piano works.