James Gerrard lives in Leeds, U.K. He retired from a career in health care in 2019 to study Classical Composition with Folk at Leeds Conservatoire. He has played the violin from childhood― mostly in local amateur orchestras but sometimes as a folk fiddler to reflect his Irish and Scottish heritage.

He is gradually building a portfolio of short compositions and hopes to extend this using Celtic and other folk music as inspiration. As well as composing Sound Waves for Evan Erickson he has recently finished a piece for piano and recorded sound inspired by the effect of climate change on the coastal erosion of Holderness in Yorkshire, England which utilises the medieval Yorkshire lament, the Lyke Wake Dirge.