Background
BURGON, Geoffrey was born on July 15, 1941 in Hambledon. Son of Alan and Vera (nee Isom) Burgon.
BURGON, Geoffrey was born on July 15, 1941 in Hambledon. Son of Alan and Vera (nee Isom) Burgon.
Pewley School, Guildford, Guildhall School of Music.
dramatic works): Epitaph for Sir Walter Raleigh 1968, Joan of Arc 1970, The Fall of Lucifer 1977, Orpheus 1982, Hard Times (opera) 1990 (orchestral music): Concerto for String Orchestra 1963, Gending 1968, Alleluia Nativitas 1970 (with coices): Acquainted with Night 1965, Think on Dredful Domesday 1969, Canciones del Alma 1975, Requiem 1976, Magnificent and Nunc dimittis 1979, The World Again 1983, Revelations 1984, Title Divine 1986, A Vision 1990. (ballet music): The Golden Fish 1964, The Calm 1974, Running Figures/Goldberg’s Dream 1975, Songs, Lamentations and Praises 1979, Mass 1984, Prometheus 1988 (chamber music): Four Guitars 1977, Six Studies 1980 (with voices): Hymn to Venus 1966, Five Sonnets of John Donne 1967, Worldes Blisse 1971, Two Love Songs, Lunar Beauty 1986, Nearing the Upper Air 1988 (choral music): Three Elegies 1964, Short Mass 1965. Golden Eternity 1970, The Fire of Heaven 1973, Dos Coros 1975, A God and Yet a Manitoba 1984, Prayer to Saint Richard 1989, Songs of the Creation 1989, The Song of the Creatures 1989 (music for children): Divertimento 1964, Five Studies 1965, Now Welcome Summer 1966, Beginnings 1969 (film music): Life of Brian 1979, Dogs of War 1980, Turtle Diary 1985 (television Music): Doctor Who 1975, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 1979, Brideshead Revisited 1981. Testament of Youth 1979, How Many Miles to Babylon 1981, Bewitched 1983, The Death of the Heart 1985, Happy Valley 1987, The Old Wives Tale 1988, Sophia and Constance 1988, The Chronicles of Narnia 1988-1990, Children of the North 1990; recipient of Ivor NovelloFreelance trumpeter/composer 1964-1971. Conductor since 1964. Full-time composer since 1971.
Married Janice Garwood in 1963 (divorced).