Education
Monoux Grammar School, Royal Academy, of Music.
Monoux Grammar School, Royal Academy, of Music.
Improvisations (with Matyas Seiber) 1959, Escapade (commissioned by Northern Sinfonia Orchestra) 1967, Tom Sawyer’s Saturday, for narrator and orchestra (commissioned by Famham Festival) 1967, String Quartet 1971, Piano Concerto (commissioned by Westminster Festival) 1972, Grace Abounding (for Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) 1980, The Diamond and the Goose (for City of Birmingham Choir and Orchestra) 1981, Reconciliation 1987 (for Silver Jubilee of Coventry Catherdral); film scores include: Saturday Night, Sunday Morning, Darling, The Servant. Morgan, Accident; numerous record albums, most recent include Echoes of Harlem Misty, Symphonic Fusions; Honorary Master of Arts (Open University) 1975; Honorary D.Mus. (Berklee School of Music) 1982; Variety Club of Great Britain Show Busines,- Personality Founded large jazz orchestra 1958.
Married Cleo Laine in 1958.