Peter Crossley-Holland

Education

Crossley-Holland attended Abbotsholme School. Although he was a keen pianist, he studied medicine not music at Street John"s College, Oxford, when he matriculated in 1933.

Career

However, his composition "Fantasy Quintet" for piano and strings enjoyed a professional performance in Sheffield by George Linstead. Further his "Violin Sonata" and "Suite Number. He later he returned to Oxford for a B. Music. degree.

His graduating piece was in the celtic style, "A Song of Saint Columba." From 1948, he was a producer for the British Broadcasting Corporation Radio classical music station called the Third Programme, until he moved to Germany from 1964 to 1966 where he was Assistant Director of the Institute for Musical Research in Berlin.

After teaching assignments in Illinois and Hawaii universities, he was appointed Professor of Music (Ethnomusicology) at University of California, Los Angeles in 1969. He retired in 1983 and moved to Wales.

Achievements

• 1 for strings", both composed in 1938, won him a composition scholarship at the Royal College of Music, where he was taught by John Ireland.