The solo piano music, which ranges from charming miniatures for younger players to demandingly virtuosic works, has been recorded by various artists (Eric Parkin, Peter Wallfisch, Margaret Fingerhut, Angela Brownridge, Stephen Hough), as also the works for organ, and cello (notably by Raphael Wallfisch).
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As a university student at Queen's College, Oxford from 1947-1951, on a Hastings Scholarship to study Classics, he continued to study music, tutored by the composer Bernard Rose.
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Music sung ranges from Tallis and Byrd to more modern composers - communion settings by Kenneth Leighton and Grayston Ives and anthems by Malcolm Archer, Colin Mawby, Alan Ridout and Paul Edwards.
He studied composition with Kenneth Leighton (his predecessor as Reid Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh), Egon Wellesz (the first pupil of Arnold Schoenberg), and Witold Rudziński.