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5 unusual facts about Nigel Clarke


Alf Ramsey

Sir Alf also had a sporadic column in the Daily Mirror in the late 1980s and early 1990s, his thoughts written down by Nigel Clarke.

Nigel Clarke

He was previously Young Composer in Residence at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Composition and Contemporary Music Tutor at the Royal Academy of Music, London, Head of Composition at the London College of Music and Media, a visiting tutor at the Royal Northern College of Music and Associate Composer to the world famous Black Dyke Mills Band and Associate Composer to the Band of the Grenadier Guards.

In 1997, Clarke visited the United States as part of the country's International Visitor Leadership Program, and the President's Own Marine Band performed one of his pieces, "Samurai", conducted by Colonel Timothy Foley.

Redditch

Nigel Clarke from band Dodgy grew up in Redditch and went to The Leys High school, now Kingsley College

When Worlds Collide

The British composer Nigel Clarke has also written a large scale work for Brass Band (2012) inspired by the film and is also entitled When Worlds Collide.



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