I was born in 1934, in Dartmouth, Devon, England, and got into ensemble music by playing horn and cornet in the local brass band from 1947 to 1952. I took a degree in engineering at Cambridge, England, in 1956, and worked in various sorts of engineering, aerodynamics and computing until 1994, mostly for UK Government, but including three interesting years in the Netherlands with the European Space Research Organisation (now subsumed into ESA). In 1994, I retired and went to my local university (Reading, England) to study music. From 1998 until 2003 I continued studying composition at Reading, and am now preparing a Sinfonietta for wind band that I wrote during this period for a trial play-through in April. Nowadays I play mostly horn, double bass and piano, none to professional standard, but have occasionally been paid to conduct. My wife runs an orchestra for adults who are just starting instrumental playing or wish to return to it after a lay-off; my elder daughter is a singer-songwriter who accompanies herself on bass guitar; and my son plays (also mostly bass guitar) in jazz bands and pit orchestras, but earns more in software and business management.
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