While at RCM he studied under Healey Willan for composition, Norman Wilks for piano, Ettore Mazzoleni for conducting, and John Weatherseed and Frederick Silvester for Organ.
While at the Royal College of Music (RCM), he received instruction from Healey Willan in composition, Norman Wilks in piano, Ettore Mazzoleni in conducting, and John Weatherseed and Frederick Silvester on the organ.