He was born in Gloucester on 19 December 1928 and educated at The Crypt School, Gloucester, and Pembroke College, Oxford, where he studied music with Thomas Armstrong and Bernard Rose. He was also a composition pupil of Lennox Berkeley.
He was born in Gloucester on 19 December 1928 and educated at The Crypt School, Gloucester, and Pembroke College, Oxford. He studied music with Thomas Armstrong and Bernard Rose under the guidance of Lennox Berkeley.