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Richard Blackford

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Year of Birth:1954

Biography

(source: wikipedia)

Richard Blackford (born 13 January 1954 in London, England) is an English composer.
Richard Blackford PhD studied composition with John Lambert at the Royal College of Music and conducting with Norman Del Mar. He was awarded the Mendelssohn Scholarship and the Tagore Gold Medal. He spent a number of years as Hans Werner Henze's assistant in Italy on a Leverhulme scholarship, where he received his first commissions while immersed in the European avant-garde.
He returned to London in 1977 to... more

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