Geoffrey Burgon
Geoffrey Burgon ( born July 15 1941 in Hambledon, Hampshire, † 21 September 2010) was a British composer of ballet and film music.
Life
Burgon brought a self-taught trumpet at and was a member of a jazz band his school Pewley Grammar School in Guildford.
He graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, with the intention of becoming a professional musician. Finally, he discovered that he also had a strong interest in the theory of composition. First he earned his money as a jazz trumpeter, until he sold all the trumpets at the age of 30 years and decided on a career as a composer.
The critics agreed with him and recorded his Requiem in 1976 at the Three Choirs Festival, a festival in the church of Hereford, Gloucester and Worcester, from. His work is often placed in the tradition of Benjamin Britten.
The quasi liquid and effortless language of his music goes well with the commonly used human voice, with Burgon can look back on many years of cooperation with the countertenor James Bowman.
In 1962, he married Janice Elizabeth Garwood, with whom he has a son and daughter. After a divorce he married in 1992 Jacqueline Krofchak ( artist name Kroft ), a Canadian pianist and singer. They have a son together.