Richard Blackford

Richard Blackford PhD studied composition with Humphrey Searle and 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.

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