and wind bands, film, television and radio, and choral works - most famously Captain Noah and His Floating Zoo. Since 1961 he has taught at the Royal College of Music, where he became a Fellow in 1981. He has won two Ivor Novello Awards and in 1996 he was awarded the Gold Order of Merit of the City of Vienna, and in 2007 the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art First Class. The Worshipful Company of Musicians awarded him the Cobbett Medal in 2008 for services to chamber music. In 2017 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music of the Royal College of Music, London.  < Tap to Return