Peter Aston
Short biography: (1938-2013)
Peter Aston was a composer, academic and conductor. His compositions include chamber music, choral and orchestral works and a children’s opera, but he was best known as a composer of choral music, much of which is performed regularly throughout the English-speaking world. He studied at the Birmingham School of Music and at York University. In 1964, he became a lecturer in music at the York University and, in 1974, he was appointed professor of music at the University of East Anglia, where he was later the Emeritus Professor of composition. He founded the Norwich Festival of Contemporary Music. For 14 years he was the conductor of the Aldeburgh Festival Singers.
Popular work(s): St Andrew's Service, Magnificat & Nunc dimittis in B flat for SATB (with divisions) and organ, words from The Book of Common Prayer