[7] In 1994 Bourgeois was appointed director of music at St Paul's Girls School, London, a position previously held by a number of noted composers, including Gustav Holst and Herbert Howells.
[8] For his Symphony of Winds, the First International Conference for Conductors, Publishers and Composers awarded him with their main commission in 1981.
[9] He also chaired Composer's Guild of Great Britain and served as the artistic director of Bristol Philharmonic Orchestra.
[10] His works in that area included two concerti for brass band, the concerto grosso, Blitz, Diversions, Serenade, The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, and Apocalypse.
Bourgeois's first symphony, which he composed at the age of 18, was positively reviewed in the Guardian by Stanley Sadie, the future editor of Grove's Dictionary.