Geoffrey King (composer)

Later, at the Royal College of Music, he studied with Humphrey Searle, Justin Connolly and Alexander Goehr.

As a postgraduate, he undertook further work with Alexander Goehr at University of Southampton and also with Jonathan Harvey.

With an Italian government scholarship, he went to study with Ernesto Rubin de Cervin at the Conservatorio "Benedetto Marcello" in Venice.

After twelve years in Edinburgh, he moved to The Hague to do further study at the Koninklijk Conservatorium and subsequently settled in Amsterdam, where he now lives.

From 1987-89 he was composer-in-residence at Huddersfield Polytechnic and then at the NCOS (National Centre for Orchestral Studies) in London.

Composing in Venice. Photo by Roderik de Man.