Geoffrey Walter Horace Winters, (born 17 October 1928) is a British composer and music educationalist.
[2] However, as a child he showed promise as a pianist, and in 1945 he was accepted as a student at the Royal Academy of Music, where his tutors were Felix Swinstead (piano) and Priaulx Rainier (composition), and later Alan Bush.
The First Symphony, composed in 1961, was performed by Owain Arwel Hughes with the New Philharmonia Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall on 4 October 1973.
The more expansive Second Symphony was first performed by the Guildhall School of Music Graduate Orchestra in 1978.
[7] After retirement from teaching he moved to the village of Semer, near Hadleigh in Suffolk, to concentrate on freelance composition.
19 was given its world premiere by Claire and Antoinette Cann in Cambridge on 2 October 2008, nearly fifty years after it had been composed.
[1] Winters met his wife, the pianist Christine Ive, at the Royal Academy, and they married in 1947.