Jeremy Dale Roberts (16 May 1934 – 11 July 2017)[4] was an English composer and teacher.
[5] After early contact with Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gerald Finzi,[5] Dale Roberts studied with William Alwyn and Priaulx Rainier at the Royal Academy of Music, London.
[6] He retired as Head of Composition at the Royal College of Music, London in 1999, and was a Visiting Professor of Composition at the University of Iowa for the 1999-2000 academic year.
[8][9] They include His compositions received attention in the context of a 70th-birthday portrait concert given at the Purcell Room in London by the ensemble Lontano in 2004,[5] the release of an associated CD by the same group in early 2005,[11] and most recently by the long-awaited release of a complete commercial recording of Croquis by NMC Recordings.
[12] One writer has described his style as 'a kind of ascetically sumptuous exoticism', and has further characterised Dale Roberts' music in terms of: A review of the CD recording of Croquis noted: "Dale Roberts’s miniatures are brilliantly able to condense a familiar image, such as the reel or the fugue, and accumulate into a substantial, 54-minute statement.