John Albert Exton (28 March 1933 – 13 September 2009) was a British composer of classical music.
[1] John Exton was born in Wolverton, and started to play the violin at the age of 11.
In 1956 he won the Mendelssohn Scholarship[3] and studied with Luigi Dallapiccola in Florence for a year.
In 1966 John Exton followed an appointment as a senior lecturer at the University of Western Australia in Perth.
Notable students of John Exton include Carl Vine,[5] Jennifer Fowler,[6][self-published source] Ross Bolleter[7] or Stephen Benfall.