Gordon Crosse
Gordon Crosse was born in 1937 and grew up in the Stockport area. Educated at Cheadle Hulme School and St Edmund Hall Oxford, he studied with Bernard Rose and Egon Wellesz, gaining first class honours in music in 1961. PhD studies with Frank Harrison included three months at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in 1962 on an Italian Government
Scholarship and he attended Goffredo Petrassi's master class in composition.
He worked in adult education with the WEA 1963/64 followed by three years as Extra Mural Staff Tutor at Birmingham University in succession to Wilfred Mellers. He then held various fellowships at the University of Essex and Kings College Cambridge followed by a period teaching at the University of California in Santa Barbara. Apart from some teaching at the Royal Academy the period 1980 to 1990 was given over to composition only.
In 1990 financial needs led to full time work and a career change working as a computer programmer. He has now retired from that and hopes to pick up some musical threads if the Muse can be wooed again!
Scholarship and he attended Goffredo Petrassi's master class in composition.
He worked in adult education with the WEA 1963/64 followed by three years as Extra Mural Staff Tutor at Birmingham University in succession to Wilfred Mellers. He then held various fellowships at the University of Essex and Kings College Cambridge followed by a period teaching at the University of California in Santa Barbara. Apart from some teaching at the Royal Academy the period 1980 to 1990 was given over to composition only.
In 1990 financial needs led to full time work and a career change working as a computer programmer. He has now retired from that and hopes to pick up some musical threads if the Muse can be wooed again!
