Raymond Warren

For other people named Raymond Warren, see Raymond Warren (disambiguation).

Raymond Henry Charles Warren[1] (born 7 November 1928) is a British composer and university teacher.

He studied at Cambridge, and taught at Queen's University Belfast, where he was the first person in the UK to be given a personal chair in composition in 1966, before becoming Hamilton Harty Professor of Music in 1969. He was Stanley Hugh Badock Professor of Music at the University of Bristol from 1972 until his retirement in 1994.[2][3]

His works include a choral Passion, a Violin Concerto, three Symphonies, a Requiem, the oratorio Continuing Cities and an extensive amount of music for children, young people and community music making. He has also written six operas.[4] He currently lives at Clifton in Bristol.

  1. ^ "Warren, Prof. Raymond Henry Charles", Who's Who (online edition, University of Oxford, December 2018). Retrieved 18 November 2018.
  2. ^ "Raymond Warren MA MusD (Cantab): Emeritus Professor of Music". University of Bristol Department of Music. Archived from the original on 6 February 2007. Retrieved 21 January 2007.
  3. ^ Stevens, Ian. 'Raymond Warren', in Grove Music Online (2001)
  4. ^ Opera Glass