• BABM Course Yutor
• BABM 3rd. Year Tutor

Peter Graham was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland, where his introduction to music came through brass and piano lessons from his parents. He read music at Edinburgh University, graduating in 1980. During this period he came into contact with Ray Steadman-Allen and Edward Gregson, both of whom encouraged his early efforts at composition. He later undertook postgraduate compositional studies with Edward Gregson at Goldsmiths` College, University of London. From 1983 until 1986 he was resident in New York City, USA, where he worked as a freelance composer /arranger and as a publications editor with the S.A. Music Bureau. Since his return to the U.K. he has worked regularly as an arranger for BBC Television and Radio and has specialised in composition for the British style brass band. His major works for band include Dimensions (1981), Prisms (1986), The Essence of Time (1989) and Montage (1994), the latter being described by Edward Gregson in British Bandsman as "one of the best pieces that has come into the repertoire in the last 15 years". All have been broadcast and commercially recorded. He is published principally by Rosehill Music and Boosey & Hawkes, and since 1994 by Gramercy Music, a company he formed together with his wife, Janey, which specialises in the publication of brass, wind and vocal music. He is currently an editorial consultant with Egon Publishers and composer- in-association with the Williams Fairey Band, and since 1991 has been a senior lecturer in music at Salford University, where he is course leader of the BA (Hons) Band Musicianship Course. (For further information contact Gramercy Music Fax:0161-486 1959)

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Email: p.graham@salford.ac.uk