Geoffrey Burgon
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Emerging from a modest background in Hambledon, Hampshire, he taught himself trumpet to join a school jazz band before entering the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where mentorship shifted his focus to composition. After years as a freelance jazz trumpeter, he abandoned his instruments at thirty to devote himself entirely to writing, enduring a period of poverty until his Requiem at the Three…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources