Howard Blake

Born October 28, 1938· London, England, UK

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Emerging from a musical family in London and Brighton, he earned a Hastings Musical Festival Scholarship at 18 and studied piano under Harold Craxton and composition with Howard Ferguson at the Royal Academy of Music, though he soon turned toward film work. After playing piano in pubs, a contract with EMI led to session work, arranging, and a partnership with Laurie Johnson that placed him on the…