John Hughes (06/07/1956), an English composer, from Sutton Coldfield.
"I studied music at Royal Holloway College in the 1970s but have made a living in a variety of other fields, keeping music primarily as a leisure activity. I composed very little until about ten years ago when a chance meeting with an old college friend resulted in a short overture for a local amateur orchestra. Since then I have written a number of orchestral works, a requiem, quite a lot of brass music (some original but mostly arrangements which due to copyright restrictions are not available on this site), and a clarinet concerto. My music has been performed in the UK, USA, Australia, Germany and even Croydon! In 2004 I worked on a fascinating project, composing music to accompany rare early silent films, made between 1899 and 1910 by the remarkable British pioneer cinematographer, Cecil Hepworth."