Andrew Wilson-Dickson

Andrew Wilson-Dickson (born 1946) is a British composer, pianist and an authority on early music practice. Biography Wilson-Dickson was born in London on 20 January 1946. He attended Marlborough College where in a school music competition he was spotted by Sydney Watson who offered him a scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford, in spite of unfavourable A-level results. He turned this down in favour of an exhibition to Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he received piano lessons from Lamar Crowson and John Lill. Later he held the post of organ scholar at York Minster where he studied the organ with Nicholas Danby and Francis Jackson. He was appointed as one of the first members of staff of the newly formed University of Leicester music department in 1970. In 1984 he was appointed to the staff of the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama where his focus on period music led to the creation there of an Early Music Department in 1999. He was made an Honorary Fellow of the college in 2005. Now semi-retired, he divides his time between his homes in Cardiff and the south of France. He is the brother of the voice and dialect coach Julia Wilson-Dickson. Composition He began composition at schoo