Raymond Warren

Raymond Henry Charles Warren (7 November 1928 – 4 June 2025) was a British composer and university teacher. Warren studied at Cambridge, and taught at Queen’s University Belfast, where he was the first person in the UK to be given a personal chair in composition in 1966, before becoming Hamilton Harty Professor of Music in 1969. He was Stanley Hugh Badock Professor of Music at the University of Bristol from 1972 until his retirement in 1994. His works include a choral Passion, a Violin Concerto, three Symphonies, a Requiem, the oratorio Continuing Cities, six operas and an extensive amount of music for children, young people and community music making. Biography Raymond Warren was born in Axbridge, Somerset on 7 November 1928. His mother was Gwendoline C. Warren, née Hallett. Warren studied at Bancroft’s School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (1949–52), In 1972 he was appointed Professor of Music at the University of Bristol, a post from which he retired in 1994. Following retirement he composed to commission for a wide variety of performers notably the Brunel Ensemble (Symphony No.3, In My Childhood) and the London Children’s Ballet (Ballet Shoes, 2001). He collaborated with