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Philip Sawyers

Born: 1951, London, England

Nationality: British

Philip Sawyers is a British composer of orchestral and chamber music, including six symphonies.

Sawyers was born in London. He began composing as a teenager, studying at Dartington College of Arts in Devon with Colin Sauer (violin) and Helen Glatz (composition), and then at the Guildhall School of Music where his teachers were Joan Spencer and Max Rostal (violin), and Buxton Orr, Patric Standford and Edmund Rubbra (composition).

From 1973 Sawyers worked as an orchestral violinist with the Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden. He was a violin coach for the Kent County Youth Orchestra, and a visiting teacher at schools and colleges.

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