Richard Stoker

Composer, pianist, artist, and writer, born in Castleford, West Yorkshire, N England, UK. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Lennox Berkeley, and in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. A professor at the Royal Academy (1963–87), his varied compositions include the opera Johnson Preserv'd (1967), works for piano and organ, string quartets, film and stage scores, and many choral works. He edited Composer Magazine (1969–80), and his books include poetry, novels, short stories (collected, 1997), and two volumes of autobiography, Open Window - Open Door (1985) and Between the Lines (1991).

Richard Stoker (born 8 November 1938 in Castleford, Yorkshire) is a British composer and writer.

He started playing the piano at six;

Stoker has declared the piano to be his favourite instrument, with the guitar a close second. Among his other works are operas, a piano concerto, three string quartets, three piano trios, song cycles, choral works, orchestral works and organ music.

Stoker is also a writer of fiction: he has published two novels, short stories and poetry, and has also written three plays.