https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehQVF-Wk2s Peter was born in Stockport, Lancashire on 2nd November 1930. The Peter Hope Collection CD and the newly released double CD 'Through the Crystal' contains many of his 1960s-1980s output written under his own name and under the pseudonym, William Gardner. You can find out more about Peter on his website. You can hear an hour long special about Peter on the 'Lively Lounge' (Radio Six International) - with an excusive 90th Birthday... more

David Lyon was born in Walsall, West Midlands, in 1938. After Army service playing French horn in a military band, he studied piano and composition at the Royal Academy of Music 1960-64 and later at the University of Bristol.  Although composition has been his main preoccupation, he has also had a secondary career as a jazz pianist, mainly in small groups or as a soloist. His compositions have covered a wide and varied field, from chamber, choral and orchestral works to music theatre, always... more