1939 born in Barnsley, Yorkshire, UK
1950 entered Ackworth School, Yorkshire
???? worked as a legal accountant
???? military service with Royal Air Force and National Service with 617 squadron at RAF Scampton medical team
???? novel One Year's Turning
1961 entered Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London as a student
1962 Royal Philharmonic Society Prize for A Comedy Overture
1963 Awarded Third Year Composition Prize by Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Awarded Carl Meyer Prize for general achievement in composition.
1964 won the Mendelssohn Scholarship, travelled to Venice, Italy and studied with Gianfrancesco Malipiero
1965 studied in Warsaw, Poland with Witold Lutoslawski
???? worked as orchestral librarian with publishers J & W Chester, London, UK
1968 married Sarah Hilton
1969 first son born. Became Professor of Composition and Orchestration at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London
1972 daughter born.
Became Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Awarded the Premio Cittá di Trieste, Italy for 1st Symphony (The Seasons)
1973 first performance of Christus Requiem at St Paul's Cathedral chorus and orchestra of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama/John Alldis with an audience of over 2000
1973 Yugoslav Government Solidarity Award, Skopje for Christus Requiem
1974 second son born.
Achieved Oscar Espla Award, Alicante, Spain for Christus Requiem.
Sonata for violin writtenfor the Carl Flesch International Composition at the request of Ifrah Neaman.
Violin Concerto first broadcast performance Ifrah Neaman
1975-82 3rd Symphony: Towards Paradise
1976 Clements Memorial Prize for String Quartet No. 2 1977 Christmas Carol Symphony
1983 City of Geneva Ernest Ansermet Prize for 3rd Symphony
1986 premiere 3rd SymphonySuisse Romande chorus and orchestra/Richard Hickox.
1977-1979 Chairman of the Composers' Guild of Great Britain.
Musical Times reviews on improving musical education.
1977?? Chairman of British Music Information Centre
1978 Gold Medal of Eötvös University, Budapest
1979 M.Mus Music Composition, Goldsmith's College, London University
1980 New Grove Dictionary entry and subsequent editions
1980 Head of Music at Bretton Hall College, Leeds University, Yorkshire
1980-1993?? Chairman of British Music Information Centre
1983-1996 member of the board of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
1986 BBC commissioned 5th Symphony
???? Composers' Worlds, BBC Radio Leeds
1991 Evelyn Glennie Percussion Award
1991 Published Projects: a course in musical composition published by Stainer & Bell
1993 retired as Head of Music from Bretton Hall College
1994 6th Symphony: to the innocent victims of war
1995? joined composition faculty at Huddersfield University
1997 First International Composers' Award of Budapest for The Prayer of St Francis a choral masque - live recording Budapest Symphony Orchestra/Hugarian Radio and Television Chorus/Tamas Vasary
1999 1st Prize Belgian International ClarinetFest for Clarinet Quintet
2000 Celestial Fire (Ballet Suite)(1968) recorded ASV (British Light Music Discoveries 3) Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Barry Wordsworth
2002 A Christmas Carol Symphony (1978) recorded by City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra/Gavin Sutherland and released by Naxos on a compilation CD entitled:
A Carol Symphony and other Christmas Orchestral Favourites
Council member of the Musician's Benevolent Fund
2005-2008 Provocative Thoughts commissioned for Music & Vision: Classical Music Daily online magazine
2008 invited to devise and write the music course for Open College of the Arts
2008 Edition Peters become principal publisher
2009 British Music Society Lecture, London
2009 70th birthday celebration BBC Singers/Paul Brough record all unaccompanied choral works (awaiting public release).
2012 British Music Association recording of Symphony No.1 'The Seasons', Cello Concerto and Prelude to a Fantasy Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Raphael Wallfisch/David Lloyd-Jones
2014 Recorder Quintet commissioned. Performed at Rawsthorne Festival, Royal Northern College of Music. Recorded posthumously by John Turner/The Manchester Chamber Ensemble
released as a compilation CD entitled The Proud Recorder: Music for recorder and string quartet - Paul Conway
Anthem entitled Lord, How Majestic is your Name commissioned by The William Alwyn Festival performed posthumously by The Blythbrugh Singers/Ellis Bell at the Alwyn Festival 2014