1939 Patric Standford born Barnsley, Yorkshire, UK
1950 Ackworth School, Yorkshire
1958 Legal Accountant
1959 National Service 617 Squadron at RAF Scampton
1960 One Year’s Turning novel completed - unpublished
1961 Guildhall School of Music and Drama (GSMD), London
1962 Royal Philharmonic Society Prize for A Comedy Overture
1963 3rd Year Composition Prize, GSMD
1963 Carl Meyer Prize for composition
1964 Mendelssohn Scholarship, Itlay
1965 Study with Witold Lutoslawski in Poland
1966 Novello, principal publisher
1967 Orchestral Librarian, J & W Chester, London
1968 Married Sarah Hilton
1969 Professor of Composition and Orchestration, GSMD
1972 Fellow of the GSMD
1972 Premio Cittá di Trieste, Italy for Symphony No. 1: The Seasons
1973 Christus Requiem, first performed at St Paul’s Cathedral, London
1973 Yugoslav Government Solidarity Award, Skopje for Christus Requiem
1974 Oscar Espla Award, Alicante, Spain for Christus Requiem.
1974 Sonata for violin, Carl Flesch International Composition
1976 Clements Memorial Prize for String Quartet No. 2
1977 Christmas Carol Symphony
1977 Chairman of the Composers’ Guild of Great Britain - 1979
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 Director of Music, Bretton Hall College, Leeds University, Yorkshire - 1992
1980 Chairman of British Music Information Centre - 1993
1983 City of Geneva Ernest Ansermet Prize for Symphony No. 3: Towards Paradise
1983 Board Member, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival - 1996
1985 Composers’ Worlds, written and broadcast BBC Radio Leeds
1991 Evelyn Glennie Percussion Award
1992 Projects: a course in musical composition published, Stainer & Bell
1995 Composition Tutor, Huddersfield University - 1996
1997 1st Prize The Prayer of St Francis
1999 1st Prize Belgian International ClarinetFest for Clarinet Quintet
2000 Celestial Fire (Ballet Suite) ASV British Light Music Discoveries 3
2001 Provocative Thoughts, Music & Vision: Classical Music Daily online - 2007
2002 A Christmas Carol Symphony Naxos
2002 Council member of the Musician’s Benevolent Fund
2008 Author Music Composition Course-Tutor, Open College of the Arts
2008 Edition Peters principal publisher
2009 British Music Society Lecture, London
2010 70th birthday celebration concert St Paul’s Church, Knightsbridge
2011 Open College of the Arts monthly Blog - 2014
2012 Symphony 1 ‘The Seasons’; Cello Concerto; Prelude to a Fantasy Naxos
2014 Patric Standford died
2014 Recorder Quintet, recorded posthumously
2014 Lord, How Majestic is your Name performed posthumously at Alwyn Festival