About Sebastian Forbes
Born 1941. Sebastian Forbes is a British composer.
Sebastian Forbes (born 22 May 1941) is a musical composer, conductor, founder of the Aeolian Singers and professor of music at the University of Surrey. He comes from a musical family, his father being the Scottish violist, Watson Forbes.
Biography After being trained as a singer by Martindale Sidwell and encountering chamber and classical music through his father, Sebastian studied at the Royal Academy of Music and then to Cambridge University, where he sang with the King's College chapel choir.
In 1977, he composed Quam Dilecta for a commission by St Matthew's Church, Northampton.
Gervase de Peyer, the clarinetist played one of his clarinet concertos.
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British composer
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Sebastian Forbes was born on 22 May 1941.
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