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Rory Boyle
The Scottish composer Rory Boyle received his earliest musical training as a chorister at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor.
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He went on to study composition (with Frank Spedding), piano, clarinet, organ and conducting at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), following which he continued his studies with Lennox Berkeley in London.
Whilst still a student he won the BBC Scottish Composer’s Prize with his first orchestral score. Further important awards followed including 2 Royal Philharmonic Prizes and the Zaiks Prize in the International Competition set up in memory of Kazimierz Serocki, one of the leading figures in the Polish avant garde.
In 2006 he won a Creative Scotland Award to write an opera on the nineteenth century German feral child Kaspar Hauser with a libretto by the Edinburgh based poet and writer Dilys Rose.
The opera, Kaspar Hauser, Child of Europe, was performed in Scotland and Germany to critical a
