MP: Could you tell us about your musical background and when you started composing?
DT: When I was growing up, there was music in my home almost constantly. We went to concerts and the opera as a family, and so I inherited a love of music from my parents and grandparents, despite them being doctors and academics. When I was about six, I asked to start piano lessons; soon after, I began improvising. My first ‘formal’ composition lessons were at the Junior Royal Academy, around age 12, and that’s where I heard my music performed by others for the first time. I then went on to study composition at the Guildhall School and obtained a PhD from King’s College London.
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