son, Daniel. He was a keen cricketer and wrote detective novels in his spare time. Burgon died on 21 September 2010 after a short illness. Career highlights 1974 – ballet The Calm for London Contemporary Dance Theatre, first of many dance scores. 1976 – first breakthrough, with Requiem at the Three Choirs Festival. 1979 – Ivor Novello Award for score of BBC television series Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. 1981 – Ivor Novello Award for score of Granada television series Brideshead Revisited. 1997 – premiere of City Adventures, percussion concerto for Evelyn Glennie at BBC Proms. 2001 – wrote Heavenly Things, commissioned by the BBC for baritone Christopher Maltman. Selected works Stage The Golden Fish, ballet (1964) Joan of Arc, music drama for 2 sopranos, tenor, baritone, narrator, flute, cello, harp and percussion (1970) The Calm, ballet (1974) The Fall of Lucifer, music drama in 2 acts for soloists, chorus and five instruments (1974) Goldberg's Dream (Running Figures), ballet (1975) Step at a Time, ballet (1976) Songs, Lamentations and Praises, ballet (1979) Orpheus, music drama (1982) Mass, ballet for chorus, 4 trombones and percussionist (playing piano) (1984) Macbeth, incidental music (1986) Murder in the Cathedral, incidental music (1987) Blood Wedding, incidental music (1988) The Trial of Prometheus, ballet (1988) Hard Times, opera (1991); after the novel by Charles Dickens Nicholas Nickleby, incidental music for the play by Charles Dickens (2001) Orchestral Concerto for string orchestra (1963) Gending for brass, woodwind, celesta and percussion (1968) Alleluia Nativitas (1970) Cantus Alleluia (1973) Brideshead Variations (1982) Suite from The Chronicles of Narnia (1991) Suite from Bleak House (1991) Suite from Martin Chuzzlewit (1994) Suite from Testament of Youth (1991) A Different Dawn for celesta, percussion and string orchestra (1999) Industrial Dreams (2006) Brass band Narnia Suite (1998) Paradise Dances (1994) Concertante Trumpet Concerto: The Turning World for trumpet, string orchestra and percussion (1993) City Adventures, concerto for percussion and orchestra (1996) Piano Concerto (1997) The Calm, concerto for violin, trumpet, harp and string orchestra (1974, 2004); arranged for the ballet The Calm Concerto for cello and chamber orchestra (2007) Concerto Ghosts of the Dance for viola and orchestra (2008) On the Street for alto saxophone and wind orchestra (2009) Chamber music Fanfares and Variants for 2 trumpets and 2 trombones (1969) Lullaby and Aubade for trumpet and piano (1972) Gloria for piccolo, oboe, clarinet, horn, cello and piano (1973) Three Nocturnes for harp solo