 During this time he was Lecturer in Composition and 20th Century Studies at Hornsey College of Art.This early period culminated in his being a featured composer/performer at the Festival d’Orleans, France, in 1973.Denyer left the UK for a time in 1974 to begin what he calls his "musical travels", and to undertake his first attempts at ethnomusicological fieldwork (in west Asia and the Kulu Valley in north India).