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Bryan Kelly

Born: 3rd January 1934, Oxford, UK

Nationality: British

Bryan Kelly is an English composer, conductor, and pianist from Oxford. He was a choir boy at Worcester College and attended Southfield Grammar School. After lessons with Harold Spicer, the long-serving organist and choirmaster of Manchester College, Oxford, he studied at the Royal College of Music with Gordon Jacob and Herbert Howells, then with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. He subsequently taught at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and (from 1963) at the Royal College of Music. He has spent periods of his teaching career in America, Italy, France and Egypt.

His compositions range from light orchestral music and works for brass band to more serious and extended orchestral works (such as his Symphony and the Concertante Dances) as well as church music,.

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