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Brian Bonsor
British composer and musician
James Brian BonsorMBE (21 August 1926 – 22 February 2011) was a Scottish-born composer and teacher specialising in the recorder.
Life and career
Brian Bonsor was born in Hawick, Roxburghshire on August 21, 1926. Following war service he studied at Moray House in Edinburgh and at Trinity College, London, to become a music teacher.
He studied briefly with the recorder player Carl Dolmetsch.[1]
Bonsor spent about 35 years in musical education, teaching in primary and secondary schools, including 17 years at Hawick High School. He taught further education classes and summer courses and later acted as Regional Education Advisor for the Scottish Borders in the 1970s.[2]
He was awarded an MBE in 2002 for services to teaching music, in particular the recorder.[3]Enjoy the Recorder, written by Bonsor, is used to teach the recorder in schools.
His arrangements for recorders include Percy G