John Holland arranger

I was born in Hastings in 1977, but was raised in Watford, Hertfordshire. After meeting my partner, Chris, I moved to south London in 2004; we’re now in a civil partnership and happily settled down in Forest Hill in our own little place just around the corner from the world-famous Horniman Museum.

My composing career took off when my chamber orchestra piece ‘Green Sky’ won the Making Music Award at the British Composer Awards 2008. The piece has been played on a number of occasions since and also broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

In 2009, the world premiere of my largest work, ‘Requiem (Opus 15)’ took place at All Saints Church, West Dulwich (conducted by Penny Whittingham of The Bach Choir) and January 2010 saw the first performance of ‘The Something In-Between’, an Oboe/Cor Anglais mini-concerto, written for and performed by Isobel Williams (conducted by Lindsay Ryan of Harmony Sinfonia).