Frederick Curzon is a British composer based in Buckinghamshire.

My particular focus in composition has rested on two longstanding interests: songs for solo voice and church anthems.

For the first of these, I owe a debt to my late teacher and friend, Philip Hattey, visiting Professor of Singing at the Royal Academy of Music and the University of Reading, who opened up for me the rich world of twentieth century English song in all its breadth.

I am similarly indebted to the late Marcus de la Poer Beresford, an accomplished composer in his own right, who, during my time at school, introduced me to the joys of choral music and to large swathes of the baroque, classical and twentieth century repertoire.

In approaching composition of whatever form, I have enjoyed the challenge, partly driven by practicalities, of achieving a worthwhile musical result with an economy of means. In more recent years I have taken a particular interest in how plainsong can be made to resonate in the writing of contemporary pieces for church performance.

My output has included commissioned church anthems; carols for choral performance; a children’s opera; and a varied range of settings of English and French poetry. In the latter context, my study of English folk song has resulted in two volumes of folk song arrangements for solo voice. A further volume is currently in preparation.