![]() īonsor wrote the piano piece Dreamy, which was featured in Trinity Guildhall's 2012–2014 Grade 6 repertoire. Bonsor was a musical director for the Society of Recorder Players from 1957. His arrangements for recorders include Percy Grainger's Mock Morris (1985), Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Strauss's Emperor Waltz (1985). Enjoy the Recorder, written by Bonsor, is used to teach the recorder in schools. He was awarded an MBE in 2002 for services to teaching music, in particular the recorder. ![]() He taught further education classes and summer courses and later acted as Regional Education Advisor for the Scottish Borders in the 1970s. īonsor spent about 35 years in musical education, teaching in primary and secondary schools, including 17 years at Hawick High School. He studied briefly with the recorder player Carl Dolmetsch. ![]() Following war service he studied at Moray House in Edinburgh and at Trinity College, London, to become a music teacher. James Brian Bonsor MBE (21 August 1926 – 22 February 2011) was a Scottish-born composer and teacher specialising in the recorder.īrian Bonsor was born in Hawick, Roxburghshire on August 21, 1926.
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