Jim’s Toye for Solo Flute by Raymond Head

Raymond Head is a composer, writer, and teacher residing in Oxfordshire, UK. He is actively involved in various prestigious organisations, such as the Holst Society, Royal Asiatic Society, EPTA (European Piano Teachers Association), Royal Society of Musicians, and Incorporated Society of Musicians.

Born in London in 1948, Raymond Head received piano training from Alice Goossens before attending Dartington College of Arts and Rolle College in Devon from 1967 to 1970. He privately studied composition under Roger Smalley and Edwin Roxburgh, and in 1968, he attended the Ferienkurse für Musik in Darmstadt, Germany. After teaching in Bottisham Village College in Cambridge and various locations in Devon, he spent time in Rome in 1976, teaching at St George’s School and working as a repetiteur for Hans Werner Henze’s Cantiere in Montepulciano, Tuscany.

Raymond Head’s interest in Indian influences on Western culture led him to pursue post-graduate studies at the Royal College of Art in London. He received a British Academy scholarship, allowing him to travel to the USA and briefly participate in a Yale Fellowship.