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Christopher Ball

Born: 7th July 1936, Leeds, UK

Nationality: British

Christopher Ball is a British composer, conductor and clarinettist.

Ball was born in Leeds, England in 1936 and is a British composer, conductor, clarinettist and recorder soloist. He studied clarinet and piano at the Royal Manchester College of Music now known as the Royal Northern College of Music where he began his career as an orchestral clarinettist in the Halle Orchestra when the conductor was Sir John Barbirolli. His college contemporaries included Harrison Birtwistle then a fellow clarinet student, Peter Maxwell Davies and the world-famous pianist John Ogdon.