Stoker, Richard (1938– )

English composer, conductor, and pianist. He studied in Huddersfield and at the Royal Academy of Music with English composer Lennox Berkeley, and in Paris, France, with the French music teacher Nadia Boulanger. He taught composition at the Royal Academy of Music 1963–87.

Stoker edited Composer magazine 1969–80. He wrote an autobiography, Open Window – Open Door, in 1985.

Works Opera Johnson Preserv'd (1967) and Thérèse Raquin (after Zola, 1975).

Orchestral Petite Suite (1962) and Little Symphony (1969) for orchestra.

Chamber three string quartets (1960–69), wind quintet (1963), violin sonata (1964), Sextet (1965), piano trio (1965), Oboe quartet (1970).