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Richard Stoker’s many works included an opera,a piano concerto and song cycles
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Fri 14 May 2021 13.36 EDT
Last modified on Fri 14 May 2021 14.49 EDT
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Richard Stoker, who has died aged 82, was a composer, teacher and actor, and a colourful figure in British musical life for the past 60 years.
Richard was born in Castleford, Yorkshire, to Bower Morrell Stoker, an engineer and inventor, and Winifred (nee Harling). He went to Breadalbane House school
and then Castleford boys’ modern school.
His family, especially on the Stoker side, had a strong musical tradition, and Richard showed an early aptitude, intrigued by the piano keyboard as soon as he was tall enough to reach it. He had piano lessons with an uncle and started to compose at the age of seven. ....

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