Clive Strutt

Clive Strutt

Clive Edward Hazzard Strutt is an English composer born 19 April 1942 in Aldershot, Hampshire, England. He was educated at Farnborough Grammar School.

Strutt lives on the island of South Ronaldsay in Orkney, Scotland. He studied composition under Lennox Berkeley, orchestration under Leighton Lucas, and piano with Robert O. Edwards, Georgina Smith, and Hamish Milne at the Royal Academy of Music, London. He also studied the viola for one year under Watson Forbes. He is very interested in the music of the Eastern Orthodox Church, and has visited Mount Athos several times. He is also a philatelist, and an authority on the Universal Postal Union.

Strutt's works have been performed in France, Germany, Norway, Russia, Switzerland, as well as in the UK, the Republic of Ireland, Canada and the USA. A large number of his scores are available from the Scottish Music Centre (SMS), Glasgow, the Bibliothèque Božidar Kantušer, Paris and more recent ones from Amoris International & Amoris Imprint, Vouvry, Switzerland.