John Buller was born in London in 1927. He enjoyed a musical childhood, but it was not until this thirties, after a career as an architectural surveyor, that his began to concentrate on his musical career. In 1975 he becameComposer-in-Residence at the University of Edinburgh, as holder of the visiting Forman Fellowship. In 1978 he was awarded an Arts Council Bursary and in 1985-6 he was Composer-in-Residence at Queens University, Belfast. He died in2004.