Ryan Wigglesworth [SEP] occupation
Ryan Wigglesworth
Ryan Wigglesworth (born 1979) is a composer, conductor and pianist born in Yorkshire, England. He is currently Composer in Residence at English National Opera.
Career.
Wigglesworth was educated at Oxford University (where he held the position of Organ Scholar at New College) and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and between 2007-9 was a lecturer at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College.
In recent seasons he has appeared with English National Opera, BBC Symphony Orchestra,
served in the Second World War as head of the Combined Planning Staff at Headquarters Middle East Command, as Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters RAF Middle East and then as Air Officer Commanding AHQ East Africa. He became Deputy Air Commander-in-Chief at Mediterranean Air Command in 1943 and Deputy Chief of Staff (Air) at SHAEF in 1944. After the War he was commander of the British Air Forces of Occupation from 1946 to 1948 when he retired.
Wigglesworth was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the