tb, *1942 GB
Musician / Composer
John Purser (born 1942 in Glasgow) is a Scottish composer, musicologist, and music historian. He is also a playwright.He initiated the reconstruction that commenced in 1991 of the Iron Age Deskford Carnyx, producing a replica that was first played in 1993 by trombonist John Kenny.Purser's plays include the radio play Carver about Robert Carver, the 16th-century Scottish composer of church music, which won a Giles Cooper Award. He also wrote Parrots and Owls about John Ruskin and the O'Shea brothers