Kit Turnbull (b.1969) began his musical career as a keyboard player in a rock band before joining Her Majesty’s Royal Marines Band Service in 1991 as a bassoonist.
From 1997 he studied composition with Martin Ellerby at the London College of Music where he subsequently became a course leader and composition tutor. He is currently Composition and Arranging tutor to the Royal Air Force Music Services.
A recipient of the Silver Medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians in 1998, he has since completed numerous commissions that have been performed, broadcast and recorded all over the world.