Francis Pott retired in 2023 as Professor of Composition at London College of Music, University of West London. He began musical life as a chorister at New College, Oxford, subsequently holding music scholarships at Winchester College and then at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he studied composition with Robin Holloway and Hugh Wood while also undertaking piano studies privately in London with Hamish Milne. He holds the qualifications MA and MusB from the University of Cambridge, an FLCM, a PhD and a Principal Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy.

Francis’s music has been performed and broadcast in over fifty countries worldwide, published by five major houses and widely recorded. He has received four national and two international composition prizes and in 2021 was recipient of the Medal of the Royal College of Organists, its highest award, for ‘distinguished achievement in the field of sacred choral and organ composition’. His oeuvre includes also three major works for chorus and orchestra, a violin concerto, chamber music and works for piano.