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A Cambridge graduate who had also trained at the Royal College of Music with Herbert Howells, and in Italy with Luigi Dallapiccola, Roxburgh was already technically accomplished when he came to Boulanger.
- ↑ Timothy Reynish. Making it Better: Creating a Wind Repertoire in the UK (2023), p.35
- ↑ Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, biography
- ↑ BBC Proms performance archive, 23 July, 1977
- ↑ NMC D119 (2006)
- ↑ Gramophone review, September 2006
- ↑ An Elegy for Ur, Trevco Music
- ↑ Royal Philharmonic Society. Elgar Bursary recipients
- ↑ World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles
- ↑ 'Edwin Roxburgh: Oboe Music', reviewed at MusicWeb International
- ↑ Metier MSV 28508, reviewed in The Guardian 26 October 2008
- ↑ 'Roxburgh: Sound Adventures for the Piano,', NMC D132, reviewed at MusicWeb International
- ↑ Abelard, United Music Publishing
- ↑ Her War (Live Performance), The Cockpit
