Howard Blake, composer " portrait of the artist
'No one ever says: "You're a composer? Wonderful! Why don't I give you lots of money?"'What got you started?I wrote my first composition when I was nine, but I never thought I'd be a composer. It wasn't until I went to the Royal Academy of Music that it occurred to me to study composition " but I didn't get on so well, so I worked as a session pianist at recording studios like Abbey Road. It was there that I met Bern…