Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir John Kenneth Tavener NPG x88770

© Norman McBeath / National Portrait Gallery, London

by Norman McBeath

Studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music where his teachers included Sir Lennox Berkeley. His career was launched with the success of his dramatic cantata, The Whale in 1968, which was recorded on The Beatles' Apple label. Since 1977, when he joined the Russian orthodox church, his music has been increasingly focused on church liturgy. His work is widely popular with a distinct and original voice and includes The Protecting Veil (1987), Akathist of Thanksgiving, (1988) and Song for Athene (1993), which was... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.