AINSCOUGH, Juliana Mary

Julie Ainscough was born in Clapham, London, and brought up in Sutton, Surrey. She was educated at the Ursuline Convent School in Wimbledon and went on to study at Trinity College of Music (in its former home in Mandeville Place, just off Wigmore Street). Whilst there, she studied piano, organ and composition, gaining the Licentiate diploma in piano teaching, the Graduate diploma (with 1st Class Honours) and the Fellowship diploma in composition. She was also awarded the College’s John Halford Composition Prize and the Royal Philharmonic Society Prize for composition.