Mark Goddard
Mark Goddard was born in 1960, and went to school in Oxford, before going on to study at the Royal Academy of Music where he gained the GRSM(hons) and LRAM (piano). He received nine awards for Composition while at the RAM, including the coveted “Eric Coates Prize” and the “Capital Radio Prize”. After the Academy, he married another RAM student: the bassoonist Pat Goddard and worked in Oxford for ten years; composing, arranging and conducting orchestras and choirs.
In 1989, Mark and Pat founded Spartan Press. The business relocated to the Scottish Highlands ten years later, along with a burgeoning family and various giant dogs! After 28 years, in 2018, Mark and Pat eventually sold Spartan Press and gently relocated south via Glasgow and Berwick-upon-Tweed, eventually settling in the vibrant city of Bristol, where they founded Clifton Edition Limited in 2023.
In 2015 he was honoured with the “Associate of the Royal Academy of Music” (ARAM) for services rendered to the music profession.
Pat Goddard