After serving in the Royal Marines Band Service (British Ministry of Defence) for ten years John Webber spent six years as a student in Germany and the U.S. earning a DMA in Composition in 1979 from The Catholic University of America. Since then he has composed, conducted and taught in Britain, Germany and the U.S. He has founded and directed several orchestras and his music has been heard on radio and television both in Europe and the U.S. He is published by Arsis Press, Anglo-American Music Publishers and his own Webber Music.