John Buller was born in London in 1927. He enjoyed a musical childhood but it was not until this thirties after a career as an architectural surveyor that his began to concentrate on his musical career. In 1975 he became Composer-in-Residence at the University of Edinburgh as holder of the visiting Forman Fellowship. In 1978 he was awarded an Arts Council Bursary and in 1985-6 he was Composer-in-Residence at Queens University Belfast. He died in 2004.