Diplomas + Awards
Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music in 1969 for piano teaching.
Appointed Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in 1984 for recognition of services to music.
Certificate in Education - The University of Birmingham in 1976 for teaching of music in Secondary Schools.
Clifford was born in the UK, started to learn piano at the age of 5 and studied at the Birmingham Conservatoire, Royal Academy of Music, London and the Leningrad Conservatoire, now the St Petersburg Conservatoire in Russia.
He won many prizes and scholarships as a student including the Beethoven prize and the Principal's special prize at the Royal Academy during which time he played piano on BBC Welsh radio and TV. Since then he has played many solo piano recitals which were well-received by both the public and
critics
Concerts in London, Birmingham the Midlands, East Anglia, Home Counties and Salzburg.