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Gunning held no formal academic teaching posts, but was an outspoken champion for
composers’ rights within the PRS. In addition to his Baftas, he won three Ivor Novello
awards, for Under Suspicion (1991), the TV mini-series Rebecca (1997) and Firelight.
In 1974, he married Annie Farrow, then managing director of the Air-Edel music
agency, with whom he had four daughters, Olivia, Pollyanna (a recorder player who
appeared in recordings of her father’s music), Verity and Chloë. The marriage was
dissolved in 1999. In 2004, Gunning married Svitlana Saienko.

He is survived by Svitlana, his four children and five grandchildren.

Christopher Gunning, composer, arranger and conductor, born 5 August 1944; died 25
March 2023