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A medical practitioner by profession and a fine violinist, John Heath was born in Birmingham. He spent most of his life in Barmouth and conducted the Barmouth Choral Union. While at Cambridge he led many string quartets for the University Musical Club. Dr Heath was self-taught as a composer but wrote prolifically, with originality and no small sense of humour. Most of his works were for chamber groups, a great deal for violin and piano (Three Macedonian Sketches were once very popular) and for the string quartet medium. He also composed a cello concerto, triple concerto and other orchestral pieces, a choreographic drama (In the Valley of White Poppies) and a symbolic drama for actors, dancers, chorus, string quartet and wind quintet; he wrote over one-hundred songs and many piano pieces.
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