# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/philip-sparke
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:52:15.639Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/philip-sparke"
name: "Philip Sparke"
slug: "philip-sparke"
description: "Philip Allen Sparke is an English composer and musician born in London, noted for his concert band and brass band music.\nHis early major works include The Land of the Long White Cloud – \"Aotearoa\", written for the 1980 Centennial New Zealand Brass Band championship. He subsequently went on to win the EBU New Music for Band Competition three times, including in 1986 with a commission from the BBC called Orient Express."
tagline: "British composer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Philip_Sparke.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1951-12-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.62
  momentum:             9.999999999999998
  historical:           9.260516
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.philipsparke.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/3024991"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%BE_%D8%B3%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83"
    title: "فيليپ سپارك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Sparke"
    title: "Philip Sparke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Sparke"
    title: "Philip Sparke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Sparke"
    title: "Philip Sparke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%97%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF"
    title: "フィリップ・スパーク"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Sparke"
    title: "Philip Sparke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Sparke"
    title: "Philip Sparke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Sparke"
    title: "Philip Sparke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8F%B2%E5%88%A9%E6%B5%A6%C2%B7%E5%8F%B2%E5%B7%B4%E5%85%8B"
    title: "菲利浦·史巴克"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/cfbad94d-82f4-4bf4-aefa-a7c1bbf822ea"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1349008"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump