Gowers served as assistant conductor of
Bill Russo's London Jazz Orchestra. In 1964, he was music director of the
Royal Shakespeare Company's productions of
Marat/Sade in the West End and in New York. He subsequently composed the music for the 1967 film of
Marat/Sade. In the 1970s, he directed the electronic music studio at
Dartington and played keyboards for the
New Swingle Singers. •
Thomas er Fredloes (1968) •
Balladen om Carl-Henning (1969) •
Hamlet (1969) •
The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970) •
Giv Gud en Chance Om Soendagen (1970) •
The Boy Who Turned Yellow (1972) •
Farlige kys (1972) •
A Bigger Splash (1974) •
Children of Rage (1975) •
The Shetland Experience (1977) •
Stevie (1978) •
Whoops Apocalypse (1986) •
Comic Act (1998) Gowers started writing music for television in the 1970s. In 1982, he won the BAFTA original music award for his scores for ''
Smiley's People, The Woman in White and I Remember Nelson. Gowers composed the music to The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and its sequels, starring Jeremy Brett, whose series ran from 1984 to 1994; the soundtrack was released in 1987. Gowers also scored the TV film adaptations with Brett of The Sign of Four (1987) and The Hound of the Baskervilles
(1988). Amongst other TV series for which he composed the music are Therese Raquin (1980), Anna Karenina (1985), and Forever Green'' (1989). Gowers'
concert music included works written for the guitarist
John Williams: Chamber Concerto for Guitar and Rhapsody for Guitar, Electric Guitars and Electric Organ. He was also noted for his choral music, including his setting of
Veni Sancte Spiritus and his commission for the consecration of
Richard Harries as bishop of Oxford,
Viri Galilaei (1987). He also composed a cantata (1991) and several other anthems such as
Aveto Augustine and
Holy, Holy, Holy. Other works include his "Toccata" for organ, commissioned by
Simon Preston and joined over a decade later by a fugue, and his "Occasional Trumpet Voluntary". ==Personal life==