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Royal College of Music
The Royal College of Music is a conservatoire located in the South Kensington district of London, England.
The Royal College of Music's building, designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield, is situated on Prince Consort Road in the district of South Kensington, next to Imperial College, directly opposite the...
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Millicent Silver
Millicent Irene Silver (November 17, 1905 - May 1, 1986) was an English harpsichordist, who began her career as a pianist and violinist.
Born in South London, her father, Alfred Silver, was a violinist and oboist, and had been a boy chorister at St....
Paul Hamburger
Paul Hamburger (Vienna, 3 September 1920 - London, 11 April 2004) was a British pianist, accompanist, chamber musician, and scholar.
Paul Hamburger was born in Vienna in 1920, and studied at the Vienna State Academy before emigrating to England in...
Franz Reizenstein
Franz Reizenstein (7 June 1911 – 15 October 1968) was a German-born British composer and concert-pianist.
Franz Reizenstein's father was Dr. Albert Reizenstein (1871-1925) and his mother was Lina Kohn (b. 1880), both of Nuremberg, Germany. The...
Peter Pears
Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears (pronounced /ˈpɪərz/ "peerz";Farnham, 22 June 1910 – Aldeburgh, 3 April 1986) was an English tenor and life-long partner of the composer Benjamin Britten.
He was educated at Lancing College and went on to study music at...
John Harle
John Harle (born 20 September 1956 in Newcastle upon Tyne) is an English saxophonist and composer. Attracted to minimalist music, he became a founding member of the Michael Nyman Band, with which he performed from 1981-1999.
Harle was educated at...
Simon Rogers
Simon Rogers is a British musician and composer, notable for his chart success both as a musician and as a producer as well as for his considerable portfolio of television soundtrack work. In 1976, Rogers entered the Royal College of Music, London,...
Peggy Glanville-Hicks
Peggy Glanville-Hicks (29 December 1912 – 25 June 1990) was an Australian composer.
Peggy Glanville-Hicks was born Melbourne in 1912. At age 15 she began studying composition with Fritz Hart in Melbourne. She spent the years from 1931 to 1936 as a...
Léon Goossens
Léon Jean Goossens CBE, FRCM (12 June 1897 – 13 February 1988) was a British oboist.
He was born in Liverpool and studied at the Royal College of Music. His father was violinist and conductor Eugène Goossens, his brother the conductor and composer...
Laurence Cummings
Laurence Cummings, MA (Oxon), ARCM, FRCO, HonRAM is a harpsichordist, organist, and conductor. He is Head of Historical Performance at the Royal Academy of Music (since 1997), Musical Director of the London Handel Orchestra and Festival (since 1999)...
William Yeates Hurlstone
William Yeates Hurlstone (January 7, 1876 – May 6, 1906) was an English composer and pianist. He studied with Stanford at the Royal College of Music.
He wrote music for clarinet and piano such as 'Four Characteristics Pieces', including Ballade,...
Howard Talbot
Richard Lansdale Munkittrick, better known as Howard Talbot (9 March 1865 - 12 September 1928), was an American-born, English-raised conductor and composer of Irish descent. He was best known for writing the music to several hit Edwardian musical...
Colin Davis
Sir Colin Rex Davis, CH, CBE (born 25 September 1927 in Weybridge, Surrey) is an English conductor.
Davis studied the clarinet at the Royal College of Music in London, where he was barred from taking conducting lessons owing to his lack of ability...
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (15 August 1875 – 1 September 1912) was an English composer who achieved such success he was called the "African Mahler".
Coleridge-Taylor was born in Holborn, London, to a Sierra Leonean Creole father, Daniel Peter Hughes...
Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph
Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph (OIB) (July 9, 1948) is a South African composer, pianist and teacher. She was the first woman in South Africa to obtain a doctorate in composition.
Zaidel-Rudolph was born Pretoria and began playing the piano at age five. She...
Ivor Gurney
Ivor Bertie Gurney (28 August 1890 - 26 December 1937) was an English composer and war poet.
Born at 3 Queen Street, Gloucester in 1890, Gurney sang as a chorister at Gloucester Cathedral, from 1900 to 1906, when he became an articled pupil of Dr...
Douglas Lilburn
Douglas Gordon Lilburn ONZ FRCM (2 November 1915 – 6 June 2001) was an influential New Zealand composer.
He was born in Wanganui, New Zealand. He attended Waitaki Boys' High School from 1930 to 1933, before moving to Christchurch to study at...
Denis Vaughan
Denis Vaughan (born 6 June 1926) is an orchestral conductor most famous for his role as the driving force behind the creation of the United Kingdom's National Lottery. He is a campaigner for wider access to arts and culture for young people, and...
Denise Orme
Jessie Smither (25 August 1885 – 20 October 1960), best known by her stage name Denise Orme, was an English music hall singer, actress and musician who appeared regularly at the Alhambra and Gaiety Theatres in London in the early years of the 20th...
Robert Smythe Hichens
Robert Smythe Hichens (November 14, 1864 – July 20, 1950) was an English journalist and novelist.
Born in Speldhurst in Kent, he was educated at Clifton College, the Royal College of Music and the London School of Journalism and lived in Wittersham,...
Stanford Robinson
Stanford Robinson OBE (5 July 1904 - 25 October 1984) was an English conductor, known for his work with the BBC.
He was born in Leeds, and educated at the Stationers’ Company School and the Royal College of Music, where he studied under Sir Adrian...
Robert Ashfield
Robert Ashfield FRCO (28 July 1911 – 30 December 2006) was an English cathedral organist, choirmaster and composer.
Robert James Ashfield was born in 1911 at Chipstead, Surrey. Educated at Tonbridge School and the Royal College of Music (RCM), he...
Amaryllis Fleming
Amaryllis Marie-Louise Fleming (10 December 1925 – 27 July 1999) was a British cello performer and teacher.
She was the illegitimate daughter of the painter Augustus John by his mistress Eve Fleming, mother of the writers Peter Fleming and Ian...
Herbert Hughes
Herbert Hughes (1882 – 1937) was an Irish composer, music critic and collector of folk songs.
He was born and brought up in Belfast, Ireland, but completed his formal music education at the Royal College of Music, London, graduating in 1901....
Lazarus Ekwueme
Lazarus Ekwueme (born January 28, 1936) is a Nigerian musicologist, composer and scholar. He is one of the pioneer lecturers of music in Nigeria and also a prolific writer. He is a scholar who has written numerous articles and books on music...
Joan Sutherland
Dame Joan Alston Sutherland, OM, AC, DBE (born 7 November 1926) is an Australian dramatic coloratura soprano noted for her contribution in the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s through to the 1980s.
One of the most...
Luis Parés
Luis Parés (born Caracas, September 16, 1980) is a Venezuelan/Italian pianist. He is in much demand as a soloist and chamber musician having performed in many countries, such as the USA, UK, Spain Venezuela and Italy. He has appeared with some of...
Christian Lindberg
Christian Lindberg (born 1958) is a Swedish trombone virtuoso. Lindberg has premiered over 200 works, including over 70 new concerti. His performances are characterised as having “a charismatic intensity of delivery” (New Grove, OUP).
Growing up in...
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Christopher Tin
Christopher Tin is an American composer, best known for his composition Baba Yetu, featured in the 2005 computer game, Civilization IV.
Christopher Tin was born and raised in California. He worked on his undergraduate education at Oxford and...
Robin Blaze
Robin Blaze (born 1971 in Manchester) is an English countertenor.
The son of a professional golfer Peter, Robin Blaze grew up in Shadwell, near Leeds and was educated at Leeds Grammar School, Uppingham School, and Magdalen College, Oxford.
Having...
Peter Racine Fricker
Peter Racine Fricker (September 5, 1920–February 1, 1990) was an English composer who lived in the United States for the last thirty years of his life.
Fricker was born in London, and studied with R. O. Morris and Ernest Bullock at the Royal College...
R. O. Morris
Reginald Owen Morris (3 March 1886 – 14 December 1948), almost universally cited in sources and referred to even by his friends by his initials, as 'R.O. Morris', was a British composer whose compositions have been overshadowed by his formidable...
Trevor Pinnock
Trevor David Pinnock CBE (born 16 December 1946) is an English conductor and harpsichordist. He is best known for directing the period-performance orchestra The English Concert from the harpsichord for over 30 years in baroque and early classical...
Arnold Dolmetsch
(Eugène) Arnold Dolmetsch (24 February 1858 - 28 February 1940), was a French-born musician and instrument maker who spent much of his working life in England and established an instrument-making workshop in Haslemere, Surrey. He was a leading...
Reginald Goodall
Sir Reginald Goodall (13 July 1901, Lincoln – 5 May 1990) was an English conductor, noted for his performances of the operas of Richard Wagner and conducting the premieres of several operas by Benjamin Britten.
Known as "Reggie", Goodall studied at...
Philip Jones
Philip Jones CBE (March 12, 1928–January 17, 2000) was a British trumpeter and leader of an internationally famous brass chamber music ensemble.
Philip Jones was born in Bath, England. In 1944 he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music. He...
Noel Gay
Noel Gay Willis born Reginald Moxon Armitage (15 July 1898 - 4 March 1954) was one of the most successful British composers of popular music of the 1930s and 1940s.
He was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England and educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar...
Humphrey Searle
Humphrey Searle (26 August 1915 - 12 May 1982) was a British composer. He was born in Oxford where he was a classics scholar before studying — somewhat hesitantly — with John Ireland at the Royal College of Music in London, after which he went to...
Julian Anderson
Julian Anderson (born 6 April 1967 in London) is a British composer.
Anderson studied at Westminster School, with John Lambert at the Royal College of Music, with Alexander Goehr at Cambridge University, with Tristan Murail and on courses in...
Rebecca Clarke
Rebecca Clarke (Friskin) (27 August 1886 – 13 October 1979) was an English classical composer and violist best known for her chamber music featuring the viola. She is considered by one commentator to be one of the most important British composers in...
Benjamin Britten
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor, violist and pianist.
Britten was born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, the son of a dentist and a talented amateur musician. He showed...
Susan Addison
Susan Addison (born 1955) is a leading performer of the sackbut and early trombone. Based in the English Midlands, she performs with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts, the Gabrieli Consort and Players and...
Fanny Waterman
Dame Fanny Waterman DBE (born 22 March 1920) is a piano teacher, and the founder, Chairman and Artistic Director of the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition. Appointed OBE in 1971, CBE in 2001 and DBE in the 2005 New Year's Honours, Waterman...
Thomas Armstrong
Sir Thomas Armstrong (15 June 1898 – 26 June 1994) was an English organist, conductor, educationalist and adjudicator. He had a substantial influence on British music for well over half a century. From 1955 to 1968 he was principal of the Royal...
David Bruce
David Bruce (born 1970) is a British-American composer.
David began his undergraduate studies in music in 1988 at Nottingham University (composition tutors included Jim Fulkerson and Nicholas Sackman), before moving on to the Royal College of Music ...
George Dyson
Sir George Dyson (1883–1964) was a well-known English musician and composer. His son is the physicist Freeman Dyson and his grandchildren are the science historian George Dyson and Esther Dyson. He was born in Halifax, Yorkshire on 28 May 1883 and...
Edgar Bainton
Edgar Leslie Bainton (14 February 1880 – 8 December 1956) was a British composer, most celebrated for his church music. Perhaps his most famous piece is the liturgical anthem And I saw a new heaven, but during recent years Bainton's other musical...
Graham Fitch
Graham Fitch is an English pianist and a former professor at the University of Cape Town.
First prize winner in the Mieczyslaw Munz Piano Competition, Fitch graduated with honours from London's Royal College of Music as a Hopkinson Gold Medallist. A...
Gilbert Rowland
Gilbert Rowland (born 1946 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish harpsichordist. His father was second in command to the Viceroy of India during the days of the British Empire.
He studied at the Royal College of Music, under Millicent Silver, and made...
Katharine Marjory Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl
Katharine Marjory Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl, DBE (1874 – 1960), born Katharine Marjory Ramsay and known as the Marchioness of Tullibardine from 1899 to 1917, was a Scottish noblewoman and Unionist politician.
She was born in Edinburgh on 6...
Charles Groves
Sir Charles Barnard Groves (10 March 1915 – 20 June 1992) was an English conductor. He was known for the breadth of his repertoire and for encouraging contemporary composers and young conductors.
After accompanying positions and conducting various...
Percy Whitlock
Percy William Whitlock (1 June 1903, Chatham, Kent – 1 May 1946, Bournemouth) was an English organist and post-romantic composer.
A student of Vaughan Williams at London's Royal College of Music, Whitlock quickly arrived at an musical idiom that...
Andrew Downes
Andrew Downes (born 1950) is a British classical composer.
Downes was born in Handsworth, Birmingham. In 1969, he won a choral scholarship to St. John's College, Cambridge, where he gained an MA degree specializing in composition, and in 1974 went...
Edmund Rubbra
Edmund Rubbra (23 May 1901 – 14 February 1986) was a British composer. He composed both instrumental and vocal works for soloists, chamber groups and full choruses and orchestras. He was greatly esteemed by fellow musicians and was at the peak of...
John Williams
John Christopher Williams (born 24 April 1941) is a Grammy Award winning Australian classical guitarist and long term resident of the United Kingdom. He is widely regarded by some to be one of the finest guitarists of his generation.
Born in...
Sydney Nicholson
Sir Sydney Hugo Nicholson (9 February 1875 – 30 May 1947) was an English choir director, organist and composer, now chiefly remembered as the founder of the Royal School of Church Music (RSCM). He was born in London (the son of Charles Nicholson)...
Derek Bell
Derek Bell, MBE (October 21, 1935 – October 17, 2002) was an Irish harpist and composer.
Bell was born George Derek Fleetwood Bell in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Because he had been misdiagnosed at an early age as having a disease that would lead to...
Sarah Walker
Sarah Walker CBE (born 11 March 1943 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire) is a British mezzo-soprano.
Walker's grandparents were members of the Hallé Choir, and her aunt (Madame Annie Walker) was a notable soprano in the early 20th Century.
She studied...
Cyril Smith
Cyril James Smith OBE (born Middlesbrough, England, August 11, 1909; died London, August 2, 1974) was a virtuoso concert pianist of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s and piano teacher.
Cyril was born Cyril James Smith at Costa Street, Middlesbrough the son...
Marshall Hall
George William Louis Marshall Hall (28 March 1862 – 18 July 1915) was an English-born musician, composer, conductor and poet, active in Australia. Later in life he hyphenated his last two names and was known as George William Louis Marshall-Hall or...
