100 Notable alumni of
Royal Academy of Music, University of London
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The Royal Academy of Music, University of London is 272nd in the world, 94th in Europe, and 21st in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Royal Academy of Music, University of London sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Elton John
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- musicianfilm actorkeyboardistcomposerinternational forum participant
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Sir Elton Hercules John is a British singer, pianist and composer. Acclaimed by critics and musicians, particularly for his work during the 1970s and for his lasting impact on the music industry, his music and showmanship have had a significant impact on popular music. His songwriting partnership with lyricist Bernie Taupin is one of the most successful in history.
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Annie Lennox
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- singer-songwritermusic video directorsingerrecording artistsongwriter
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Ann Lennox is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving moderate success in the late 1970s as part of the new wave band the Tourists, she and fellow musician Dave Stewart went on to achieve international success in the 1980s as Eurythmics. Appearing in the 1983 music video for "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" with orange cropped hair and wearing a man's lounge suit, the BBC states, "all eyes were on Annie Lennox, the singer whose powerful androgynous look defied the male gaze". Subsequent hits with Eurythmics include "There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)", "Love Is a Stranger" and "Here Comes the Rain Again".
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Bill Bailey
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- singer-songwritertelevision presenterpianistmusiciancomedian
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Mark Robert Bailey, known professionally as Bill Bailey, is an English musician, comedian and actor. He is known for his role as Manny in the sitcom Black Books and for his regular appearances on the panel shows Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Have I Got News for You, and QI, as well as for his stand-up comedy work. He plays a variety of musical instruments and incorporates music into his performances.
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Joe Jackson
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- singer-songwriterrecording artistcomposer
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David Ian "Joe" Jackson is an English musician, singer and songwriter. Having spent years studying music and playing clubs, he scored a hit with his first release, "Is She Really Going Out with Him?", in 1979. It was followed by a number of new wave singles, before he moved to more jazz-inflected pop music and had a top 10 hit in 1982 with "Steppin' Out". Jackson is associated with the 1980s Second British Invasion of the US. He has also composed classical music. He has recorded 20 studio albums and received five Grammy Award nominations.
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Helen George
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- film actoractor
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Helen Elizabeth George is an English actress, best known for playing Trixie Franklin, late Trixie, Lady Aylward, on the BBC drama series Call the Midwife. In 2015, she participated in the thirteenth series of BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing; she was paired with Aljaž Skorjanec, and finished in sixth place. She was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards for her contribution to the cast recording of Cinderella.
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Katherine Jenkins
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- music artistopera singer
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Katherine Jenkins is a Welsh singer. She is a mezzo-soprano and performs operatic arias, popular songs, musical theatre, and hymns.
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Myleene Klass
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- modelfilm actormusiciantelevision presenterentertainer
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Myleene Angela Klass is a British musician, singer, television presenter and model. She was a member of the pop group Hear'Say, and later released two solo classical crossover albums in 2003 and 2007. More recently, Klass has been a television and radio presenter. She has hosted television series including Popstar to Operastar (2010–2011) and BBQ Champ (2015) on ITV and The One Show (2007) on BBC One. She was a regular panellist on the ITV lunchtime chat show Loose Women in 2014 and again from 2024 onwards. In 2006, Klass was runner-up on the sixth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, and returned in 2023 for the "all-stars" series I'm a Celebrity... South Africa, which she won.
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Sati Kazanova
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- modelpresentersingeractor
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Sataney Setgalievna Kazanova, better known as Sati Kazanova (Russian: Сати Казанова), (born 2 October 1982 in Kabardino-Balkarian ASSR) is a Russian singer. Until May 2010, she was one of the three vocalists of the Russian pop girl group Fabrika (Russian: Фабрика; Factory in English). In 2002, she took part in the first season of the Russian talent show Star Factory as a member of Fabrika, where they finished second.
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Grace Chatto
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- percussionistvocalistcellistmusician
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Grace Chatto is an English musician and singer who is the cellist, backing vocalist and occasional main vocalist, for the electronic music band Clean Bandit.
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Karl Jenkins
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- oboistjazz musiciankeyboardistcomposersaxophonist
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Sir Karl William Pamp Jenkins, CBE, FRAM, HonFLSW is a Welsh multi-instrumentalist and composer. His best known works include the song "Adiemus" (1995), from the Adiemus album series; Palladio (1995); The Armed Man (2000); his Requiem (2005); and his Stabat Mater (2008).
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Michael Nyman
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- pianistcomposerfilm score composermusic criticrecording artist
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Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE is an English composer, pianist, librettist, musicologist, and filmmaker. He is known for numerous film scores (many written during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway), and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano. He has written a number of operas, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat; Letters, Riddles and Writs; Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs; Facing Goya; Man and Boy: Dada; Love Counts; and Sparkie: Cage and Beyond. He has written six concerti, five string quartets, and many other chamber works, many for his Michael Nyman Band. He is also a performing pianist. Nyman prefers to write opera over other forms of music.
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Ian "H" Watkins
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- singer
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Ian Watkins, known by his stage name H (which stands for "hyperactive"), is a Welsh singer and actor. He is a member of the British pop group Steps.
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Devika Rani
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- film actoractor
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Devika Rani, usually known as Devika Rani, was an Indian actress who was active in Hindi films during the 1930s and 1940s. She was the first recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, and was also awarded the Padma Shri. Widely acknowledged as the First Lady of Indian cinema, Devika Rani had a successful film career that spanned 10 years.
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Gareth Malone
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- conductormusicianchoir directortelevision presenter
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Gareth Edmund Malone is an English choirmaster and broadcaster, self-described as an "animateur, presenter and populariser of choral singing". He is best known for his television appearances in programmes such as The Choir, which focus on singing and introducing choral music to new participants. Malone was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours, for services to music.
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Birgit Nilsson
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- opera singer
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Märta Birgit Nilsson was a Swedish dramatic soprano. Although she sang a wide repertoire of operatic and vocal works, Nilsson was best known for her performances in the operas of Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss. Her voice was noted for its overwhelming force, bountiful reserves of power, and the gleaming brilliance and clarity in the upper register.
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Arthur Sullivan
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- conductororganistcomposermusic teacher
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Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan was an English composer. He is best known for 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado. His works include 24 operas, 11 major orchestral works, ten choral works and oratorios, two ballets, incidental music to several plays, and numerous church pieces, songs, and piano and chamber pieces. His hymns and songs include "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and "The Lost Chord".
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Maxim Vengerov
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- university teacherconductorpedagoguemusic teacherviolinist
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Maxim Alexandrovich Vengerov is a Soviet-born Israeli violinist, violist, and conductor. Classic FM has called him "one of the greatest violinists in the world".
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Trevor Jones
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- film score composercomposer
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Trevor Alfred Charles Jones is a South African composer of film and television scores. Having spent much of his career in the United Kingdom, Jones has worked on numerous well-known and acclaimed films including Excalibur, Runaway Train, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Mississippi Burning, The Last of the Mohicans, and In the Name of the Father; collaborating with filmmakers like John Boorman, Andrei Konchalovsky, Jim Henson, and Michael Mann. He has composed for numerous films and his music has been critically acclaimed for both its depth and emotion, and he has been nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and three BAFTA Awards for Best Film Music.
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Fra Fee
- Enrolled in the Royal Academy of Music, University of London
- 2008-2009 studied theatre
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- actorsingerstage actor
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Fra Fee is an Irish actor and singer known for his role as Kazi in the Disney+ series Hawkeye, which is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He portrayed Courfeyrac in Tom Hooper's 2012 film adaptation of Les Misérables. Fee also played the role of Michael Carney in Jez Butterworth's The Ferryman at the Royal Court Theatre, West End, and Broadway, directed by Sam Mendes. For his performance, he won the 2018 WhatsOnStage Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Play.
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Jeanne Added
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- recording artistsinger-songwriter
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Jeanne Added is a French singer songwriter singing mainly in English. After starting as a jazz interpreter with various musicians, she launched her solo EP EP#1 in 2011 followed by an independent album Yes is a Pleasant Country also in 2011. She has released three albums and three EPs and a number of singles.
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Máiréad Nesbitt
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- composerviolinist
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Máiréad Nesbitt is an Irish musician. She is known for performing Celtic and classical music and being the former fiddler for Celtic Woman. She was also one of the two original fiddlers in Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance in the mid to late 1990s, along with its extended version Feet of Flames in the early 2000s.
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Antonio Pappano
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- conductorharpsichordistclassical pianistmusic director
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Sir Antonio Pappano is an English-Italian conductor and pianist. He is currently music director of the Royal Opera House and of the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. Since March 2021, he is also the chief conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra.
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SuRie
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- singer
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Susanna Marie Cork, better known as SuRie, is an English singer and songwriter. She was born in Harlow, Essex, and raised in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire.
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Arnold Bax
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- writerpianistconductorpoetclassical composer
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Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax was an English composer, poet, and author. His prolific output includes songs, choral music, chamber pieces, and solo piano works, but he is best known for his orchestral music. In addition to a series of symphonic poems, he wrote seven symphonies and was for a time widely regarded as the leading British symphonist.
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Rachel Tucker
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- actorsingerstage actor
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Rachel Kelly Tucker is a Northern Irish West End and Broadway actress, best known for her portrayal of Elphaba in the hit musical Wicked. She also starred in Come from Away on Broadway, having originated the role on the West End. Rachel has starred in various other musicals and plays, including one alongside Sting (The Last Ship).
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Dee Palmer
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- keyboardistcomposer
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Dee Palmer is an English composer, arranger, and keyboardist best known for having been a member of the progressive rock group Jethro Tull from 1976 to 1980 (although she had worked with the band as an arranger since their inception in 1968).
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Kit Armstrong
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- pianistcomposer
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Kit Armstrong is an American classical pianist, composer, organist, and former child prodigy of British-Taiwanese parentage.
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Es Devlin
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- scenographercostume designertheatre designerproduction designer
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Esmeralda Devlin is an English artist and stage designer who works in a range of media, often mapping light and projected film onto kinetic sculptural forms.
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John Dankworth
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- composeruniversity teacheractorsaxophonistbandleader
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Sir John Phillip William Dankworth, CBE, also known as Johnny Dankworth, was an English jazz composer, saxophonist, clarinettist and writer of film scores. With his wife, jazz singer Dame Cleo Laine, he was a music educator and also her music director.
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John Barbirolli
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- music teachercellistconductor
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Sir John Barbirolli was a British conductor and cellist. He is remembered above all as conductor of the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester, which he helped save from dissolution in 1943 and conducted for the rest of his life. Earlier in his career he was Arturo Toscanini's successor as music director of the New York Philharmonic, serving from 1936 to 1943. He was also chief conductor of the Houston Symphony from 1961 to 1967, and was a guest conductor of many other orchestras, including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia, the Berlin Philharmonic and the Vienna Philharmonic, with all of which he made recordings.
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Harrison Birtwistle
- Enrolled in the Royal Academy of Music, University of London
- Studied in 1955-1956
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- music teachercomposerfilm score composer
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Sir Harrison Birtwistle was an English composer of contemporary classical music best known for his operas, often based on mythological subjects. Among his many compositions, his better known works include The Triumph of Time (1972) and the operas The Mask of Orpheus (1986), Gawain (1991), and The Minotaur (2008). The last of these was ranked by music critics at The Guardian in 2019 as the third-best piece of the 21st century. Even his compositions that were not written for the stage often showed a theatrical approach. A performance of his saxophone concerto Panic during the BBC's Last Night of the Proms caused "national notoriety". He received many international awards and honorary degrees.
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Rebecca Clarke
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- musicologistviolistcomposermusician
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Rebecca Helferich Clarke was a British classical composer and violist. Internationally renowned as a viola virtuoso, she also became one of the first female professional orchestral players in London.
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Evelyn Dove
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- actorjazz singercabaret performer
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Evelyn Mary Dove was a British singer and actress, who early in her career drew comparisons with Josephine Baker. Of Sierra Leone Creole and English parentage, Dove is recognized as a "trailblazing performer": in 1939, she made history as the first black singer to feature on BBC Radio, building a solid reputation not only through her work in Britain but also internationally, travelling to France, Germany, Italy, Austria, the Netherlands, Hungary, the United States, India and Spain. She was featured as a Google Doodle on what would have been her 117th birthday in 2019.
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Gabriela Montero
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- pianistcomposerinternational forum participant
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Gabriela Montero is a Venezuelan pianist, known in particular for her real-time improvisation of complex musical pieces on themes suggested by her audience and other sources, as well as for performances of standard classical repertoire.
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Edward Gardner
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- music directorconductor
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Edward Gardner is an English conductor. While still studying at the Royal Academy of Music in the late 1990s, he began his professional career as a choral conductor and repetiteur. Among other early posts, he was music director of Glyndebourne on Tour from 2004 to 2007. Gardner was music director of English National Opera from 2007 to 2015. From 2010 to 2016, he was principal guest conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and since 2013, he has been principal guest conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Since 2021, he has been principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2022, he also became artistic advisor of the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, where he is scheduled to become the music director in 2024.
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Henry Wood
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- university teachercomposerconductor
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Sir Henry Joseph Wood was an English conductor best known for his association with London's annual series of promenade concerts, known as the Proms. He conducted them for nearly half a century, introducing hundreds of new works to British audiences. After his death, the concerts were officially renamed in his honour as the "Henry Wood Promenade Concerts", although they continued to be generally referred to as "the Proms".
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Brian Ferneyhough
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- pedagoguecomposer
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Brian John Peter Ferneyhough is an English composer. Ferneyhough is typically considered the central figure of the New Complexity movement. Ferneyhough has taught composition at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and the University of California, San Diego; he teaches at Stanford University and is a regular lecturer in the summer courses at Darmstädter Ferienkurse. He has resided in California since 1987.
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Phil Gould
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- musiciandrummersongwriter
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Philip Gabriel Gould is a British drummer, songwriter and singer from the Isle of Wight in southern England. He founded the band Level 42 with Mark King.
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Myra Hess
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- pianistmusic teacher
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Dame Julia Myra Hess, was an English pianist best known for her performances of the works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, and Brahms.
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Vikki Stone
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- comedianactormusician
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Vikki Stone is a British composer, comedian, actress and musician.
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Emma Nicholson
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- politician
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Emma Harriet Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne is a British politician, who has been a life peer since 1997. She was elected as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Torridge and West Devon in 1987, before switching to the Liberal Democrats in 1995. She was also the Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament for South East England from 1999 to 2009. In 2016, she announced she was re-joining the Conservative Party "with tremendous pleasure". In 2017, Baroness Nicholson was appointed as Prime Minister's Trade Envoy for Kazakhstan.
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Miloš Karadaglić
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- classical guitarist
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Miloš Karadaglić, sometimes known just by his mononym MILOŠ, is a classical guitarist and Sony Classical recording artist. He was born in Montenegro. He is often credited for leading the way in the classical guitar revival of the past decade.
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William Sterndale Bennett
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- pianistuniversity teacherconductormusic teachercomposer
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Sir William Sterndale Bennett was an English composer, pianist, conductor and music educator. At the age of ten Bennett was admitted to the London Royal Academy of Music (RAM), where he remained for ten years. By the age of twenty, he had begun to make a reputation as a concert pianist, and his compositions received high praise. Among those impressed by Bennett was the German composer Felix Mendelssohn, who invited him to Leipzig. There Bennett became friendly with Robert Schumann, who shared Mendelssohn's admiration for his compositions. Bennett spent three winters composing and performing in Leipzig.
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Dominic Lewis
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- film score composercomposer
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Dominic Alexander Charles Lewis is a British film and television composer and occasional actor. He first worked on various music departments for film projects before transitioning into more solo work starting with Free Birds. His other credits includes The Man in the High Castle, DuckTales, Peter Rabbit, Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway, and Monsters at Work. He serves as the singing voice of Lurch in The Addams Family 2, and of Donald Duck in the DuckTales reboot.
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Edmundo Ros
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- conductorbandleadersongwritersinger
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Edmundo Ros OBE, FRAM, born Edmund William Ross, was a Trinidadian-Venezuelan musician, vocalist, arranger and bandleader who made his career in Britain. He directed a highly popular Latin American orchestra, had an extensive recording career and owned one of London's leading nightclubs.
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Susanna Mälkki
- Enrolled in the Royal Academy of Music, University of London
- 1993-1994 studied cello
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- cellistconductor
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Susanna Ulla Marjukka Mälkki is a Finnish conductor and cellist.
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Vanraj Bhatia
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- music directorcomposer
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Vanraj Bhatia was an Indian composer best known for his work in Indian New Wave cinema. He was also one of the leading composers of Western classical music in India.
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Ray Noble
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- songwriterjazz musicianfilm actorbandleaderactor
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Raymond Stanley Noble was an English jazz and big band musician, who was a bandleader, composer and arranger, as well as a radio host, television and film comedian and actor; he also performed in the United States.
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Dominic Seldis
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- musicianmusic teacher
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Dominic Seldis is a British double bass soloist and principal (1st solo) double bass of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
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Bramwell Tovey
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- musicologistconductorpianistcomposer
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Bramwell Tovey was a British conductor and composer.
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Jiří Stivín
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- composerflautistpedagoguesaxophonistmusician
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Jiří Stivín is a Czech flute player and composer.
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Freddy Kempf
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- pianist
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Frederick Albert Kempf is a British pianist born in Croydon to a German father and a Japanese mother. He lives in Berlin.
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Xuefei Yang
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- classical guitaristguitarist
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Xuefei Yang is a Chinese classical guitarist.
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Granville Bantock
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- choreographercomposerconductor
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Sir Granville Ransome Bantock was a British composer of classical music.
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Teo Gheorghiu
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- film actorpianist
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Teo Gheorghiu is a Swiss-Canadian pianist.
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Philip Sheppard
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- conductormusicianmusic teachercomposercellist
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Philip Sheppard is an English musician.
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Clifford Curzon
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- pianistcomposer
- Biography
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Sir Clifford Michael Curzon CBE was an English classical pianist.
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York Bowen
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- horn playerpianistconductormusic teachercomposer
- Biography
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Edwin York Bowen was an English composer and pianist. Bowen's musical career spanned more than fifty years during which time he wrote over 160 works. As well as being a pianist and composer, Bowen was a talented conductor, organist, violist and horn player. Despite achieving considerable success during his lifetime, many of the composer's works remained unpublished and unperformed until after his death in 1961. Bowen's compositional style is widely considered as ‘Romantic’ and his works are often characterized by their rich harmonic language.
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Alan Bush
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- conductorpianistcomposermusic teacher
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Alan Dudley Bush was a British composer, pianist, conductor, teacher and political activist. A committed communist, his uncompromising political beliefs were often reflected in his music. He composed prolifically across a range of genres, but struggled through his lifetime for recognition from the British musical establishment, which largely ignored his works.
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Moura Lympany
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- autobiographerpianist
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Dame Moura Lympany DBE was an English concert pianist.
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E. Power Biggs
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- harpsichordistcomposerorganist
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Edward George Power Biggs was a British-born American concert organist and recording artist.
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Anna Russell
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- comedianactorsinger
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Anna Russell was an English–Canadian singer and comedian. She gave many concerts in which she sang and played comic musical sketches on the piano. Among her best-known works are her concert performances and famous recordings of The Ring of the Nibelungs (An Analysis) – a humorous 22-minute synopsis of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen – and (on the same album) her parody How to Write Your Own Gilbert and Sullivan Opera.
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Fiona Brice
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- composerviolinist
- Biography
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Fiona Brice is an English composer, orchestral arranger and violinist.
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Andrew Parmley
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sir Andrew Charles Parmley, is Principal of the Harrodian School in Barnes, London, and served as Lord Mayor of London for 2016–17.
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Jonathan Noyce
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- bassistguitaristkeyboardist
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Jonathan Mark Thomas Noyce is an English musician. He is primarily bass guitar player. Noyce is known for being a member of British rock group Jethro Tull for 12 years, and also for his collaborations with guitarist Gary Moore, film composer Daniel Pemberton, the band Archive and French artist Mylène Farmer. In 2018 he was awarded an ARAM by the Royal Academy of Music.
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Garðar Thór Cortes
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- actoropera singerstage actor
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Garðar Thór Cortes is an Icelandic tenor of Icelandic and English parentage. A former child actor, Garðar subsequently trained as a singer in Vienna, Copenhagen and London. He has performed various leading tenor roles in operas, as well as a leading part in The Phantom of the Opera in London's West End. While insisting that he is first and foremost a classical opera singer, it was with his classical crossover album Cortes, released in Iceland in 2005, that Garðar came to prominence. His debut album in the UK, also titled Cortes, was released on 16 April 2007 and entered the UK Classical Charts at number 1.
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Harriet Cohen
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- music teacherpianistcomposer
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Harriet Pearl Alice Cohen CBE was a British pianist.
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Ari Ólafsson
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Ari Ólafsson is an Icelandic singer who represented Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 with the song "Our Choice" which ended 19th in Semi Final 1 with 15 points.
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Michael Berkeley
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- film score composercomposerradio personality
- Biography
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Michael Fitzhardinge Berkeley, Baron Berkeley of Knighton, is an English composer, broadcaster on music and member of the House of Lords.
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Leo Abrahams
- Occupations
- composermusicianrecord producerguitarist
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Leo Matthew Abrahams is an English musician, composer and producer. He has collaborated with Brian Eno, Katie Melua, Imogen Heap, Jarvis Cocker, Carl Barât, Regina Spektor, Jon Hopkins and Paul Simon. After attending the Royal Academy of Music in England, he started his musical career by touring as lead guitarist with Imogen Heap. Since 2005 he has released five solo albums, largely in an ambient style involving complex arrangements and a use of guitar-generated textures. He has also co-written or arranged a variety of film soundtracks, including Peter Jackson's 2009 release The Lovely Bones and Steve McQueen's Hunger. Abrahams has produced Regina Spektor's album Remember Us to Life. Hayden Thorpe's Diviner, Editors' Violence and Ghostpoet's Dark Days + Canapés.
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Joanna MacGregor
- Occupations
- jazz musiciancomposermusic teachertelevision presenter
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Joanna Clare MacGregor is a British concert pianist, conductor, composer, and festival curator. She is Head of Piano at the Royal Academy of Music and a professor of the University of London. She was artistic director of the International Summer School & Festival at Dartington Hall from 2015 to 2019.
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Carwyn Ellis
- Years
- 1973-.. (age 51)
- Occupations
- composersinger-songwriter
- Biography
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Carwyn Meurig Ellis is a Welsh musician, composer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. He is known as the frontman of Welsh alternative band Colorama, as a member of the Pretenders and as a long-time collaborator with Edwyn Collins. In 2014, they worked together on the soundtrack to the film The Possibilities Are Endless which won the Mojo 'Film of the Year' Award.
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Edith Craig
- Occupations
- film actordirectorcostume designeractortheatrical producer
- Biography
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Edith Ailsa Geraldine Craig, known as Edy Craig, was a prolific theatre director, producer, costume designer and early pioneer of the women's suffrage movement in England. She was the daughter of actress Ellen Terry and the progressive English architect-designer Edward William Godwin, and the sister of theatre practitioner Edward Gordon Craig.
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Edward German
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- music teachercomposerconductor
- Biography
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Sir Edward German was an English musician and composer of Welsh descent, best remembered for his extensive output of incidental music for the stage and as a successor to Arthur Sullivan in the field of English comic opera. Some of his light operas, especially Merrie England, are still performed.
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Joseph Parry
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Joseph Parry was a Welsh composer and musician. Born in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, he is best known as the composer of "Myfanwy" and the hymn tune "Aberystwyth". Parry was also the first Welshman to compose an opera; his composition, Blodwen, was the first opera in the Welsh language.
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Doreen Carwithen
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- film score composercomposer
- Biography
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Doreen Mary Carwithen was a British composer of classical and film music. She was also known as Mary Alwyn following her marriage to William Alwyn.
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Lionel Tertis
- Occupations
- university teachermusic journalistcomposermusic teacherviolinist
- Biography
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Lionel Tertis, CBE was an English violist. He was one of the first viola players to achieve international fame and a noted teacher.
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Alexander Mackenzie
- Occupations
- conductorcomposeruniversity teachermusic teacher
- Biography
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Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie KCVO was a Scottish composer, conductor and teacher best known for his oratorios, violin and piano pieces, Scottish folk music and works for the stage.
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Andrew Alexander
- Occupations
- television actoractor
- Biography
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Andrew Alexander is an English actor and singer, who is best known for his role as Sir John Bullock in Downton Abbey.
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John Joubert
- Occupations
- composer
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John Pierre Herman Joubert was a British composer of South African birth, particularly of choral works. He lived in Moseley, a suburb of Birmingham, England, for over 50 years. A music academic in the universities of Hull and Birmingham for 36 years, Joubert took early retirement in 1986 to concentrate on composing and remained active into his eighties. Though perhaps best known for his choral music, particularly the carols Torches and There is No Rose of Such Virtue and the anthem O Lorde, the Maker of Al Thing, Joubert composed over 160 works including three symphonies, four concertos and seven operas.
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Carol Williams
- Occupations
- organist
- Biography
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Carol Anne Williams D.M.A., ARAM, FRCO, FTCL, ARCM is a British-born international concert organist and composer, now residing in America. She served from October 2001 and resigned her post in October 2016 as Civic Organist for the city of San Diego, California, performing regularly at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion. She was concurrently serving as the artistic director of the Spreckels Organ Society; producing the largest organ festival in North America since 2001. She was formerly the Artist in Residence at St. Paul's Cathedral San Diego.
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Augusta Read Thomas
- Occupations
- music teachermusicologistcomposer
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Augusta Read Thomas is an American composer and professor.
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Osian Ellis
- Occupations
- music teachercomposerharpist
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Osian Gwynn Ellis was a Welsh harpist, composer and teacher. He was principal harpist of the London Symphony Orchestra, a founding member of the Melos Ensemble, and a harp teacher at the Royal Academy of Music. Many composers wrote music for him. From 1959 onwards, Ellis had a close professional partnership with Benjamin Britten that lasted to the latter's death. He often first performed and recorded Britten's works.
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Philip Langridge
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- singerviolinistopera singer
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Philip Gordon Langridge was an English tenor, considered to be among the foremost exponents of English opera and oratorio.
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Gwilym Simcock
- Enrolled in the Royal Academy of Music, University of London
- Studied jazz piano
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- horn playerpianistjazz musicianbandleadercomposer
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Gwilym Simcock is a Welsh pianist and composer working in both jazz and classical music. He was chosen as one of the 1000 Most Influential People in London by the Evening Standard. He was featured on the front cover of the August 2007 issue of the UK's Jazzwise magazine.
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David Giménez Carreras
- Occupations
- conductor
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David Giménez Carreras is a Spanish conductor. He is the Music Director of the Orquestra Simfònica del Vallès. and a principal guest conductor of the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra. Giménez Carreras is the nephew of tenor José Carreras and has conducted many of his concerts, including the 1998 outdoor concert in Barcelona attended by 50,000 people to mark the 10th anniversary of the José Carreras International Leukemia Foundation.
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Robert John Godfrey
- Occupations
- pianistcomposer
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Robert John Godfrey is a British composer, pianist and a founding member of The Enid.
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Alicia Previn
- Occupations
- violinistchildren's writersongwriter
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Alicia Previn is an American violinist, songwriter, recording artist and author. She is the daughter, along with sister Claudia Previn, of André Previn KBE, the conductor of the Houston, Pittsburgh, and London Symphony Orchestras and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and American jazz singer Betty Bennett.
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Graham McGrath
- Years
- 1971-.. (age 53)
- Occupations
- actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Graham McGrath is an English actor with film, television, radio and theatre credits. He currently also works for Merlin Entertainments based near London in Surrey, England. He had tuition at the Junior Academy of the Royal Academy of Music in London when he was only 4 years old. He also studied music and drama at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). He spent 9 years at the academies, refining his acting and musical talents. McGrath's first appearance in front of a camera was in a TV commercial for Colgate toothpaste as a 6-year-old. Among his first major film roles were as the loyal Titch in the 1983 fantasy adventure film Krull directed by Peter Yates and as the ten-year-old Peter the Great in a 1986 mini-series. He also played Luca di Marco in the BBC soap opera EastEnders for three episodes in 1999. Since then, he has been continually active in the entertainment industry and primarily made the transition from child to adult actor in his native England.
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Geraldo
- Occupations
- jazz musicianconductorbandleader
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Gerald Walcan Bright, better known as Geraldo, was an English bandleader. He adopted the name "Geraldo" in 1930, and became one of the most popular British dance band leaders of the 1930s with his "sweet music" and his "Gaucho Tango Orchestra". During the 1940s, he modernised his style and continued to enjoy great success.
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Jessie Bond
- Years
- 1853-1942 (aged 89)
- Occupations
- opera singer
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Jessie Charlotte Bond was an English singer and actress best known for creating the mezzo-soprano soubrette roles in the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas. She spent twenty years on the stage, the bulk of them with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.
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Eva Turner
- Occupations
- music teacheropera singer
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Dame Eva Turner, was an English dramatic soprano. Determined from an early age to become an opera singer, she studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London and then joined the chorus of the Carl Rosa Opera Company. She was allotted increasingly important solo roles, and by 1920 was the company's prima donna.
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Adam Searles
- Occupations
- television actoractor
- Biography
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Adam Searles is a British stage, film, and television actor. He has portrayed Gavroche in Les Misérables at the Palace Theatre, London, and played the original Artful Dodger in Cameron Mackintosh's 1994 production of Oliver! at the London Palladium. Searles opened the show in 1994 with Jonathan Pryce in the role of Fagin and was requested to close the show in 1998 with Jim Dale as Fagin.
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Rosemary Ashe
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Rosemary Ashe is an English stage actress and singer.
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Tobias Matthay
- Occupations
- musicologistpianistcomposermusic teacher
- Biography
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Tobias Augustus Matthay was an English pianist, teacher, and composer.
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Ebenezer Prout
- Occupations
- composerwritermusic teachermusic criticmusic theorist
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Ebenezer Prout was an English musical theorist, writer, music teacher and composer, whose instruction, afterwards embodied in a series of standard works still used today, underpinned the work of many British classical musicians of succeeding generations.
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George Alexander Macfarren
- Occupations
- university teachertheoristcomposermusic teachermusic theorist
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Sir George Alexander Macfarren was an English composer and musicologist.
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Billy Cooper
- Occupations
- trumpeter
- Biography
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Billy Cooper, also known as Billy The Trumpet, is a cricket supporter, best known as the trumpet player for the Barmy Army.
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Michael Schønwandt
- Occupations
- conductor
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Michael Detlev Schønwandt is a Danish conductor. In Denmark, he studied piano, theory, and composition, and later continued musical studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
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Denise Orme
- Years
- 1885-1960 (aged 75)
- Occupations
- singeropera singermusician
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Jessie Smither, Duchess of Leinster, 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 century. Married, successively, to an English baron, a Danish millionaire, and an Irish duke, she was the maternal grandmother of Aga Khan IV.
