100 Notable alumni of
Royal College of Music
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The Royal College of Music is 254th in the world, 88th in Europe, and 18th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Royal College of Music sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Mika
- Occupations
- actorsongwritersingerpianistsinger-songwriter
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Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr., known professionally as Mika, is a singer-songwriter born in Beirut, Lebanon, and raised in Paris and London.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber
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- politiciantheatrical directorproducercomposerbusinessperson
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Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber, KG is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 21 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass.
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Sarah Brightman
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- recording artistsingerstage actordancermusician
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Sarah Brightman is an English classical crossover soprano singer and actress.
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James Horner
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- film score composerorchestratorcomposerconductor
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James Roy Horner was an American film composer and conductor. He worked on more than 160 film and television productions between 1978 and 2015. He was known for the integration of choral and electronic elements alongside traditional orchestrations, and for his use of motifs associated with Celtic music.
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Lang Lang
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- classical pianist
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Lang Lang is a Chinese pianist who has performed with major orchestras around the world and appeared at many leading concert halls. Active since the 1990s, he was the first Chinese pianist to be engaged by the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic and many of the top American orchestras. In 2000, a Chicago Tribune music critic called him "the biggest, most exciting young keyboard talent I have encountered in many a year of attending piano recitals."
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Rick Wakeman
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- radio personalitysession musiciansongwriterpianisttelevision presenter
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Richard Christopher Wakeman is an English keyboardist and composer best known as a member of the progressive rock band Yes across five tenures between 1971 and 2004, and for his prolific solo career. AllMusic describes Wakeman as a "classically trained keyboardist extraordinaire who plied his trade with Yes and developed his own brand of live spectacular in a solo act."
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Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
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- politicianbankereconomist
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Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Godard, also known simply as PPK ( Spanish: [pepeˈka]), is a Peruvian economist, public administrator, and former politician who served as the 59th President of Peru from 2016 to 2018. He served as Prime Minister of Peru and as Minister of Economy and Finance during the presidency of Alejandro Toledo. Kuczynski resigned from the presidency on 23 March 2018, following a successful impeachment vote and days before a probable conviction vote. Since 10 April 2019 he has been in pretrial detention, due to an ongoing investigation on corruption, money laundering, and connections to Odebrecht, a public works company accused of paying bribes.
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Benjamin Britten
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- composerchoreographerconductorpoliticianpianist
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Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten OM CH was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces. His best-known works include the opera Peter Grimes (1945), the War Requiem (1962) and the orchestral showpiece The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (1945).
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Gustav Holst
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- composerlibrettistmusic teacher
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Gustav Theodore Holst was an English composer, arranger and teacher. Best known for his orchestral suite The Planets, he composed many other works across a range of genres, although none achieved comparable success. His distinctive compositional style was the product of many influences, Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss being most crucial early in his development. The subsequent inspiration of the English folksong revival of the early 20th century, and the example of such rising modern composers as Maurice Ravel, led Holst to develop and refine an individual style.
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Vanessa-Mae
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- composeralpine skierviolinist
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Vanessa-Mae, also called Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson, is a British violinist with album sales reaching several million, having made her the wealthiest entertainer under 30 in the United Kingdom in 2006. She competed under the name Vanessa Vanakorn (Thai: วาเนสซ่า วรรณกร, romanized: Wa-nes-sa Wan-na-kon; her father's surname) for Thailand in alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics. She was initially banned from skiing by the International Ski Federation (FIS) after participating in a qualifying race allegedly organised to enable her to qualify for the Winter Olympics. An appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport led to the ban being nullified, citing lack of evidence for her own wrongdoing or any manipulation. The FIS later issued an apology to her.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
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- film score composerchoreographerpedagoguecomposerclassical composer
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Ralph Vaughan Williams OM was an English composer. His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over sixty years. Strongly influenced by Tudor music and English folk-song, his output marked a decisive break in British music from its German-dominated style of the 19th century.
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Leopold Stokowski
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- composerconductororganist
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Leopold Anthony Stokowski was a British-born American conductor. One of the leading conductors of the early and mid-20th century, he is best known for his long association with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He was especially noted for his free-hand conducting style that spurned the traditional baton and for obtaining a characteristically sumptuous sound from the orchestras he directed.
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Alfie Boe
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- recording artistopera singerstage actor
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Alfred Giovanni Roncalli Boe OBE is an English actor and singer who performs primarily in musical theatre.
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John Williams
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- composerclassical guitaristperforming artistmusic educator
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John Christopher Williams AO OBE is an Australian-born classical guitarist renowned for his ensemble playing as well as his interpretation and promotion of the modern classical guitar repertoire. In 1973, he shared a Grammy Award in the Best Chamber Music Performance category with fellow guitarist Julian Bream for Together (released in the US as Julian and John (Works by Lawes, Carulli, Albéniz, Granados)). Guitar historian Graham Wade has said that "John is perhaps the most technically accomplished guitarist the world has seen."
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Joan Sutherland
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- opera singer
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Dame Joan Alston Sutherland, OM, AC, DBE was an Australian dramatic coloratura soprano known for her contribution to the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s to the 1980s.
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Gareth Malone
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- musicianconductortelevision presenterchoir director
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Gareth Edmund Malone OBE 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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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
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- composerpianistconductor
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was a British composer and conductor. Of mixed-race descent, Coleridge-Taylor achieved such success that he was referred to by white musicians in New York City as the "African Mahler" when he had three tours of the United States in the early 1900s. He was particularly known for his three cantatas on the epic 1855 poem The Song of Hiawatha by American Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Coleridge-Taylor premiered the first section in 1898, when he was 23. He married an Englishwoman, Jessie Walmisley, and both their children had musical careers. Their son, Hiawatha, adapted his father's music for a variety of performances. Their daughter, Avril Coleridge-Taylor, became a composer-conductor.
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Claire van Kampen
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- composermusic directorpianisttheatrical directorplaywright
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Claire Louise van Kampen, Lady Rylance was an English director, composer, and playwright. She was the founding director of music at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre from 1997 to 2015, first as assistant to her husband, actor and director Mark Rylance, then with his successor, Dominic Dromgoole, often creating "period" music for Shakespeare's plays. Van Kampen composed music for productions in both London's West End theatres and on New York City's Broadway that often starred her husband, covering a wide range of repertoire from Helen by Euripides to contemporary plays such as Nice Fish; she also worked as musical director and stage director for some of them. She ventured into composing music for a film, Nights and Days, advising and arranging music for the Wolf Hall television series of the BBC and composing a ballet for the New York Theatre Ballet. She wrote a play, Farinelli and the King, which was successfully performed both in London and on Broadway.
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James Galway
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- concert flutistclassical flautistconductor
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Sir James Galway OBE is an Irish virtuoso flute player from Belfast, nicknamed "The Man with the Golden Flute". After several years working as an orchestral musician, he established an international career as a solo flute player. In 2005, he received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music at the Classic Brit Awards.
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Marion Stein
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- aristocratmusicianpianist
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Maria Donata Nanetta Paulina Gustava Erwina Wilhelmine Stein, known as Marion Stein, was an Austrian-born British concert pianist. During her marriage to George Lascelles, Earl of Harewood, she was known as Marion Lascelles, Countess of Harewood and was a member of the British Royal family. After her divorce and subsequent remarriage to British politician Jeremy Thorpe, leader of the Liberal Party from 1967 to 1976, she became known as Marion Thorpe.
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Julian Lloyd Webber
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- cellistmusicianmusic educatorchoreographercomposer
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Julian Lloyd Webber OBE is a British solo cellist, conductor and broadcaster, a former principal of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and the founder of the In Harmony music education programme.
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Christopher Tin
- Enrolled in the Royal College of Music
- 1999-2000 graduated with Master of Music
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- composerfilm score composerconductor
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Christopher Chiyan Tin is an American composer of art music, composing for film, television, and video game soundtracks. His work is primarily orchestral and choral, often with a world music influence. He is a two-time Grammy Award winner.
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Julian Bream
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- musicianlutenistmusic educatorguitaristcomposer
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Julian Alexander Bream CBE was an English classical guitarist and lutenist. Regarded as one of the most distinguished classical guitarists of the 20th century, he played a significant role in improving the public perception of the classical guitar as a respectable instrument. Over the course of a career that spanned more than half a century, Bream also helped revive interest in the lute.
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Malcolm Arnold
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- trumpeterconductorfilm score composercomposerclassical composer
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Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold CBE was an English composer. His works feature music in many genres, including a cycle of nine symphonies, numerous concertos, concert works, chamber music, choral music and music for brass band and wind band. His style is tonal and rejoices in lively rhythms, brilliant orchestration, and an unabashed tunefulness. He wrote extensively for the theatre, with five ballets specially commissioned by the Royal Ballet, as well as two operas and a musical. He also produced scores for more than a hundred films, among these The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), for which he won an Oscar.
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Amanda Aldridge
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- composeropera singermusic educator
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Amanda Christina Elizabeth Aldridge, also known as Amanda Ira Aldridge, was a British opera singer and teacher who composed love songs, suites, sambas, and light orchestral pieces under the pseudonym of Montague Ring.
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Neville Marriner
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- musiciancomposerconductorviolinist
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Sir Neville Marriner, CH, CBE was an English conductor and violinist. Described as "one of the world's greatest conductors", Gramophone lists Marriner as one of the 50 greatest conductors and another compilation ranks Marriner #14 of the 18 "Greatest and Most Famous Conductors of All Time". He founded the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, and his partnership with them is the most recorded of any orchestra and conductor.
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Michalis Chatzigiannis
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- politiciansingerrecord producercomposerpianist
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Michalis Hatzigiannis is a Cypriot singer, musician, and record producer. He served as the Deputy Minister of Culture for Cyprus under President Christodoulides, from March 1, 2023 until July 11, 2023
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Anna Fedorova
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- classical pianist
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Anna Borysivna Fedorova is a Ukrainian concert pianist. Fedorova performs as soloist, chamber musician and with symphony orchestras in the major concert halls of the Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy, UK, Ukraine, Poland, the US, Mexico, Argentina, and parts of Asia. Fedorova is a David Young Piano Prize Holder supported by a Soiree d'Or Award and Keyboard Trust.
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Clemency Burton-Hill
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- broadcasterjournalistsingeractorwriter
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Clemency Margaret Greatrex Burton-Hill MBE is an English broadcaster, author, novelist, journalist and violinist. In her early career she also worked as an actress. In January 2020 she suffered a brain haemorrhage caused by a cerebral arteriovenous malformation and underwent emergency surgery in New York City. She continues to work on her recovery.
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Ola Gjeilo
- Enrolled in the Royal College of Music
- Studied in 2002-2004
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- composerclassical pianistpianist
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Ola Gjeilo is a Norwegian composer and pianist in the United States.
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Peter Pears
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- composeropera singersinger
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Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears CBE was an English tenor. His career was closely associated with the composer Benjamin Britten, his personal and professional partner for nearly forty years.
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Barbara Thompson
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- flautistcomposersaxophonistjazz musician
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Barbara Gracey Thompson MBE was an English jazz saxophonist, flautist and composer. She studied clarinet, flute, piano and classical composition at the Royal College of Music, but the music of Duke Ellington and John Coltrane made her shift her interests to jazz and saxophone. She was married to drummer Jon Hiseman of Colosseum from 1967 until his death in 2018.
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Laura Wright
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- singer
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Laura Kathryn Wright is an English soprano. She is a classical-popular crossover singer who performs classical and operatic music, popular songs, musical theatre, and folk songs.
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Colin Davis
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- engineermusic educatormusic directorconductoruniversity teacher
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Sir Colin Rex Davis CH CBE was an English conductor, known for his association with the London Symphony Orchestra, having first conducted it in 1959. His repertoire was broad, but among the composers with whom he was particularly associated were Mozart, Berlioz, Elgar, Sibelius, Stravinsky and Tippett.
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Andrew Davis
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- music directorharpsichordistorganistconductor
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Sir Andrew Frank Davis CBE was an English conductor. He was the long-time chief conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. He was music director at the Glyndebourne Festival from 1988 to 2000, and especially known for conducting the traditional Last Night of The Proms, including Last Night speeches. He was music director and principal conductor of the Lyric Opera of Chicago from 2000 to the 2020/21 season.
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Rebecca Clarke
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- musiciancomposerviolistmusicologist
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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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Imogen Holst
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- composerbiographerconductorwritermusicologist
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Imogen Clare Holst CBE was a British composer, arranger, conductor, teacher, musicologist, and festival administrator. The only child of the composer Gustav Holst, she is particularly known for her educational work at Dartington Hall in the 1940s, and for her 20 years as joint artistic director of the Aldeburgh Festival. In addition to composing music, she wrote composer biographies, much educational material, and several books on the life and works of her father.
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Frank Bridge
- Enrolled in the Royal College of Music
- Studied in 1896-1903
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- composerviolistconductormusic educator
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Frank Bridge was an English composer, violist and conductor.
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John Ireland
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- film score composercomposerorganistmusic educator
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John Nicholson Ireland was an English composer and teacher of music. The majority of his output consists of piano miniatures and of songs with piano. His best-known works include the short instrumental or orchestral work "The Holy Boy", a setting of the poem "Sea-Fever" by John Masefield, a formerly much-played Piano Concerto, the hymn tune Love Unknown and the choral motet "Greater Love Hath No Man".
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Richard Bonynge
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- conductorpianist
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Richard Alan Bonynge AC, CBE is an Australian conductor and pianist. He is the widower of Australian dramatic coloratura soprano Dame Joan Sutherland. Bonynge conducted virtually all of Sutherland's operatic performances from 1962 until her retirement in 1990.
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Gwyneth Jones
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- opera singer
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Dame Gwyneth Jones DBE is a Welsh dramatic soprano, widely regarded as one of the greatest Wagnerian sopranos in the second half of the 20th century.
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George Butterworth
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- composermusicologist
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George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, MC was an English composer who was best known for the orchestral idyll The Banks of Green Willow and his song settings of A. E. Housman's poems from A Shropshire Lad. He was awarded the Military Cross for his gallantry during the fighting at Pozières in the First World War, and died in the Battle of the Somme.
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David Warburton
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- musicianpolitician
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David John Warburton FRSA is a British former politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Somerton and Frome from 2015 until his resignation in 2023. On his election in the 2015 general election he represented the Conservative Party, but was suspended from the party in April 2022 pending the outcome of an Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme (ICGS) investigation into allegations, eventually withdrawn and dismissed, of harassment and class A drug use. Prior to entering politics, he was the founder, chief executive and chairman of Pitch Entertainment Group. On 17 June 2023, Warburton announced his resignation as an MP, triggering a by-election.
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Trevor Pinnock
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- music educatorharpsichordistconductorpianistchoir director
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Trevor David Pinnock CBE is a British harpsichordist and conductor.
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Steve Nieve
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- composer
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Steve Nieve is an English musician and composer. In a career spanning more than 40 years, Nieve has been a member of Elvis Costello's backing bands the Attractions and the Imposters, as well as Madness. He has also experienced success as a prolific session musician, featured on a wide array of other artists' recordings.
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Philip Sparke
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- trumpetermusiciancomposerconductor
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Philip Allen Sparke is an English composer and musician born in London, noted for his concert band and brass band music. His 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.
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Anna Meredith
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- composermusician
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Anna Howard Meredith MBE is a Scottish composer and performer of electronic and acoustic music. She is a former composer-in-residence with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and former PRS/RPS Composer in the House with Sinfonia ViVA.
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Hugh McDowell
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- musician
- Biography
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Hugh Alexander McDowell was an English cellist and member of the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) and related acts.
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Eugen d'Albert
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- composerpianist
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Eugen Francis Charles d'Albert (10 April 1864 – 3 March 1932) was a Scottish-born pianist and composer who emigrated to Germany.
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Sarah Connolly
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- opera singer
- Biography
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Dame Sarah Patricia Connolly DBE is an English mezzo-soprano. Although best known for her baroque and classical roles, Connolly has a wide-ranging repertoire which has included works by Wagner as well as various 20th-century composers. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours and a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to music.
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Alina Ibragimova
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- classical violinistviolinist
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Alina Rinatovna Ibragimova MBE is a Russian-British violinist.
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Arthur Bliss
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- composerchoreographerfilm score composer
- Biography
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Sir Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss was an English composer and conductor.
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Roger Norrington
- Occupations
- conductor
- Biography
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Sir Roger Arthur Carver Norrington CBE is an English conductor. He is known for historically informed performances of Baroque, Classical and Romantic music.
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Constant Lambert
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- film score composercomposerconductorjazz musician
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Leonard Constant Lambert was a British composer, conductor, and author. He was the founding music director of the Royal Ballet, and (alongside Dame Ninette de Valois and Sir Frederick Ashton) he was a major figure in the establishment of the English ballet as a significant artistic movement.
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Eugene Aynsley Goossens
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- composermusic educatorconductor
- Biography
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Sir Eugene Aynsley Goossens was an English conductor and composer.
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Wayne Marshall
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- organistpianistconductor
- Biography
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Wayne Ea Marshall OBE is a British pianist, organist, and conductor.
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Mark-Anthony Turnage
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- composermusicologistmusic educator
- Biography
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Mark-Anthony Turnage is an English composer of contemporary classical music.
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Julius Drake
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- musicianpianistmusic educator
- Biography
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Julius Drake is an English pianist who works as a song recital accompanist and chamber musician.
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Ephraim Amu
- Occupations
- composermusicologistteacher
- Biography
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Ephraim Kɔku Amu was a Ghanaian composer, musicologist and teacher.
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Arthur Benjamin
- Occupations
- composermusic educatorconductorpianistfilm score composer
- Biography
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Arthur Leslie Benjamin was an Australian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher. He is best known as the composer of Jamaican Rumba (1938) and of the Storm Clouds Cantata, featured in both versions of the Alfred Hitchcock film The Man who Knew Too Much, in 1934 and 1956.
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Peter Jonas
- Occupations
- theatre managerintendanttalent manager
- Biography
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Sir John Peter Jonas CBE FRCM FRSA was a British arts administrator and opera company director.
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Lilli Paasikivi
- Occupations
- opera singermusician
- Biography
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Lilli Katriina Paasikivi-Ilves is the artistic director of the Finnish National Opera since 2013 and a mezzo-soprano.
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Clara Butt
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Dame Clara Ellen Butt DBE was an English dramatic contralto and one of the most popular singers from the 1890s through to the 1920s. She had an exceptionally fine contralto voice and an agile singing technique, and impressed contemporary composers such as Saint-Saëns and Elgar; the latter composed his Sea Pictures, Op. 37 with her voice in mind.
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Eileen Joyce
- Occupations
- pianistharpsichordist
- Biography
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Eileen Alannah Joyce CMG was an Australian pianist whose career spanned more than 30 years. She lived in England in her adult years.
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Peter Oundjian
- Occupations
- music educatorconductor
- Biography
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Peter Haig Oundjian is a Canadian-American violinist and conductor.
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Edmund Rubbra
- Occupations
- composerpianistmusicologist
- Biography
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Edmund Rubbra 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 his fame in the mid-20th century. The best known of his pieces are his eleven symphonies. Although he was active at a time when many people wrote twelve-tone music, he decided not to write in this idiom; instead, he devised his own distinctive style. His later works were not as popular with the concert-going public as his previous ones had been, although he never lost the respect of his colleagues. Therefore, his output as a whole is less celebrated today than would have been expected from its early popularity. He was the brother of the engineer Arthur Rubbra.
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Caroline Lavelle
- Occupations
- composersinger-songwritercellistsinger
- Biography
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Caroline Lavelle is an English singer-songwriter and cellist who has created three solo albums and contributed vocals, music, and production help to many other artists and bands.
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Ernest John Moeran
- Occupations
- composermusicologist
- Biography
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Ernest John Smeed Moeran was an English composer whose work was strongly influenced by English and Irish folk music of which he was an assiduous collector. His output includes orchestral pieces, concertos, chamber and keyboard works, and a number of choral and song cycles as well as individual songs.
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Fanny Waterman
- Occupations
- music educatorpianist
- Biography
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Dame Fanny Waterman DBE was a British pianist and academic piano teacher, who is particularly known as the founder, chair and artistic director of the Leeds International Piano Competition. She was also president of the Harrogate International Music Festival.
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Alexander Shelley
- Occupations
- conductor
- Biography
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Alexander Gordon Shelley is an Echo Music Prize-winning English conductor. He is the current music director of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, as well as principal associate conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Artistic and Music Director Designate of Artis—Naples and the Naples Philharmonic. Shelley will join the Pacific Symphony Orchestra as music director designate for the 2025-2026 season, after which he is expected to serve as music director for a five year term.
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Elisabeth Lutyens
- Occupations
- composerfilm score composer
- Biography
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Agnes Elisabeth Lutyens, CBE was an English composer.
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Edward Downes
- Occupations
- conductoroboist
- Biography
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Sir Edward Thomas "Ted" Downes, CBE was an English conductor, specialising in opera.
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Elin Manahan Thomas
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Elin Manahan Thomas is a Welsh soprano. A specialist in Baroque music, she sang at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in May 2018.
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Carlos Miranda
- Occupations
- composerpianistactor
- Biography
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Luis Carlos Miranda Cordal, also known as Carlos Miranda is a Spanish composer, pianist, conductor and actor.
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Elizabeth Maconchy
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Dame Elizabeth Violet Maconchy LeFanu DBE was an Irish-English composer. She is considered to be one of the finest composers Great Britain and Ireland have produced.
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Tim Mead
- Occupations
- opera singersingerperforming artist
- Biography
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Tim Mead is an English countertenor.
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Alexander Romanovsky
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Alexander Alexandrovich Romanovsky is a Ukrainian-born classical pianist resident in Italy. Romanovsky self-identifies as Russian while performing in Russia, and in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories.
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Arnold Dolmetsch
- Occupations
- musicianharpsichordistmusical instrument makerviolinistmusicologist
- Biography
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Eugène Arnold Dolmetsch, 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 figure in the 20th-century revival of interest in early music.
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Kathryn Stott
- Occupations
- music educatorpianist
- Biography
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Kathryn Stott is an English classical pianist who performs as a concerto soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. Her specialities include the English and French classical repertoire, contemporary classical music and the tango. She is a professor at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester and has organised several music festivals and concert series.
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John Harle
- Occupations
- composersaxophonist
- Biography
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John Crofton Harle is an English saxophonist, composer, educator and record producer. He is an Ivor Novello Award winner and has been the recipient of two Royal Television Society awards.
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Charles Wood
- Occupations
- composerpedagogueteacher
- Biography
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Charles Wood was an Irish composer and teacher; his students included Ralph Vaughan Williams at Cambridge and Herbert Howells at the Royal College of Music. He is primarily remembered and performed as an Anglican church music composer, but he also wrote songs and chamber music, particularly for string quartet.
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Katharine Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl
- Occupations
- aristocratpoliticiancivil servant
- Biography
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Katharine Marjory Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl, DBE, known as the Marchioness of Tullibardine from 1899 to 1917, was a Scottish noblewoman and Scottish Unionist Party politician whose views were often unpopular in her party.
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Ivor Bolton
- Occupations
- conductorharpsichordist
- Biography
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Ivor Bolton CBE is an English conductor and harpsichordist.
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Lucy Winkett
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 57)
- Occupations
- precentorAnglican priest
- Biography
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Lucy Clare Winkett is a British Anglican priest, who since 2010 has been the Rector of St James's Church, Piccadilly. Her early ordained ministry was spent at St Paul's Cathedral, London, where she was a minor canon and chaplain from 1997 to 2003, and the canon precentor from 2003 to 2010. She was the first female priest to join the clergy of St Paul's Cathedral.
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Beatrice Harrison
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- cellist
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Beatrice Harrison was a British cellist active in the first half of the 20th century. She gave first performances of several important English works, especially those of Frederick Delius, and made the first or standard recordings of others, particularly the first recording of Elgar’s cello concerto in 1920 with the composer conducting.
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Walford Davies
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- composeruniversity teacherorganist
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Sir Henry Walford Davies KCVO OBE was an English composer, organist, and educator who held the title Master of the King's Music from 1934 until 1941. He served with the Royal Air Force during the First World War, during which he composed the Royal Air Force March Past, and was music adviser to the British Broadcasting Corporation, for whom he gave commended talks on music between 1924 and 1941.
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Javier Álvarez
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- composeracademic musician
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Javier Álvarez Fuentes was a Mexican composer known for compositions that combined a variety of international musical styles and traditions, and that often utilized unusual instruments and new music technologies. Many of his works combine music technology with diverse instruments and influences from around the world. He taught internationally, in the UK and Sweden, and back in Mexico later in his career.
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Peggy Glanville-Hicks
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- composerjournalistmusic critic
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Peggy Winsome Glanville-Hicks was an Australian composer and music critic.
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Sydney Watson
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- 1903-1991 (aged 88)
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- music educator
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Sydney Watson OBE was an English church musician who was the organist of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford and conductor of the Oxford Bach Choir from 1955 to 1970.
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Valerie Masterson
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- opera singer
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Margaret Valerie Masterson CBE is a retired English opera singer, a lecturer and Vice-President of British Youth Opera. After study in Italy, she began to sing opera in Europe. Returning to England, Masterson performed as principal soprano with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company from 1964 to 1969, becoming popular with audiences and participating in several of the company's recordings, as well as those of Gilbert and Sullivan for All and the BBC.
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Sofi Jeannin
- Occupations
- choir directorsinger
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Sofi Jeannin is a Swedish choral conductor and mezzo-soprano.
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Douglas Lilburn
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- composer
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Douglas Gordon Lilburn ONZ was a New Zealand composer.
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Colin Mawby
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- composerconductor
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Colin Mawby KSG was an English organist, choral conductor and composer. From 1961 he was Master of Music at Westminster Cathedral, then from 1981 he was the choral director at Radio Telefís Éireann. He composed masses dedicated to specific choirs, including in Germany. He was awarded Knighthood of the Order of St. Gregory in 2006.
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Simon Halsey
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- music directorconductoruniversity teacherchoir director
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Simon Halsey, CBE is an English choral conductor. He is the chorus director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus (CBSO Chorus), a position he has held since 1983, and has been chorus director of the London Symphony Chorus since 2012. He is also artistic director of the Berlin Philharmonic Youth Choral Programme and the director of the BBC Proms Youth Choir, and conductor laureate of the Berlin Radio Choir. He is professor and director of choral activities at the University of Birmingham.
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Martin Shaw
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- composer
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Martin Edward Fallas Shaw OBE FRCM was an English composer, conductor, and (in his early life) theatre producer. His over 300 published works include songs, hymns, carols, oratorios, several instrumental works, a congregational mass setting (the Anglican Folk Mass), and four operas including a ballad opera.
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Nicholas McCarthy
- Occupations
- pianist
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Nicholas McCarthy is a British classical pianist. Born without a right hand, he was the first left-hand-only pianist to graduate from the Royal College of Music in London in its 130-year history.
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Camilla Tilling
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- opera singer
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Camilla Viktoria Rydh, best known as Camilla Tilling, is a Swedish soprano in opera and concert.
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Gervase Elwes
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- opera singer
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Gervase Henry Cary-Elwes, DL, better known as Gervase Elwes, was an English tenor of great distinction, who exercised a powerful influence over the development of English music from the early 1900s up until his death in 1921 due to a railroad accident in Boston at the height of his career.
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Hamish MacCunn
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- composermusic educatorconductorpianistmusicologist
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Hamish MacCunn, né James MacCunn was a Scottish composer, conductor and teacher.
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Martyn Green
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- opera singeractor
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William Martin Green, known by his stage name, Martyn Green, was an English actor and singer. He is remembered for his performances and recordings as principal comedian of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, in the leading patter roles of the Gilbert & Sullivan comic operas in the 1930s and 1940s, and for his career in America from the 1950s to the 1970s.
