100 Notable alumni of
Royal College of Music
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The Royal College of Music is 251st in the world, 85th 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
- singer-songwriterpianistsingersongwriteractor
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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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- screenwriterimpresariorecord producerfilm producerbusinessperson
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Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber 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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- opera singerfilm actoractorsoprano singermusician
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Sarah Brightman is an English classical crossover soprano singer, actress, and dancer.
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James Horner
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- conductorcomposerorchestratorfilm score composer
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James Roy Horner was an American film composer. He worked on over 160 film and television productions between 1978 and 2015, and was the winner of two Academy Awards, among many other accolades. 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. 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." Lang is considered one of the most accomplished classical musicians of modern times by the United Nations.
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Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
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- bankerpoliticianeconomist
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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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Rick Wakeman
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- keyboardistcomposertelevision presenterpianistsongwriter
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Richard Christopher Wakeman is an English keyboardist and composer best known as a former member of the progressive rock band Yes across five tenures between 1971 and 2004, and for his solo albums released in the 1970s. 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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Benjamin Britten
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- pianistpoliticianconductorchoreographercomposer
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Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten 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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- librettistcomposermusic 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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- violinistalpine skiercomposer
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Vanessa-Mae, also called Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson, is a Singaporean-born 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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- organistfilm score composerchoreographerpedagogueclassical composer
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Ralph Vaughan Williams 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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- composerorganistconductor
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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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- opera singerrecording artiststage actor
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Alfred Giovanni Roncalli Boe is an English actor and singer who performs primarily in musical theatre.
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John Williams
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- performing artistclassical guitaristcomposermusic teacher
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John Christopher Williams is an Australian-born virtuosic 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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- 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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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
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- pianistcomposerconductor
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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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James Galway
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- classical flautistconcert flutistconductor
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Sir James Galway 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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Julian Lloyd Webber
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- composerchoreographermusic teachermusiciancellist
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Julian Lloyd Webber 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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Julian Bream
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- composerguitaristmusic teacherlutenistmusician
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Julian Alexander Bream 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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Christopher Tin
- Enrolled in the Royal College of Music
- 1999-2000 graduated with Master of Music
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- composerconductorfilm score composer
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Christopher Chiyan Tin is an American composer of art music, often composed for film, television, and video game soundtracks. His work is primarily orchestral and choral, often with a world music influence. He won two Grammy Awards for his classical crossover album Calling All Dawns.
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Amanda Aldridge
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- music teacheropera singercomposer
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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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Malcolm Arnold
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- film score composertrumpeterconductorjazz musicianclassical composer
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Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold 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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Neville Marriner
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- conductorcomposermusicianviolinist
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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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- composerrecord producersingerpoliticiansongwriter
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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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- film actorwriteractorsingerjournalist
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Clemency Margaret Greatrex Burton-Hill is an English broadcaster, author, novelist, journalist and violinist. In her early career she also worked as an actress. In January 2020 she suffered an AVM brain haemorrhage 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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- pianistclassical pianistcomposer
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Ola Gjeilo is a Norwegian composer and pianist, living in the United States.
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Peter Pears
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- singeropera singercomposer
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Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears 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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- saxophonistcomposerflautistjazz 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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- university teacherconductormusic teachermusicianengineer
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Sir Colin Rex Davis 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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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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Imogen Holst
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- writerconductorbiographercomposermusicologist
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Imogen Clare Holst 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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John Ireland
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- organistcomposerfilm score composermusic teacher
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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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Frank Bridge
- Enrolled in the Royal College of Music
- Studied in 1896-1903
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- music teachercomposerconductor
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Frank Bridge was an English composer, violist and conductor.
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Richard Bonynge
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- pianistconductor
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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 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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David Warburton
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- politicianmusician
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David John Warburton 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, 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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- choir directorpianistconductorharpsichordistmusic teacher
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Trevor David Pinnock is a British harpsichordist and conductor.
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Andrew Davis
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- conductororganistharpsichordistmusic director
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Sir Andrew Frank Davis is an English conductor. He is conductor laureate of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
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Anna Meredith
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- musiciancomposer
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Anna Howard Meredith 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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Philip Sparke
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- conductorcomposermusiciantrumpeter
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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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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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Eugen d'Albert
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- pianistcomposer
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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
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Dame Sarah Patricia Connolly 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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- violinistclassical violinist
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Alina Rinatovna Ibragimova is a Russian-British violinist.
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Arthur Bliss
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- choreographercomposerfilm score composer
- Biography
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Sir Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss was an English composer and conductor.
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Roger Norrington
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- conductor
- Biography
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Sir Roger Arthur Carver Norrington 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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- conductorcomposerfilm score composerjazz musician
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Leonard Constant Lambert was a British composer, conductor, and author. He was the founder and 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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- music teachercomposerconductor
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Sir Eugene Aynsley Goossens was an English conductor and composer.
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Wayne Marshall
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- conductororganistpianistmusician
- Biography
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Wayne Ea Marshall is a British pianist, organist, and conductor.
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Julius Drake
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- music teacherpianistmusician
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Julius Drake is an English pianist who works as a song recital accompanist and chamber musician.
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Mark-Anthony Turnage
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- music teachermusicologistcomposer
- Biography
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Mark-Anthony Turnage CBE is an English composer of contemporary classical music.
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Arthur Benjamin
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- film score composerpianistconductormusic teachercomposer
- 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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Ephraim Amu
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- musicologistcomposerteacher
- Biography
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Ephraim Kɔku Amu was a Ghanaian composer, musicologist and teacher.
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Clara Butt
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- opera singer
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Dame Clara Ellen Butt 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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Peter Jonas
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- theatre managertalent managerintendant
- Biography
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Sir John Peter Jonas was a British arts administrator and opera company director.
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Eileen Joyce
- Occupations
- harpsichordistpianist
- 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
- conductormusic teacher
- Biography
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Peter Oundjian is a Canadian-American violinist and conductor.
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Lilli Paasikivi
- Occupations
- musicianopera singer
- 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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Edmund Rubbra
- Occupations
- musicologistpianistcomposer
- 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
- cellistsinger-songwritercomposersinger
- 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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Fanny Waterman
- Occupations
- pianistmusic teacher
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Dame Fanny Waterman 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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Ernest John Moeran
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- musicologistcomposer
- 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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Alexander Shelley
- Occupations
- conductor
- Biography
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Alexander Gordon Shelley is an Echo Music Prize-winning English conductor. He is currently 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 was the unanimous winner of the 2005 Leeds Conductors Competition. From 2009 to 2017 he was chief conductor of the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra. He was also artistic director of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen's Echo and Deutscher Gründerpreis winning "Zukunftslabor". He is recipient of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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Elisabeth Lutyens
- Occupations
- film score composercomposer
- Biography
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Agnes Elisabeth Lutyens, CBE was an English composer.
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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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Edward Downes
- Occupations
- oboistconductor
- Biography
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Sir Edward Thomas Downes, CBE (17 June 1924 – 10 July 2009) was an English conductor, specialising in opera.
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Carlos Miranda
- Occupations
- actorpianistcomposer
- 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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Tim Mead
- Occupations
- performing artistsingeropera singer
- Biography
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Tim Mead is an English countertenor.
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Elizabeth Maconchy
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Dame Elizabeth Violet Maconchy LeFanu 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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Arnold Dolmetsch
- Occupations
- violinistmusical instrument makerharpsichordistmusicianmusic theorist
- 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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Charles Wood
- Occupations
- pedagoguecomposerteacher
- 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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John Harle
- Occupations
- saxophonistcomposer
- Biography
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John 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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Ivor Bolton
- Occupations
- musicianharpsichordistconductor
- Biography
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Ivor Bolton is an English conductor and harpsichordist.
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Katharine Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl
- Occupations
- politicianaristocratcivil 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 British noblewoman and Scottish Unionist Party politician whose views were often unpopular in her party.
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Beatrice Harrison
- Occupations
- cellist
- Biography
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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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Lucy Winkett
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 56)
- Occupations
- Anglican priestprecentor
- 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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Walford Davies
- Occupations
- university teachercomposerorganist
- Biography
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Sir Henry Walford Davies 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
- Occupations
- academic musiciancomposer
- Biography
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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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Sydney Watson
- Years
- 1903-1991 (aged 88)
- Occupations
- music teacher
- Biography
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Sydney Watson 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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Colin Mawby
- Occupations
- conductorcomposer
- Biography
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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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Valerie Masterson
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Margaret Valerie Masterson 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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Peggy Glanville-Hicks
- Occupations
- music criticjournalistcomposer
- Biography
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Peggy Winsome Glanville-Hicks was an Australian composer and music critic.
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Douglas Lilburn
- Occupations
- composer
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Douglas Gordon Lilburn was a New Zealand composer.
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Simon Halsey
- Occupations
- conductoruniversity teacherchoir directormusic 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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Camilla Tilling
- Occupations
- 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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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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Martin Shaw
- Occupations
- composer
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Martin Edward Fallas Shaw 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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Hamish MacCunn
- Occupations
- pianistconductormusic teachercomposermusicologist
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Hamish MacCunn, né James MacCunn was a Scottish composer, conductor and teacher.
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Jason Kouchak
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- singer-songwriterpianistsingersongwritercomposer
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Jason Kouchak is a French pianist, composer and singer-songwriter.
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Gervase Elwes
- Occupations
- 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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Martyn Green
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- actoropera singer
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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.
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Sofi Jeannin
- Occupations
- singerchoir director
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Sofi Jeannin is a Swedish choral conductor and mezzo-soprano.
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Paul Schwartz
- Occupations
- pianistmusician
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Paul Schwartz is an American record producer, composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist. the basic elements of which are voice, piano, violin, and electronic samples. He has collaborated with vocalists Lisbeth Scott and Rebecca Luker, performing on many songs.
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Denise Orme
- Years
- 1885-1960 (aged 75)
- Occupations
- singeropera singermusician
- Biography
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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.
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Robert Thurston Dart
- Occupations
- composerconductormusic teachermusicianharpsichordist
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Robert Thurston Dart (3 September 1921 – 6 March 1971), was an English musicologist, conductor and keyboard player. Along with Nigel Fortune, Oliver Neighbour and Stanley Sadie he was one of Britain's leading musicologists of the post-World War II generation. From 1964 until his death he was King Edward Professor of Music at the University of London, based at King's College London.
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Naftali Hershtik
- Occupations
- singerhazzanconductor
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Naftali Herstik is a well known chazzan (cantor) and teacher. He was born in Salgótarján, Hungary and came with his family to Israel at the age of three. He is descended from a long line of cantors and Rabbis, and was recognized as a cantorial prodigy from his early childhood, singing as a teen in concerts with Cantor Moshe Koussevitzky.
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Edgar Bainton
- Occupations
- conductorpianistcomposermusic teacher
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Edgar Leslie Bainton was a British-born, latterly Australian-resident composer. He is remembered today mainly for his liturgical anthem And I saw a new heaven, a popular work in the repertoire of Anglican church music, but during recent years Bainton's other musical works, neglected for decades, have been increasingly often heard on CD.
