List of Royal Academy of Music people
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This is a partial listing of alumni and professors and teachers of the Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music
The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...

, London.

Alumni

More former students can be found at :Category:Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music
  • Louis Demetrius Alvanis
    Louis Demetrius Alvanis
    Louis Demetrius Alvanis is a classical pianist. He is of Greek origins.Alvanis performs the full range of keyboard repertoire from the Baroque masters to contemporary serious music. He is particularly noted for his performances of the Romantics, especially Chopin, Schumann and Brahms some of which...

     (pianist)
  • William Alwyn
    William Alwyn
    William Alwyn, CBE, born William Alwyn Smith was an English composer, conductor, and music teacher.-Life and music:...

     (composer)
  • Simon Andrews (composer)
  • Irvine Arditti
    Irvine Arditti
    Irvine Arditti is a British violinist.-Life:He began his studies at the Royal Academy of Music at the age of 16 where he studied with Clarence Myerscough and Manoug Parikian. He joined the London Symphony Orchestra in 1976 and after two years, at the age of 25, became its Co-Concert Master...

     (founder of the Arditti Quartet
    Arditti Quartet
    The Arditti Quartet is a string quartet founded in 1974. The quartet is associated particularly with contemporary music.-Early history:The quartet was founded in 1974 by violinist Irvine Arditti together with John Senter, Levine Andrade and Lenox Mackenzie...

    )
  • Gary Arbuthnot
    Gary Arbuthnot
    Gareth "Gary" Bernard Arbuthnot is a flautist who studied with Colin Fleming and then at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Sebastian Bell and Michael Cox, at McGill University in Montreal with Timothy Hutchins, and later with Sir James Galway and Emmanuel Pahud.During 1998 he was a...

     (flute)
  • Kit Armstrong
    Kit Armstrong
    Kit Armstrong is a British-Taiwanese classical pianist and composer. At 10 he had composed more than 15 works, graduated from Los Alamitos High School, and studied sciences at the University of Utah. At 12 he studied at the Curtis Institute of Music, the Royal Academy of Music and the Imperial...

     (pianist)
  • Rosemary Ashe
    Rosemary Ashe
    Rosemary Ashe is an English stage actress and classically trained opera singer. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music and the London Opera Centre....

     (actress)
  • Lena Ashwell
    Lena Ashwell
    Lena Ashwell, OBE was a British actress and manager, known as the first to organize large-scale entertainment for troops at the front, which she did during World War I....

     (actress)
  • Augusta Amherst Austen
    Augusta Amherst Austen
    Augusta Amherst Austen was a British organist and composer, chiefly of hymns.Austen was born in London, and studied at the Royal Academy of Music. She was a church organist for most of her active career, from 1844 to 1848 at Ealing Church, and from 1848 to 1857 at Paddington Chapel. She composed...

     (organist)
  • Bill Bailey
    Bill Bailey
    Bill Bailey is an English comedian, musician and actor. As well as his extensive stand-up work, Bailey is well known for his appearances on Black Books, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Have I Got News for You, and QI.Bailey was listed by The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy in...

     (actor)
  • Bryan Balkwill
    Bryan Balkwill
    Bryan Havell Balkwill was an English orchestral conductor.Balkwill was born in London. He started to learn to play the piano at the age of four and was educated at Merchant Taylors' School. From there he won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music...

     (conductor)
  • Christopher Ball
    Christopher Ball
    Christopher Ball is a British clarinettist, composer and conductorBall was born in Leeds, England, and studied clarinet and piano at the Royal Manchester College of Music where his contemporaries included Harrison Birtwistle , Peter Maxwell Davies, Alexander Goehr and John Ogdon...

     (clarinettist)
  • Sir John Barbirolli
    John Barbirolli
    Sir John Barbirolli, CH was an English conductor and cellist. Born in London, of Italian and French parentage, he grew up in a family of professional musicians. His father and grandfather were violinists...

     (conductor)
  • Joseph Barnby
    Joseph Barnby
    Sir Joseph Barnby , English musical composer and conductor, son of Thomas Barnby, an organist, was born at York. He was a chorister at York Minster from the age of seven, was educated at the Royal Academy of Music under Cipriani Potter and Charles Lucas, and was appointed in 1862 organist of St...

     (conductor)
  • Sandro Ivo Bartoli
    Sandro Ivo Bartoli
    Sandro Ivo Bartoli was born in Pisa in 1970. Having begun his musical studies at the age of twelve, at fifteen he gave his first public recital. He studied at the Boccherini Musical Institute in Lucca and at the Florence State Conservatory with Giancarlo Cardini, receiving his Professorship in 1991...

     (pianist)
  • Louisa Bassano
    Louisa Bassano
    Louisa Bassano was an English opera singer.She was the second daughter of Clemente Bassano and elder sister of the photographer Alexander Bassano. She toured with the pianist Franz Liszt during his visit to the British Isles in 1840-1841...

     (opera singer)
  • Chappell Batchelor
    Chappell Batchelor
    -Life:He was born in Southwell in 1822 to John Batchelor and Ann and was a chorister in the cathedral choir from 1830. He was King's Scholar at the Royal Academy of Music from 1838....

     (organist)
  • Ani Batikian
    Ani Batikian
    Ani Batikian is an Armenian violinist currently living in Scotland.-Education:Batikian started her studies at the Yerevan State Conservatoire in 1998 when she was only 15 years old, and was awarded an undergraduate diploma in 2002, followed by a postgraduate diploma with honours in 2003.She...

     (violinist)
  • Sir Arnold Bax
    Arnold Bax
    Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, KCVO was an English composer and poet. His musical style blended elements of romanticism and impressionism, often with influences from Irish literature and landscape. His orchestral scores are noted for their complexity and colourful instrumentation...

     (composer)
  • Richard Beaudoin
    Richard Beaudoin
    Richard Beaudoin is an American composer of classical music.Richard Beaudoin was born in 1975 in North Attleborough, Massachusetts. He graduated from North Attleborough High School in 1993. Five years later he graduated summa cum laude from Amherst College, where he studied with Lewis Spratlan. He...

     (composer)
  • Luke Bedford
    Luke Bedford
    Luke Bedford is a British composer.He was educated at St Crispin's School in Wokingham. He studied composition with Edwin Roxburgh and Simon Bainbridge at the Royal College of Music, and won the Mendelssohn Scholarship in 2000. This was followed by post-graduate study with Simon Bainbridge at the...

     (composer)
  • Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
    Richard Rodney Bennett
    Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, CBE is an English composer renowned for his film scores and his jazz performance as much as for his challenging concert works...

     (composer)
  • Michael Berkeley
    Michael Berkeley
    Michael Berkeley is a British composer and broadcaster on music.-Early life:His father was the composer Sir Lennox Berkeley...

     (composer)
  • William Sterndale Bennett
    William Sterndale Bennett
    Sir William Sterndale Bennett was an English composer. He ranks as the most distinguished English composer of the Romantic school-Biography:...

     (pianist and composer)
  • Emily Beynon
    Emily Beynon
    Emily Beynon is principal flautist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam.Born in Swansea, Wales, she began her flute studies as a junior at the Royal College of Music with Margaret Ogonovsky and then went on to study with William Bennett at the Royal Academy of Music and with Alain Marion...

     (flutist)
  • Vanraj Bhatia
    Vanraj Bhatia
    Vanraj Bhatia is an Indian music composer, who is best known for providing music for most of Shyam Benegal's films, and for his private albums with Music Today....

     (film composer)
  • E. Power Biggs
    E. Power Biggs
    Edward George Power Biggs , more familiarly known as E. Power Biggs, was a British-born American concert organist and recording artist.-Biography:...

     (organist)
  • Sir Harrison Birtwistle
    Harrison Birtwistle
    Sir Harrison Paul Birtwistle CH is a British contemporary composer.-Life:Birtwistle was born in Accrington, a mill town in Lancashire some 20 miles north of Manchester. His interest in music was encouraged by his mother, who bought him a clarinet when he was seven, and arranged for him to have...

     (composer)
  • Amy Black
    Amy Black
    Amy Black was a British mezzo-soprano opera singer of international repute.She was born in Hedon, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, and trained at the Royal Academy of Music...

     (mezzo-soprano)
  • Henry Blagrove
    Henry Blagrove (violinist)
    Henry Gamble Blagrove was a celebrated English violinist. A child prodigy, he began studying the violin at the age of 4 and performing in public concerts at the age of 5. In 1822 he became one of the first students admitted to the newly established Royal Academy of Music...

     (violinist)
  • Julian Bliss
    Julian Bliss
    Julian Bliss is a British clarinetist and clarinet designer. He has performed both as a soloist and as a chamber musician, notably with his teacher Sabine Meyer...

     (clarinetist)
  • Laci Boldemann
    Laci Boldemann
    Laci Boldemann was a Swedish composer of German and Finnish descent.-Life and career:...

     (composer)
  • Jessie Bond
    Jessie Bond
    Jessie Bond was an English singer and actress best known for creating the mezzo-soprano soubrette roles in the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas. She spent twenty years on the stage, the bulk of them with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.Musical from an early age, Bond began a concert singing...

     (opera singer)
  • York Bowen
    York Bowen
    Edwin York Bowen was an English composer and pianist. Bowen’s musical career spanned more than fifty years during which time he wrote over 160 works. As well as being a pianist and composer, Bowen was a talented conductor, organist, violist and horn player...

     (composer and pianist)
  • Christopher Bowers-Broadbent
    Christopher Bowers-Broadbent
    -Biography:He was a chorister in the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, and went on to study organ and composition at the Royal Academy of Music, where he was taught by Arnold Richardson and Richard Rodney Bennett. His made his debut at the Camden Festival in 1966; his first major recitals were at...

     (organ)
  • Kevin Bowyer
    Kevin Bowyer
    Kevin John Bowyer is an English organist, known for his prolific recording and recital career and his interest in playing unusual, modern and extremely difficult compositions.-Biography:...

     (organist)
  • Douglas Boyd
    Douglas Boyd
    Douglas Boyd is a British oboist and conductor. He studied oboe at the Royal Academy of Music, London, as a pupil of Janet Craxton. He later was a student with Maurice Bourgue in Paris...

     (conductor)
  • Caryl Brahms
    Caryl Brahms
    Caryl Brahms, born Doris Caroline Abrahams was an English critic, novelist, and journalist specialising in the theatre and ballet. She also wrote film, radio and television scripts....

     (novelist)
  • Dennis Brain
    Dennis Brain
    Dennis Brain was a British virtuoso horn player and was largely credited for popularizing the horn as a solo classical instrument with the post-war British public...

     (horn player)
  • Nicholas Braithwaite
    Nicholas Braithwaite
    Nicholas Paul Dallon Braithwaite is an English conductor. He is the son of the conductor Warwick Braithwaite.Braithwaite studied at the Royal Academy of Music, at the Festival masterclasses in Bayreuth, and with Hans Swarowsky in Vienna. In the 1960s, Braithwaite was associate conductor of the...

     (conductor)
  • Dudley Bright
    Dudley Bright
    Dudley Bright has been Principal Trombone for the London Symphony Orchestra since 2000, and is also Professor of Trombone at the Royal Academy of Music. Before that he was for many years in the same position at the Philharmonia Orchestra and Halle Orchestra and before that briefly as an associate...

     (trombonist)
  • Adrian Brown (conductor)
  • Susan Bullock
    Susan Bullock
    Susan Bullock is an English soprano.She was educated at Cheadle Hulme School, and further at Royal Holloway College, University of London, the Royal Academy of Music and the National Opera Studio....

     (soprano)
  • Denis Bouriakov
    Denis Bouriakov
    Denis V. Bouriakov is a Russian flautist and principal flutist of the New York's Metropolitan Opera.- Biography :...

     (flute)
  • Alan Caddy
    Alan Caddy
    Alan Caddy was a guitarist, arranger, record producer and session musician.He was born in Chelsea, London and educated at Emanuel School, and the Royal Academy of Music...

     (guitarist with The Tornados
    The Tornados
    The Tornados were an English instrumental group of the 1960s that acted as backing group for many of record producer Joe Meek's productions and also for singer Billy Fury. They enjoyed several chart hits in their own right, including the UK and U.S. Number One "Telstar" , the first U.S...

    )
  • Roy Carter
    Roy Carter
    Roy Carter, an English oboist, began playing the oboe at the age of 10. He won scholarships to study with Margaret Eliot at the Royal Academy of Music and later under Terence McDonough at the Royal College of Music , where he won the Joy Boughton Memorial Prize in only his second year of study.-...

     (oboist)
  • Doreen Carwithen
    Doreen Carwithen
    Doreen Mary Carwithen was a British composer of classical and film music. She was also known as Mary Alwyn.-Biography:...

     (composer)
  • Roger Chase
    Roger Chase
    Roger Chase is a British violist who currently teaches at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University....

     (violist)
  • Karel Mark Chichon
    Karel Mark Chichon
    Karel Mark Chichon is a Gibraltarian conductor.He was born in London in 1971 and has been Chief Conductor of the Graz Symphony Orchestra since 2006 and Conductor Emeritus of the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra since 2007...

     (conductor)
  • Nigel Clarke
    Nigel Clarke
    Nigel Clarke is a British composer and musician. He is a former head of composition and contemporary music at the London College of Music and Media....

     (composer)
  • Rebecca Helferich Clarke
    Rebecca Helferich Clarke
    Rebecca Clarke was an English classical composer and violist best known for her chamber music featuring the viola. She was born in Harrow and studied at the Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music in London, later becoming one of the first female professional orchestral players...

     (composer)
  • Rodney Clarke
    Rodney Clarke
    Rodney Earl Clarke is a British bass-baritone opera and concert singer of Jamaican origin.-Personal Life:Clarke was born in Greenwich, London and is one of five children. He sang as a boy treble in the choir of St...

     (bariton)
  • Eric Coates
    Eric Coates
    Eric Coates was an English composer of light music and a viola player.-Life:Eric was born in Hucknall in Nottinghamshire to William Harrison Coates , a surgeon, and his wife, Mary Jane Gwynne, hailing from Usk in Monmouthshire...

     (composer)
  • Harriet Cohen
    Harriet Cohen
    Harriet Cohen CBE was a British pianist.-Biography:Harriet Cohen was born in London and studied piano at the Royal Academy of Music under Tobias Matthay, having won the Ada Lewis scholarship at the age of 12. She made her debut at a Chappell's Sunday concert at the Queen's Hall a year later...

     (pianist)
  • Daniel Cohen
    Daniel Cohen (conductor)
    Daniel Cohen is a conductor and violinist .Daniel Cohen is Music Director of the Eden Sinfonia, Artistic Director of the Gropius Ensemble, Israel's interdisciplinary Group and chief conductor of the Jersey Chamber Orchestra....

     (conductor)
  • William Cole
    William Cole (Musician)
    William Charles Cole FSA was a conductor, composer and organist. He went to Saint Olave's Grammar School, where he in fact almost lost his scholarship there because 'his music was getting in the way of his studies'. He also studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he won the Stewart...

     (organist)
  • Garðar Thór Cortes
    Garðar Thór Cortes
    Garðar Thór Cortes , is an Icelandic tenor of Icelandic and English parentage. A former child actor, Cortes subsequently trained as a singer in Vienna, Copenhagen and London. He has performed various leading tenor roles in operas, as well as a leading part in The Phantom of the Opera in London's...

     (singer)
  • Christine Croshaw
    Christine Croshaw
    Christine Croshaw is a British Pianist and a Professor at Trinity College of Music, London, UK-Overview:Christine Croshaw is a distinguished British concert pianist and and is a professor of piano, chamber music and accompaniment at Trinity College of Music, London.-Career:Croshaw studied initially...

     (pianist)
  • Sir Clifford Curzon
    Clifford Curzon
    Sir Clifford Michael Curzon, CBE was an English pianist.-Early life:Clifford Michael Siegenberg was born in London to Michael and Constance Mary Siegenberg...

     (pianist)
  • Benjamin Dale
    Benjamin Dale
    Benjamin James Dale was an English composer and academic who had a long association with the Royal Academy of Music. Dale showed compositional talent from an early age and went on to write a small but notable corpus of works...

     (composer)
  • Sir John Dankworth
    John Dankworth
    Sir John Phillip William Dankworth, CBE , known in his early career as Johnny Dankworth, was an English jazz composer, saxophonist and clarinetist...

     (jazz composer)
  • Iestyn Davies
    Iestyn Davies
    Iestyn Davies is a British classical countertenor.-Education and background:Iestyn Davies was a boy treble in the choir of St John’s College, Cambridge. He began singing countertenor in his teens, at Wells Cathedral School. He returned to St John's as a choral scholar, graduating in archaeology...

     (countertenor)
  • Mark Eager
    Mark Eager
    Mark Eager is an English-born conductor and former BBC National Orchestra of Wales Principal Trombone. He lives in Salisbury, United Kingdom.-Biography:...

     (Conductor The Welsh Sinfonia
    Welsh Sinfonia
    The Welsh Sinfonia is a professional chamber orchestra based in Cardiff and is a full member of the Association of British Orchestras. It employs between 15 and 35 musicians, led by Robin Stowell...

    ; former BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    The BBC National Orchestra of Wales is a Welsh symphony orchestra and one of the BBC's five professional orchestras. The BBC NOW is the only professional symphony orchestra organisation in Wales, occupying a dual role as both a broadcasting orchestra and national orchestra.The BBC NOW has its...

    )
  • Florence Easton
    Florence Easton
    Florence Easton was a popular English dramatic soprano in the early 20th century. She was one of the most versatile singers of all time. She sang more than 100 parts, covering a wide range of styles and periods, from Mozart, Meyerbeer, Gounod, Verdi, Wagner, Puccini, Strauss, Schreker and Krenek...

     (soprano
    Soprano
    A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...

     and first female fellow of the Academy)
  • Pip Eastop
    Pip Eastop
    Pip Eastop is a virtuoso horn player from London, England. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music from 1974 to 1976, leaving to take up the position of Principal Horn with the Antwerp Philharmonic Orchestra .The following year he became Principal Horn of the London Sinfonietta.Between 1983 and...

     (horn player)
  • Carwyn Ellis
    Carwyn Ellis
    Carwyn Ellis is a British singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and music producer from Wales. He is also known as the frontman of British psychedelic pop band Colorama as well as the bandleader / guitarist / bassist of Edwyn Collins’ all-star band.-Career:After a nomadic...

     (rock musician, composer and arranger)
  • Christopher Elton
    Christopher Elton
    Christopher Elton is an English pianist, Head of the Keyboard department of the Royal Academy of Music in London and a professor emeritus of the University of London.-Biography:...

     (pianist)
  • Richard Farnes
    Richard Farnes
    Richard Farnes is a British conductor, and is currently Music Director of Opera North.- Education :Farnes was a chorister at King's College, Cambridge before entering Eton College as a music scholar in 1977...

     (conductor)
  • Brian Ferneyhough
    Brian Ferneyhough
    Brian John Peter Ferneyhough is an English composer. His music is characterized by the extensive use of complex rhythmic tuplet notation which features in all his works...

     (composer)
  • Andrew Foster-Williams
    Andrew Foster-Williams
    Andrew Foster-Williams is an English lyric bass-baritone, concert singer and recitalist.Andrew Foster-Williams read music at Royal Academy of Music in London, graduating with a first-class honours degree. He has since been made an Associate of the Royal Academy...

     (bass-baritone)
  • Amelia Freedman (founder and Artistic Director of the Nash Ensemble
    Nash Ensemble
    The Nash Ensemble of London is an acclaimed English chamber ensemble. It was founded by Artistic Director Amelia Freedman in 1964, while she was a student at the Royal Academy of Music, and was named after the Nash Terraces around the Academy...

    )
  • Melvyn Gale
    Melvyn Gale
    Melvyn Gale is an English cellist.-Career:Gale obtained his classical music orientated education at the Royal Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Before joining the Electric Light Orchestra, he had already played with the London Palladium Orchestra, with whom he had his...

     (cellist)
  • Rumon Gamba
    Rumon Gamba
    Rumon Gamba , is an English conductor. He studied music at Durham University, and then went to the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he studied conducting with Colin Metters, George Hurst and Sir Colin Davis. He became the first conducting student to obtain the DipRAM...

     (conductor)
  • Edward Gardner
    Edward Gardner (conductor)
    Edward Gardner is a British conductor.Gardner sang as a chorister at Gloucester Cathedral. As a youth, he played piano, clarinet and organ. He attended the King's School, Gloucester and Eton College. At the University of Cambridge, he continued as a music student, and was a choral scholar in...

     (conductor)
  • Lesley Garrett
    Lesley Garrett
    Lesley Garrett CBE is an English musician, broadcaster and media personality.- Early life :Garrett was born in the town of Thorne near Doncaster in South Yorkshire, into a musical family. She attended Thorne Grammar School, where she performed in school plays and musicals. As she grew up she...

     (soprano)
  • Mark Gasser
    Mark Gasser
    -Career:Gasser is a fellow of the Birmingham Conservatoire and the Royal Academy of Music. He studied with John Humphreys at the Birmingham Conservatoire, and with Frank Wibaut at the Royal Academy of Music...

     (pianist)
  • Sir Edward German (composer)
  • David Giménez Carreras
    David Giménez Carreras
    David Giménez Carreras is a Spanish conductor. He is the Music Director of the Orquestra Simfònica del Vallès. and a principal guest conductor of the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra...

     (conductor)
  • Derek Gleeson
    Derek Gleeson
    Derek Gleeson: Irish/American dual Citizen. Music Director, Conductor, Composer, Music Producer, Timpanist, Percussionist, Pianist and Educator. Born in Dublin, February 28, 1964....

     (Conductor, Composer & Percussionist)
  • Dame Evelyn Glennie
    Evelyn Glennie
    Dame Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie, DBE is a Scottish virtuoso percussionist. She was the first full-time solo percussionist in 20th-century western society.-Early life:Glennie was born and raised in Aberdeenshire...

     (percussionist)
  • Sylvia Glickman
    Sylvia Glickman
    Sylvia Foodim Glickman was a pianist, composer, teacher, and prominent promoter of music by women composers....

     (pianist)
  • Timothy Good (UFOlogist)
  • Derrick Goodwin
    Derrick Goodwin
    Derrick John Goodwin is an English theatre and television director, writer, and producer.-Early life:Goodwin was born in London and educated at St. Mary's School, Hendon, and the Royal Academy of Music. He has a BA in music and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.-Career:Goodwin began his...

     (theatre producer)
  • Edward Gregson
    Edward Gregson
    Edward Gregson is an English composer of international standing, whose music has been performed, broadcast, and recorded worldwide. He was born in Sunderland, England, in 1945. He studied composition and piano at the Royal Academy of Music from 1963-7, winning five prizes for composition...

     (current principal of the Royal Northern College of Music)
  • Benjamin Grosvenor
    Benjamin Grosvenor
    Benjamin Grosvenor is a classical pianist from the United Kingdom. He is also a vegetarian. He won the piano section of the BBC Young Musician of the Year 2004 competition. In 2010 he joined BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme, which he completes in 2012.- Family :Grosvenor is the youngest...

     (current student, pianist)
  • Alan Hacker (clarinetist)
  • Iain Hamilton
    Iain Hamilton (composer)
    Iain Ellis Hamilton was a Scottish composer.He was educated in London where he became an apprentice engineer, and remained in that profession for the next seven years. He undertook the study of music in his spare time...

     (composer)
  • Richard Hand
    Richard Hand
    Richard Anthony Hand , is an English classical guitarist.-Education:Hand was educated from 1972 to 1977 at Gresham's School, Holt , and the Royal Academy of Music, where he was an open scholar and won the Julian Bream Prize, the String Players' Award and the Recital Diploma.-Career:On graduating, he...

     (guitarist)
  • Michael Head (composer, pianist, organist and singer)
  • Roy Henderson (baritone)
  • Dame Myra Hess
    Myra Hess
    Dame Myra Hess DBE was a British pianist.She was born in London as Julia Myra Hess, but was best known by her middle name. At the age of five she began to study the piano and two years later entered the Guildhall School of Music, where she graduated as winner of the Gold Medal...

     (pianist)
  • Richard Hickox
    Richard Hickox
    Richard Sidney Hickox CBE was an English conductor of choral, orchestral and operatic music.-Early life:Hickox was born in Stokenchurch in Buckinghamshire into a musical family...

     (conductor)
  • Christopher Hobbs
    Christopher Hobbs
    Christopher Hobbs is an English experimental composer, best known as a pioneer of British Systems music.-Life and career:...

     (composer)
  • Alfred Charles Hobday
    Alfred Charles Hobday
    Alfred Charles Hobday was an English viola player who made his career in England. He was the elder brother of the double-bass player Claude Hobday....

     (violist)
  • Derek Holman
    Derek Holman
    Derek Holman, CM is a choral conductor, organist, and composer.Holman attended the Royal Academy of Music from 1948 to 1952 and studied with Sir William McKie, Eric Thiman, and York Bowen...

     (composer)
  • Daniel Hope
    Daniel Hope
    Daniel Hope is an English television and film actor. He graduated from Mountview Theatre School in 1999 and has been in numerous plays and television dramas, the most notable of which include Only Fools and Horses, EastEnders and Casualty...

     (violinist)
  • David Horler
    David Horler
    David Ronald Horler is an English jazz trombonist and is the brother of John Horler.-Biography:Horler's father was a professional trumpeter. He studied piano from age five and trombone from age 14, and attended the Royal Academy of Music from 1963-66...

     (jazz trombonist)
  • Philip Howard
    Philip Howard (pianist)
    Philip Howard is a British-born composer and pianist, at present best known for his performances of music by Morton Feldman and Iannis Xenakis.Howard studied in London, at the Royal Academy of Music...

     (pianist)
  • Monica Huggett
    Monica Huggett
    Monica Huggett is a British conductor and leading baroque violinist.-Biography:At the age of 16, Huggett started studying at the Royal Academy of Music, London, with Manoug Parikian and Kato Havas, baroque violin with Sigiswald Kuijken.She co-founded and served as leader of the Amsterdam Baroque...

     (baroque violinist)
  • Emanuel Hurwitz
    Emanuel Hurwitz
    Emanuel Hurwitz CBE was a British violinist. He was born in London with parents of Russian-Jewish ancestry....

     (violinist)
  • Joe Jackson
    Joe Jackson (musician)
    Joe Jackson is an English musician and singer-songwriter now living in Berlin, whose five Grammy Award nominations span from 1979 to 2001...

     (rock/pop singer and composer)
  • Ifor James
    Ifor James
    Professor Ifor James was a horn player and teacher, numbering among his pupils many future Principal Horns and horn professors at British music schools....

     (horn player)
  • Isabel Jay
    Isabel Jay
    Isabel Jay was an English opera singer and actress, best known for her performances in soprano roles of the Savoy Operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and in musical comedies...

     (soprano)

  • Karl Jenkins
    Karl Jenkins
    -Other works:*Adiemus: Live — live versions of Adiemus music*Palladio *Eloise *Imagined Oceans *The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace...

     (composer)
  • Katherine Jenkins
    Katherine Jenkins
    Katherine Jenkins is a Welsh mezzo-soprano. She is a classical-popular crossover singer who performs across a spectrum of operatic arias, popular songs, musical theatre and hymns.-Early life and education:...

     (mezzo-soprano)
  • Dominic John
    Dominic John
    Dominic John is a British pianist.John began piano lessons with his mother. He studied with Patsy Toh at the Junior Royal Academy of Music, and with John Barstow and Andrew Ball at the Royal College of Music. He held the Royal College of Music Society Junior Fellowship from 2004-2006...

     (pianist)
  • Sir Elton John
    Elton John
    Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE, Hon DMus is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor...

     (rock musician)
  • Guy Jonson
    Guy Jonson
    Guy Jonson was an English classical Pianist and distinguished music teacher.He was born Stanley Guy Jonson at Finchley, north London, the son of an auctioneer...

     (pianist and teacher)
  • Graham Johnson (pianist)
  • Aled Jones
    Aled Jones
    Aled Jones is a Welsh singer and television/radio personality, broadcaster and television presenter who first came to fame as a treble...

     (singer)
  • Daniel Jones
    Daniel Jones (composer)
    Daniel Jenkyn Jones OBE was a composer of classical music, who worked in Britain. He used both serial and tonal techniques...

     (composer)
  • Martin Jones (pianist)
  • Paul Carey Jones
    Paul Carey Jones
    Paul Carey Jones is a baritone opera singer.-Education:Jones attended Ysgol Gymraeg Melin Gruffydd and Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf...

     (baritone)
  • William Ifor Jones
    William Ifor Jones
    William Ifor Jones , was a Welsh conductor and organist. Born into a large coal-mining family and raised in Merthyr Tydfil, Jones studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1920 to 1925. He studied the organ with at St. Paul's Cathedral, London; orchestral Conducting with Sir Henry Wood...

     (conductor and organist)
  • John Joubert
    John Joubert (composer)
    John Joubert is a British composer of South African descent, particularly of choral works. He has lived in Moseley, a suburb of Birmingham, England, for over 40 years. A music academic at the universities of Hull and Birmingham for 36 years, Joubert took early retirement in 1986 to concentrate on...

     (composer)
  • Skaila Kanga
    Skaila Kanga
    Skaila Kanga is a harpist and is Head of Harp Studies at the Royal Academy of Music, London, England. After winning a Junior Exhibition to the Royal Academy of Music for piano, she switched to harp studies at age 17...

     (Harpist)
  • Jozef Kapustka
    Jozef Kapustka
    Jozef Kapustka is a Polish concert pianist, born in 1969 in Tarnów, Poland. Lives in Paris, France.- Biography and schooling :Jozef Kapustka was born in 1969 in Tarnów, Poland where he began receiving his early musical tuition from the local instructor Danuta Cieslik at the age of 3. He then...

     (pianist)
  • Peter Katin
    Peter Katin
    Peter Roy Katin is a British pianist.-Biography:He attended Whitgift School in South Croydon and was admitted to the Royal Academy of Music at the age of 12, four years younger than the official entry age, where he studied under Harold Craxton...

     (pianist)
  • Alexander Kelly
    Alexander Kelly (pianist)
    Alexander Kelly was a British pianist, composer and former head of keyboard studies at the Royal Academy of Music....

     (pianist)
  • Jonathan Kelly
    Jonathan Kelly (oboist)
    Jonathan Kelly is an English oboist. He is currently Principal Oboe in the Berlin Philharmonic.Jonathan Kelly was born in 1969 and was educated at Magdalen College School, Brackley, Northants, UK, where he began the oboe. He won a County Music Scholarship which enabled him to study with Helen...

     (oboist)
  • Freddy Kempf
    Freddy Kempf
    Freddy Kempf is a British pianist born in Croydon to a German father and a Japanese mother. He now lives in Berlin.-Early career:He was educated at St Edmund's School, Canterbury and the Royal Academy of Music...

     (pianist)
  • John Kenny (trombonist)
  • Myleene Klass
    Myleene Klass
    Myleene Angela Quinn is an English singer, pianist, media personality and occasional model. She was formerly a member of the defunct British pop band Hear'Say.-Early life:...

     (pop singer
    Pop Singer
    "Pop Singer" is the début single from London-based glam rockers Rachel Stamp. It was released in February, 1996 through WEA. The single was released as a 2 track CD Single and limited edition pink 7" vinyl of 1000 copies...

    , broadcaster and pianist)
  • Peter Knight (folk musician and violinist/fiddler)
  • Mina Kubota
    Mina Kubota
    was born on February 5, 1972 in Fukuoka, Japan. She is a Japanese composer. Kubota has also worked on vocal music composition and arrangement for anime theme songs. Two notable works would be and which managed to hit the chart positions in Japan at #25 and #18 respectively...

     (composer and pianist)
  • David Lale
    David Lale (Australian cellist)
    David Lale is a cellist from England, who now lives in Australia. He is Principal Cellist of . He studied at the Royal Academy of Music in the UK, with Douglas Cummings, and was made an Honorary Associate in 1997. He has worked with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal...

     (cellist)
  • John Lanchbery
    John Lanchbery
    John Arthur Lanchbery OBE was an English, later Australian, composer and conductor, famous for his ballet arrangements.-Life:...

     (conductor and arranger)
  • John Landor
    John Landor
    John Landor is conductor and music director of . He studied at Oxford University, the Royal Academy of Music in London and the St Petersburg Conservatory of Music under conducting teacher Ilya Musin...

     (conductor)
  • Philip Langridge
    Philip Langridge
    Philip Gordon Langridge CBE was an English tenor, considered to be among the foremost exponents of English opera and oratorio....

     (tenor)
  • Simmon Latutin
    Simmon Latutin
    Captain Simmon Latutin GC was a British Army officer who was posthumously awarded the George Cross, the highest British award for bravery out of combat...

     (George Cross
    George Cross
    The George Cross is the highest civil decoration of the United Kingdom, and also holds, or has held, that status in many of the other countries of the Commonwealth of Nations...

     winner)
  • Lewis Henry Lavenu
    Lewis Henry Lavenu
    Lewis Henry Lavenu was an English composer, conductor, musician and impresario.-Life and career:Lavenu was born in London in 1818, the only son, by his second wife Eliza, of Lewis Lavenu, music publisher to the Prince Regent...

     (impresario)
  • Edwin Lemare
    Edwin Lemare
    Edwin Henry Lemare was an English organist and composer who lived the latter part of his life in the United States.-Biography:...

     (organist and composer)
  • Annie Lennox
    Annie Lennox
    Annie Lennox, OBE , born Ann Lennox, is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving minor success in the late 1970s with The Tourists, with fellow musician David A...

     (pop singer/flautist)
  • Frank Lloyd
    Frank Lloyd (horn player)
    Frank Lloyd is a virtuoso horn player and teacher, Professor of Horn at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, Germany and formerly professor of horn at both the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Trinity College of Music in London....

     (horn player)
  • Sue Longhurst
    Sue Longhurst
    Sue Longhurst is an English actress, most famous for appearing in several X-rated comedies in the 1970s.-Life and work:Born on 27 January 1943, Sue trained at the Royal Academy of Music, and was initially a music teacher, but was soon posing for magazines, record sleeves, book covers & TV...

     (actress)
  • Dame Felicity Lott
    Felicity Lott
    Dame Felicity Ann Emwhyla Lott, DBE, FRCM is an English soprano.-Education:From her earliest years she was musical, having started studying piano at age 5. She also played violin and began singing lessons at 12. She is an alumna of Royal Holloway, University of London, obtaining a BA in French and...

     (soprano)
  • Nicola Loud
    Nicola Loud
    Nicola Loud is a British violinist who, in 1990 at the age of 15, became BBC Young Musician of the Year.She studied at the Royal Academy of Music with her principal tutor György Pauk who described her as: "Very musical, with fantastic flair and presence - one of the most talented British...

     (violinist)
  • David Lumsdaine
    David Lumsdaine
    David Lumsdaine is an Australian composer. He studied at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music . He moved to England in 1952 and for a while shared a flat with fellow expatriate, the poet Peter Porter, with whom he collaborated on several projects including the cantata Annotations of...

     (composer)
  • Dame Moura Lympany
    Moura Lympany
    Dame Moura Lympany DBE was an English concert pianist.She was born as Mary Gertrude Johnstone at Saltash, Cornwall. Her father was an army officer who had served in World War I and her mother originally taught her the piano...

     (pianist)
  • Susanna Mälkki
    Susanna Mälkki
    Susanna Mälkki is a Finnish conductor. Trained as a cellist as a pupil of Hannu Kiiski, she later studied conducting with Jorma Panula, as well as Eri Klas and Leif Segerstam, at the Sibelius Academy. She has also studied at London's Royal Academy of Music...

     (conductor)
  • Andrew McBirnie
    Andrew McBirnie
    Andrew McBirnie is a British composer, educator and administrator.He studied at the University of Bristol with Adrian Beaumont and at the Royal Academy of Music with Justin Connolly, gaining a PhD in Composition from the University of London. He also studied at Tanglewood with Henri Dutilleux,...

     (composer and educationalist)
  • Richard McMahon
    Richard McMahon
    Richard McMahon is an English pianist, music professor and Head of the Keyboard department of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff....

     (pianist and head of Keyboard Studies at RWCMD)
  • Sydney MacEwan
    Sydney MacEwan
    Canon Sydney Alfred MacEwan was a Scottish tenor and singer of traditional Scottish and Irish songs.He was born and brought up in the Springburn area of Glasgow by his mother alone after his father left the family. Sydney was the younger of two brothers. His mother was Irish, from near Portadown,...

     (singer)
  • Joanna MacGregor
    Joanna MacGregor
    Joanna MacGregor is a classical, jazz and contemporary pianist.-Biography:MacGregor grew up in North London, and was educated at home by her Seventh-day Adventist parents until she attended South Hampstead High School at the age of 11. Her mother is a piano teacher who studied at the Royal...

     (pianist)
  • John McLeod
    John McLeod (composer)
    John McLeod is a contemporary composer based in Edinburgh, who writes music in many media including film and television...

     (composer)
  • Charles Manners (singer and producer)
  • Jane Manning
    Jane Manning
    Jane Manning OBE is an English concert and opera soprano, writer on music, and Visiting Professor at the Royal College of Music. She has been described by one critic as "the irrepressible, incomparable, unstoppable Ms...

     (soprano)
  • Philip Martin
    Philip Martin (pianist)
    Philip Martin is an Irish pianist and composer.Philip Martin was born in Dublin and won an Associated Board scholarship to the Royal Academy of music in London where he studied with Franz Reizenstein, Whilst there, he won many prestigious awards and prizes...

     (pianist and composer)
  • Cliff Masterson
    Cliff Masterson
    Cliff Masterson is Classical Orchestrator and Conductor, and a Pop Writer, Arranger and Producer.He graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in 1995.-Classical Music:...

     (Rock musician)
  • Tobias Matthay
    Tobias Matthay
    Tobias Augustus Matthay was an English pianist, teacher, and composer.-Biography:Matthaw as born in London in 1858 to parents who had come from northern Germany and were naturalised British subjects...

     (pianist)
  • Denis Matthews
    Denis Matthews
    Denis Matthews was an English pianist and musicologist.Denis James Matthews was born in Coventry, the son of a motor salesman. He attended Arnold Lodge School, Leamington Spa, from 1927 to 1932 and Warwick School from October 1932 to the summer of 1936, when he left to study at the Royal Academy...

     (pianist)
  • Nicholas Maw
    Nicholas Maw
    John Nicholas Maw was a British composer.-Biography:Born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, Maw was the son of Clarence Frederick Maw and Hilda Ellen Chambers. He attended the Wennington School, a boarding school, in Wetherby in the West Riding of Yorkshire. His mother died of tuberculosis when he was 14...

     (composer)
  • Antoinette Miggiani
    Antoinette Miggiani
    Antoinette Miggiani is a Maltese operatic soprano and singing teacher.-Biography:Antoinette Miggiani was born in Sliema, Malta. After studying piano and voice in her native country, she won a British Council scholarship to study at London's Royal Academy of Music in 1958...

     (opera singer)
  • Yurie Miura
    Yurie Miura
    is a Japanese pianist and actress from Oota, Tokyo. After graduating from Ferris High School in Yokohama and later studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In 2001 she won the first prize of the Maria Canals International Music Competition.-External links:...

     (pianist)
  • Walter Nugent Monck
    Walter Nugent Monck
    Walter Nugent Monck was an English theatre director and founder of Maddermarket Theatre, Norwich.He was born in Welshampton, Shropshire in 1877. The child of the curate of Welshampton, he was educated in Liverpool and at the Royal Academy of Music. In 1895, he abandoned his study of the violin in...

     (actor and director)
  • Gabriela Montero
    Gabriela Montero
    Gabriela Montero is a Venezuelan-American pianist.Born in Caracas, Venezuela, of an American-born mother and a Venezuelan father, Gabriela Montero was barely a seven-month-old infant when her parents, at the insistence of her maternal grandmother, placed a toy piano in her playpen. It had been...

     (pianist)
  • Ludovic Morlot
    Ludovic Morlot
    Ludovic Morlot , is a French conductor.As a youth, Morlot trained as a violinist. He later attended the Royal Academy of Music, and began his studies in conducting in London in 1994, where his mentors included Sir Colin Davis, George Hurst and Colin Metters. At the Royal College of Music, he was...

     (conductor)
  • Gareth Morris
    Gareth Morris
    Gareth Charles Walter Morris was a British flautist. He was the principal flautist of a number of London orchestras including the Boyd Neel Orchestra before joining the Philharmonia Orchestra. He was the principal flautist of this orchestra for 24 years and Professor of the Flute at the Royal...

     (flautist
    Flautist
    A flautist or flutist is a musician who plays an instrument in the flute family. See List of flautists.The choice of "flautist" versus "flutist" is the source of dispute among players of the instrument...

    )
  • Mary Nelson
    Mary Nelson
    Mary K. Sattler , is a Democratic politician in the U.S. state of Alaska, best known for serving five terms in the Alaska House of Representatives. Sattler represented the 39th District, and following redistricting the 38th District, which were centered around the community of Bethel, from 1999 to...

     (soprano)
  • Máiréad Nesbitt
    Máiréad Nesbitt
    Máiréad Nesbitt is a Classical and Celtic music performer, most notably as a fiddler and violinist. She is currently the fiddler for the group Celtic Woman.- Background :...

     (violinist/fiddler)
  • Harry Norris
    Harry Norris (conductor)
    Harry Norris was a New Zealand-born conductor best remembered as musical director of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company between 1919 and 1929. After leaving that company, Norris emigrated to Canada to teach but returned to retire in England in the 1960s.-Life and career:Norris was born in...

     (conductor)
  • Michael Nyman
    Michael Nyman
    Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for the many film scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano...

     (composer)
  • Denise Orme
    Denise Orme
    Jessie Smither , best known by her stage name Denise Orme, was an English music hall singer, actress and musician who appeared regularly at the Alhambra and Gaiety Theatres in London in the early years of the 20th century.-Early life:The only daughter of Alfred John Smither and Jessicah...

     (music hall singer)
  • Martin Outram
    Martin Outram
    Martin Outram is an English viola soloist and violist of the Maggini Quartet.-Biography:Martin Outram studied at Fitzwilliam College at Cambridge University and later at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Outram is the violist of the Maggini Quartet....

     (violist)
  • Dee Palmer
    Dee Palmer
    Dee Palmer is an English composer arranger and keyboardist best known for having been a member of the rock group Jethro Tull.Palmer studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music with Richard Rodney Bennet,winning the Eric Coates Prize and The Boosey and Hawkes Prize...

     (keyboardist)
  • Roxanna Panufnik
    Roxanna Panufnik
    Roxanna Panufnik is a British composer of Polish heritage. She is the daughter of the composer and conductor Sir Andrzej Panufnik....

     (composer)
  • Paul Patterson
    Paul Patterson
    Paul Patterson is a British composer and Manson Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music.Patterson studied trombone and composition at the Royal Academy of Music. He returned there to become Head of Composition and Contemporary Music until 1997, when he became Manson Professor of...

     (composer)
  • Antony Pitts
    Antony Pitts
    Antony Pitts is a British composer, producer and conductor.His compositions have been published by Faber Music, with 2 CDs of choral music on Hyperion Records and other recordings on Harmonia Mundi, Naxos, and Unknown Public. He was a Senior Producer at BBC Radio 3 until 2005...

     (composer, conductor)
  • Steve Race
    Steve Race
    Stephen Russell Race OBE was a British composer, pianist and radio and television presenter.-Biography:Born in Lincoln, the son of a lawyer, Race learned the piano from the age of five...

     (composer, pianist and broadcaster)
  • Sir Simon Rattle
    Simon Rattle
    Sir Simon Denis Rattle, CBE is an English conductor. He rose to international prominence as conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and since 2002 has been principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic ....

     (conductor)
  • Augusta Read Thomas
    Augusta Read Thomas
    Augusta Read Thomas is an American composer.Augusta Read Thomas was born in Glen Cove, New York. She attended The Green Vale School and later moved on to St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and then studied composition with Jacob Druckman at Yale University and at the Royal Academy of...

     (composer)
  • Hugo Rignold
    Hugo Rignold
    Hugo Henry Rignold was an English conductor and violinist, who is best remembered as Musical Director of the Royal Ballet and conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra ....

     (conductor)
  • Henry Brinley Richards
    Henry Brinley Richards
    Henry Brinley Richards was a Welsh composer.Richards was born in Hall Street, Carmarthen, his father being organist at St Peter's Church in the town and an organiser of local musical events. Richards won a prize at the Gwent-Morgannwg Eisteddfod of 1834, held at Cardiff, for his arrangement of...

     (composer)
  • David Robertson
    David Robertson (conductor)
    David Eric Robertson is an American conductor. He is currently the music director of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, and Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra.-Early life:...

     (conductor)
  • Rodolfo Saglimbeni
    Rodolfo Saglimbeni
    Rodolfo Saglimbeni is a conductor. He studied music in Venezuela and then at the Royal Academy of Music of London with Colin Metters, John Carewe and George Hurst, obtaining his degree with Honors....

     (conductor)
  • Charlotte Sainton-Dolby (contralto)
  • David Sanger
    David Sanger (organist)
    David John Sanger was a concert organist, professor and president of the Royal College of Organists.- Biography :Sanger was educated at Eltham College and the Royal Academy of Music...

     (organist)
  • Dominic Seldis
    Dominic Seldis
    Dominic Seldis is a British double bass soloist and principal double bass of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.- Biography :...

     (double bass)
  • Mark Shanahan
    Mark Shanahan
    -Biography:Mark Shanahan was born in Manchester, where he attended Chetham’s School. He later attended the University of London and studied conducting at the Royal Academy of Music with the Sir Henry Wood Scholarship...

     (conductor)
  • Philip Sheppard
    Philip Sheppard (musician)
    -Biography:Philip Sheppard trained in Cello and Composition at the Royal Academy of Music, during which time he specialised in contemporary music. He worked closely with Hans Werner Henze, Sir Michael Tippett and Luciano Berio during this time as a founder member of The Kreutzer String Quartet...

     (cellist)
  • Derek Simpson
    Derek Simpson (cellist)
    Derek Simpson was an English cellist, known primarily from his work with the Aeolian Quartet, and as the teacher of many contemporary cellists.-Career:...

     (cellist)
  • Ashley Solomon
    Ashley Solomon
    Ashley Solomon is an English flautist and recorder player, specialising in period performance of baroque and classical music on the recorder and historical flutes....

     (recorder player and flautist)
  • Roger Steptoe
    Roger Steptoe
    Roger Steptoe is an English composer and pianist born in 1953.Steptoe studied music at the University of Reading before becoming a post-graduate student at the Royal Academy of Music, London, from 1974 to 1977...

     (pianist)
  • David Strange
    David Strange
    David Strange, is an English cellist formerly head of strings at the Royal Academy of Music and a University of London Professor.-Biography:He studied cello at the Royal Academy of Music. In 1973 he was appointed Principal Cellist of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra...

     (cellist)
  • Marius Stravinsky
    Marius Stravinsky
    Marius Stravinsky is a British conductor. He was born in Alma-Ata in Kazakhstan and is the son of pianists Povilas Stravinsky and Eleonora Nakipbekova.- Studies :...

     (conductor)
  • Yevgeny Sudbin
    Yevgeny Sudbin
    Yevgeny Sudbin is a Russian concert pianist. He studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. After his family emigrated to Berlin when he was age 10, he won several German piano competitions, and studied at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. He was a pupil of Christopher Elton at...

     (pianist)
  • Sir Arthur Sullivan
    Arthur Sullivan
    Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO was an English composer of Irish and Italian ancestry. He is best known for his series of 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including such enduring works as H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado...

     (composer)
  • William Sweeney
    William Sweeney (composer)
    -Biography:Born in Glasgow, he attended Knightswood Secondary School. He studied the clarinet and composition at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama from 1967 to 1970, and at the Royal Academy of Music from 1970 to 1973, where his teachers included Alan Hacker and Harrison Birtwistle. He...

     (composer)
  • Sir John Tavener
    John Tavener
    Sir John Tavener is a British composer, best known for such religious, minimal works as "The Whale", and "Funeral Ikos"...

     (composer)
  • Matthew Taylor
    Matthew Taylor (composer)
    -Biography:Taylor was born in London in 1964. He attended the Junior Royal Academy of Music. He studeid composition with Robin Holloway at Queens' College, Cambridge University and later at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and at the Royal Academy of Music. He later continued his composition...

     (composer)
  • Lionel Tertis
    Lionel Tertis
    Lionel Tertis, CBE was an English violist and one of the first viola players to find international fame.Tertis was born in West Hartlepool, the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants, and initially studied the violin in Leipzig and at the Royal Academy of Music in London...

     (violist)
  • Michael Thompson
    Michael Thompson (horn player)
    Michael Thompson is a British horn player.After studying at the Royal Academy of Music, Thompson was appointed Principal Horn with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra aged just 18 years...

     (horn player)
  • Julia Thornton
    Julia Thornton
    Julia Thornton is a professional harpist, who to date has released two albums: Harpistry and Eye of the Storm .- Musical life and career :...

     (harpist)
  • Patsy Toh
    Patsy Toh
    Patsy Toh , is a Chinese pianist based in England .-Biography:Born in Shanghai, China, in 1940 of a family from Xiamen, the family returned to Gulangyu Island shortly after her birth. In 1948 at the age of 8, she won first prize in the Hong Kong Music Competition and in 1952 at the age of 12 went...

     (pianist)
  • Ernest Torrence
    Ernest Torrence
    Ernest Torrence was a Scottish born film character actor who appeared in many Hollywood films, including Broken Chains with Colleen Moore,Mantrap with Clara Bow, and Fighting Caravans with Gary Cooper and Lili Damita...

     (baritone)
  • Dame Eva Turner
    Eva Turner
    Dame Eva Turner DBE was an English dramatic soprano with an international reputation. Her strong, steady and well-trained voice was renowned for its clarion power in Italian and German operatic roles.-Career:...

     (soprano)
  • Maxim Vengerov
    Maxim Vengerov
    Maxim Alexandrovich Vengerov is a violinist, violist, and conductor who was born in the Soviet Union.-Youth:Born on 20 August 1974 in Novosibirsk, Russia, to a family with musical tradition....

     (violinist)
  • Jennifer Vyvyan
    Jennifer Vyvyan
    Jennifer Vyvyan was a British classical soprano who had an active international career in operas, concerts, and recitals from 1948 up until her death in 1974. She possessed a beautifully clear, steady voice with considerable flexibility in florid music...

     (soprano)
  • Christopher Warren-Green
    Christopher Warren-Green
    Christopher Warren-Green is a British violinist and conductor. He attended Westminster City Grammar School and the Royal Academy of Music....

     (conductor)
  • Ian 'H' Watkins (singer)
  • Llyr Williams
    Llyr Williams
    Llŷr Williams is a Welsh pianist.-Childhood:Llŷr Williams was born in 1976 in the village of Pentre Bychan in Wrexham, Wales....

     (pianist)
  • Nyle Wolfe
    Nyle Wolfe
    Nyle Wolfe , trained as a singer at the Cork School of Music and the Leinster school of Music & Drama Dublin. He graduated from The Royal Academy of Music London with the conservatory's highest academic award and won a scholarship to complete his studies at the Zurich Opera House...

     (baritone)
  • Sir Henry Wood
    Henry Wood (conductor)
    Sir Henry Joseph Wood, CH was an English conductor best known for his association with London's annual series of promenade concerts, known as the Proms. He conducted them for nearly half a century, introducing hundreds of new works to British audiences...

     (conductor)
  • Henry Wylde
    Henry Wylde
    Henry Wylde was a conductor, composer, teacher and music critic.Henry Wylde was born at Bushey, Hertfordshire, the elder son of Henry Wylde and Martha Lucy née Paxton. His father, then the organist at St Mary's Watford, was himself a music teacher...

     (conductor)
  • Zi Lan Liao
    Zi Lan Liao
    Liao Zilan is an international concert circuit performer on the guzheng . She has performed at the Royal Albert Hall and Royal Festival Hall, and has toured Spain, Italy, France, Holland, Finland, United States, and Australia...

     (guzheng
    Guzheng
    The guzheng or "gu zheng", also called zheng is a Chinese plucked zither. It has 18-23 or more strings and movable bridges....

     player)


Notable past and present teachers

More former and present teachers can be found at :Category:Academics of the Royal Academy of Music
  • Thomas Adès
    Thomas Adès
    Thomas Adès is a British composer, pianist and conductor.-Biography:Adès studied piano with Paul Berkowitz and later composition with Robert Saxton at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London...

     (former Britten professor of Composition)
  • Pierre-Laurent Aimard
    Pierre-Laurent Aimard
    Pierre-Laurent Aimard is a French pianist. He was born in Lyon, where he entered the conservatory. Later he studied with Yvonne Loriod and with Maria Curcio....

     (Piano - Visiting professor)
  • Kenneth Amis
    Kenneth Amis
    Kenneth Amis is the tuba player with the Empire Brass. He is also the assistant conductor of the MIT Wind Ensemble, a group he has been involved with since its creation in 1999. In addition, as of 2005, Amis is an Affiliated Artist of MIT....

     (former International Brass Chair)
  • Sulamita Aronovsky
    Sulamita Aronovsky
    Sulamita Aronovsky, born in Lithuania, is a classical pianist and piano teacher who spent her formative years in Russia, moving to London in 1971.Her teachers include Lev Barenboim, Abram Schatzkes, Grigory Ginsburg and Alexander Goldenweiser....

     (piano teacher, founder of London International Piano Competition)
  • Walter Bache
    Walter Bache
    Walter Bache was an English pianist and conductor noted for his championing the music of Franz Liszt and other music of the New German School in England. He studied privately with Liszt in Italy from 1863 to 1865, one of the few students allowed to do so, and continued to attend Liszt's master...

     (former Professor of Piano)
  • Professor Simon Bainbridge
    Simon Bainbridge
    Simon Bainbridge is a British composer, and a professor and former head of composition at the Royal Academy of Music, London, and visiting professor at the University of Louisville, Kentucky in the United States.-Biography:...

     (former Head of Composition, still on the teaching staff)
  • Evelyn Barbirolli
    Evelyn Barbirolli
    Evelyn, Lady Barbirolli OBE was an English oboist, and wife of the conductor Sir John Barbirolli.She was born Evelyn Rothwell, and was known professionally by that name until after she was widowed, when she became known as Evelyn Barbirolli...

     (former professor of oboe)
  • Sir John Barbirolli
    John Barbirolli
    Sir John Barbirolli, CH was an English conductor and cellist. Born in London, of Italian and French parentage, he grew up in a family of professional musicians. His father and grandfather were violinists...

     (former professor of conducting)
  • Django Bates
    Django Bates
    Django Bates , is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and band leader. He plays the piano, keyboards and the tenor horn. He currently lives in Copenhagen where he is a professor at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory and leader of the StoRMChaser orchestra.-Career:Django Bates was born in Beckenham,...

     (visiting professor of jazz)
  • Joshua Bell
    Joshua Bell
    Joshua David Bell is an American Grammy Award-winning violinist.-Childhood:Bell was born in Bloomington, Indiana, United States, the son of a psychologist and a therapist. Bell's father is the late Alan P...

     (Violin — Visiting Professor)
  • Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
    Richard Rodney Bennett
    Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, CBE is an English composer renowned for his film scores and his jazz performance as much as for his challenging concert works...

     (Composition — former Visiting Professor)
  • William Bennett
    William Bennett (flautist)
    William Bennett, OBE is a British flute player, who has played with most of the major British orchestras, the London Symphony Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra and the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, and was a frequent guest artist in the Melos Ensemble. He also has a career as a soloist...

     (Flute)
  • James Seymour Brett
    James Seymour Brett
    James Seymour Brett is an English composer and conductor.-Early career:After graduating from The Royal Academy of Music in 1997 James was immediately hired by the acclaimed composer Michael Kamen...

     Film Composer
  • Sir Harrison Birtwistle
    Harrison Birtwistle
    Sir Harrison Paul Birtwistle CH is a British contemporary composer.-Life:Birtwistle was born in Accrington, a mill town in Lancashire some 20 miles north of Manchester. His interest in music was encouraged by his mother, who bought him a clarinet when he was seven, and arranged for him to have...

     (former professor of Composition)
  • Nicolas Bochsa (1789–1856) (Harp, founding director)
  • Barbara Bonney
    Barbara Bonney
    -Early life:Bonney was born in Montclair, New Jersey. As a child she studied piano and cello. When Bonney was 13 her family moved to Maine, where she became part of the Portland Youth Orchestra as a cellist...

     (Opera — Visiting Professor)
  • Thomas Brandis
    Thomas Brandis
    Thomas Brandis, is a German violinist, chamber music performer, pedagogue and former concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic.-Biography:Born in Hamburg in 1935, Brandis trained as a violinist in Hamburg and later in London with Max Rostal...

     (Violin - Visiting Professor)
  • Ian Bousfield
    Ian Bousfield
    Ian Bousfield is Principal Trombone with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, having formerly held the same positions with the London Symphony Orchestra and Hallé Orchestra.- Early life and education :...

     (Trombone — Visiting Professor)
  • Bruce Boyce
    Bruce Boyce
    Bruce Boyce was a prominent Canadian baritone singer of opera, oratorio and lieder, who made his post-war career in Britain and became a professor at the Royal Academy of Music.- Early career :...

     (former Professor of singing)
  • Zakhar Bron
    Zakhar Bron
    Zakhar Bron is a Russian violinist of jewish descent and violin pedagogue. He is considered one of the best.His students have included Vadim Repin, Gwendolyn Masin, Daniel Hope, Maxim Vengerov, Denis Goldfeld, Daishin Kashimoto, Tamaki Kawakubo, Mayuko Kamio, Mayu Kishima, Sayaka Shoji and Nikolai...

     (former Professor of Violin)
  • Aylmer Buesst
    Aylmer Buesst
    Aylmer Buesst was an Australian conductor, teacher and scholar, who spent his career in the United Kingdom. He was mainly associated with opera and vocal music...

     (conductor)
  • Semyon Bychkov (Otto Klemperer Chair of Conducting Studies)
  • Colin Carr
    Colin Carr
    Colin Carr is a British cello soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and teacher.-Biography:Born in Liverpool, Carr is a professor of the cello, currently at the Royal Academy of Music. Carr taught at the New England Conservatory in Boston for sixteen years before taking up his current job at...

     (Cello)
  • Philip Cashian
    Philip Cashian
    Philip Cashian is an English composer. He is the head of composition of the Royal Academy of Music.-Biography:Born in Manchester in 1963, Cashian studied at Cardiff University, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and in 1997 received a DMus from Durham University.His teachers have included...

     (Head of Composition)
  • Simon Carrington
    Simon Carrington
    Simon Carrington is a singer, double bass player and conductor. He first performed in the UK where he was born, and more recently in the United States.-External links:* * * * * * * * *...

     (Timpani)
  • William Crotch
    William Crotch
    William Crotch was an English composer, organist and artist.Born in Norwich to a master carpenter he showed early musical talent . The three and a half year old Master William Crotch was taken to London by his ambitious mother, where he not only played on the organ of the Chapel Royal in St....

     (First principal of the Royal Academy of Music, from 1822)
  • William Hayman Cummings
    William Hayman Cummings
    William Hayman Cummings , born in Sidbury in Devon, was an English musician, tenor and organist at Waltham Abbey....

  • Laurence Cummings
    Laurence Cummings
    Laurence Cummings , MA , ARCM, FRCO, HonRAM is a British harpsichordist, organist, and conductor. Cummings was educated at Solihull School, Christ Church, Oxford and the Royal College of Music...

     (Head of Historical Performance)
  • Maria Curcio
    Maria Curcio
    Maria Curcio was an Italian classical pianist who became renowned as a greatly influential and sought-after teacher. Her students included Martha Argerich, Radu Lupu, Dame Mitsuko Uchida, Leon Fleisher and Geoffrey Tozer...

     (Piano — former Visiting Professor)
  • Sir Colin Davis
    Colin Davis
    Sir Colin Rex Davis, CH, CBE is an English conductor. His repertoire is broad, but among the composers with whom he is particularly associated are Mozart, Berlioz, Elgar, Sibelius, Stravinsky and Tippett....

     (International Chair of Orchestral Studies)
  • Howard Davis (former professor of Violin)
  • Julius Drake
    Julius Drake
    Julius Drake is an English pianist who works as a song recital accompanist and chamber musician.-Biography:Drake was educated at the Purcell School and the Royal College of Music; he made his professional debut at the Purcell Room in 1981 and developed a special affinity for the music of Robert...

     (pianist)
  • Professor Christopher Elton
    Christopher Elton
    Christopher Elton is an English pianist, Head of the Keyboard department of the Royal Academy of Music in London and a professor emeritus of the University of London.-Biography:...

     (Head of Keyboard until 2011)
  • Peter Erskine
    Peter Erskine
    Peter Erskine is an American jazz drummer and composer. He has enjoyed a long and successful career as a session drummer, recording and touring with many famous jazz and rock artists, including Steely Dan and Weather Report...

     (International Drum Set Consultant)
  • Professor Jonathan Freeman-Attwood
    Jonathan Freeman-Attwood
    Professor Jonathan Freeman-Attwood BMus, MPhil, Hon RAM is the Principal of the Royal Academy of Music in the United Kingdom.He studied at Milton Abbey School, then University of Toronto and Christ Church, Oxford...

     (Principal)
  • Gan See Wee (Guitar — former Visiting Professor)
  • Jane Glover
    Jane Glover
    Jane Glover CBE is a British-born conductor and music scholar.-Early life:Glover attended Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls. Her father, Robert Finlay Glover MA TD,was headmaster of Monmouth School and it was through this connection that she was able to meet Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears...

     (Artistic Director of Opera from 2009)
  • Clio Gould
    Clio Gould
    Clio Gould, is an English violinist, professor, director of the Royal Academy Soloists and leader of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.Gould has appeared as soloist with a number of orchestras, including the London Sinfonietta, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the...

     (Violin and ensembles)
  • Erich Gruenberg
    Erich Gruenberg
    Erich Gruenberg is an Austrian-born British violinist and teacher.He was born in Vienna in 1924 and studied there and at the Jerusalem Conservatory. He led the Palestine Broadcasting Corporation Orchestra 1938-45. He has lived in London since 1946. In 1947 he won the International Carl Flesch...

     (violinist)
  • Alan Hacker (clarinetist)
  • Mary Hammond
    Mary Hammond
    Mary Hammond is an English singer, actress, voice coach and Head of Musical Theatre at the Royal Academy of Music.Having trained in both voice and piano at the Royal Academy of Music, Hammond has been teaching and performing in the field of musical theatre for over twenty five years.In 1994,...

     (Head of Musical Theatre)
  • Lynn Harrell
    Lynn Harrell
    Lynn Harrell is an American classical cellist.-Biography:Harrell was born in New York City of musician parents; his father was the baritone Mack Harrell and his mother, Marjorie Fulton, was a violinist. At the age of eight he decided to learn to play the cello. When Lynn was 12, his family moved...

     (former International Head of Cello Studies & Principal)
  • Maurice Hasson
    Maurice Hasson
    Maurice Hasson , is a French-Venezuelan violinist and a professor of violin at the Royal Academy of Music.-Biography:Born in France in 1934, and studied violin at the Paris Conservatoire, where he won a First Prize for Violin and a "Grand Prix" for chamber music...

     (Violin)

  • Joji Hattori
    Joji Hattori
    is a Japanese violinist and conductor.-Biography:Born in Japan but raised in Vienna, Joji Hattori studied violin at the Vienna Academy of Music and sociology at Oxford University, and furthered his violin studies with violinists Yehudi Menuhin and Vladimir Spivakov. Joji Hattori's international...

     (Violin)
  • Christopher Hogwood
    Christopher Hogwood
    Christopher Jarvis Haley Hogwood CBE, MA , HonMusD , born 10 September 1941, Nottingham, is an English conductor, harpsichordist, writer and musicologist, well known as the founder of the Academy of Ancient Music.-Biography:...

     (Consultant Visiting Professor)
  • Stephen Hough
    Stephen Hough
    Stephen Andrew Gill Hough is a British-born classical pianist, composer and writer. He became an Australian citizen in 2005 and thus has dual nationality .-Biography:...

     (Visiting Professor of Piano)
  • James Newton Howard
    James Newton Howard
    James Newton Howard is an American composer best known for his scores to motion pictures. He is one of the most popular and respected composers for cinema, and has scored over 100 films...

     (Visiting professor)
  • Yuko Inoue
    Yuko Inoue
    , is a Japanese classical violist. She studied violin at Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo. In 1978, she went to study with violist Nobuko Imai at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England...

     (Viola)
  • Guy Jonson
    Guy Jonson
    Guy Jonson was an English classical Pianist and distinguished music teacher.He was born Stanley Guy Jonson at Finchley, north London, the son of an auctioneer...

     (former professor of Piano)
  • Frederick Keel
    Frederick Keel
    James Frederick Keel was an English composer of art songs, baritone singer and academic. Keel was a successful recitalist and a professor of singing at the Royal Academy of Music. He combined scholarly and artistic interest in English songs and their history. His free settings of Elizabethan and...

     (former professor of Singing)
  • Hu Kun
    Hu Kun
    Hu Kun is a Chinese violinist and conductor.-Biography:Hu Kun was born in China just before the Cultural Revolution and started playing violin and piano at age of six with his parents, and moved in the 70s to Beijing to be the soloist of the China Central Radio Symphony Orchestra, in 1980 he won...

     (Violin)
  • Anthony Legge
    Anthony Legge
    Professor Anthony James Legge was born in Cambridge in 1939. After attending the Cambridge High School for Boys, he began work at the Institute of Animal Physiology, Babraham, Cambridge, in the Pig Physiology unit with Dr Lawrence Mount. After National Service, Legge returned to the Babraham...

     (Director of Opera to December 2008)
  • Tasmin Little
    Tasmin Little
    Tasmin Little is an English violinist.She studied under Pauline Scott at the Yehudi Menuhin School and later at the Guildhall School of Music, coming to prominence as a string section finalist in the 1982 BBC Young Musician of the Year competition...

     (violin)
  • Joanna MacGregor
    Joanna MacGregor
    Joanna MacGregor is a classical, jazz and contemporary pianist.-Biography:MacGregor grew up in North London, and was educated at home by her Seventh-day Adventist parents until she attended South Hampstead High School at the age of 11. Her mother is a piano teacher who studied at the Royal...

     (Piano; Head of Keyboard from 2011)
  • Duncan McTier
    Duncan McTier
    -Biography:Born in Worcestershire, England, Duncan McTier studied a degree in mathematics at Bristol University before joining the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra. McTier won the Isle of Man International Double Bass Competition in 1982 and since then he has performed...

     (Head of Double Bass)
  • Andrew Marriner
    Andrew Marriner
    Andrew Marriner is a British classical clarinettist and the son of the famed conductor Neville Marriner. He was a boy chorister in the Choir of King's College, Cambridge. In 1968, he joined the National Youth Orchestra, and eventually pursued studies at Oxford University. He then left Oxford and...

     (Visiting Professor of Clarinet)
  • Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
    Peter Maxwell Davies
    Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, CBE is an English composer and conductor and is currently Master of the Queen's Music.-Biography:...

     (Composition)
  • Colin Metters
    Colin Metters
    Colin Metters, is an English conductor, orchestral trainer and conducting pedagogue and since 1983 the principal professor of conducting at the Royal Academy of Music in London.-Biography:...

     (Head of Conducting)
  • Anne-Sophie Mutter
    Anne-Sophie Mutter
    Anne-Sophie Mutter is a German violinist.- Early life :Mutter was born in Rheinfelden, Germany. She began playing the piano at age five, and shortly afterwards took up the violin, studying with Erna Honigberger, a pupil of Carl Flesch...

     (former Head of International Violin Studies)
  • Ann Murray
    Ann Murray
    Ann Murray DBE is an Irish mezzo-soprano. She was born on 27 August 1949, in Dublin. She studied with Frederic Cox at the Royal Manchester College of Music and made her stage debut as Alcestis in Christoph Willibald Gluck's Alceste in 1974...

     (singing)
  • Owen Murray
    Owen Murray
    Owen Murray GRAM, Dip RAM Hon RAM, is British accordionist and professor.- Biography :Born in the UK, he studied with Mogens Ellegaard at The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, graduating with the Diploma in 1982. He played many recitals, both in the UK and overseas. His recordings...

     (Head of Classical Accordion)
  • Clarence Myerscough
    Clarence Myerscough
    Clarence Myerscough was a British violinist.After studying at the Royal Academy of Music and the Paris Conservatoire under Frederick Grinke and Rene Benedetti, he won the All England Violin Competition in the Festival of Britain and came second in the Carl Flesch Competition .He later formed the...

     (Violin, former Head of Strings)
  • Pascal Nemirovski
    Pascal Nemirovski
    Pascal Nemirovski is a French pianist. In 1981, he was admitted to The Juilliard School on full scholarship and studied with Nadia Reisenberg, pupil of Josef Hoffman and Adele Marcus, pupil of Josef Lhevinne....

     (Piano)
  • Dennis O'Neill
    Dennis O'Neill
    Dennis O'Neill CBE is a Welsh operatic tenor and recording artist.-Early career:Born of Welsh and Irish parents, he studied privately with Professor Frederic Cox in Manchester and then in London...

     (Visiting Professor of Opera)
  • Martin Outram
    Martin Outram
    Martin Outram is an English viola soloist and violist of the Maggini Quartet.-Biography:Martin Outram studied at Fitzwilliam College at Cambridge University and later at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Outram is the violist of the Maggini Quartet....

     (Viola)
  • Paul Patterson
    Paul Patterson
    Paul Patterson is a British composer and Manson Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music.Patterson studied trombone and composition at the Royal Academy of Music. He returned there to become Head of Composition and Contemporary Music until 1997, when he became Manson Professor of...

     (Manson Chair of Composition)
  • György Pauk
    György Pauk
    -Biography:Born in Budapest, Hungary, Pauk entered the Franz Liszt Academy of Music there at age twelve where he studied under Zoltán Kodály. In 1956 he left Hungary for the Netherlands and, after being persuaded by violinist Yehudi Menuhin, he permanently settled in London in 1961.Since then he...

     (Ede Zathureczky Professor of Violin)
  • Gerard Presencer
    Gerard Presencer
    Gerard Presencer is an English jazz trumpeter who has also made a name as a session player in pop-music contexts, and as a jazz educator. He currently lives in Copenhagen, Denmark.- Biography :...

     (former Head of Jazz)
  • Curtis Price
    Curtis Price
    Professor Sir Curtis Alexander Price, KBE has been Warden of New College, Oxford since October 2009. He was previously Principal of the Royal Academy of Music from 1995 to 2008 and Professor of Music in the University of London.Price was raised in Charleston, Illinois and received his...

     (former Principal)
  • David Pyatt
    David Pyatt
    David Pyatt is a horn player from England. In 1988, aged 14, he became the then youngest winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition. In 1996 Gramophone Magazine announced David Pyatt as their Young Artist of the Year...

     (Horn — Visiting Professor)
  • Priaulx Rainier
    Priaulx Rainier
    Ivy Priaulx Rainier was a South African-British composer. Although she lived most of her life in England and died in France, her compositional style was strongly influenced by the African music remembered from her childhood. She never adopted 12-tone or serial techniques, but her music shows a...

    , former professor of Composition
  • Martin Roscoe
    Martin Roscoe
    Martin Roscoe is an English classical pianist. He teaches piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in the Department of Keyboard Studies. He performs as a concerto soloist, as a recitalist and as a chamber musician....

     (Piano)
  • Mark Shanahan
    Mark Shanahan
    -Biography:Mark Shanahan was born in Manchester, where he attended Chetham’s School. He later attended the University of London and studied conducting at the Royal Academy of Music with the Sir Henry Wood Scholarship...

     (Conducting - former Visiting Professor)
  • Paul Silverthorne
    Paul Silverthorne
    Paul Silverthorne is an English viola soloist and principal violist of the London Symphony Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta.-Biography:...

     (viola)
  • David Strange
    David Strange
    David Strange, is an English cellist formerly head of strings at the Royal Academy of Music and a University of London Professor.-Biography:He studied cello at the Royal Academy of Music. In 1973 he was appointed Principal Cellist of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra...

     (Cello, Head of Strings)
  • Yevgeny Sudbin
    Yevgeny Sudbin
    Yevgeny Sudbin is a Russian concert pianist. He studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. After his family emigrated to Berlin when he was age 10, he won several German piano competitions, and studied at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. He was a pupil of Christopher Elton at...

     (piano, visiting professor)
  • Jeremy Summerly
    Jeremy Summerly
    Jeremy Summerly is a British conductor. He was educated at Lichfield Cathedral , at Winchester College and at New College, Oxford . While at Oxford he conducted the New College Chamber Orchestra and the Oxford Chamber Choir...

     (Sterndale Bennett Lecturer in Music)
  • Robert Tear
    Robert Tear
    Robert Tear, CBE was a Welsh tenor and conductor.Tear was born in Barry, Glamorgan, Wales, UK, the son of Thomas and Edith Tear. He attended Barry Boys' Grammar School and during this period sang in the chorus of the first Welsh National Opera's production of 'Cavalleria Rusticana' in April 1946...

     (Opera — Visiting Professor)
  • Michael Thompson
    Michael Thompson (horn player)
    Michael Thompson is a British horn player.After studying at the Royal Academy of Music, Thompson was appointed Principal Horn with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra aged just 18 years...

     (Horn)
  • Patsy Toh
    Patsy Toh
    Patsy Toh , is a Chinese pianist based in England .-Biography:Born in Shanghai, China, in 1940 of a family from Xiamen, the family returned to Gulangyu Island shortly after her birth. In 1948 at the age of 8, she won first prize in the Hong Kong Music Competition and in 1952 at the age of 12 went...

     (Piano)
  • Eva Turner
    Eva Turner
    Dame Eva Turner DBE was an English dramatic soprano with an international reputation. Her strong, steady and well-trained voice was renowned for its clarion power in Italian and German operatic roles.-Career:...

     (former professor of Singing)
  • Maxim Vengerov
    Maxim Vengerov
    Maxim Alexandrovich Vengerov is a violinist, violist, and conductor who was born in the Soviet Union.-Youth:Born on 20 August 1974 in Novosibirsk, Russia, to a family with musical tradition....

     (Violin)
  • Richard Watkins
    Richard Watkins
    Richard Watkins is a concerto soloist and chamber music player. He was Principal Horn of the Philharmonia from 1985 to 1996, a position he relinquished to devote more time to his solo career....

     (Horn)
  • James Watson
    James Watson (trumpeter)
    Professor James Watson FRAM held principal trumpet posts with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Opera House and London Sinfonietta. His international chamber music work included the Nash Ensemble and leading the world-famous Philip Jones Brass Ensemble...

     (Trumpet, former Head of Brass)
  • Mark Wildman
    Mark Wildman (singer)
    Mark Wildman is an English bass, professor and head of voice studies at the Royal Academy of Music.-Biography:Wildman was a chorister at the Gloucester Cathedral, after which he joined the Royal Academy of Music where he studied with Henry Cummings, Rex Stephens and Rupert Bruce Lockhart. After...

     (Head of Vocal Studies)
  • John Williams
    John Williams (guitarist)
    John Christopher Williams is an Australian classical guitarist, and a long-term resident of the United Kingdom. In 1973, he shared a Grammy Award win in the 'Best Chamber Music Performance' category with Julian Bream for Julian and John .-Biography:John Williams was born on 24 April 1941 in...

     (Guitar — Visiting Professor)


Honours

Past and present Honorary Members of the Royal Academy of Music (Hon RAM)
  • The Honorary Membership of the Royal Academy of Music (Hon RAM) is awarded to distinguished musicians who did not attend the Royal Academy of Music (at college level).

  • Claudio Abbado
    Claudio Abbado
    Claudio Abbado, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI , is an Italian conductor. He has served as music director of the La Scala opera house in Milan, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, principal guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, music director of the Vienna State Opera,...

     (1982)
  • Jenny Abramsky
    Jenny Abramsky
    Dame Jennifer Gita Abramsky, DBE is chairman of the UK's National Heritage Memorial Fund . The NHMF makes grants to preserve heritage of outstanding national importance. Until her retirement from the BBC Jenny Abramsky was its most senior woman employee; she was Director of Audio and Music...

     (2002)
  • Salvatore Accardo
    Salvatore Accardo
    Salvatore Accardo is an Italian violin virtuoso and conductor.He is highly regarded for his interpretations of Paganini, J. S. Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, contemporary works, chamber music, and opera conducting....

     (1988)
  • John Adams (2003)
  • Pierre-Laurent Aimard
    Pierre-Laurent Aimard
    Pierre-Laurent Aimard is a French pianist. He was born in Lyon, where he entered the conservatory. Later he studied with Yvonne Loriod and with Maria Curcio....

     (2006)
  • Sir Thomas Allen (1988)
  • Géza Anda
    Géza Anda
    Géza Anda was a Hungarian pianist. A celebrated interpreter of classical and romantic repertoire, particularly noted for his performances and recordings of Mozart, he was also a tremendous interpreter of Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms and Bartók....

     (1970)
  • Maurice Andre
    Maurice André
    Maurice André is a French trumpeter, active in the classical music field.-Biography:He is a classical virtuoso trumpeter, born in Alès, France in the Cévennes into a mining family. His father was an amateur musician....

     (1984)
  • Martha Argerich
    Martha Argerich
    Martha Argerich is an Argentine pianist.-Early life:Argerich was born in Buenos Aires and started playing the piano at age three...

     (2001)
  • Richard Armstrong
    Richard Armstrong (conductor)
    Sir Richard Armstrong, CBE is a British conductor. He was educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he was an organ scholar.-Overview:...

     (1984)
  • Vladimir Ashkenazy
    Vladimir Ashkenazy
    Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy is a Russian-Icelandic conductor and pianist. Since 1972 he has been a citizen of Iceland, his wife Þórunn's country of birth. Since 1978, because of his many obligations in Europe, he and his family have resided in Meggen, near Lucerne in Switzerland...

     (1972)
  • Milton Babbitt
    Milton Babbitt
    Milton Byron Babbitt was an American composer, music theorist, and teacher. He is particularly noted for his serial and electronic music.-Biography:...

     (2005)
  • Norman Bailey (1981)
  • Simon Bainbridge
    Simon Bainbridge
    Simon Bainbridge is a British composer, and a professor and former head of composition at the Royal Academy of Music, London, and visiting professor at the University of Louisville, Kentucky in the United States.-Biography:...

     (2002)
  • Daniel Barenboim
    Daniel Barenboim
    Daniel Barenboim, KBE is an Argentinian-Israeli pianist and conductor. He has served as music director of several major symphonic and operatic orchestras and made numerous recordings....

     (1975)
  • Cecilia Bartoli
    Cecilia Bartoli
    Cecilia Bartoli is an Italian coloratura mezzo-soprano opera singer and recitalist. She is best-known for her interpretation of the music of Mozart and Rossini, as well as for her performances of lesser-known Baroque and classical music...

     (1999)
  • Yuri Bashmet
    Yuri Bashmet
    Yuri Abramovich Bashmet is a Russian conductor and violist.Direct patrilineal descendant of Besht.-Biography:Yuri Bashmet was born on 24 January 1953 in Rostov-on-Don in the family of Abram Borisovich Bashmet and Maya Zinovyeva Bashmet . "Father's mother, Tsilya Efimovna, studied singing at the...

     (1989)
  • Django Bates
    Django Bates
    Django Bates , is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and band leader. He plays the piano, keyboards and the tenor horn. He currently lives in Copenhagen where he is a professor at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory and leader of the StoRMChaser orchestra.-Career:Django Bates was born in Beckenham,...

     (2000)
  • Joshua Bell
    Joshua Bell
    Joshua David Bell is an American Grammy Award-winning violinist.-Childhood:Bell was born in Bloomington, Indiana, United States, the son of a psychologist and a therapist. Bell's father is the late Alan P...

     (2000)
  • George Benjamin
    George Benjamin (composer)
    George William John Benjamin, CBE is a British composer of classical music. He is also a conductor, pianist and teacher....

     (2003)
  • William Bennett
    William Bennett
    William John "Bill" Bennett is an American conservative pundit, politician, and political theorist. He served as United States Secretary of Education from 1985 to 1988. He also held the post of Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy under George H. W...

     (1988)
  • Teresa Berganza
    Teresa Berganza
    Teresa Berganza, born on March 16, 1935), is a Spanish mezzo-soprano. She is most closely associated with the roles of Rossini, Mozart, and Bizet. She is admired for her technical virtuosity, musical intelligence and beguiling stage presence.- Biography :...

     (2002)
  • Luciano Berio
    Luciano Berio
    Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian composer. He is noted for his experimental work and also for his pioneering work in electronic music.-Biography:Berio was born at Oneglia Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian...

     (1988)
  • Mary Berry (1994)
  • Neil Black
    Neil Black
    Neil Black OBE is an internationally known oboist and a professor at London's Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Starting on the oboe at age 11, Black did not initially consider music as a career. He attended Oxford University and earned a degree in History. Three years after finishing at Oxford,...

     (1971)
  • Barbara Bonney
    Barbara Bonney
    -Early life:Bonney was born in Montclair, New Jersey. As a child she studied piano and cello. When Bonney was 13 her family moved to Maine, where she became part of the Portland Youth Orchestra as a cellist...

     (2001)
  • Ian Bostridge
    Ian Bostridge
    Ian Bostridge CBE is an English tenor, well known for his performances as an opera singer and as a song recitalist.-Early life and education:...

     (2002)
  • Pierre Boulez
    Pierre Boulez
    Pierre Boulez is a French composer of contemporary classical music, a pianist, and a conductor.-Early years:Boulez was born in Montbrison, Loire, France. As a child he began piano lessons and demonstrated aptitude in both music and mathematics...

     (1967)
  • Ian Bousfield
    Ian Bousfield
    Ian Bousfield is Principal Trombone with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, having formerly held the same positions with the London Symphony Orchestra and Hallé Orchestra.- Early life and education :...

     (2002)
  • Thomas Brandis
    Thomas Brandis
    Thomas Brandis, is a German violinist, chamber music performer, pedagogue and former concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic.-Biography:Born in Hamburg in 1935, Brandis trained as a violinist in Hamburg and later in London with Max Rostal...

     (2005)
  • Julian Bream
    Julian Bream
    Julian Bream, CBE is an English classical guitarist and lutenist and is one of the most distinguished classical guitarists of the 20th century. He has also been successful in renewing popular interest in the Renaissance lute....

     (1966)
  • Alfred Brendel
    Alfred Brendel
    Alfred Brendel KBE is an Austrian pianist, born in Czechoslovakia and a resident of the United Kingdom. He is also a poet and author.-Biography:...

     (1972)
  • Charles Brett
    Charles Brett
    Sir Charles Edward Bainbridge Brett CBE . Born in Holywood, County Down, was a Northern Irish solicitor, journalist, author and founding member, and first chairman, of the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society...

     (1990)
  • Dudley Bright
    Dudley Bright
    Dudley Bright has been Principal Trombone for the London Symphony Orchestra since 2000, and is also Professor of Trombone at the Royal Academy of Music. Before that he was for many years in the same position at the Philharmonia Orchestra and Halle Orchestra and before that briefly as an associate...

     (2003)
  • Iona Brown
    Iona Brown
    Iona Brown, OBE was a British violinist and conductor.Elizabeth Iona Brown was born in Salisbury. Her parents Antony and Fiona were both musicians...

     (1996)
  • Frans Bruggen
    Frans Brüggen
    Frans Brüggen is a well-known Dutch conductor, recorder player and baroque flautist.-Biography:Brüggen studied recorder and flute at the Amsterdam Muzieklyceum. He also studied musicology at the University of Amsterdam. In 1955, at the age of 21, he was appointed professor at the Royal...

     (2001)
  • David Cairns
    David Cairns (writer)
    David Cairns is a British journalist, non-fiction writer and musician. He is a leading authority on the life of Berlioz.-Biography:...

     (2000)
  • Colin Carr
    Colin Carr
    Colin Carr is a British cello soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and teacher.-Biography:Born in Liverpool, Carr is a professor of the cello, currently at the Royal Academy of Music. Carr taught at the New England Conservatory in Boston for sixteen years before taking up his current job at...

     (2001)
  • José Carreras
    José Carreras
    Josep Maria Carreras i Coll , better known as José Carreras , is a Spanish Catalan tenor particularly known for his performances in the operas of Verdi and Puccini...

     (1990)
  • Elliott Carter
    Elliott Carter
    Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer born and living in New York City. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s, and then returned to the United States. After a neoclassical phase, he went on to write atonal, rhythmically complex music...

     (1990)
  • John Carol Case
    John Carol Case
    John Carol Case is an English baritone.Case was born in Salisbury, England. Awarded a choral scholarship at King's College, he graduated from Cambridge University with MA and BMus degrees....

     (1976)
  • Riccardo Chailly
    Riccardo Chailly
    Riccardo Chailly, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI is an Italian conductor. He started his career as an opera conductor and gradually extended his repertoire to encompass symphonic music.-Biography:...

     (1996)
  • William Christie
    William Christie (musician)
    William Lincoln Christie is an American-born French conductor and harpsichordist. He is noted as a specialist in baroque repertoire and as the founder of the ensemble Les Arts Florissants....

     (2003)
  • Kyung-wha Chung
    Kyung-wha Chung
    Kyung-wha Chung is a Korean violinist.- Biography :Kyung-wha Chung's musical career began at the age of three. Her fame in the seventies and eighties was at the top level, and ranked alongside the great violinists Pinchas Zukerman and Itzhak Perlman...

     (1991)
  • Nicholas Cleobury
    Nicholas Cleobury
    Nicholas Cleobury is an English conductor.He was organ scholar at Worcester College, Oxford, conductor of Schola Cantorum of Oxford and held assistant organist posts at Chichester Cathedral and Christ Church, Oxford before turning to orchestral and operatic work...

     (1985)
  • Van Cliburn
    Van Cliburn
    Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr. is an American pianist who achieved worldwide recognition in 1958 at age 23, when he won the first quadrennial International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow, at the height of the Cold War....

     (1978)
  • Imogen Cooper
    Imogen Cooper
    Imogen Cooper, CBE is an English pianist.Born in London, she is the daughter of the musicologist Martin Cooper. She studied piano in London with Kathleen Long, in Paris with Jacques Février and Yvonne Lefébure, and in Vienna with Alfred Brendel, Jörg Demus and Paul Badura-Skoda...

     (1997)
  • John Copley
    John Copley
    John Michael Harold Copley is a British theatre and opera producer.He was born in Birmingham, West Midlands, son of Ernest Harold Copley and Lilian Forbes, and attended King Edward VI Five Ways. After a brief career as an actor, he became stage manager at Sadler's Wells in 1953 and resident...

     (1999)
  • Gordon Crosse
    Gordon Crosse
    Gordon Crosse is an English composer.-Biography:Crosse was born in Bury, Lancashire and in 1961 graduated from St Edmund Hall, Oxford with a first class honours degree in Music. He then undertook two years of postgraduate research on early fifteenth-century music before beginning an academic...

     (1980)
  • Laurence Cummings
    Laurence Cummings
    Laurence Cummings , MA , ARCM, FRCO, HonRAM is a British harpsichordist, organist, and conductor. Cummings was educated at Solihull School, Christ Church, Oxford and the Royal College of Music...

     (2005)
  • Paul Daniel
    Paul Daniel
    Paul Daniel CBE is an English conductor. He is particularly noted for performances and recordings of opera and of British music....

     (1999)
  • Sir Andrew Davis
    Andrew Davis (conductor)
    Sir Andrew Frank Davis CBE is a British conductor.Born in Ashridge, Hertfordshire to Robert J. Davis and his wife Florence J. née Badminton, Davis grew up in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, and in Watford. Davis attended Watford Boys' Grammar School, where he studied classics in his sixth form years...

     (1991)
  • Sir Colin Davis
    Colin Davis
    Sir Colin Rex Davis, CH, CBE is an English conductor. His repertoire is broad, but among the composers with whom he is particularly associated are Mozart, Berlioz, Elgar, Sibelius, Stravinsky and Tippett....

     (1962)
  • Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
    Peter Maxwell Davies
    Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, CBE is an English composer and conductor and is currently Master of the Queen's Music.-Biography:...

     (1978)
  • Winton Dean
    Winton Dean
    Winton Dean is an English musicologist of the 20th century, most famous for his research concerning the life and works—in particular the operas and oratorios—of Handel, as detailed in his book Handel’s Dramatic Oratorios and Masques .Dean was born in Birkenhead...

     (1971)
  • Plácido Domingo
    Plácido Domingo
    Plácido Domingo KBE , born José Plácido Domingo Embil, is a Spanish tenor and conductor known for his versatile and strong voice, possessing a ringing and dramatic tone throughout its range...

     (2000)
  • Antal Doráti
    Antal Doráti
    Antal Doráti, KBE was a Hungarian-born conductor and composer who became a naturalized American citizen in 1947.-Biography:...

     (1983)
  • Laurence Dreyfus
    Laurence Dreyfus
    Laurence Dreyfus, FBA is a Bach scholar. He was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, and attended Cherry Hill High School West in New Jersey. He earned a B.A., Yeshiva U., studied cello under Leonard Rose, at the Juilliard School, later reading Musicology at the Columbia University...

     (1995)
  • Henri Dutilleux
    Henri Dutilleux
    Henri Dutilleux is one of the most important French composers of the second half of the 20th century, producing work in the tradition of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Albert Roussel, but in a style distinctly his own...

     (1996)
  • Sir Mark Elder
    Mark Elder
    Sir Mark Philip Elder, CBE is a British conductor. He is the music director of the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester, England.-Biography:Elder was born in Hexham, Northumberland, England, the son of a dentist...

     (1984)
  • Margaret Eliot (1960)
  • Paul Esswood
    Paul Esswood
    Paul Esswood is an English countertenor. He is best known for his singing in Bach cantatas and the operas of Handel and Monteverdi. Along with his countrymen Alfred Deller and James Bowman, he led the revival of countertenor singing in modern times.Esswood was born in West Bridgford, England. He...

     (1990)
  • Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
    Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
    Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau is a retired German lyric baritone and conductor of classical music, one of the most famous lieder performers of the post-war period and "one of the supreme vocal artists of the 20th century"...

     (1970)
  • Renée Fleming
    Renée Fleming
    Renée Fleming is an American soprano specializing in opera and lieder. Fleming has a full lyric soprano voice.Fleming has performed coloratura, lyric, and lighter spinto soprano repertoires. She has sung roles in Italian, German, French, Czech, and Russian, aside from her native English. She also...

     (2000)
  • Peter Fletcher
    Peter G. Fletcher
    Peter G. Fletcher was a noted British orchestral and choral conductor, music educator and author.-Early life and education:...

     (1966)
  • Jonathan Freeman-Attwood
    Jonathan Freeman-Attwood
    Professor Jonathan Freeman-Attwood BMus, MPhil, Hon RAM is the Principal of the Royal Academy of Music in the United Kingdom.He studied at Milton Abbey School, then University of Toronto and Christ Church, Oxford...

     (1997)
  • Louis Frémaux
    Louis Frémaux
    Louis Frémaux is a French conductor.-Life and career:Frémaux comes from an artistic background; his father was a painter, and his wife was a music teacher....

     (1978)
  • Peter Gabriel
    Peter Gabriel
    Peter Brian Gabriel is an English singer, musician, and songwriter who rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career...

     (2009)
  • Sir James Galway
    James Galway
    - External links : IMGArtists.com 15 September 2008. AllAboutJazz.com 5 August 2008.*...

     (1999)
  • Sir John Eliot Gardiner
    John Eliot Gardiner
    Sir John Eliot Gardiner CBE FKC is an English conductor. He founded the Monteverdi Choir , the English Baroque Soloists and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique...

     (1992)
  • John Gardner
    John Gardner (composer)
    John Linton Gardner, CBE is an English composer of classical music.-Biography:Gardner was born in Manchester, England and brought up in Ilfracombe, North Devon. His father Alfred Linton Gardner was a local GP and amateur composer who was killed in action in the last months of the First World War....

     (1959)
  • Nicolai Gedda
    Nicolai Gedda
    Nicolai Gedda is a Swedish operatic tenor. Having made some two hundred recordings, Gedda is said to be the most widely recorded tenor in history...

     (1994)
  • Valery Gergiev
    Valery Gergiev
    Valery Abisalovich Gergiev is a Russian conductor and opera company director. He is general director and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, and artistic director of the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg.- Early life :Gergiev,...

     (2000)
  • Kenneth Gilbert
    Kenneth Gilbert
    Kenneth Gilbert, OC is a Canadian harpsichordist, organist, musicologist and music educator.Gilbert was trained at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal where he was a pupil of Yvonne Hubert and Gabriel Cusson . He also studied the organ privately with Conrad Letendre in Montréal...

     (1988)
  • Emil Gilels
    Emil Gilels
    Emil Grigoryevich Gilels was a Soviet pianist, widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century.His last name is sometimes transliterated Hilels.-Biography:...

  • Carlo Maria Giulini
    Carlo Maria Giulini
    Carlo Maria Giulini was an Italian conductor.-Biography:Giulini was born in Barletta, Italy, to a father born in Lombardy and a mother born in Naples; but he was raised in Bolzano, which at the time of his birth was part of Austria...

     (1972)
  • Alexander Goehr
    Alexander Goehr
    Alexander Goehr is an English composer and academic.Goehr was born in Berlin in 1932, the son of the conductor and Schoenberg pupil Walter Goehr. In his early twenties he emerged as a central figure in the Manchester School of post-war British composers. In 1955–56 he joined Oliver Messiaen's...

     (1974)
  • Matthias Goerne
    Matthias Goerne
    Matthias Goerne is a German baritone.Born in Weimar, he studied with Hans-Joachim Beyer, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf....

     (2001)
  • Szymon Goldberg
    Szymon Goldberg
    Szymon Goldberg was a Polish-born American violinist and conductor.Born in Włocławek, Congress Poland, Goldberg played the violin as a child growing up in Warsaw...

     (1970)
  • Clio Gould
    Clio Gould
    Clio Gould, is an English violinist, professor, director of the Royal Academy Soloists and leader of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.Gould has appeared as soloist with a number of orchestras, including the London Sinfonietta, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the...

     (1999)
  • Erich Gruenberg
    Erich Gruenberg
    Erich Gruenberg is an Austrian-born British violinist and teacher.He was born in Vienna in 1924 and studied there and at the Jerusalem Conservatory. He led the Palestine Broadcasting Corporation Orchestra 1938-45. He has lived in London since 1946. In 1947 he won the International Carl Flesch...

     (1990)
  • Ida Haendel
    Ida Haendel
    Ida Haendel, CBE is a British violinist of Polish birth.- Career :Ida Haendel was born in Chełm, a small city in Eastern Poland. She took up the violin at the age of three and as a seven-year-old was admitted at the Warsaw Conservatory. She later studied with Carl Flesch and George Enescu in Paris...

     (1982)

  • Emmanuelle Haïm
    Emmanuelle Haïm
    Emmanuelle Haïm is a French harpsichordist and conductor with a particular interest in early music and Baroque music....

     (2007)
  • Bernard Haitink
    Bernard Haitink
    Bernard Johan Herman Haitink, CH, KBE is a Dutch conductor and violinist.- Early life :Haitink was born in Amsterdam, the son of Willem Haitink and Anna Haitink. He studied music at the conservatoire in Amsterdam...

     (1973)
  • Derek Hammond-Stroud
    Derek Hammond-Stroud
    Derek Hammond-Stroud, OBE is an English opera singer best known for his performances of German lieder and opera.-Life and career:...

     (1976)
  • Thomas Hampson (1996)
  • Hakan Hardenberger
    Håkan Hardenberger
    Håkan Hardenberger is a Swedish trumpeter. Taking up the trumpet at the age of eight under the guidance of hometown teacher Bo Nilsson, Hardenberger pursued further studies at the Paris Conservatoire, with Pierre Thibaud, and in Los Angeles with Thomas Stevens...

     (1992)
  • George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood
    George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood
    George Henry Hubert Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, KBE AM , styled The Hon. George Lascelles before 1929 and Viscount Lascelles between 1929 and 1947, was the elder son of the 6th Earl of Harewood , and Princess Mary, Princess Royal, the only daughter of King George V of the United Kingdom and...

     (1983)
  • Nikolaus Harnoncourt
    Nikolaus Harnoncourt
    Nikolaus Harnoncourt is an Austrian conductor, particularly known for his historically informed performances of music from the Classical era and earlier. Starting out as a classical cellist, he founded his own period instrument ensemble in the 1950s, and became a pioneer of the Early Music movement...

     (1996)
  • Heather Harper
    Heather Harper
    Heather Harper CBE is a Northern Ireland-born British operatic soprano.She was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1930, where she received her early musical training...

     (1972)
  • Lynn Harrell
    Lynn Harrell
    Lynn Harrell is an American classical cellist.-Biography:Harrell was born in New York City of musician parents; his father was the baritone Mack Harrell and his mother, Marjorie Fulton, was a violinist. At the age of eight he decided to learn to play the cello. When Lynn was 12, his family moved...

     (1987)
  • Simon Harris
    Simon Harris
    Simon Harris , is predominantly known as the owner and founder of the record label Music of Life and writer/producer of most of its extensive catalog of songs, although he is also an influential DJ, award winning producer, remixer of several Grammy Award winning artists and pioneer of electronic...

     (1979)
  • Jonathan Harvey
    Jonathan Harvey (composer)
    Jonathan Harvey is a British composer. He has held teaching positions at universities and music conservatories in Europe and the USA and is frequently invited to teach in summer schools around the world.-Life:...

     (2001)
  • Maurice Hasson
    Maurice Hasson
    Maurice Hasson , is a French-Venezuelan violinist and a professor of violin at the Royal Academy of Music.-Biography:Born in France in 1934, and studied violin at the Paris Conservatoire, where he won a First Prize for Violin and a "Grand Prix" for chamber music...

     (1989)
  • Joji Hattori
    Joji Hattori
    is a Japanese violinist and conductor.-Biography:Born in Japan but raised in Vienna, Joji Hattori studied violin at the Vienna Academy of Music and sociology at Oxford University, and furthered his violin studies with violinists Yehudi Menuhin and Vladimir Spivakov. Joji Hattori's international...

     (2003)
  • Thomas Hemsley
    Thomas Hemsley
    Thomas Jeffrey Hemsley, CBE is an English baritone. He made his debut in 1951 as Purcell's Aeneas at the Mermaid Theatre, London, and debuted at Glyndebourne in 1953....

     (1974)
  • Hans Werner Henze
    Hans Werner Henze
    Hans Werner Henze is a German composer of prodigious output best known for "his consistent cultivation of music for the theatre throughout his life"...

     (1975)
  • Raimund Herincx
    Raimund Herincx
    Raimund Frederick Herincx is a British operatic bass baritone. Throughout a varied international career, Herincx performed in most of the world's great opera houses and with many of the world's leading symphony orchestras, having been in demand in international opera and in the choral and...

     (1972)
  • Adolph Herseth
    Adolph Herseth
    Adolph Sylvester Herseth, was principal trumpet in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1948 until 2001, and served as principal trumpet emeritus from 2001 until his retirement in 2004.-Biography:...

     (2001)
  • Christopher Hogwood
    Christopher Hogwood
    Christopher Jarvis Haley Hogwood CBE, MA , HonMusD , born 10 September 1941, Nottingham, is an English conductor, harpsichordist, writer and musicologist, well known as the founder of the Academy of Ancient Music.-Biography:...

     (1995)
  • Heinz Holliger
    Heinz Holliger
    Heinz Holliger Heinz Holliger Heinz Holliger (born 21 May 1939 is a Swiss oboist, composer and conductor.-Biography:He was born in Langenthal, Switzerland, and began his musical education at the conservatories of Bern and Basel. He studied composition with Sándor Veress and Pierre Boulez...

     (1975)
  • Sir Anthony Hopkins
    Anthony Hopkins
    Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, KBE , best known as Anthony Hopkins, is a Welsh actor of film, stage and television...

     (1979)
  • Vladimir Horowitz
    Vladimir Horowitz
    Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz    was a Russian-American classical virtuoso pianist and minor composer. His technique and use of tone color and the excitement of his playing were legendary. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century.-Life and early...

     (1972)
  • Stephen Hough
    Stephen Hough
    Stephen Andrew Gill Hough is a British-born classical pianist, composer and writer. He became an Australian citizen in 2005 and thus has dual nationality .-Biography:...

     (2003)
  • James Newton Howard
    James Newton Howard
    James Newton Howard is an American composer best known for his scores to motion pictures. He is one of the most popular and respected composers for cinema, and has scored over 100 films...

     (2008)
  • Elgar Howarth
    Elgar Howarth
    Elgar Howarth is an English conductor and composer.Howarth was educated in the 1950s at Manchester University and the Royal Manchester College of Music , where his fellow students included the composers Harrison Birtwistle, Alexander Goehr, Peter Maxwell Davies, and the...

     (1991)
  • Oliver Ingham
    Oliver Ingham
    Oliver Ingham was an English commander and administrator in Aquitaine during the War of Saint-Sardos and early Hundred Years War.He was born in 1287 at Ellesmere, Shropshire to Oliver de Ingham and Margery...

     (2009)
  • Hu Kun
    Hu Kun
    Hu Kun is a Chinese violinist and conductor.-Biography:Hu Kun was born in China just before the Cultural Revolution and started playing violin and piano at age of six with his parents, and moved in the 70s to Beijing to be the soloist of the China Central Radio Symphony Orchestra, in 1980 he won...

     (2002)
  • Peter Hurford
    Peter Hurford
    Peter Hurford OBE is a British organist, born St Cecilia's day 1930 in Minehead, Somerset.Educated at Blundell's School, he later studied both music and law at Jesus College, Cambridge, graduating with dual degrees, subsequently obtaining an enviable reputation for both musical scholarship and...

     (1981)
  • George Hurst
    George Hurst
    George Hurst is a British conductor.-Biography:Born in Edinburgh in 1926, Hurst studied at Bishops College School in Lennoxville, Quebec and the Royal Conservatory in Toronto Canada....

     (1984)
  • Steven Isserlis
    Steven Isserlis
    Steven Isserlis CBE is a British cellist. He is distinguished for his diverse repertoire, distinctive sound and total command of phrasing. He studied at Oberlin Conservatory of Music and was much influenced by the great iconoclast of Russian cello playing, Daniil Shafran...

     (1995)
  • Gundula Janowitz
    Gundula Janowitz
    Gundula Janowitz is an Austrian lyric soprano singer of operas, oratorios and concerts. She is one of the most renowned opera singers of the 20th century and was pre-eminent in the 1960s and 1970s.-Career:...

     (2000)
  • Mariss Jansons
    Mariss Jansons
    Mariss Ivars Georgs Jansons is a Latvian conductor, the son of conductor Arvīds Jansons. His mother, the singer Iraida Jansons, who was Jewish, gave birth to him in hiding in Riga, Latvia, after her father and brother were killed in the Riga Ghetto...

     (1999)
  • Sir Elton John
    Elton John
    Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE, Hon DMus is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor...

     (1997), attended as junior exhibitioner
  • Dame Gwyneth Jones
    Gwyneth Jones
    Gwyneth Jones may refer to:* Gwyneth Jones , Welsh soprano* Gwyneth Jones , British science fiction novelist...

     (1980)
  • Simon Keenlyside
    Simon Keenlyside
    Simon Keenlyside CBE is a British baritone who has had an active international career performing in operas and concerts since the mid 1980s.-Early life and education:...

     (2007)
  • Nicholas Kenyon
    Nicholas Kenyon
    Sir Nicholas Roger Kenyon CBE is an English music administrator, editor and writer on music. He was responsible for the BBC Proms 1996-2007 following which he was appointed Managing Director of the Barbican Centre, Europe's largest multi-arts centre.-Education and career:After attending St Bede's...

     (2005)
  • Joseph Kerman
    Joseph Kerman
    Joseph Wilfred Kerman is an American critic and musicologist. One of the leading musicologists of his generation, his 1985 book Contemplating Music: Challenges to Musicology was described by Philip Brett in The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians as "a defining moment in the field." He is...

     (1972)
  • Thea King
    Thea King
    Dame Thea King DBE FRCM FGSM was a British clarinettist.Thea King was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, the daughter of Henry Walter Mayer King, the manager of a family engineering business, George. W. King Ltd., based in Hitchin then Stevenage, Hertfordshire, and his wife, Dorothea...

     (1998)
  • Angelika Kirchschlager
    Angelika Kirchschlager
    Angelika Kirchschlager is an Austrian mezzo-soprano opera and lieder singer.-Career:Kirchschlager began her musical training at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, where she studied percussion and piano. In 1984, she went to the Vienna Music Academy, where she studied with Gerhard Kahry and Walter Berry...

     (2009)
  • Dame Emma Kirkby
    Emma Kirkby
    Dame Carolyn Emma Kirkby, DBE is an English soprano singer and one of the world's most renowned early music specialists. She attended Sherborne School For Girls in Dorset and was a classics student at Somerville College, Oxford, and an English teacher before developing a career as a soloist...

     (1999)
  • Evgeny Kissin
    Evgeny Kissin
    Evgeny Igorevitch Kissin is a Russian classical pianist and former child prodigy. He has been a British citizen since 2002. He is especially known for his interpretations of the works of the Romantic repertoire, particularly Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt.-Biography:Kissin was born in Moscow to...

     (2005)
  • Otto Klemperer
    Otto Klemperer
    Otto Klemperer was a German conductor and composer. He is widely regarded as one of the leading conductors of the 20th century.-Biography:Otto Klemperer was born in Breslau, Silesia Province, then in Germany...

  • Oliver Knussen
    Oliver Knussen
    Oliver Knussen CBE is a British composer and conductor.-Biography:Oliver Knussen was born in Glasgow, Scotland. His father, Stuart Knussen, was principal double bass of the London Symphony Orchestra. Oliver Knussen studied composition with John Lambert, between 1963 and 1969 and also received...

     (1995)
  • Ton Koopman
    Ton Koopman
    Ton Koopman is a conductor, organist and harpsichordist.Koopman had a "classical education" and then studied the organ , harpsichord and musicology in Amsterdam...

     (1990)
  • Gidon Kremer
    Gidon Kremer
    Gidon Kremer is a Latvian violinist and conductor. In 1980 he left the USSR and settled in Germany.-Biography:Kremer was born in Riga to parents of German-Jewish and Latvian-Swedish origins. He began playing the violin at the age of four, receiving instruction from his father and his grandfather,...

     (1999)
  • Piers Lane
    Piers Lane
    Piers Lane is an Australian classical pianist. His performance career has taken him to more than 40 countries. His concerto repertoire exceeds 75 works.- Early life :...

     (1994)
  • Philip Ledger
    Philip Ledger
    Sir Philip Ledger CBE is a British classical musician and academic. He is best-known for his tenure as director of the Choir of King's College, Cambridge between 1973 and 1982 and as director of Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama from 1982 until his retirement in 2001...

     (1984)
  • Anthony Legge
    Anthony Legge
    Professor Anthony James Legge was born in Cambridge in 1939. After attending the Cambridge High School for Boys, he began work at the Institute of Animal Physiology, Babraham, Cambridge, in the Pig Physiology unit with Dr Lawrence Mount. After National Service, Legge returned to the Babraham...

     (2007)
  • Karl Leister
    Karl Leister
    Karl Leister is a classical clarinet player from Wilhelmshaven, Germany. At a very young age, he learned to play the clarinet from his father, also a clarinetist, and later studied at the Hochschule fur Musik in Berlin...

     (1987)
  • Gustav Leonhardt
    Gustav Leonhardt
    Gustav Leonhardt is a highly renowned Dutch keyboard player, conductor, musicologist, teacher and editor. Leonhardt has been a leading figure in the movement to perform music on period instruments...

     (2000)
  • Raymond Leppard
    Raymond Leppard
    Raymond "Def" Leppard, CBE is a British conductor and harpsichordist.He was born in London and grew up in Bath, where he was educated at the City of Bath Boys' School, now known as the Beechen Cliff School...

     (1978)
  • György Ligeti
    György Ligeti
    György Sándor Ligeti was a composer of contemporary classical music. Born in a Hungarian Jewish family in Transylvania, Romania, he briefly lived in Hungary before becoming an Austrian citizen.-Early life:...

     (1992)
  • John Lill
    John Lill
    John Lill CBE is an English classical pianist.-Biography:Lill studied at the Royal College of Music and with Wilhelm Kempff. His talent emerged at an early age, as he gave his first piano recital at the age of nine. At age 18, he performed Rachmaninoff's 3rd Piano Concerto under Sir Adrian Boult...

     (1986)
  • Magnus Lindberg
    Magnus Lindberg
    Magnus Lindberg is a Finnish composer and pianist. He is currently the composer-in-residence at the New York Philharmonic.-Education:...

     (2001)
  • Robert Lloyd (1999)
  • James Lockhart
    James Lockhart
    James Lockhart of Lee and Carnwath, Count Lockhart-Wischeart of the Holy Roman Empire, , was a Scottish aristocrat with a successful military career.-Early years:...

     (1993)
  • Christa Ludwig
    Christa Ludwig
    Christa Ludwig is a retired German mezzo-soprano, distinguished for her performances of opera, Lieder, oratorio and other major religious works like masses and passions, and solos contained in symphonic literature...

     (2000)
  • Sir David Lumsden
    David Lumsden (musician)
    Sir David James Lumsden PhD, DPhil, MA, MusB, FRCM, FRNCM, FRSAMD, FLCM, FRSA, Hon RAM, Hon FRCO, FKC .*Choirmaster, organist and harpsichordist,**St Mary's Church, Nottingham, 1954–1956**Southwell Minster 1956-1959,...

     (1978)
  • Radu Lupu
    Radu Lupu
    Radu Lupu is a Romanian concert pianist. He has won a number of the most prestigious awards in classical piano, including first prizes in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition....

     (2000)
  • Benjamin Luxon
    Benjamin Luxon
    Benjamin Matthew Luxon CBE is a retired British baritone.-Biography:He studied with Walter Grünner at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and established an international reputation as a singer when he won a third prize at the 1961 ARD International Music Competition in Munich...

     (1980)
  • William Lyne
    William Lyne
    Sir William John Lyne KCMG , Australian politician, was Premier of New South Wales and a member of the first federal ministry.-Early life:...

     (1999)
  • Yo-Yo Ma
    Yo-Yo Ma
    Yo-Yo Ma is an American cellist, virtuoso, and orchestral composer. He has received multiple Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts in 2001 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011...

     (1992)
  • Julia Mackenzie (2005)
  • Sir Charles Mackerras
    Charles Mackerras
    Sir Alan Charles Maclaurin Mackerras, AC, CH, CBE was an Australian conductor. He was an authority on the operas of Janáček and Mozart, and the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan...

     (1969)
  • James MacMillan (2007)
  • Andrew Marriner
    Andrew Marriner
    Andrew Marriner is a British classical clarinettist and the son of the famed conductor Neville Marriner. He was a boy chorister in the Choir of King's College, Cambridge. In 1968, he joined the National Youth Orchestra, and eventually pursued studies at Oxford University. He then left Oxford and...

     (1994)
  • Sir Neville Marriner
    Neville Marriner
    Sir Neville Marriner is an English conductor and violinist.-Biography:Marriner was born in Lincoln and studied at the Royal College of Music and the Paris Conservatoire. He played the violin in the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Martin String Quartet and London Symphony Orchestra, playing with the...

     (1970)
  • Wynton Marsalis
    Wynton Marsalis
    Wynton Learson Marsalis is a trumpeter, composer, bandleader, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences...

     (1996)
  • Sir George Martin
    George Martin
    Sir George Henry Martin CBE is an English record producer, arranger, composer and musician. He is sometimes referred to as "the Fifth Beatle"— a title that he often describes as "nonsense," but the fact remains that he served as producer on all but one of The Beatles' original albums...

     (1999)
  • Malcolm Martineau
    Malcolm Martineau
    Malcolm Martineau is a Scottish pianist.- Biography :Born in Edinburgh, and educated at George Watson's College, Malcolm Martineau read Music at St Catharine's College, Cambridge...

     (1998)
  • Valerie Masterson
    Valerie Masterson
    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...

     (1994)
  • Kurt Masur
    Kurt Masur
    Kurt Masur is a German conductor, particularly noted for his interpretation of German Romantic music.- Biography :Masur was born in Brieg, Lower Silesia, Germany and studied piano, composition and conducting in Leipzig, Saxony. Masur has been married three times...

     (2001)
  • John McCabe
    John McCabe (composer)
    John McCabe CBE is an English composer and pianist.- Biography :John McCabe was born in Huyton, Liverpool, Merseyside. A prolific composer from an early age, he had written thirteen symphonies by the time he was eleven...

     (1985)
  • Sir Paul McCartney
    Paul McCartney
    Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...

     (2008)
  • Duncan McTier
    Duncan McTier
    -Biography:Born in Worcestershire, England, Duncan McTier studied a degree in mathematics at Bristol University before joining the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra. McTier won the Isle of Man International Double Bass Competition in 1982 and since then he has performed...

     (1998)
  • Colin Metters
    Colin Metters
    Colin Metters, is an English conductor, orchestral trainer and conducting pedagogue and since 1983 the principal professor of conducting at the Royal Academy of Music in London.-Biography:...

     (1995)
  • Felix Mendelssohn
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...

     (1843)
  • Rodney Milnes
    Rodney Milnes
    Rodney Milnes Blumer is an English music critic, musicologist, writer, translator and broadcaster, with a particular interest in opera.He attended Rugby School and Oxford University before working in publishing....

     (2002)
  • Yvonne Minton
    Yvonne Minton
    Yvonne Fay Minton CBE is an Australian opera singer. She is variously billed as a soprano, mezzo-soprano or contralto.Yvonne Minton was born in Sydney, New South Wales. She studied voice on a scholarship at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music. She won the National Eisteddfod in Canberra,...

     (1975)
  • Donald Mitchell
    Donald Mitchell (writer)
    Donald Mitchell is a British writer on music, particularly known for his books on Gustav Mahler and Benjamin Britten and for the book The Language of Modern Music, published 1963....

     (1992)
  • Ignaz Moscheles
    Ignaz Moscheles
    Ignaz Moscheles was a Bohemian composer and piano virtuoso, whose career after his early years was based initially in London, and later at Leipzig, where he succeeded his friend and sometime pupil Felix Mendelssohn as head of the Conservatoire.-Sources:Much of what we know about Moscheles's life...

     (1822)
  • Maurice Murphy
    Maurice Murphy
    Maurice Harrison Murphy MBE was a British musician who was Principal Trumpet of the London Symphony Orchestra from 1977 to 2007....

     (2008)
  • Ann Murray
    Ann Murray
    Ann Murray DBE is an Irish mezzo-soprano. She was born on 27 August 1949, in Dublin. She studied with Frederic Cox at the Royal Manchester College of Music and made her stage debut as Alcestis in Christoph Willibald Gluck's Alceste in 1974...

     (1998)

  • Owen Murray
    Owen Murray
    Owen Murray GRAM, Dip RAM Hon RAM, is British accordionist and professor.- Biography :Born in the UK, he studied with Mogens Ellegaard at The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, graduating with the Diploma in 1982. He played many recitals, both in the UK and overseas. His recordings...

     (1993)
  • Thea Musgrave
    Thea Musgrave
    Thea Musgrave CBE is a Scottish composer of opera and classical music.-Biography:Born in Barnton, Edinburgh, Thea Musgrave studied at the University of Edinburgh and in Paris as a pupil of Nadia Boulanger...

     (1976)
  • Riccardo Muti
    Riccardo Muti
    Riccardo Muti, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI is an Italian conductor and music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.-Childhood and education:...

     (1981)
  • Anne-Sophie Mutter
    Anne-Sophie Mutter
    Anne-Sophie Mutter is a German violinist.- Early life :Mutter was born in Rheinfelden, Germany. She began playing the piano at age five, and shortly afterwards took up the violin, studying with Erna Honigberger, a pupil of Carl Flesch...

     (1986)
  • Kent Nagano
    Kent Nagano
    __FORCETOC__Kent George Nagano is an American conductor and opera administrator. He is currently the music director of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and the Bavarian State Opera.-Biography:...

     (1998)
  • Martin Neary
    Martin Neary
    Martin Neary LVO is an English organist and choral conductor. He was Organist and Director of Music at Winchester Cathedral from 1972 to 1988, and Organist and Master of the Choristers at Westminster Abbey from 1988 to 1998...

     (1988)
  • James Newton-Howard (2008)
  • Birgit Nilsson
    Birgit Nilsson
    right|thumb|Nilsson in 1948.Birgit Nilsson was a celebrated Swedish dramatic soprano who specialized in operatic and symphonic works...

     (1973)
  • Jessye Norman
    Jessye Norman
    Jessye Norman is an American opera singer. Norman is a well-known contemporary opera singer and recitalist, and is one of the highest paid performers in classical music...

     (1987)
  • Roger Norrington
    Roger Norrington
    Sir Roger Arthur Carver Norrington, CBE is a British conductor. He is the son of Sir Arthur Norrington and his brother is Humphrey Thomas Norrington....

     (1988)
  • John Orford
    John Orford
    John Orford is a British classical bassoonist. He studied under Charles Cracknell and William Waterhouse at the Royal Manchester College of Music. After graduation, he became a member of the Bournemouth Sinfonietta, and later the BBC Symphony Orchestra. In 1982, he was appointed Principal Bassoon...

     (1989)
  • Robin Orr
    Robin Orr
    Robert Kelmsley Orr CBE was a Scottish composer.Born in Brechin, he studied at the Royal College of Music in London and at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Following studies with Alfredo Casella and Nadia Boulanger he returned to Cambridge in 1938 as Organist of St John's College. During his war...

     (1966)
  • Antonio Pappano
    Antonio Pappano
    Antonio Pappano is a British conductor and pianist of Italian parentage.Pappano's family relocated to England from Castelfranco in Miscano near Benevento, Italy in 1958 and at the time of his birth his parents worked in the restaurant business, but Pasquale Pappano, his father, was by vocation a...

     (2007)
  • Győrgy Pauk
    György Pauk
    -Biography:Born in Budapest, Hungary, Pauk entered the Franz Liszt Academy of Music there at age twelve where he studied under Zoltán Kodály. In 1956 he left Hungary for the Netherlands and, after being persuaded by violinist Yehudi Menuhin, he permanently settled in London in 1961.Since then he...

     (1990)
  • Aleksandar Pavlovic
    Aleksandar Pavlovic
    Aleksandar "Sasha" Pavlović is a professional basketball player who last played for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association . He began his NBA career with the Utah Jazz in 2003.-2000-2001:...

     (2006)
  • Antony Pay
    Antony Pay
    Antony Pay was born in London on February 21, 1945. After gaining a place with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, with whom he performed the Mozart clarinet concerto at the ages of 16, he studied at the Royal Academy of Music and then read Mathematics at Cambridge University, graduating...

     (1986)
  • Krzysztof Penderecki
    Krzysztof Penderecki
    Krzysztof Penderecki , born November 23, 1933 in Dębica) is a Polish composer and conductor. His 1960 avant-garde Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima for string orchestra brought him to international attention, and this success was followed by acclaim for his choral St. Luke Passion. Both these...

     (1974)
  • Murray Perahia
    Murray Perahia
    Murray Perahia KBE is an American concert pianist and conductor.-Early life:Murray Perahia was born in the Bronx borough of New York City to a family of Sephardi Jewish origin. According to the biography on his Mozart piano sonatas CD, his first language was Judaeo-Spanish or, Ladino. The family...

     (1985)
  • Itzhak Perlman
    Itzhak Perlman
    Itzhak Perlman is an Israeli-born violinist, conductor, and instructor of master classes. He is regarded as one of the pre-eminent violinists of the 20th and early-21st centuries.-Early life:...

     (1993)
  • Trevor Pinnock
    Trevor Pinnock
    Trevor David Pinnock CBE is an English conductor, harpsichordist, and occasional organist and pianist.He is best known for his association with the period-performance orchestra The English Concert which he helped found and directed from the keyboard for over 30 years in baroque and early classical...

     (1984)
  • Rachel Podger
    Rachel Podger
    Rachel Podger is an English violinist specialising in the performance of baroque music. She often conducts baroque orchestras from the violin, and in 2004 took up a guest directorship with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, having previously been leader of The English Concert from 1997 to...

     (2005)
  • André Previn
    André Previn
    André George Previn, KBE is an American pianist, conductor, and composer. He is considered one of the most versatile musicians in the world, and is the winner of four Academy Awards for his film work and ten Grammy Awards for his recordings. -Early Life:Previn was born in...

     (1977)
  • Curtis Price
    Curtis Price
    Professor Sir Curtis Alexander Price, KBE has been Warden of New College, Oxford since October 2009. He was previously Principal of the Royal Academy of Music from 1995 to 2008 and Professor of Music in the University of London.Price was raised in Charleston, Illinois and received his...

     (1993)
  • Dame Margaret Price
    Margaret Price
    Dame Margaret Berenice Price, DBE was a Welsh soprano.-Early years:Price was born in Blackwood, Wales. Born with deformed legs, she was operated on at age four and suffered pain in her legs the rest of her life. She often looked after her younger brother John who was born with a mental handicap...

     (1988)
  • Ruggiero Ricci
    Ruggiero Ricci
    Ruggiero Ricci is an Italian-American violinist known for performances and recordings of the works of Paganini. He was born in San Bruno, California. Ricci's brother was cellist and his sister Emma played violin with the New York Metropolitan Opera.He is the son of Italian immigrants. His...

     (1983)
  • H. C. Robbins Landon
    H. C. Robbins Landon
    Howard Chandler Robbins Landon was an American musicologist.He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and studied music at Swarthmore College and Boston University. He subsequently moved to Europe where he worked as a music critic. From 1947 he undertook research in Vienna on Joseph Haydn, a composer...

     (1998)
  • Winifred Roberts (1983)
  • Christopher Robinson
    Christopher Robinson (musician)
    Christopher John Robinson CVO CBE is a British conductor and organist. After being organ scholar at Christ Church, Oxford he worked as Organist and Master of the Choristers at Worcester Cathedral. In 1974 he became Organist and Choirmaster at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle a position he held...

     (1980)
  • Mstislav Rostropovich
    Mstislav Rostropovich
    Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich, KBE , known to close friends as Slava, was a Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor. He was married to the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya. He is widely considered to have been the greatest cellist of the second half of the 20th century, and one of the greatest of...

  • Gennadi Rozhdestvensky (1979)
  • Esa-Pekka Salonen
    Esa-Pekka Salonen
    Esa-Pekka Salonen is a Finnish orchestral conductor and composer. He is currently Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Philharmonia Orchestra in London and Conductor Laureate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.-Early career:...

     (2003)
  • Kurt Sanderling
    Kurt Sanderling
    Kurt Sanderling, CBE was a German conductor.-Biography:Kurt Sanderling was born in Arys, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire to Jewish parents. After early work at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, he left for the Soviet Union in 1936, where he worked with the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra...

     (2000)
  • Andras Schiff
    András Schiff
    András Schiff is a Hungarian-born British classical pianist, who has won a number of awards including the Grammy and made numerous recordings.- Biography :...

     (1989)
  • Peter Schreier
    Peter Schreier
    Peter Schreier is a German tenor and conductor.-Early life:Schreier was born in Meissen, Saxony, and spent his first years in the small village of Gauernitz, near Meissen, where his father was a teacher, cantor and organist...

     (2000)
  • Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
    Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
    Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, DBE was a German-born Austrian/British soprano opera singer and recitalist. She was among the most renowned opera singers of the 20th century, much admired for her performances of Mozart, Schubert, Strauss, and Wolf.-Early life:Olga Maria Elisabeth Friederike...

     (1975)
  • John Scott
    John Scott (composer)
    John Scott , also known as Johnny Scott and Patrick John Scott, is a British composer and conductor. Scott has worked with some of the world's foremost producers and directors including Richard Donner, Norman J...

     (1990)
  • John Shirley-Quirk
    John Shirley-Quirk
    John Shirley-Quirk CBE is an English bass-baritone.He was born in Liverpool, England, and sang in his high school choir. He played the violin and was awarded a scholarship. While studying chemistry and physics at Liverpool University, he studied voice with Austen Carnegie...

     (1972)
  • Leonard Slatkin
    Leonard Slatkin
    Leonard Edward Slatkin is an American conductor and composer.-Early life and education:Slatkin was born in Los Angeles to a musical family that came from areas of the Russian Empire now in Ukraine. His father Felix Slatkin was the violinist, conductor and founder of the Hollywood String Quartet,...

     (1993)
  • Philip Smith
    Philip Smith (musician)
    Philip Smith is an eminent American classical trumpet player. He is the principal trumpeter in the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Smith, born in the UK, is from a Salvation Army background. He maintains a high reputation amongst trumpeters worldwide as one of the best. He assumed the...

     (2005)
  • Elisabeth Soderstrom
    Elisabeth Söderström
    Elisabeth Anna Söderström CBE was a Swedish soprano, who performed both opera and song. She was particularly well known for her recordings of the lead soprano roles in the three Janáček operas Jenůfa, Káťa Kabanová, and The Makropoulos Affair, all of which received Gramophone Awards...

     (1982)
  • Stephen Sondheim
    Stephen Sondheim
    Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for stage and film. He is the winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize and the Laurence Olivier Award...

     (1992)
  • John Stainer
    John Stainer
    Sir John Stainer was an English composer and organist whose music, though not generally much performed today , was very popular during his lifetime...

     (1962)
  • Simon Standage
    Simon Standage
    Simon Andrew Thomas Standage is an English violinist and conductor best known for playing and conducting music of the baroque and classical eras on original instruments.- Biography and career :...

     (2009)
  • Janos Starker
    János Starker
    János Starker |Kingdom of Hungary]]) is a Hungarian-American cellist. Since 1958 he has taught at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he holds the title of Distinguished Professor.- Child prodigy :...

     (1980)
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen
    Karlheinz Stockhausen
    Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music"...

     (1987)
  • Richard Stokes
    Richard Stokes
    Major Sir Richard Rapier Stokes MC was a British Labour politician who served briefly as Lord Privy Seal in 1951....

     (2008)
  • Jeremy Summerly
    Jeremy Summerly
    Jeremy Summerly is a British conductor. He was educated at Lichfield Cathedral , at Winchester College and at New College, Oxford . While at Oxford he conducted the New College Chamber Orchestra and the Oxford Chamber Choir...

     (2006)
  • Dame Joan Sutherland
    Joan Sutherland
    Dame Joan Alston Sutherland, OM, AC, DBE was an Australian dramatic coloratura soprano noted for her contribution to the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s through to the 1980s....

     (1979)
  • Henryk Szeryng
    Henryk Szeryng
    Henryk Szeryng was a Polish violinist.-Early years:He was born in Żelazowa Wola, Poland on 22 September 1918 into a wealthy family....

     (1969)
  • Richard Taruskin
    Richard Taruskin
    Richard Taruskin is an American-Russian musicologist, music historian, and critic who has written about the theory of performance, Russian music, fifteenth-century music, twentieth-century music, nationalism, the theory of modernism, and analysis. As a choral conductor he directed the Columbia...

     (2001)
  • Eric Taylor
    Eric Taylor (musician)
    Eric Taylor is an American singer-songwriter from Texas. He is known for his anecdotal songs which often take the form of short stories. In addition to Taylor's seven solo releases, his songs have been recorded by Nanci Griffith, Lyle Lovett and many others.-Biography:Eric Taylor was born in...

     (1976)
  • Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
    Kiri Te Kanawa
    Dame Kiri Jeanette Te Kanawa, ONZ, DBE, AC is a New Zealand / Māori soprano who has had a highly successful international opera career since 1968. Acclaimed as one of the most beloved sopranos in both the United States and Britain she possesses a warm full lyric soprano voice, singing a wide array...

     (2003)
  • Robert Tear
    Robert Tear
    Robert Tear, CBE was a Welsh tenor and conductor.Tear was born in Barry, Glamorgan, Wales, UK, the son of Thomas and Edith Tear. He attended Barry Boys' Grammar School and during this period sang in the chorus of the first Welsh National Opera's production of 'Cavalleria Rusticana' in April 1946...

     (1978)
  • Bryn Terfel
    Bryn Terfel
    Bryn Terfel Jones CBE is a Welsh bass-baritone opera and concert singer. Terfel was initially associated with the roles of Mozart, particularly Figaro and Leporello, but has subsequently shifted his attention to heavier roles, especially those by Wagner....

     (2000)
  • Yan Pascal Tortelier
    Yan Pascal Tortelier
    Yan Pascal Tortelier is an internationally renowned French conductor and violinist and is the son of the late cellist Paul Tortelier.-Biography:...

     (2002)
  • Stan Tracey
    Stan Tracey
    Stanley William Tracey CBE is a British jazz pianist and composer, most influenced by Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk.-Early career:...

     (1984)
  • Barry Tuckwell
    Barry Tuckwell
    Barry Emmanuel Tuckwell AC, OBE , is an Australian horn player who has spent most of his professional life in the United Kingdom and the United States.- Early life and education :...

     (1966)
  • John Tusa
    John Tusa
    Sir John Tusa is a British arts administrator, and radio and television journalist. From 1980 to 1986 he was a main presenter of BBC 2's Newsnight programme. From 1995 until 2007 he was managing director of the City of London's Barbican Arts Centre...

     (1999)
  • Dame Mitsuko Uchida
    Mitsuko Uchida
    , born 20 December 1948, is a Japanese naturalized British classical pianist.-Career:Born in Atami, a seaside town close to Tokyo, Japan, Uchida moved to Vienna, Austria, with her diplomat parents when she was twelve years old, after her father was named the Japanese ambassador to Austria...

     (2009)
  • Richard van Allan
    Richard Van Allan
    Richard Van Allan CBE was a versatile British operatic bass singer who had a lengthy career.He sang varied repertoire at Covent Garden and English National Opera, as well as at numerous important houses worldwide...

     (1987)
  • Tamás Vásáry
    Tamás Vásáry
    Tamás Vásáry is a celebrated Hungarian concert pianist.- Biography and career :Vásáry made his debut at the age of 8, performing Mozart's Piano Concerto in D major, K.107 in the city of his birth, where he gave a solo recital the following year. He then began to concertize regularly as a child...

     (1992)
  • Josephine Veasey
    Josephine Veasey
    Josephine Veasey is a British mezzo-soprano, particularly associated with Wagner and Berliozroles.-Life and career:Born in Peckham, she studied with Audrey Langford, and became a member of the Royal Opera House chorus in 1949, she made her debut as a soloist in 1955, as the Shepherd Boy in...

     (1972)
  • Jon Vickers
    Jon Vickers
    Jonathan Stewart Vickers, CC , known professionally as Jon Vickers, is a retired Canadian heldentenor.Born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, he was the sixth in a family of eight children. In 1950, he was awarded a scholarship to study opera at The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto...

     (1977)
  • Roger Vignoles
    Roger Vignoles
    Roger Vignoles is a British pianist and accompanist. He regularly performs with the world’s leading singers – including Kiri Te Kanawa, Thomas Allen, Anne Sofie von Otter, Thomas Hampson, Gitta-Maria Sjøberg, Sarah Walker, Susan Graham, Felicity Lott, Stephan Genz, Monica Groop, Wolfgang Holzmair,...

     (1984)
  • Anne Sofie von Otter (2002)
  • Gillian Weir
    Gillian Weir
    Dame Gillian Constance Weir DBE is a New Zealand organist.-Biography:Gillian Weir was a co-winner of the Auckland Star Piano Competition at 19, playing Mozart. A year later she won a scholarship of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in London...

     (1989)
  • Judith Weir
    Judith Weir
    Judith Weir CBE, is a British composer.-Biography:Her music has been appreciated by audiences and critics alike. She trained with John Tavener while still at school and subsequently with Robin Holloway at King's College, Cambridge, graduating in 1976...

     (1997)
  • Kenny Wheeler
    Kenny Wheeler
    Kenneth Vincent John Wheeler, OC is a Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player, based in the U.K. since the 1950s....

     (2009)
  • Jonathan Willcocks
    Jonathan Willcocks
    Jonathan Willcocks is an English composer. He was a chorister at King's College, Cambridge, and an Open Music Scholar at Clifton College. He graduated with an Honours degree in Music from Cambridge University, where he held a choral scholarship at Trinity College...

     (1996)
  • John Williams (guitarist)
    John Williams (guitarist)
    John Christopher Williams is an Australian classical guitarist, and a long-term resident of the United Kingdom. In 1973, he shared a Grammy Award win in the 'Best Chamber Music Performance' category with Julian Bream for Julian and John .-Biography:John Williams was born on 24 April 1941 in...

     (1989)
  • John Williams (composer) (1995)
  • David Willcocks (1965)
  • Arthur Wills
    Arthur Wills
    Dr Arthur Wills OBE is a musician, composer, and professor. He was Director of Music at Ely Cathedral from 1958 to 1990, and also held a Professorship at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1964 until 1992...

     (1974)
  • Victoria Wood
    Victoria Wood
    Victoria Wood CBE is a British comedienne, actress, singer-songwriter, screenwriter and director. Wood has written and starred in sketches, plays, films and sitcoms, and her live stand-up comedy act is interspersed with her own compositions, which she accompanies on piano...

     (2006)
  • Pinchas Zukerman
    Pinchas Zukerman
    Pinchas Zukerman is a world-renowned violinist, violist, and conductor. He is considered one of the greatest violinists of the 20th and 21st centuries, and his ongoing 45-year career has seen him perform with the world's best-known orchestras and record over 100 works...

     (1976)

Past and present Fellows of the Royal Academy of Music (FRAM)
  • Irvine Arditti
    Irvine Arditti
    Irvine Arditti is a British violinist.-Life:He began his studies at the Royal Academy of Music at the age of 16 where he studied with Clarence Myerscough and Manoug Parikian. He joined the London Symphony Orchestra in 1976 and after two years, at the age of 25, became its Co-Concert Master...

     (1984)
  • Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
    Richard Rodney Bennett
    Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, CBE is an English composer renowned for his film scores and his jazz performance as much as for his challenging concert works...

     (1963)
  • Dame Evelyn Glennie
    Evelyn Glennie
    Dame Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie, DBE is a Scottish virtuoso percussionist. She was the first full-time solo percussionist in 20th-century western society.-Early life:Glennie was born and raised in Aberdeenshire...

     (1992)
  • Christopher Elton
    Christopher Elton
    Christopher Elton is an English pianist, Head of the Keyboard department of the Royal Academy of Music in London and a professor emeritus of the University of London.-Biography:...

     (1982)
  • Alan Ray Hacker
    Alan Ray Hacker
    Alan Ray Hacker OBE FRAM is an English clarinettist and professor of the Royal Academy of Music.-Early life:He was born in 1938, the son of Kenneth and Sybil Hacker...

     (1958) (clarinetist)
  • Freddie Kempf (2005)
  • Annie Lennox
    Annie Lennox
    Annie Lennox, OBE , born Ann Lennox, is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving minor success in the late 1970s with The Tourists, with fellow musician David A...

     (1997)

  • Dame Felicity Lott
    Felicity Lott
    Dame Felicity Ann Emwhyla Lott, DBE, FRCM is an English soprano.-Education:From her earliest years she was musical, having started studying piano at age 5. She also played violin and began singing lessons at 12. She is an alumna of Royal Holloway, University of London, obtaining a BA in French and...

     (1986)
  • Susanna Mälkki
    Susanna Mälkki
    Susanna Mälkki is a Finnish conductor. Trained as a cellist as a pupil of Hannu Kiiski, she later studied conducting with Jorma Panula, as well as Eri Klas and Leif Segerstam, at the Sibelius Academy. She has also studied at London's Royal Academy of Music...

     (2010)
  • Philip Martin (1988)
  • Odaline de la Martinez
    Odaline de la Martinez
    Odaline de la Martinez is a Cuban-American composer and conductor, currently residing in the UK. She is the artistic director of , a London-based contemporary music ensemble which she co-founded in 1976 with New Zealander flautist , and was the first woman to conduct at the BBC Promenade Concerts ...

     (1990)
  • Sir Simon Rattle
    Simon Rattle
    Sir Simon Denis Rattle, CBE is an English conductor. He rose to international prominence as conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and since 2002 has been principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic ....

     (1984)

Honorary Doctorates (Hon DMus)
  • Sir Simon Rattle
    Simon Rattle
    Sir Simon Denis Rattle, CBE is an English conductor. He rose to international prominence as conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and since 2002 has been principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic ....

     (2011, Honorary Doctorate of the University of London)
  • Daniel Barenboim
    Daniel Barenboim
    Daniel Barenboim, KBE is an Argentinian-Israeli pianist and conductor. He has served as music director of several major symphonic and operatic orchestras and made numerous recordings....

     (2010, Honorary Doctorate of the University of London)
  • Sir Colin Davis
    Colin Davis
    Sir Colin Rex Davis, CH, CBE is an English conductor. His repertoire is broad, but among the composers with whom he is particularly associated are Mozart, Berlioz, Elgar, Sibelius, Stravinsky and Tippett....

     (2002, Honorary Doctorate of the University of London)
  • Sir Elton John
    Elton John
    Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE, Hon DMus is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor...

     (2002, Honorary Doctorate of the University of London)


Past and present Honorary Fellows of the Royal Academy of Music (Hon FRAM)
  • The Duchess of Gloucester
  • Dame Emma Kirkby
    Emma Kirkby
    Dame Carolyn Emma Kirkby, DBE is an English soprano singer and one of the world's most renowned early music specialists. She attended Sherborne School For Girls in Dorset and was a classics student at Somerville College, Oxford, and an English teacher before developing a career as a soloist...

  • Dame Felicity Lott
    Felicity Lott
    Dame Felicity Ann Emwhyla Lott, DBE, FRCM is an English soprano.-Education:From her earliest years she was musical, having started studying piano at age 5. She also played violin and began singing lessons at 12. She is an alumna of Royal Holloway, University of London, obtaining a BA in French and...


Honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (Hon ARAM)
  • Peter Stark
    Peter Stark (conductor)
    Peter Stark is a free-lance professional conductor from London, United Kingdom. As well as a notable educator in music, he is the Artistic Director for both the West of England Philharmonic Orchestra and Parnassus...

  • Paul Steinitz
    Paul Steinitz
    Paul Steinitz OBE was a pioneer in the post-war interpretation of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. He founded the London Bach Society and Steinitz Bach Players in order to put his scholarship into practice, performing all Bach’s cantatas in mainly London venues over the space of 29...

     (2001)

Principals

Complete list of Principals.
  • Jonathan Freeman-Attwood
    Jonathan Freeman-Attwood
    Professor Jonathan Freeman-Attwood BMus, MPhil, Hon RAM is the Principal of the Royal Academy of Music in the United Kingdom.He studied at Milton Abbey School, then University of Toronto and Christ Church, Oxford...

     (2008)
  • Sir Curtis Price
    Curtis Price
    Professor Sir Curtis Alexander Price, KBE has been Warden of New College, Oxford since October 2009. He was previously Principal of the Royal Academy of Music from 1995 to 2008 and Professor of Music in the University of London.Price was raised in Charleston, Illinois and received his...

     (1995)
  • Lynn Harrell
    Lynn Harrell
    Lynn Harrell is an American classical cellist.-Biography:Harrell was born in New York City of musician parents; his father was the baritone Mack Harrell and his mother, Marjorie Fulton, was a violinist. At the age of eight he decided to learn to play the cello. When Lynn was 12, his family moved...

     (1993)
  • Sir David Lumsden
    David Lumsden (musician)
    Sir David James Lumsden PhD, DPhil, MA, MusB, FRCM, FRNCM, FRSAMD, FLCM, FRSA, Hon RAM, Hon FRCO, FKC .*Choirmaster, organist and harpsichordist,**St Mary's Church, Nottingham, 1954–1956**Southwell Minster 1956-1959,...

     (1982)
  • Anthony Lewis (1968)
  • Sir Thomas Armstrong (1955)
  • R. S. Thatcher (1949)
  • Sir Stanley Marchant
    Stanley Marchant
    Sir Stanley Marchant was an English organist and composer, associated with St Paul's Cathedral, where he was second assistant from 1903 and organist from 1927, until he became principal of the Royal Academy of Music in 1936.His best-known composition, "The Souls of the Righteous", is included in...

     (1936)
  • Sir John Blackwood McEwen
    John Blackwood McEwen
    Sir John Blackwood McEwen was a Scottish classical composer and educator.- Biography :John Blackwood McEwen was born in Hawick in 1868. After initial training in Glasgow, he studied with Ebenezer Prout, Corder and Tobias Matthay at the Royal Academy of Music in London...

     (1924)
  • Sir Alexander Mackenzie (1888)
  • Sir George Alexander Macfarren
    George Alexander Macfarren
    Sir George Alexander Macfarren was an English composer.-Life:George Alexander Macfarren was born in London on 2 March 1813 to George Macfarren, a dancing-master, dramatic author, and journalist, and Elizabeth Macfarren, née Jackson. At the age of seven, Macfarren was sent to Dr...

     (1876)
  • Sir William Sterndale Bennett
    William Sterndale Bennett
    Sir William Sterndale Bennett was an English composer. He ranks as the most distinguished English composer of the Romantic school-Biography:...

     (1866)
  • Charles Lucas
    Charles Lucas (musician)
    Charles Lucas was an English cellist, conductor, composer and publisher. He was a Principal of the Royal Academy of Music....

     (1859)
  • Cipriani Potter
    Cipriani Potter
    Philip Cipriani Hambly Potter was a British composer, pianist and educator.-Life and career:Born in London, the son of a piano teacher named Richard Huddleston Potter, Cipriani was named after his godmother...

     (1832)
  • William Crotch
    William Crotch
    William Crotch was an English composer, organist and artist.Born in Norwich to a master carpenter he showed early musical talent . The three and a half year old Master William Crotch was taken to London by his ambitious mother, where he not only played on the organ of the Chapel Royal in St....

    (1822)
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