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The Royal College of Music is a conservatoire
College or university school of music

Category:Limited geographic scopeCategory:USA-centricA university school of music or college of music, or academy of music or conservatoire — also known as a conservatory or a conservatorium — is a higher education institution dedicated to teaching the art...
 located in the South Kensington
South Kensington

South Kensington is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London. It is a built-up area located 2.4 miles west south-west of Charing Cross....
 district of London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
, and historically one of the most influential music institutions in Europe. Since its founding, a number of professors and alumni of the RCM have played significant roles in shaping the history and development of Western classical music in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Royal College of Music's building, designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield
Arthur Blomfield

Sir Arthur William Blomfield was an England architect....
, is situated on Prince Consort Road in the district of South Kensington
South Kensington

South Kensington is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London. It is a built-up area located 2.4 miles west south-west of Charing Cross....
, next to Imperial College, directly opposite the Royal Albert Hall
Royal Albert Hall

The Royal Albert Hall is an arts venue situated in the Knightsbridge area of the City of Westminster, London, England, best known for holding the annual summer Proms concerts since 1941....
, near the Royal College of Art
Royal College of Art

The Royal College of Art is a university in London, England, United Kingdom. It is the world?s only wholly postgraduate art and design institution, offering the degrees of Master of Arts , Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy....
 and five minutes' walk from the Science
Science Museum (London)

The Science Museum on Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London is part of the National Museum of Science and Industry. The museum is a major London tourist attraction....
, Natural History
Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum is one of three large museums on Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London . Its main frontage is on Cromwell Road. The museum is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport...
 and Victoria and Albert
Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum in London is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million Object ....
 Museums. The dense presence of these cultural institutions has earned this Kensington neighborhood the nickname of Albertopolis
Albertopolis

Albertopolis is a nickname for the area centered around South Kensington, London, England, between Cromwell Road and Kensington Gore, which contains a large number of educational and cultural sites, including...
.

A dormitory residence serving 170 students was opened in 1994 on Goldhawk Road in Shepherd's Bush
Shepherd's Bush

Shepherd's Bush is a district of west London in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, situated 4.9 miles west of Charing Cross. Although it is primarily residential in character, its focus is the shopping area of Shepherds Bush Green, which has a small shopping centre with a supermarket, cinema and gym, and a large number of small a...
, West London
West London

West London is the area of Greater London to the west of Central London. Although it is only ambiguously defined, it is one of the most economically active areas of London outside of the centre, containing significant amounts of office space along with London Heathrow Airport and many of its associated businesses....
.

Since its founding in 1882 by the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII
Edward VII of the United Kingdom

Edward VII was Monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death on 6 May 1910....
, the College has been linked with the Royal family.






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The Royal College of Music is a conservatoire
College or university school of music

Category:Limited geographic scopeCategory:USA-centricA university school of music or college of music, or academy of music or conservatoire — also known as a conservatory or a conservatorium — is a higher education institution dedicated to teaching the art...
 located in the South Kensington
South Kensington

South Kensington is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London. It is a built-up area located 2.4 miles west south-west of Charing Cross....
 district of London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
, and historically one of the most influential music institutions in Europe. Since its founding, a number of professors and alumni of the RCM have played significant roles in shaping the history and development of Western classical music in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Background

The Royal College of Music's building, designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield
Arthur Blomfield

Sir Arthur William Blomfield was an England architect....
, is situated on Prince Consort Road in the district of South Kensington
South Kensington

South Kensington is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London. It is a built-up area located 2.4 miles west south-west of Charing Cross....
, next to Imperial College, directly opposite the Royal Albert Hall
Royal Albert Hall

The Royal Albert Hall is an arts venue situated in the Knightsbridge area of the City of Westminster, London, England, best known for holding the annual summer Proms concerts since 1941....
, near the Royal College of Art
Royal College of Art

The Royal College of Art is a university in London, England, United Kingdom. It is the world?s only wholly postgraduate art and design institution, offering the degrees of Master of Arts , Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy....
 and five minutes' walk from the Science
Science Museum (London)

The Science Museum on Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London is part of the National Museum of Science and Industry. The museum is a major London tourist attraction....
, Natural History
Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum is one of three large museums on Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London . Its main frontage is on Cromwell Road. The museum is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport...
 and Victoria and Albert
Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum in London is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million Object ....
 Museums. The dense presence of these cultural institutions has earned this Kensington neighborhood the nickname of Albertopolis
Albertopolis

Albertopolis is a nickname for the area centered around South Kensington, London, England, between Cromwell Road and Kensington Gore, which contains a large number of educational and cultural sites, including...
.

A dormitory residence serving 170 students was opened in 1994 on Goldhawk Road in Shepherd's Bush
Shepherd's Bush

Shepherd's Bush is a district of west London in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, situated 4.9 miles west of Charing Cross. Although it is primarily residential in character, its focus is the shopping area of Shepherds Bush Green, which has a small shopping centre with a supermarket, cinema and gym, and a large number of small a...
, West London
West London

West London is the area of Greater London to the west of Central London. Although it is only ambiguously defined, it is one of the most economically active areas of London outside of the centre, containing significant amounts of office space along with London Heathrow Airport and many of its associated businesses....
.

Since its founding in 1882 by the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII
Edward VII of the United Kingdom

Edward VII was Monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death on 6 May 1910....
, the College has been linked with the Royal family. Its patron is currently Her Majesty, The Queen
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

Elizabeth II is the queen regnant of sixteen independent states known as the Commonwealth realms: Monarchy of the United Kingdom, Monarchy of Canada, Monarchy of Australia, Monarchy of New Zealand, Monarchy of Jamaica, Monarchy of Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Monarchy of the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Sain...
. For 40 years, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon was the Queen Consort of King George VI of the United Kingdom and the British Empire Dominions from 1936 until his death in 1952....
 was President; in 1993 HRH The Prince of Wales
Charles, Prince of Wales

The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales is the eldest child of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, making him heir apparent, equally and separately, to the thrones of Commonwealth realm....
 became President, Her Majesty The Queen Mother becoming President Emerita.

The current director is the clarinettist and scholar Professor Colin Lawson..

Curriculum

The college teaches all aspects of Western classical music from undergraduate to doctoral level. There is a Junior Department, where 300 children aged 8 to 18 are educated on Saturdays, under the scrutiny of Director; Peter Hewitt BA PGCE HonRCM FRSA. It also has an extensive museum of musical instrument
Musical instrument

A musical instrument is an object constructed or used for the purpose of making music. In principle, anything that produces sound can serve as a musical instrument....
s which is open to the public, see below.

Performance venues

The RCM's main concert venue is a 468 seat barrel-vaulted concert hall designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield
Arthur Blomfield

Sir Arthur William Blomfield was an England architect....
 and built in 1901. The Britten Theatre, which seats 400, was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1986 and is used for opera, ballet, music and theatre. There is also a 150 seat recital hall dating from 1965, as well as several smaller recital rooms, including an organ room.

Museum of Instruments

Royal Coll Mus Lond
The College's Museum of Instruments, forming part of the Centre for Performance History, houses a collection of over 800 instruments and accessories from circa 1480 to the present. Included in the collection is the world's oldest surviving keyboard instrument.

Other collections

Due partly to the vision of its founders, particularly Sir George Grove
George Grove

Sir George Grove was an England writer on music, immortalised in the title of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians.He was born in Clapham, and studied to be a civil engineer, working for two years in a factory near Glasgow....
, the RCM holds significant research collections of material dating from the fifteenth century onwards. These include autographs such as Haydn
Joseph Haydn

Joseph Haydn was an Austrians composer. He was one of the most prominent composers of the classical music era, and is called by some the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet"....
’s String Quartet Op. 64/1, Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
’s Piano Concerto K491
Piano Concerto No. 24 (Mozart)

The Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K?chel-Verzeichnis. 491 is a concertante work for piano, or pianoforte, and orchestra by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart....
 and Elgar
Edward Elgar

Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, Order of Merit, Royal Victorian Order was an England composer. Several of his first major orchestral works, including the Enigma Variations and the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, were greeted with acclaim....
’s Cello Concerto
Cello Concerto (Elgar)

Sir Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 was his last notable work, and is a cornerstone of the solo cello repertoire....
. More extensive collections feature the music of Herbert Howells
Herbert Howells

Herbert Norman Howells Order of the Companions of Honour was an English composer, organ , and teacher....
 and Frank Bridge
Frank Bridge

Frank Bridge was an English composer....
 and film scores by Malcolm Arnold
Malcolm Arnold

Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold, Order of the British Empire was an England composer and Symphony.Malcolm Arnold began his career playing trumpet professionally, by age thirty his life was devoted to composition....
 and Stanley Myers
Stanley Myers

Stanley Myers , was a prolific British film composer who scored over sixty films. Born in Birmingham, as a teenager Myers went to the prestigious King Edward's High School in Edgbaston, a suburb of Birmingham....
. Amongst over 300 original portraits are John Cawse’s 1826 painting of Weber
Carl Maria von Weber

Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber was a Germans composer, conducting, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romanticism school....
 (the last of the composer), Haydn
Joseph Haydn

Joseph Haydn was an Austrians composer. He was one of the most prominent composers of the classical music era, and is called by some the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet"....
 by Thomas Hardy (1791) and Bartolommeo Nazari's painting of Farinelli
Farinelli

File:Farinelli engraving.jpgFarinelli , was the stage name of Carlo Maria Broschi, one of the most famous Italy contralto and soprano castrato singers of the 18th century....
 at the height of his fame.

10,000 print
Printmaking

Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. Except in the case of monotyping, the process is capable of producing multiples of the same piece, which is called a 'print....
s and photograph
Photograph

A photograph is an created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic imager such as a Charge-coupled device or a Complementary metal?oxide?semiconductor chip....
s comprise the most substantial archive of images of musicians in the UK. The RCM’s 600,000 concert programmes document concert life from 1730 to the present day. Paintings on display at the Museum include two portraits of Jan Ladislav Dussek
Jan Ladislav Dussek

Jan Ladislav Dussek was a Czech Republic composer and pianist. He was an important representative of Czech music abroad in the second half of 18th century and the beginning of 19th century....
 and George Henschel
George Henschel

Sir George Henschel , was an England baritone, pianist, conducting, and composer. He was knighted in 1914.Henschel was born at Breslau of Poland-Jewish parentage, and educated as a pianist, making his first public appearance in Berlin in 1862....
.

Notable alumni

Famous students of the RCM have included:
  • Emilie Alford (born 1983), opera singer - star of How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?
    How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?

    How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? was an award-winning British television talent series, shown on Saturday evenings on BBC One between 29 July 2006 and 16 September 2006....
  • Sir Thomas Allen
    Thomas Allen (singer)

    Sir Thomas Boaz Allen, Order of the British Empire, is an internationally renowned England baritone opera singer from Seaham Harbour, County Durham....
     (born 1944), singer
  • Julian Anderson
    Julian Anderson

    Julian Anderson is a British composer....
     (born 1967), composer
  • Sir Malcolm Arnold (1921 - 2006), composer
  • Evelyn Barbirolli
    Evelyn Barbirolli

    Evelyn, Lady Barbirolli Order of the British Empire was an England oboe, 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....
     (1911-2008), oboist
  • John S. Beckett
    John S. Beckett

    John Stewart Beckett , was an Irish musician, composer and conductor; cousin of the famous writer and playwright Samuel Beckett....
     (1927 - 2007), composer, performer and conductor
  • 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....
     (born 1978), composer
  • Clifford Benson (1946 - 2007), pianist
  • John Birch
    John Birch (musician)

    John Birch is an internationally renowned Recitalist, Concert Organist and Organ Scholar. He was educated at Trent College, Derbyshire and left in July 1947 to study at the Royal College of Music, London....
     (born 1929), organist
  • Robin Blaze
    Robin Blaze

    Robin Blaze is an English countertenor....
     (1970) - countertenor
  • Sir Arthur Bliss (1891 - 1975), composer
  • Rutland Boughton
    Rutland Boughton

    Rutland Boughton was an England composer who became well known in the early 20th century as a composer of opera and choral music.A pupil of Charles Villiers Stanford and Walford Davies, Boughton's output included three symphonies, several concertos, part-songs, songs, chamber music and opera ....
     (1878 - 1960), composer
  • Julian Bream
    Julian Bream

    Julian Bream Commander of the Order of the British Empire is an internationally celebrated United Kingdom classical guitar and lutenist, widely recognized as one of the most important classical guitarists of the 20th century....
     (born 1933), guitarist and lutenist
  • Benjamin Britten
    Benjamin Britten

    Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, Order of Merit Order of the Companions of Honour was an England composer, conducting, viola and pianist....
     (1913 - 1976), composer
  • George Butterworth
    George Butterworth

    George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, MC was an England composer best known for his tone poem The Banks of Green Willow and his settings of A. E....
     (1885 - 1916), composer
  • Ronald Cavaye
    Ronald Cavaye

    Ronald Cavaye is a United Kingdom pianist, born in England and a resident of the United Kingdom. He is a classical music pianist and writer....
     (born 1951), pianist and writer.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was an United Kingdom composer who achieved such success he was called the "African Gustav Mahler"....
      (1875 - 1912), composer
  • Charles Daniels
    Charles Daniels (tenor)

    Charles Daniels is an English tenor, particularly noted for his performances of baroque music. He is a frequent soloist with The King's Consort, and has made over 25 recordings with the ensemble on the Hyperion Records label....
     singer
  • Thurston Dart
    Thurston Dart

    Robert Thurston Dart , was an eminent United Kingdom musicology, conductor and keyboard player. From 1964 he was Professor of Music at King's College London....
     (1921 - 1971), performer and musicologist
  • Sir Andrew Davis
    Andrew Davis (conductor)

    Sir Andrew Frank Davis Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom Conducting....
     (born 1944), conductor
  • Sir Colin Davis (born 1927), conductor
  • David Fanshawe
    David Fanshawe

    David Fanshawe is an English composer and Ethnomusicology. His work is situated at the crossroads of Folk music and . His best-known composition is the 1972 choral work African Sanctus....
     (born 1942), composer and ethnomusicologist
  • Alan Fleming-Baird
    Alan Fleming-Baird

    Alan Fleming-Baird is a composer of music in many media, including concert works for large orchestra.After a brief period of study with the composer Sir John Tavener he then studied composition with Jeremy Dale Roberts at the Royal College of Music in London and, while there, studied in seminars with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, George Benja...
     (born 1972), composer
  • Sir James Galway (born 1939), flautist
  • Noel Gay
    Noel Gay

    Noel Gay Willis born Reginald Moxon Armitage was one of the most successful British composers of popular music of the 1930s and 1940s....
     (1898 - 1954), songwriter
  • Daniel Giorgetti
    Daniel Giorgetti

    Daniel Giorgetti was born in London and studied piano and composition at the London College of Music with Martin Ellerby, and the Royal College of Music with Edwin Roxburgh....
    , composer
  • Robert John Godfrey
    Robert John Godfrey

    File:RobertJohnGodfrey1998.jpgRobert John Godfrey is a British composer, pianist and founder member of The Enid.Born on the Leeds Castle estate in Kent, England, Godfrey was educated at Finchden Manor in Tenterden, which was described by its founder George Lyward as a "therapeutic community for adolescents" , other alumni of which include...
     (born 1947), composer & pianist
  • Sir Eugène Goossens
    Eugène Aynsley Goossens

    Sir Eugene Aynsley Goossens was an English conducting and composer....
     (1893 - 1962), conductor
  • Léon Goossens
    Léon Goossens

    L?on Jean Goossens Commander of the Order of the British Empire, FRCM was a United Kingdom oboe. He was born in Liverpool and studied at the Royal College of Music....
     (1897-1988), oboist
  • Sir Charles Groves
    Charles Groves

    Sir Charles Barnard Groves was an English people Conducting. He was known for the breadth of his repertoire and for encouraging contemporary composers and young conductors....
     (1915 - 1992), conductor
  • Philip Sparke
    Philip Sparke

    Philip Sparke is a United Kingdom composer and musician. He is noted for his concert band music....
     (born 1951) composer, musician, conductor
  • Richard Harvey
    Richard Harvey

    Richard Harvey is a United Kingdom musician and composer. He is best known for his film soundtrack and television soundtracks....
     (born 1953), composer and multi-instrumentalist
  • David Helfgott
    David Helfgott

    David Helfgott is an Australian concert pianist. He is as well-known for having schizoaffective disorder as he is for his piano playing.Helfgott's life inspired the Academy Awards-winning film, Shine , directed by Scott Hicks and starring Geoffrey Rush and Noah Taylor....
     (born 1947), pianist
  • Naftali Hershtik cantor
  • Kenneth Hesketh
    Kenneth Hesketh

    Kenneth Hesketh is a British composer of contemporary classical music in numerous genres including opera, orchestral, chamber, vocal and solo....
     (born 1968), composer
  • Peter Hill
    Peter Hill (pianist)

    The United Kingdom pianist Peter Hill is a world-renowned authority on the works of French composer Olivier Messiaen. As well as playing the works of Messiaen, he is also known for his performances of other 20th-century piano repertoire....
    , pianist
  • Gustav Holst
    Gustav Holst

    Gustav Theodore Holst was an English composer and was a teacher for nearly 20 years. He is most famous for his orchestral suite The Planets....
     (1874 - 1934), composer
  • James Horner
    James Horner

    James Roy Horner is an United States composer of orchestral and film music. He is noted for the integration of choral and electronic elements in many of his film scores, and for frequent use of Celtic music....
     (born 1953), composer
  • Herbert Howells
    Herbert Howells

    Herbert Norman Howells Order of the Companions of Honour was an English composer, organ , and teacher....
     (1892-1983), composer
  • Owain Arwel Hughes
    Owain Arwel Hughes

    Owain Arwel Hughes Order of the British Empire is a Wales orchestral conductor. In 2003, he was appointed Principal Associate Conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra....
     (born 1942), conductor - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  • John Ireland
    John Ireland (composer)

    John Nicholson Ireland was an English composer....
     (1879 - 1962), composer and pianist
  • Dame Gwyneth Jones (born 1936), Wagnerian soprano
  • Dame Thea King
    Thea King

    Dame Thea King Order of the British Empire Royal College of Music Guildhall School of Music and Drama was a United Kingdom clarinettist.Thea King was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire....
     (1925-2007), clarinettist
  • Constant Lambert
    Constant Lambert

    Leonard Constant Lambert was a United Kingdom composer and Conducting....
     (1905 - 1951), composer and critic
  • John Lill
    John Lill

    John Lill is an England classical pianist.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....
     (born 1944), pianist
  • Sir Neville Marriner (born 1924), conductor
  • Sir William Neil McKie
    William Neil McKie

    Sir William Neil McKie was an Australian organist, Conductor , and composer. He was Director of Music at Westminster Abbey 1941-1963 and noted for his direction of the music for the marriage of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom in 1947, and later her coronation in 1953....
     (1901-1984), organist and choir director
  • Francis Monkman
    Francis Monkman

    Francis Monkman is an England rock music, classical music and film score composer, and a founder member of the progressive rock band Curved Air....
     (born 1949), rock, classical and film score composer
  • Steve Nieve
    Steve Nieve

    Steve Nieve is a keyboardist, best known for his work with Elvis Costello....
     (born 1958), keyboardist
  • Sir Peter Pears
    Peter Pears

    Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears was an England tenor and life-long partner of the composer Benjamin Britten.He was educated at Lancing College and went on to study music at Keble College, Oxford, serving as organist at Hertford College, Oxford, but left without taking his degree....
     (1910 - 1986), singer
  • Mica Penniman (aka Mika) (born 1983), pop rock musician and songwriter
  • Trevor Pinnock
    Trevor Pinnock

    Trevor David Pinnock CBE is an English people Conductor and harpsichordist. He is best known for directing the historically informed performance orchestra The English Concert from the harpsichord for over 30 years in Baroque music and early Classical music era music....
     (born 1946), harpsichordist and conductor
  • Gilbert Rowland
    Gilbert Rowland

    Gilbert Rowland is a Scotland harpsichordist. His father was second in command to the Viceroy of India during the days of the British Empire....
     (born 1946), harpsichordist
  • Stephen Savage
    Stephen Savage

    Stephen Savage was born in England and after early training with Dorothy Hesse, studied with Bruno Seidlhofer at the Wiener Akademie and Cyril Smith at the RCM London where he became his teaching assistant immediately after graduating....
    , pianist
  • Paul Schwartz
    Paul Schwartz

    Paul Schwartz is music producer, composer, arranger, conductor and pianist. His music can be classified as a mixture of chillout and neo-classical....
    , music producer, composer, arranger, conductor and pianist.
  • Oda Slobodskaya (188? - 1969), singer
  • Cyril Smith
    Cyril Smith (pianist)

    Cyril James Smith Order of the British Empire was a virtuoso concert pianist of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s and piano teacher....
     (1909 - 1974), pianist
  • Leopold Stokowski
    Leopold Stokowski

    Leopold Stokowski was a famous orchestral conducting, well known for his free-hand performing style that spurned the traditional baton and for obtaining a characteristically sumptuous sound from many of the great orchestras he conducted....
     (1882 - 1977), conductor
  • Dame Joan Sutherland (born 1926), singer
  • Sir Michael Tippett (1905 - 1998), composer
  • Nancy Tsuchiachi (born 1960), pianist and pedagogue
  • Mark-Anthony Turnage
    Mark-Anthony Turnage

    Mark-Anthony Turnage is an England composer of European classical music. He has also been strongly influenced by jazz, and by Miles Davis in particular....
     (born 1960), composer
  • Nick van Bloss
    Nick van Bloss

    Nick van Bloss is a Great Britain classical pianist and author who has Tourette syndrome. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London....
     (born 1967), pianist, author
  • Rick Wakeman
    Rick Wakeman

    Richard Christopher Wakeman is an England keyboard player best known as the keyboardist for progressive rock group Yes . Originally a classically trained pianist, he was a pioneer in the use of electronic keyboards and in the use of a rock band in combination with orchestra and choir....
     (born 1949), keyboardist
  • Bernard Walton
    Bernard Walton

    Bernard Walton was a British classical music clarinetist and one of the most respected musicians of his time.Walton was born into a musical family....
     (1917-1972), clarinetist
  • William Waterhouse
    William Waterhouse

    William Waterhouse was a distinguished British bassoon and musicology. He was a writer on the history of the instrument and contributor to the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians....
     (1931-2007), bassoonist and organologist
  • Dame Fanny Waterman (born 1920), founder, chairman and artistic director of the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition
  • Darryl Way
    Darryl Way

    Darryl Way is a British rock and Classical music musician who, together with Francis Monkman, was a founding member of Curved Air. He is best known as a violinist although he also played keyboards with his band Wolf....
     (born 1948), rock and classical musician
  • Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 1948), composer
  • Julian Lloyd Webber
    Julian Lloyd Webber

    Julian Lloyd Webber is one of the world's most renowned solo cellists....
     (born 1951), cellist
  • William Lloyd Webber
    William Lloyd Webber

    William Southcombe Lloyd Webber was an England organist#Classical and church organists and composer.The son of William Charles Henry Webber, a self-employed plumber, he was fortunate, from a musical point of view, that his father was a keen organ 'buff' who spent what little money he had travelling to hear various organs in and around the...
     (1914 - 1982), composer
  • Dame Gillian Weir (born 1941), internationally-renowned organist
  • John Williams
    John Williams (guitarist)

    John Christopher Williams is a Grammy Award winning Australian-born British classical guitarist....
     (born 1941), guitarist
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Ralph Vaughan Williams Order of Merit was an England composer of symphony, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film Film score. He was also a collector of England folk music and folk song; this also influenced his editorial approach to the English Hymnal, which began in 1904, many folk song arrangements being set as hymn tunes,...
     (1872 - 1958), composer
  • George-Emmanuel Lazaridis (born 1978), pianist