- Edward German
Sir Edward German (17 February 1862 - 11 November 1936) was an English musician and composer, best remembered for his extensive output of incidental music for the stage and as a successor to Arthur Sullivan in the field of English comic opera. - Kenneth Amis
Kenneth Amis (born 1970) 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. He was born and raised in Bermuda. He began studying at Boston University at age 16. After that, he earned a Masters Degree from the New England Conservatory of Music. - Thomas Attwood
Thomas Attwood (November 23 1765-March 24 1838) was an English composer and organist. The son of a musician in the royal band, Attwood was born in London. At the age of nine he became a chorister in the Chapel Royal. In 1783 he was sent to study abroad at the expense of the Prince of Wales (afterwards George IV), who had been favourably impressed by his skill at the harpsichord. After ending two years at Naples, Attwood proceeded to Vienna, … - Michael Thompson
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. By the age of 21 he was offered positions as Principal Horn with both the Philharmonia and Royal Philharmonic Orchestras, accepting the Philharmonia position, a post he held for ten years before leaving to fulfil increasing solo and chamber music commitments. - Nicolas-Charles Bochsa
Robert Nicolas-Charles Bochsa (born August 9, 1789 in Montmédy, Meuse, France, died January 6, 1856 in Sydney, Australia) was a musician and composer. The son of a musician, he was able to play the flute and piano by the age of seven. In 1807 he went to study at the Paris Conservatoire. He was appointed harpist to the Imperial Orchestra in 1813, and began writing operas for the Opéra-Comique. However, in 1817 he became entangled in counterfeiting, fraud, and forgery, … - David Sanger
David Sanger (b. 1947) is an internationally acclaimed concert organist and the UK's most influential teacher of the pipe organ. - Lisa Beznosiuk
Lisa Beznosiuk (born August 20, 1956 in Sheffield) is an English flautist of Ukrainian and Irish descent, specialising in period performance of baroque and classical music on historical flutes. - Gervase de Peyer
Gervase Alan de Peyer is an English clarinetist and conductor. Gervase de Peyer was born in London and studied at Bedales School. From there he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music where he studied clarinet with Frederick Thurston and piano with Arthur Alexander. Towards the end of World War I, when he was aged 18, he joined the Royal Marines Band Service. - Mats Lidström
Mats Lidström is a cellist currently living in London. In 1993 he was appointed professor at the Royal Academy of Music in 1993 by Lynn Harrell (an Honorary Associate awarded in 1998), where he continues to teach. He began his own education in Sweden at Gothenburg University and studied under Leonard Rose and Channing Robbins at the Juilliard School of Music, New York. He was the recipient of the Palmaer Prize, Sweden in 1998. - Stephen Hough
Stephen Hough (born November 22, 1961) is a British-born classical pianist and composer. He became an Australian citizen in 2005. Hough was born in Heswall (then in Cheshire) on the Wirral Peninsula, and grew up in Hoylake, where he began piano lessons at the age of five. In 1978, he was a finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition. In 1982, he won the Terence Judd Award in England. - Ifor James
Professor Ifor James (1931 - December 23, 2004) was a horn player and teacher, numbering among his pupils many future Principal Horns and horn professors at British music schools. Born in Carlisle, England, his father was a noted cornet player and his mother a famous soprano. He began playing cornet in a brass band at age four and by seven he was playing paying gigs as a trumpeter. He also played the organ and was assistant organist in Carlisle Cathedral. - Laurence Cummings
Laurence Cummings, MA (Oxon), ARCM, FRCO, HonRAM is a harpsichordist, organist, and conductor. He is Head of Historical Performance at the Royal Academy of Music (since 1997), Musical Director of the London Handel Orchestra and Festival (since 1999), Musical Director of the Tilford Bach Society, a founding member of the London Handel Players, and a Trustee of the Handel House Museum. - Nicolas Mori
Nicolas Mori (January 24, 1796-June 14, 1839) was an Anglo-Italian violinist, music publisher and conductor. Born in London, the son of an Italian wigmaker, he was a child prodigy, performing at the age of 7 at the King's Theatre on March 15, 1804. He was later patronized by the Duke and Duchess of York and the Dukes of Sussex & Cambridge. He studied under Pinto until 1804, then with François Hippolyte Barthélémon and finally with Viotti from 1808-1814. - Peter Maxwell Davies
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, CBE (b. 8 September 1934), is an English composer and conductor. - Simon Bainbridge
Simon Bainbridge (born 30 August, 1952 in London) is a British composer and professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Music, London, and the University of Louisville, Kentucky in the United States. - Barbara Bonney
Barbara Bonney (born April 14, 1956) is an American soprano opera singer. 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. She spent two years at the University of New Hampshire studying German and music and studied abroad her junior year at the University of Salzburg, where she switched from cello to voice. - Gerald Finzi
Gerald Raphael Finzi (July 14, 1901 - September 27, 1956) was a British composer, whose popularity has increased considerably in the years since his death. - Joshua Bell
Joshua Bell (born 9 December 1967) is an American Grammy Award-winning violinist. - Robert Tear
Robert Tear (born March 8, 1939) is a Welsh tenor and conductor. His operatic debut was in 1966 as Peter Quint in "The Turn of the Screw" on the English Opera Group's tour of England and Russia. In 1970 he debuted at Covent Garden as Lensky in "Eugene Onegin". He made his debut as a conductor in 1985 in Minneapolis. Robert Tear was born in Barry Glamorgan, Wales, UK. He was a choral scholar at King's College, … - William Hayman Cummings
William Hayman Cummings, born in Sidbury (near Sidmouth) in Devon, was an English musician and organist at Waltham Abbey. In 1847, as a teenager, he was one of the choristers when Felix Mendelssohn conducted his "Elijah" at Exeter Hall. He is credited in 1855 with linking Mendelssohn's tune to Charles Wesley's words "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing", which are now universally inextricably linked. Cummings founded the Purcell Society in 1876. - Eric Thiman
Eric Harding Thiman (born 12 September 1900 Ashford, Kent, died 13 February 1975 London) was an English composer and organist. Largely self-taught, he gained a FRCO in 1921. From 1930 he was Professor of Harmony at the Royal Academy of Music and later, from 1956 to 1962, was Dean of the Faculty of Music at London University. From 1958 he was organist of the City Temple in London, a Congregational Church where he achieved renown as an improviser of great skill. - William Crotch
William Crotch (July 5, 1775-December 29, 1847) was an English composer and organist and an artist. Born in Norwich to a master carpenter he showed early musical talent (a child prodigy). His composition "The Captivity of Judah" was played at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, on June 4, 1789; his most successful composition in adulthood was the oratorio "Palestine" (1812). He may have composed the "Westminster Chimes" in 1793. - Bruno Giuranna
Bruno Giuranna (born in Milan) is an Italian violist. He began his solo career in 1954 when he performed the world premiere of Giorgio Federico Ghedini's Concerto for Viola and Orchestra with Herbert von Karajan conducting. He has since performed regularly with leading orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and La Scala in Milan under conductors including Claudio Abbado, Carlo Maria Giulini, Sir John Barbirolli, … - Thomas Armstrong
Sir Thomas Armstrong (b.Peterborough 15 June 1898; d.Olney 26 June 1994) was an English organist, conductor, educationalist and adjudicator. He had a substantial influence on British music for well over half a century. From 1955 to 1968 he was principal of the Royal Academy of Music. He was knighted in 1958 for his services to music. - George Alexander Macfarren
Sir George Alexander Macfarren (born March 2, 1813 in London; died October 31, 1887 in London) was an English composer. He entered the Royal Academy of Music in 1829. A symphony by him was played at an Academy concert in 1830; for the opening of the Queen's Theatre in Tottenham Street, under the management of his father, in 1831, he wrote an overture. His Chevy Chace overture, the orchestral work by which he is perhaps best known, was written as early as 1836, … - Susan Addison
Susan Addison (b. 1955) is a leading performer of the sackbut and early trombone. Based in the English Midlands, Sue performs with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts, the Gabrieli Consort and Players and the Amsterdam-based Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. Following studies of the trombone at the Royal College of Music, Addison joined the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra where she remained for four and a half years. - Ian Bousfield
Ian Bousfield was born in York in 1964 and began playing the trombone at the age of seven, his first teacher being his father, a trumpet player. Like so many of England's top brass players, Ian's musical roots are firmly planted in the British brass band scene, having been solo trombone in the National Youth Brass Band at thirteen, and for four years solo trombone with the Yorkshire imperial band, during which time they won the British, National and Yorkshire championships. - Jack Brymer
John (Jack) Alexander Brymer OBE (27 January, 1915 - 15 September, 2003), born in South Shields, was a British clarinetist. In 1947 he followed Reginald Kell as principal clarinetist of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He was invited to this post, which he held until 1963, by Sir Thomas Beecham, with some encouragement from one of his friends, the horn player Dennis Brain. - Roy Goodman
Roy Goodman is probably the most active independent free-lance conductor in Europe. He became internationally famous in 1963 as the boy treble soloist in Allegri's Miserere with the Choir of King's College, Cambridge . - Luigi Denza
Luigi Denza, was an Italian composer. Denza was born at Castellammare di Stabia, near Naples. He studied music under Saverio Mercadante and Paolo Serrao at the Naples Conservatory. Later, he moved to London and became a professor of singing at the Royal Academy of Music in 1898. Denza wrote an opera, "Wallenstein", and hundreds of songs. The most popular of these was the Neapolitan song "Funiculì, Funiculà", about the Vesuvius funicular.. - Colin Davis
Sir Colin Rex Davis, CH, CBE (b. September 25, 1927), is a British Conductor. He was born in Weybridge, Surrey, UK. Davis studied the clarinet at the Royal College of Music in London, where he was barred from taking conducting lessons owing to his lack of ability at the piano. Nonetheless, he formed and often served as conductor of the Kalmar Orchestra with fellow students. In 1952, Davis worked at the Royal Festival Hall, … - Jeremy Filsell
Jeremy Filsell (born 1964) is an English pianist, organist, and composer. - Cipriani Potter
Philip Cipriani Hambly Potter was a British composer, pianist and educator. Born in London, the son of Richard Huddleston Potter, Cipriani was named after his godmother (a relative of Giovanni Battista Cipriani). His father begun his musical instruction, which was continued by Thomas Attwood, William Crotch and Joseph Wölfl. Frustrated by a lack of opportunities in England, Potter went to Vienna in 1817, where he met Beethoven who advised him to study with Aloys Förster. - Nicolai Gedda
Nicolai Harry Gustav Gedda was born in Stockholm to a Swedish mother and a Russian father. His father, a distant relative of Peter Ustinov, sang bass in a Don Cossack choir and was cantor in a Russian Orthodox church. Gedda grew up bilingual and learned English, German, Italian, and Latin. Gedda began his professional career as a bank teller in a local bank in Stockholm. One day a wealthy client overheard him speaking about his desire to sing professionally, … - Jonathan Manson
Jonathan Manson is a Scottish cellist and viol player. Born in Edinburgh, he studied cello with Jane Cowan and later went on to the Eastman School of Music in New York, where he studied with Steven Doane and Christel Thielmann. He studied viola da gamba with Wieland Kuijken in The Hague. While a student, he was a founding member of Phantasm, a consort of viols. - Colin Carr
Colin Carr is a distinguished professor of cello currently at the Royal Academy of Music. Carr taught at the New England Conservatory in Boston for 16 years before taking up his current job at the Royal Academy of Music. In addition, he is also affiliated with the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He took second place in the international Rostropovich Cello Competition. Carr began playing at the age of five, and studied with Maurice Gendron. - Michael Hext
Michael Hext is a trombonist in the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. In 1978, at the age of 17, he became the first ever winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition. Following study at the Royal College of Music with John Iveson, Michael has become a successful orchestral trombonist but performs on occasions as a soloist, including a tour with the European Union Youth Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado. - Charles Lucas
Charles Lucas (1808-March 23, 1869) was an English cellist and Principal of the Royal Academy of Music. He was born in Salisbury where he received his first musical education as a chorister at the Cathedral. He then attended the newly formed Royal Academy of Music in London where he studied under the celebrated cellist Robert Lindley. In 1830 he was appointed Composer and Violoncellist to Queen Adelaide, and became the Organist of St. George's Chapel. - Jaime Martín
Jaime Martín was born 1st september 1965 in Santander, Spain. From 1992 he has lived in London where he is solo flautist in the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He has worked with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta and Sir Neville Marriner. As soloist he has played with numerous orchestras, such as the Galicia and Tenerife Symphony Orchestras, Gran Canaria Philarmonic, … - Christopher Hogwood
Christopher Hogwood is one of the greatest proponents of the early music movement, as well as a renowned conductor of twentieth century works. This season he became Emeritus Director of the Academy of Ancient Music, the orchestra he founded in 1973, and begins a series of Handel operas in concert with the rarely performed Amadigi .
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