- John Barbirolli
Sir John Giovanni Battista Barbirolli, CH, was a British conductor and cellist. Barbirolli was particularly associated with the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester, which he led for nearly three decades. He was also music director of the New York Philharmonic and the Houston Symphony Orchestra, and conducted many other orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. - Mark Elder
Mark Elder, CBE (born 2 June 1947) is an British conductor. - Kent Nagano
Kent Nagano has established a reputation as a gifted interpreter of both the operatic and symphonic repertoire. The 2006-2007 season is the first he heads as Music Director of the Orchestre symphonique de Montreal. He is officially the eighth music director of the OSM. In April 2007, he made his first coast-to-coast Canadian tour with the OSM. - Mariss Jansons
Mariss Jansons (b. January 14, 1943) is a prominent Latvian conductor, the son of conductor Arvid 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. As a child, he first studied violin with his father. In 1946, his father won second prize in a national competition and was chosen by Yevgeny Mravinsky to be his assistant at the Leningrad Philharmonic. - Charles Hallé
Charles Hallé was a German pianist and conductor, and founder of The Hallé orchestra in 1858. Hallé was born in Hagen, Westphalia, Germany who after settling in England changed his name from Karl Halle. His first lessons were from his father, an organist, studying in Darmstadt and later Paris. In 1848, Hallé moved to England, settling in Manchester where he started a series of classical music concerts. - Hans Richter
Hans Richter (4 April 1843 in Raab, today Győr, Hungary as János Richter, died 5 December 1916 in Bayreuth) was an Austrian-Hungarian conductor. Richter studied at the Vienna Conservatory with a particular interest in the horn), and developed his conducting career at several opera-houses in the Austro-Hungarian empire. He became associated with Richard Wagner in the 1860s, … - James Loughran
James Loughran (born 30 June 1931 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish conductor. Loughran is best known for his appearances at the Last Night of the Proms, in 1977, 1979, 1981, 1982, and 1984. A task normally carried out by the BBC Symphony Orchestra's principal conductor, Loughran was chosen as the BBC SO had several non-British conductors as chief conductor, and the Last Night was seen as a British conductor's task. - Markus Stenz
Markus Stenz is a German conductor. He is currently General Music Director of the City of Cologne where he acts as chief conductor of the Cologne Opera and the Guerzenich Orchestra, also known as the Cologne Philharmonic Orchestra. From 1998 to 2004 he was Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. From 1994 to 1998 he was Principal Conductor of the London Sinfonietta. Markus has a particular interest in contemporary music, … - Tasmin Little
Tasmin Little (born 13 May 1965) is an English violinist. She was born in London, where she studied under Pauline Scott at the Yehudi Menuhin School and later at the Guildhall School of Music. She came to prominence when she was a string section finalist in the "BBC Young Musician of the Year" competition in 1982. Her father is George Little, the English TV actor. In 1988 she made her professional solo debut with the Halle Orchestra. - Jac van Steen
Jac van Steen is a Dutch conductor with special links to Britain, Switzerland and Germany. He was born in Eindhoven in 1956 and studied orchestral and choral conducting at the Brabants Conservatory of Music. In the Netherlands, van Steen was the Music Director of the Nationale Ballet in Amsterdam until 1994 and has since conducted the Residentie Orchestra of the Hague, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, … - Constant Lambert
Leonard Constant Lambert (August 23, 1905 - August 21, 1951) was a British composer and conductor. - Isobel Baillie
Dame Isobel Baillie, DBE (9 March, 1895, Hawick, Scottish Borders - 24 September, 1983 – Manchester, England) was a Scottish soprano, popular in opera, oratorio and lieder. She worked as an assistant in a music shop, then as a clerk in Manchester Town Hall, and made her debut with the Hallé Orchestra in 1921. After studies in Milan, she won immediate success in her opening season in London in 1923. Regarded as one of the 20th-century's greatest oratorio singers, … - Stanisław Skrowaczewski
The classical music conductor Stanisław Skrowaczewski was born in Lwów, Poland (now L'viv, Ukraine) and became best known for his work with the Minnesota Orchestra. As a child, he studied piano and violin; he was a very good pianist, making his debut in that capacity with Beethoven's "Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor". Unfortunately, a hand injury ended his piano career. After World War II, Skrowaczewski became music director of the Wrocław Philharmonic, … - Loris Tjeknavorian
Loris Tjeknavorian (also spelt Cheknavarian,, born 1937) is a contemporary Armenian-Iranian composer and conductor. He was born in Borujerd in the province of Lorestan, southwestern Iran, and was educated in Tehran. In the course of his career, Cheknavarian has made about 100 recordings (with RCA, Philips, EMI, ASV, etc.) and written more than 75 compositions (symphonies, operas, a requiem, chamber music, concerto for piano, violin, guitar, … - Kristjan Järvi
Kristjan Järvi is an Estonian conductor and currently both Chief Conductor of the Tonkünstler Orchestra in Vienna and Music Director of Absolute Ensemble New York. He is the younger son of Neeme Järvi. His siblings Paavo Järvi and Maarika Järvi are also musicians. Born in Tallinn, Kristjan Järvi spent most of his childhood in New York. He studied piano at the Manhattan School of Music (with Nina Svetlanova) and conducting. - Simon Trpčeski
Simon Trpčeski, classical pianist, was born on September 18, 1979 in the Republic of Macedonia. In 2002, he received his degree in music from the University of St. Cyril and St. Methodius in Skopje, Macedonia, where he studied with Professor Boris Romanov. By then he had already made his debut in recital at London's Wigmore Hall in 2001 and had won prizes in international competitions in the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic, and Italy. - Archie Camden
Archie Camden was a British bassoonist; he was a teacher, soloist and recitalist of international reclaim. His career began in 1906 when he joined the Hallé Orchestra where he became principal bassoonist in 1914. In 1933 he moved to the BBC Symphony Orchestra, where he stayed until 1946 when he took up the same position in the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Camden was also one of the first bassonists to experiment with recording. - 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. - Herbert Hamilton Harty
Sir Herbert Hamilton Harty (December 4, 1879 - February 19, 1941) conductor, composer and accompanist. He is known for the unmistakably Irish sound in many of his compositions, a respected and conductor, and at one time considered the premier accompanist in London. Harty was born in Hillsborough, Northern Ireland, the son of church organist William Harty. Harty played viola, piano, and organ as a child. - Adam Walker
Adam L. Walker (born in 26 December 1987 in Retford, Nottinghamshire) taught himself to play the flute at the age of 9. Alongside this, he also taught himself to play the piano. A year later, at the age of ten, he entered Chetham's School of Music, where he studied flute with Gitte Sorensen, also studying piano as a secondary pursuit. - 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. - Adolph Brodsky
Adolph Brodsky was a Russian violinist. He was born in Taganrog on the Sea of Azov. His grandfather and father were fiddle players. He started music lessons at the age of five, a year after he first played the violin. He later studied at the Vienna Conservatory. He participated there in the Hellmesberger Quartet, a String Quartet with Joseph Hellmesberger (1st violin), Sigismund Bachrich (viola) and David Popper (cello). - Lawrence Leonard
Lawrence Leonard was a British conductor, cellist, composer, teacher and writer. Leonard received his musical education at the Royal Academy of Music and the École Normale de Musique de Paris. His musical career began at age 16 as an orchestral cellist with the London Symphony Orchestra, playing under such conductors as Sir Henry Wood, Richard Strauss and Leopold Stokowski. - Agnes Nicholls
Agnes Nicholls, was one of the greatest English sopranos of the early twentieth century, both in the concert hall and on the operatic stage. She was born in Cheltenham. She received her early education at Bedford High School where she started singing lessons with Dr H. Alfred Harding. In 1894 she won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music where her teacher was Albert Visetti. During her student years she took the part of Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, … - David Wilde
David Wilde is a British pianist and composer. As a boy he studied with Solomon and his pupil Franz Reizenstein, who had also studied composition with Hindemith and Vaughan Williams. A frequent soloist at the Henry Wood Proms, working with such conductors as Horenstein, Boulez, and Downes, he shared with Jacqueline du Pré the honour of opening the BBC's second TV Channel in the North of England with Sir John Barbirolli and the Hallé Orchestra in 1962, … - 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. - Ewa Strusińska
Ewa Strusińska has worked with many orchestras including the Polish National Radio Orchestra, the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra and Sinfonietta Baden. In 1997 she became conductor and artistic director of the Polish Choir Jeunesses Musicales with whom she was nominated for a Fryderyk Award in 2000. Also in 2000 she won the Grand Prix in the St. Petersburg Meetings Festival with the Choir "Tutti Cantamus". - Willy Hess
Willy Hess was a German violin virtuoso and violin teacher - Mehli Mehta
Mehli Mehta (1908 - 19 October 2002) was an Indian conductor and violinist. Mehta was born in Bombay, India to a Parsi family. Mehta was involvement in music stemmed from his birth. As a young violinist his main musical influence and inspiration was Jascha Heifetz. A pioneering figure in the Indian musical world, he founded the Bombay Symphony Orchestra in 1935, serving for ten years as Concertmaster before becoming its conductor. He was married to Tehmina. In 1940 Mr. - Ian Parrott
Professor Ian Parrott (born 1916), who retired from the Gregynog Chair of Music at Aberystwyth in 1983, is a prolific Anglo-Welsh composer and writer on music. His distinctions include the first prize of the Royal Philharmonic Society for his symphonic poem 'Luxor', and commissions by the BBC and Yale University, and for many leading British musicians. - Dick Witts
Richard "Dick" Witts is a professional musicologist and ex leader of 1980's band The Passage. He was born in Cleethorpes on the coast of Lincolnshire, UK. He studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music and briefly at Manchester University. During this time he was a member of the Hallé Orchestra as a percussionist. During the mid-1970s he wrote for the contemporary classical music magazine "Contact". - David Cripps
David Cripps is an active horn-player and conductor. He was principal horn in the London Symphony Orchestra during the years that they played Star Wars and Superman. He has also performed with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Hallé Orchestra, and the Philharmonia Orchestra. He is a former professor of horn at Florida State University, Northern Arizona University, the Eastman School of Music, the Royal Northern College of Music, … - Dudley Bright
Dudley Bright has been Principal Trombone for the London Symphony Orchestra since 2000. 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 with the LSO. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Denis Wick, graduating in 1974. Whilst at the Halle, aged about 23, Dudley taught Ian Bousfield who was only 12. - John MacMurray
John Stewart Wright MacMurray was a Canadian musician from Saint John, New Brunswick, who held the position of Principal Trumpet with the Hallé Orchestra of Great Britain from 1986 to 2006. Married to Susie and father of two teenaged boys, Andrew and Matthew, his life was tragically cut short at the age of forty-seven after the return of cancer for the third time. - Andrew Wilde
Andrew Wilde is an English classical pianist. Wilde studied at Chetham's School of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, the city where he is still based. Wilde plays often as a recitalist, and has a particular affinity for the music of Chopin. However, he also has a wide concerto repertoire. Wilde has performed with the following English orchestras: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Halle Orchestra, London Mozart Players, London Philharmonic Orchestra, … - Phoebe Hesketh
Phoebe Rayner Hesketh, was an English poet famed for her poems depicting nature. Hesketh was born in Preston, Lancashire. Her father was the pioneer radiologist A. E. Rayner; her mother was a violinist in the Hallé Orchestra. She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College, but left at the age of 17 to care for her ill mother. She married Aubrey Hesketh, the director of a mill, in 1931 at the age of 22. Her first collection, "Poems", was published in 1939, … - Bram Gay
Bram Gay born 1930 in Treorchy, Glamorgan was an important trumpet player and brass band enthusiast. He was the youngest ever principal trumpet player in the UK, and also the shortest man ever to play in the Scots Guards band. He played at the funeral of King George VI and the coronation of Elizabeth II (both in the rain). Went on to the CBSO as first trumpet, then to the Halle (1960) as first trumpet under Sir John Barbirolli. - Alison Lambert
Alison Lambert studied clarinet at the Royal Northern College of Music where she was a major scholarship recipient, before accepting a scholarship to study with Professor Wolfgang Meyer in Karlsruhe, Germany. Upon graduation she moved to Israel to take up the position of Principal Bass Clarinet with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Lawrence Foster, with whom she toured extensively, also regularly broadcasting live on Israeli television and radio. - Ruth Burke Roche Baroness Fermoy
Ruth Burke Roche, Baroness Fermoy, DCVO, OBE, (2 October 1908 - 6 July 1993) was a friend and confidante of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, and the maternal grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales. Ruth, Lady Fermoy was born Ruth Sylvia Gill at her father's house, Dalhebity, Bieldside, Aberdeenshire, the daughter of Col. William Smith Gill and his wife, Ruth.
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