- 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, … - Squarepusher
Squarepusher is the performing pseudonym of Tom Jenkinson, an English electronic music artist signed to Warp Records. He specialises in the electronic music genres of drum and bass, musique concrète, and acid, with a significant jazz influence. Jenkinson was born in Chelmsford, Essex in 1975 and was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School. He went on to study Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design. - Oliver Knussen
Oliver Knussen (born June 12, 1952 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a British composer and conductor. His father, Stuart Knussen, was principal double bass of the London Symphony Orchestra. He studied composition with John Lambert, from 1963-1969 and later received encouragement from Benjamin Britten. He spent several summers studying with Gunther Schuller at the Tanglewood Music Festival in Massachusetts and then in Boston. - Natalie Clein
Natalie Clein (born 25 March 1977) is a British cellist, born in Poole, Dorset. She started playing the cello at the age of six, and has studied with Anna Shuttleworth and Alexander Baillie at the Royal College of Music where she was awarded the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Scholarship. She came to prominence after winning the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition in 1994 with an outstanding performance of the Elgar "Cello Concerto". - Ruthie Henshall
Valentine Ruth Henshall (born March 7, 1967), known as Ruthie Henshall, is a British singer, dancer and actress. She was born in Bromley, London, England. Henshall's early ambition was to be a ballet dancer, but she lacked the necessary physique. At the age of 19, after studying at the Laine Theatre Arts drama school in Epsom, … - Gillian Weir
Dame Gillian Constance Weir DBE (born 17 January 1941) is an internationally-renowned organist. She 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. There she studied with the concert pianist Cyril Smith and the renowned organist Ralph Downes, and in her second year (1964) won the prestigious St. Albans International Organ Competition. - Leslie Martin
Sir John Leslie Martin KBE (Manchester, 17 August 1908 - 28 July 1999) was an English Architect. A leading advocate of the International Style Martin's most famous building is the Royal Festival Hall. Martin's work was especially influenced by Alvar Aalto. After studying at Manchester University Leslie Martin taught at the University of Hull. - Gerard Hoffnung
Gerard Hoffnung (March 22, 1925-September 28, 1959) was an artist and musician, best known for his humorous works. Born in Berlin, he was the only child of well-to-do Jewish couple, Hilde and Ludwig Hoffnung. In 1939, Hilde and Gerard left Germany for London while Ludwig went to what was then the British Mandate of Palestine to enter the family's banking business. - Michael Lynch
Michael Lynch is, since 2002, chief executive of the South Bank Centre, London's pre-eminent collection of venues for music and art on the south bank of the Thames. It includes the Royal Festival Hall, (undergoing major refurbishment in 2005-7), the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Purcell Room and the Hayward Gallery. The centre is adjacent to the National Theatre, the National Film Theatre and the London Eye. - Ken Colyer
Kenneth 'Ken' Colyer (April 18 1928-March 8 1988) was a British jazz trumpeter and cornetist, specializing in traditional jazz. His band was also known for skiffle. He grew up in Soho in London in his childhood, and while there was a member of a church choir. When his older brother Bill (born William John Colyer, in 1922) went off to serve in World War II, he left his jazz records behind, and Ken took an interest. - John Lill
John Lill (born March 17, 1944, Leytonstone, England) is an English classical pianist. Lill studied at the Royal College of Music and under 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. This was followed by his much-acclaimed 1963 London debut playing Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 at the Royal Festival Hall. - Lynn Harrell
Lynn Harrell (born January 30, 1944) is an American classical cellist. Harrell was born in New York of musician parents; his father was the distinguished 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 to Dallas, Texas, where Lynn studied with Lev Aronson. - Soweto Kinch
Soweto Kinch is a British jazz alto saxophonist and rapper. He was born in London in 1978 to a Barbadian father, who is a playwright, and British-Jamaican mother, who is an actress. Kinch began playing saxophone at the age of nine after learning clarinet at primary school. After meeting Wynton Marsalis four years later he discovered and became passionate about jazz, first concentrating on piano and later, in his teens, focusing on alto saxophone. - Tom Lehrer
Thomas Andrew (Tom) Lehrer (born April 9, 1928) is an American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, and mathematician. He used to lecture on mathematics and musical theater. - Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton (born Joseph Frank Keaton, October 4, 1895 - February 1, 1966) was an American silent film comic actor and filmmaker. His trademark was physical comedy with a stoic, deadpan expression on his face, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face" (referencing the Nathaniel Hawthorne story about the "Old Man of the Mountain"). His career as a performer and director is widely regarded to be among the most innovative and important work in the history of cinema. - Freddy Kempf
Freddy Kempf is an English pianist who was born in 1977 in London to a German father and a Japanese mother. Having resided in London for many years and studying at the Royal Academy of Music, he currently lives in Berlin. Taking up the piano at the age of four, Kempf first caught the attention of British concertgoers four years later when he played Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 12, K. 414, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall. - Thomas Trotter
Thomas Trotter is a British virtuoso organist. As of 2006 he is the Birmingham City Organist and organist at St. Margaret's Church, Westminster and visiting Professor of Organ at the Royal College of Music, London. He was organ scholar of, and studied music at, King's College, Cambridge, studied under Marie-Claire Alain, winning the Prix de Virtuosite in her class. - Ralph Downes
Ralph William Downes CBE (16 August 1904-24 December 1993) was an English organist, organ designer, teacher and music director, and was formerly Professor of Organ of the Royal College of Music. Downes was born in Derby and studied at the Royal College of Music from 1922 to 1923 under Walter Alcock, Henry Ley, and Edgar Cook. He was then assistant organist at Southwark Cathedral from 1923 until 1925, before moving to Keble College, … - Hugh Casson
Sir Hugh Maxwell Casson, KCVO, RA, RDI, (23 May 1910 – 15 August 1999) was a British architect, interior designer, artist, and influential writer and broadcaster on 20th century design. He is particularly noted for his role as director of architecture at the 1951 Festival of Britain on London's South Bank. Casson's family originated from Wales. He was the nephew of actor, Sir Lewis Casson. Hugh Casson studied at Eastbourne College in East Sussex, then St John's College, … - Lionel Rogg
Lionel Rogg (b. Geneva, 1936) is a Swiss organist and teacher of musical theory who recorded the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Rogg showed exceptional musical gifts at an early age. At 15 he took charge of the Geneva St Boniface organ, and later, at the Conservatory of Geneva, he studied under Pierre Segond (a pupil of Marcel Dupre). He obtained degrees in Harmony, Counterpoint and Fugue, and won scholarships, organ and piano prizes, … - Sandy Brown
Sandy Brown (February 25, 1929-March 15, 1975) was a noted Indian jazz clarinetist of Scottish descent, band leader and acoustic engineer who performed mostly dixieland. - Jonathan Ansell
Jonathan Mark Ansell (born 10 March 1982) is an English singer, the high tenor of the vocal group G4. Jonathan Ansell was born in Bognor Regis in 1982. At the age of eight, he joined The West Sussex Boys' Choir, conducted by Arthur Robson, and stayed until his voice broke when he lost the ability to sing treble at the age of 15. He toured with the choir to Florida, Germany, and France, and sang in the Royal Festival Hall. - Malka Spigel
Malka Spigel is a founding member of the Israeli rock band Minimal Compact. She has also worked as a solo artist, and as a visual artist, exhibiting in prominent venues such as The Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Royal Festival Hall. She is a member of Githead along with husband Colin Newman, Robin Rimbaud, and fellow Minimal Compact refugee Max Franken. - Robert Fokkens
Robert Fokkens is a South African classical music composer. He is among a new generation of younger composers in post-apartheid South Africa. He was educated in Cape Town at Rondebosch Boys' School. His works are frequently performed in the UK, Europe and South Africa, including performances at the Wigmore Hall, the Purcell Room, the Holland Music Sessions, the Spitalfields Festival, the South African National Arts Festival (see Grahamstown Festival), … - Amy Nuttall
Amy Nuttall (born June 7 1982 in Bolton) is a British Actress and Singer most notable for playing the role of Chloe Atkinson in the long-running ITV soap opera "Emmerdale" from 2000 to 2005. Nuttall trained at the The Arts Educational Schools and with the National Youth Music Theatre. She is credited as the youngest actress to play the lead role of Christine in "The Phantom of the Opera" (at age 16), has sung at the Royal Albert Hall, … - Alison Lapper
Alison Lapper MBE (born 7 April 1965 in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire) is an English artist who was born without arms. She is also the subject of the sculpture "Alison Lapper Pregnant", which is on display in Trafalgar Square until April, 2007. Alison Lapper has a congenital disorder, phocomelia, which caused her to be born without arms and with truncated legs. Her mother met her for the last time during her childhood when she was four months old, … - Graham Bickley
Graham Bickley is a British based actor, best known as the second incarnation of the character Joey Boswell in Carla Lane's "Bread". Bickley has worked extensively in the West End including appearing in "Tateh in Ragtime" at the Piccadilly Theatre for which he received a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for Best Actor. In concert, his performances have included "Guys and Dolls" (Royal Festival Hall, Vienna Konzerthaus), … - Gilbert Kaplan
Gilbert Kaplan (born 3 March 1941, New York City, USA) is an American businessman, former journalist and amateur conductor. He founded the magazine "Institutional Investor" in 1965 after studies at Duke University, the New School for Social Research and the NYU School of Law. He was publisher of the magazine until 1990, and editor-in-chief for three more years, although he sold it in 1984 for $72 million. - Jo Appleby
Jo Appleby (born April 7 1978 in Blackpool, England) is a soprano and former member of opera group Amici Forever. She began studying opera at the Royal Northern College of Music when she was 19 years old, where four years later, she gained an honours degree. She then won a scholarship from the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company before embarking on an operatic career. She spent four years performing with the Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Touring Opera Company, … - David Mach
David Mach (born 20 March 1946) is a Scottish sculptor and installation artist. Mach's artistic style is based on flowing assemblages of mass-produced found art objects. Typically these include magazines,teddy bears but vicious,newspapers, car types, match sticks and coat hangers. Many of Mach installations are temporary and constructed in public spaces. One example of his early magazine pieces, "Adding Fuel to the Fire", … - Niel Immelman
Niel Immelman is a South African classical pianist. He studied with Cyril Smith, Ilona Kabos and Maria Curcio. He was still a student at the Royal College of Music (where he now teaches) when Bernard Haitink invited him to play Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. This successful début was followed by further appearances with the London Philharmonic, … - Richard Harwood
Richard Craig Harwood (born August 8, 1979) is a British cellist. Richard Harwood was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire and began learning to play the piano, aged four (teachers included Diana Bell and Joyce Rathbone) and the cello, aged five. He achieved his Associated Board Grade 8 in cello, aged 8 and in piano, aged 11. After beginning cello studies with two local teachers, Richard studied with Joan Dickson from 1988 until her death in 1994, … - Theodore Kerkezos
Theodore Kerkezos is a Greek classical saxophonist. Theodore Kerkezos graduated with honors from the class of B. Farantatos at the Athens Conservatory and continued his musical training in Bordeaux, France with the famous saxophonist Jean-Marie Londeix. He later studied in Paris with Daniel Deffayet, the saxophone professor at the conservatory there. Kerkezos received the Papaioannou award in 1992 and 1993. - John Scott Whiteley
John Scott Whiteley is an English organist. He made his debut at the Royal Festival Hall in London in 1983 at the 5.55 series of Recitals. He has performed extensively around the world and since 1985 has undertaken an annual tour of the USA. He has performed in most major UK Cathedrals and concert halls, and is currently Organist and Director of the Girls' Choir at York Minster. - Vilmos Szabadi
Vilmos Szabadi, sometimes referred to as Wilhelm Szabadi is one of the best known Hungarian violinists. Szabadi studied under Professor Ferenc Halász at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest where on receiving his diploma, he became the youngest-ever member to join the teaching staff. Then he studied, after graduation, with Sándor Végh, Ruggiero Ricci and Loránt Fenyves. - Eleanor Coade
Eleanor Coade (alternatively Elinor Coade) (1733 - 1821) (when she went into business, to be respectable she followed the normal practice of the day and called herself 'Mrs Coade', although unmarried) is famous for inventing and manufacturing Coade stone: a spectacularly durable cement-like building material which still looks new even today. She was a resident of Lyme Regis, in Dorset, England. She took over Belmont House, Lyme Regis, from her uncle, … - Lottie Mayor
Charlotte "Lottie" Mayor (born 1973) is a British stage and screen actress, singer and television presenter. - John Gilpin
John Gilpin (10 February 1930 - 5 September 1983) was a leading English ballet dancer and actor. He was born in Southsea, Hampshire, England, and began as a child actor in films, such as "They Were Sisters" and "The Years Between", opposite Michael Redgrave. He danced numerous leading roles for the London Festival Ballet and appeared opposite his first wife in "The Nutcracker" at the Royal Festival Hall in 1962. - Meyrick Alexander
Meyrick Alexander (born May 18, 1952) is an English bassoonist who currently plays with the Philharmonia Orchestra, based in London. Meyrick Alexander has been Principal Bassoon of the Philharmonia Orchestra since 1980, having previously been Principal Bassoon of the Northern Sinfonia. He has appeared as a soloist on numerous occasions including performances of the Mozart Bassoon Concerto under Vladimir Ashkenazy. - Harry White
Harry Kinross White is an American-born classical saxophonist living in Switzerland. White grew up in Mississippi and received his first music instruction there from Warren and Marti Lutz. He studied with saxophone professor Lawrence Gwozdz at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and with the pioneer of classical saxophone, Sigurd Raschèr. He was a member of the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet from 1990 until 2001.
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