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, …

Alberto Remedios is a British operatic heroic tenor. Remedios was born in Liverpool and began his working life as a docker, but studied singing with Edwin Francis (who also taught Rita Hunter) and then at the Royal College of Music. He sang a wide variety of roles with the Sadler's Wells Opera, (later to become the English National Opera), including operas by Verdi (Alfredo in La Traviata), Gounod (Faust), Saint-Saëns (Samson and Delila), …

Norman Bailey (born 23 March 1933) is an operatic bass-baritone; born in Birmingham, he emigrated to South Africa with his parents after the Second World War and later studied vocal training in Vienna. His voice was first recognised when he was reading Divinity at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. While his early career was in Austria and Germany, he later settled in the United Kingdom. He has been particularly associated with Wagner's operas, …

Sir James Galway (informally known as Jimmy) (born December 8, 1939) is a Northern Ireland-born virtuoso flute player from Belfast, often called "The Man With the Golden Flute". Following in the footsteps of Jean-Pierre Rampal, he became one of the first flute players to establish an international career as a soloist. James Galway studied at the Royal College of Music under John Francis and then at the Guildhall School of Music under Geoffrey Gilbert.

Edwin Roxburgh (born 1937 in Liverpool) is a British composer and oboist. After playing oboe in the National Youth Orchestra, he won a double scholarship to study composition with Herbert Howells and oboe with Terence MacDonagh at the Royal College of Music. He also studied composition with Nadia Boulanger in Paris and Luigi Dallapicolla in Florence. Among his students is Daniel Giorgetti.

Georg Tintner was a Viennese-born conductor. As a child he was a singer in the Vienna Boys' Choir, directed by Franz Schalk. At Vienna State Academy he studied composition with Josef Marx and conducting with Felix Weingartner. Soon he was assistant conductor of the Vienna Volksoper People's Opera. Due to the persecution of Jews, Tintner moved out of Vienna in 1938, arriving in Auckland, New Zealand in 1940. He conducted a church choir until after the war, …

Gordon Crosse (born December 1, 1937) is an English composer and music technologist. Crosse was born in Bury, Lancashire and in 1961 graduated from Oxford University 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 career at the University of Birmingham. Subsequent employment included posts at the Universities of Essex, Cambridge and California.

Edward Joseph Dent, generally known by his initials as 'E.J. Dent', was a British writer on music. He was born in Ribston, Yorkshire on 6 July 1876 and died in London on 22 August 1957. Educated at Eton and Cambridge, he was Professor of Music at Cambridge University from 1926 to 1941. He was President of the I.S.C.M. from its foundation in 1922 until 1938. He was a governor of Sadler's Wells Opera, and translated many libretti for it.

Rose Hill was a British actress. She started her career as a soprano in 1939 singing, at Sadler's Wells Opera (later English National Opera) in London, soubrette and lyric soprano roles such as Despina in "Così fan tutte". For the Glyndebourne Festival she sang Barbarina in "Le nozze di Figaro". In 1948 she sang Lucy in the world premiere of Benjamin Britten's adaptation of "The Beggar's Opera".

Ruth Packer was an English operatic soprano. In 1939, she mader her operatic debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in "Die Walküre". During World War Two, she appeared frequently with Sadler's Wells Opera and the Carl Rosa Opera Company. After the war, she performed regularly with the newly-formed Welsh National Opera. After her retirement from the stage, Packer taught voice at the Royal College of Music, and later privately.

Rita Hunter was a British operatic dramatic soprano, She was born in Wallasey,Merseyside. She studied at Liverpool. Rita Hunter will be remembered as one of the major Wagnerian sopranos of the later 20th century, especially for her performances as Brünnhilde in the Ring cycle conducted by Reginald Goodall at the English National Opera. In this production she was partnered by Alberto Remedios, …