- John Powell
John Powell is a British film score composer born on 18 September 1963, and currently based in Los Angeles. Powell originally trained as a violinist as a child, before studying at London's Trinity College of Music. He later ventured into jazz and rock music, playing in a soul band "The Fabulistics". On leaving college, he composed music for commercials, which led to a job as an assistant to the composer Patrick Doyle on several film productions, … - Gavin Henderson
Gavin Henderson is a British musician. He is principal of Trinity College of Music (TCM) and the Artistic Director of Dartington International Summer School. Among other posts, he lists the following: Chairman of the National Foundation for Youth Music; Chairman of the Arts Council of England's Music Panel; Vice President of the British Arts Festivals Association and the European Festivals Association; Governor of Chethams School, … - Richard Arnell
Richard Arnell (born September 15, 1917 in Hampstead, London) is an English composer of classical music. Arnell studied at the Royal College of Music in London from 1935 to 1939, and was taught there by John Ireland (composition) and St John Dykes (piano). He was awarded the Farrar Prize for composition during his final year at the college. At the outset of the Second World War, Arnell found himself stranded in New York, and stayed on until 1947, … - Alwynne Pritchard
Alwynne Pritchard (born 1968 in Glasgow) is a British composer and broadcaster. She studied at the Guildhall School of Music with Robert Saxton and at the Royal Academy of Music with Justin Connolly and Michael Finnissy. She holds a PhD from the University of Bristol. Pritchard's earliest acknowledged work is "Glimpsed Most Clearly From The Corner Of Your Eye" (1992) for seven cellos. More recent works include "Decoy" (2004) for ensemble and live electronics, … - Granville Bantock
Sir Granville Bantock (August 7, 1868 - October 16, 1946), was a British composer of classical music. Bantock was born in London. A close friend of fellow composer Havergal Brian, he was professor of music at the University of Birmingham from 1908 to 1934 (in which post he succeeded Sir Edward Elgar). In 1934, he was elected Chairman of the Corporation of Trinity College of Music in London. He was knighted in 1930. - Rivka Golani
Rivka Golani (b. Tel Aviv, 1946) is a Canadian violist. Born in Israel, Ms. Golani became a Canadian citizen in 1983. Along with her recording career and worldwide solo performances, she teaches at the Birmingham Conservatoire, and Trinity College of Music, London. She has also taught at the University of Toronto and The Royal Academy of Music in London. Composers have written over 200 works for her, of which more than 50 are concertos. - Roger Argente
Roger Argente (b. 1962) is Principal Bass Trombone for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and is Head of Brass at the Trinity College of Music, London. Born in Neath, South Wales, Argente started playing the trombone at the age of 12. A graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, Roger studied with Professors Terry Nagle and Neville Roberts and was a joint recipient of the concerto prize. - Barry Wordsworth
Barry Wordsworth (born 20 February 1948, Worcester Park, Surrey, England) is a British conductor. He is currently music director of Birmingham Royal Ballet and the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra. In October 2006 he became Conductor Laureate of the BBC Concert Orchestra, having been Principal Conductor since 1989. In 2007, he began his second tenure as Music Director of the Royal Ballet, who are based at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. - Stanley Sadie
Stanley Sadie CBE (October 30 1930-March 21 2005) was a British musicologist, music critic, and editor. He was editor of the sixth edition of the "Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians" (1980), which was published as the first edition of the "New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians". Sadie was educated at St Paul's School, London, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he read music under Thurston Dart (BA, MusB 1953, MA 1957, PhD 1958). - Gilbert Biberian
Gilbert Biberian (born 1944) is a British guitarist and composer of Greek and Armenian descent. Biberian was born in Istanbul, but moved to the UK to study at Trinity College of Music. He has studied with, among others, Alexandre Lagoya, Ida Presti (guitar), and Elisabeth Lutyens (composition). Biberian's music for his own instrument, the guitar, includes a "Greek Suite" (1965), "Monogram" (1977), "Colombine" (1978), "Six Haiku" (1980), … - Arnold Cooke
Arnold Atkinson Cooke (November 4, 1906 - August 13, 2005) was a British composer. - Andrew Poppy
Andrew Poppy (b. Kent, England, May 29, 1954) is a British composer, pianist, and music producer. From 1974 to 1979 he studied music at Royal Holloway College and Goldsmiths College University of London, studying piano with Susan Bradshaw and earning a B.M. degree in piano performance. One of the least internationally known of British minimalist composers, Poppy was a founding member (in 1981) of The Lost Jockey, … - Stjepan Hauser
Stjepan Hauser was born in 1986 in Pula, Croatia where he started his elementary music education. The Music Grammar School he had enrolled and completed in Rijeka. Apart from his school obligations, Stjepan has been performing as the youngest member of the Rijeka Philharmonic Orchestra since the age of sixteen. During his education in Rijeka, he had many performances and he won many competitions and awards. - George Melachrino
George Melachrino (born George Militiades 1 May, 1909 in London, England - died 18 June 1965) was a musician, movie composer, and musical director who was English born of Greek and Italian descent. As a young boy, George Melachrino had a love of music. At the age of five, he began his writing his compositions, and by the age of fourteen he rolled into the Trinity College of Music. In the 1930s, Melachrino started working for bands lead by Ambrose and Bert Firman, … - William Lovelock
William Lovelock (b. 1899, London; d. Shipston on Stour, Warwickshire, 1986) was an English classical composer and pedagogue. He was educated at Emanuel School and Trinity College of Music. After service as an artilleryman in World War I, he returned to Trinity College as a teacher and examiner. He received his Doctorate of Music from the University of London in 1932. Between 1939 and 1946 he lived in India, … - Jamila Gavin
Jamila Gavin (Born August 9, 1941) is a British writer born in Mursoorie, India in the foothills of the Himalayas near the border with Pakistan. Her father was Indian and her mother English. She learned to describe herself as "half and half." On her website she says that from her mixed background "I inherited two rich cultures which ran side by side throughout my life, and which always made me feel I belonged to both countries". She first visited England when she was five, … - Vincent Crane
Vincent Crane (born Vincent Rodney Cheesman, 21 May 1943, in Reading, Berkshire, died 14 February 1989, in Reading, Berkshire) was a self-taught pianist, who studied theory and composition at Trinity College of Music. He graduated in 1964. - Heather Harper
Dame Heather Harper DBE (born May 8, 1930) is an Irish operatic soprano. She was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where she received her early musical training. She studied piano at the Trinity College of Music in London, with voice as a second subject, and sang with the BBC chorus. Her professional debut came in 1954 in "Medea" at the Oxford University Opera Club. From 1956 to 1975, she was a member of the English Opera Group. - Predrag Gosta
Predrag Gosta (born 14 January, 1972 in Belgrade, Serbia) is an American conductor and harpsichordist. Predrag Gosta is the Artistic Director and conductor of New Trinity Baroque, an early music ensemble, baroque orchestra and choir based in Atlanta, USA. He is also the Music Director and conductor of the Gwinnett Ballet Theatre, based in Snellville, Atlanta vicinity. He was educated in Europe and USA, and has recorded several CDs, … - Fela Sowande
Fela Sowande (b. Nigeria, May 1905; d. Ohio, United States, 1987) was a Nigerian musician and composer. Considered the father of modern Nigerian art music, Sowande is perhaps the most internationally known African composer of works in the European "classical" idiom. Sowande was born in Lagos, the son of Emmanuel Sowande, a priest and pioneer of Nigerian church music. The influence of his father and Dr T. K. Ekundayo Phillips (composer, … - Akin Euba
Akin Euba (born Olatunji Akin Euba, Lagos, Nigeria, April 28, 1935) is a Nigerian composer, musicologist, and pianist. Euba studied composition with Arnold Cooke at the Trinity College of Music, London, obtaining the diplomas of Fellow of the Trinity College London (Composition) and Fellow of the Trinity College London (Piano). He received B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he studied with Mantle Hood, … - Graham Lee
Graham Lee is Principal Trombone for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He is also Professor of Trombone at the Royal College of Music and Trinity College of Music. Graham studied at the Guildhall School of Music with Eric Crees where he was featured with the college Brass Band in a performance of Wilfred Heaton's Concerto for Trombone and Band. Before graduating in 1992 he also played with the European Union Youth Orchestra. - Alec Rowley
Alec Rowley (1892-1958) was an English composer and writer on music. He studied at London's Royal Academy of Music with Frederick Corder, and later taught at Trinity College in the same city. He frequently performed and broadcast piano duets with Edgar Moy, and was widely known for his compositions for amateur forces. - Michael Whight
Michael Whight was principal clarinet of the Philharmonia Orchestra for ten years and now plays regularly as guest principal with all the major London orchestras. Michael currently holds the position of principal clarinet with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. As a chamber musician he is a founder member of the Classical Wind Quintet, and he has worked with Barry Douglas, Robert Cohen, Gidon Kremer and Friends, the Lindsays and the Nash Ensemble among others. - Rick Trainor
Richard Hughes "Rick" Trainor FKC is Professor of Social History and the current Principal of King's College London. Trainor holds degrees from Brown University (BA), Princeton University (MA) and the University of Oxford (DPhil). He is a member of the Academy of the Social Sciences, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a member of the Athenaeum Club. He is also an Honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford and Trinity College of Music. - Omar Ebrahim
Omar Ebrahim is an English baritone vocalist and actor. He specializes in the performance of contemporary classical music. He studied voice at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, then spent a performing apprenticeship at the Royal Shakespeare Company and in the Glyndebourne chorus, performing the role of Schaunard in "La bohème" for the Glyndebourne Touring Opera in 1980. He has sung in performances of contemporary operas and other works by Nigel Osborne, … - John Palmer
John Palmer (born 25th September, 1959 in an airplane between London and Malta) is a composer of instrumental and electroacustic music. Palmer started playing the piano at the age of 6 and composing at the age of 15. He graduated in Piano Studies from the Conservatory of Music in Lucerne, Switzerland, having undertaken courses in composition and experimental improvisation with Edison Denisov and Vinko Globokar. - John Palmer
John Palmer (25.9.1959) is a composer of contemporary music (acoustic and electroacoustic). Palmer started playing the piano at the age of 6 and composing at the age of 15. He graduated in Piano Studies from the Conservatory of Music in Lucerne, Switzerland, having undertaken courses in composition and experimental improvisation with Edison Denisov and Vinko Globokar. - Gregory Page
Gregory Page, formerly of The Rugburns, was born in London, England. As a teenager, he attended Trinity College of Music where he studied classical guitar and composition. At the age of sixteen, Page moved to Southern California where he began writing and recording music. Besides working on his own music, Page has also worked with eclectic array of artists such as Jason Mraz, John Doe, Jewel, Tom Brosseau, Steve Poltz and A.J. Croce. - Matthijs Verschoor
Matthijs Verschoor is a Dutch classical pianist. He studied at the conservatoires of Rotterdam and Amsterdam and continued his studies in Rome and London. Among his teachers are Bart Berman, Willem Brons and John Bingham. Verschoor gave recitals in many European countries. As a soloist he performed with multiple orchestras, among others with works by Mozart, Franck, Ravel (both piano concertos) and Gershwin. He recorded many radio programs. - Alan Thomas
Alan Thomas is a British-based guitarist who performs on both classical and electric guitar. He was born in Liverpool and studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts as well as the University of California at San Diego, where his teachers included Scott Tennant and the composer Brian Ferneyhough. Thomas is particularly dedicated to performing contemporary music, and he has premiered many new works by composers including Laurence Crane, Paul Davies, … - Joan Cross
Joan Cross, was a British soprano, closely associated with the operas of Benjamin Britten. She attended St Paul's Girls' School where her music teacher was Gustav Holst. She studied singing at Trinity College of Music, and in 1923 joined the chorus of the Vic-Wells opera company at the Old Vic, later taking on a wide range of solo soprano roles for the Sadler's Wells company and a few at the Royal Opera House, … - Ørjan Hartveit
Ørjan Hartveit is a Norwegian opera singer (baritone). He trained with Omar Ebrahim at Trinity College of Music, London, and has also participated in masterclasses exploring Lieder and mélodies with Elly Ameling, Graham Johnson and Malcolm Martineau. His recital appearances include Troldhaugen, home of Edvard Grieg, in Bergen, St Edmundsbury Cathedral and Blackheath Halls. - J. H. Kwabena Nketia
Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia (b. Mampong, Sekyere West District, Ashanti Region, Ghana, June 22, 1921) is a Ghanaian ethnomusicologist and composer. He studied at the University of London from 1944 to 1949, beginning with two years of study in linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies. In 1949 he began three years' study at Birkbeck College, University of London, and Trinity College of Music, London, obtaining a B.A. degree. - Naomi Lee Schulke
Naomi Lee Schulke is an actor, singer and musician. Naomi began training as a classical musician at an early age and went on to gain a place as a singer at Trinity College of Music where she studied with Susan McCulloch. During this time she took part in various large scale productions including Handel’s "Messiah" and Barber’s "Vanessa". Naomi went on to study with Mary King in London and in 2003 won a place at Central School of Speech and Drama. - Oliver Butterworth
Oliver Butterworth is a British violinist. He is professor of violin at Trinity College of Music. For many years he was Artistic Director of the London Schools Symphony Orchestra. He left this position under circumstances that were discussed in "Private Eye". - 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. - Nick Garrett
Nick Garrett is a bass-baritone from London, England and a former member of Amici Forever; he composed all the vocal arrangements for the band's 2005 album, "Defined". Garrett taught himself how to play the piano at age seven. He was accepted by Trinity College of Music to study singing, composition, piano and conducting, before winning a much-coveted singing grant from the Wolfson Foundation. - Byron Fulcher
Byron Fulcher (b. 1970) is Principal Trombone with the Philharmonia Orchestra, appointed in 2001. In addition he is Professor of Trombone at the Royal College of Music. Byron was born and grew up in Cornwall, started playing trombone aged 9 and went on to study with Denis Wick. During 1988-1992 he studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he studied for four years with Eric Crees. - Graham Anthony Devine
Graham Anthony Devine is a classical guitarist. Devine studied with Gordon Crosskey at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester. He emigrated to Brazil when he was nineteen, becoming known there as a teacher and performer. Devine has been a laureate of many international competitions, including the Mottola International Guitar Competition in Italy, the Certamen Francisco Tárrega in Benicasim, Spain, and the Stotsenberg International Guitar Competition in the USA.
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