- Harrison Birtwistle
Sir Harrison Paul Birtwistle CH (born 15 July, 1934) is one of Britain's most significant contemporary composers.
- Evelyn Glennie
Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie was born in Methlick near Ellon, Aberdeenshire on the 19th July 1965. She grew up at the family farm. She was educated at Ellon Academy. Her percussion teacher was Ron Forbes . She left Aberdeen in 1982 to study at The Royal Academy of Music in London. She won the Queen's Commendation Prize for all around excellence, the highest award given by the Royal Academy. She graduated in 1984 with an honours degree. Music Of Evelyn Glennie
- Richard Hickox
Richard Hickox CBE (born March 5 1948) is an English conductor of choral, orchestral and operatic music. He was born in Stokenchurch in Buckinghamshire into a musical family. After attending the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe from 1959 to 1966, he studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1966 to 1967, then was an organ scholar at Queens' College, Cambridge from 1967 to 1970. He founded the City of London Sinfonia in 1971, …
- Arnold Bax
Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, KCVO (8 November, 1883 — 3 October, 1953), was an English composer and poet. His musical style blended elements of Romanticism and Impressionism, always with a strong Celtic influence. His orchestral scores are noted for their complexity and colourful instrumentation. Bax’s poetry and stories, which he wrote under the pseudonym of Dermot O’Byrne, …
- Craig Armstrong
Craig Armstrong (b. 1959) is a Scottish composer of modern orchestral music, electronica and film scores.
- John Dankworth
In a career that spans more than forty years as a composer, performer and conductor, JOHN DANKWORTH combines confidence and virtuosity with eclecticism and unpredictability to continually cross conventional musical boundaries. It is unlikely that there is a British musician better known for a wider range of musical activities than Dankworth.
- William Bennett
William Bennett is a British flute player, who has played with most of the major British orchestras. He also has a career as a soloist. He developed an instrument, the 'flauto di bassetto', which extends the range of the flute down a minor third, and one of his recordings, Mozart's Concerto K 218, features this. In the late 1960's, his work on flute acoustics, in collaboration with other British flutists and the British flute maker Albert Cooper, …
- Maxim Vengerov
Maxim Vengerov (born August 20, 1974 in Novosibirsk) is a Russian violinist virtuoso of Jewish origin. Vengerov was five when he received his first violin lessons from Galina Turtschaninova and later at the Royal Academy of Music in London (Junior Department). He later studied with the legendary violin teacher Zakhar Bron and was still only ten when he won the Junior Wieniawski Competition in Poland. Recital engagements in Moscow and Leningrad (St.Petersburg) followed, …
- Paul Patterson
Paul Patterson (born 1947) is a British composer. He studied trombone and composition at the Royal Academy of Music. He has since taught there for many years, first as Head of Composition and Contemporary Music, then as Manson Professor of Composition where he organized an anual festivals celebrating the work of a living composer with a festival in the presence of the composer. He has also been associated with The King's School, Canterbury, …
- Felicity Lott
Dame Felicity Lott, DBE (born May 8 1947, Cheltenham, England) is an English soprano, nick-named "Flott". From her earliest years, she was musical, having started studying piano at five. She also played violin and began singing lessons at 12. She is an alumna of Royal Holloway, University of London, having studied French and Latin there in the sixties. During a stay in France, she took singing lessons at the conservatory in Grenoble.
- 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 .
- Myra Hess
Dame Myra Hess DBE (February 25, 1890 - November 25, 1965), born Julia Myra Hess, was a British pianist. She was born in London. At the age of five she began to study the piano and two years later entered the Guildhall School of Music, where she graduated as winner of the gold medal. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music under Tobias Matthay. Her debut came in 1907 when she played Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 with Sir Thomas Beecham conducting.
- Krzysztof Penderecki
Krzysztof Penderecki is a Polish composer and conductor of classical music.
- 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.
- Alan Bush
Alan Bush (December 22, 1900 - October 31, 1995) was a British composer and pianist. Bush was born in London first attending Highgate School and then the Royal Academy of Music. Later he studied musicology and philosophy in Berlin and later still had lessons with the composer John Ireland. He studied the piano under Benno Moiseiwitsch and Artur Schnabel. From 1925 to 1978 he taught at the Royal Academy of Music. He was known as an outspoken advocate of Marxism, …
- Andrew Manze
Andrew Manze (born 14th January 1965, Beckenham) is an English baroque violinist and conductor. Having first started playing the baroque violin while studying Classics at Cambridge University, he went on to study with Simon Standage, one of the founding members of The English Concert, at the Royal Academy of Music, followed by further studies with Lucy van Dael at The Hague and Marie Leonhardt.
- Paul Buckmaster
Paul Buckmaster is an artist, arranger, and composer. He is perhaps best known for his collaborations with Elton John, but he has also worked as an arranger on various hit songs, including David Bowie's "Space Oddity" (1969), and has played with Miles Davis, on On the Corner. Born in London, England, Paul was taught the cello from age 4. At age eleven, he won a cello scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music in London.
- Curtis Price
Sir Curtis Price, KBE, is the Principal of the Royal Academy of Music and a professor of music at the University of London. In 2005, Professor Price was made an honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) in recognition of his services to music.
- 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.
- Cornelius Cardew
Cornelius Cardew was an English avant-garde composer, and founder (with Howard Skempton and Michael Parsons) of the "Scratch Orchestra", an experimental performing ensemble. Cardew was born in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. He was the second of three sons whose parents were both artists — his father was potter Michael Cardew.
- Brian Ferneyhough
Brian John Peter Ferneyhough (born 16 January, 1943 in Coventry) is an English composer.
- Dennis Brain
Dennis Brain was a British virtuoso horn player and was largely responsible for popularizing the horn as a solo classical instrument with the post-war British public. With Herbert von Karajan and the Philharmonia Orchestra he made what many still consider the definitive recordings of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's horn concerti.
- Thomas Adès
Thomas Adès is a British composer, pianist and conductor. Adès studied piano with Paul Berkowitz and later composition with Robert Saxton at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. He graduated in 1992 from King's College, Cambridge after studying with Alexander Goehr and Robin Holloway. His degree was classified as "double starred first", indicating outstanding academic distinction. He was made Britten Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music, …
- York Bowen
York Bowen (1884-1961), born Edwin Yorke Bowen, was an English classical composer and musician (pianist). Born in Crouch End, London in 1884, he studied at the Royal Academy of Music, later becoming a teacher there. He wrote in the late Romantic style. He became known as a fine pianist (as well as a decent horn player and violist) and a prolific minor composer of many forms.
- David Robertson
David Robertson (born 19 July 1958 in Santa Monica, California) is an American conductor, currently serving as the Music Director of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra.
- Hamish Milne
Hamish Milne (born April 27, 1939, Salisbury) is a British pianist known for his advocacy of Nikolai Medtner. Hamish Milne studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he now teaches, and later in Italy under Guido Agosti. In the 1970s, Milne was the first pianist to offer a comprehensive survey of the music of Medtner since the composer made his own records in the 78s era.
- James Watson
Professor James Watson FRAM James Watson has held principal trumpet posts with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Opera House and London Sinfonietta. International chamber music work has included the Nash Ensemble and leading the world-famous Philip Jones Brass Ensemble. He is particularly active in film and television and has recorded with Elton John, Paul McCartney and Peter Gabriel.
- 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.
- Gerard Presencer
Gerard Presencer (b. 12 September 1972) is an English jazz trumpeter who has also made a name as a session player in pop-music contexts, and as a jazz educator. Presencer was born in Watford, Hertfordshire. At the age of eleven, he became the youngest trumpeter with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, and at fourteen he began playing professionally. He worked with British musicians such as Tommy Smith, Stan Tracey, Peter King, John Dankworth, Julian Joseph, …
- Lionel Tertis
Lionel Tertis was an English violist and one of the first viola players to find international fame. Tertis was born in West Hartlepool, the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants, and initially studied the violin in Leipzig and at the Royal Academy of Music in London. There he was encouraged by Alexander Mackenzie, the Principal, to take up the viola instead. Under the additional influence of Oskar Nedbal, he did so and rapidly became one of the best known violists of his time, …
- John Mayer
John Mayer (b. Calcutta, Bengal, British India, October 28, 1930; d. United Kingdom, March 9, 2004) was an Indian composer known primarily for his fusions of jazz with Indian music. He was born into an Anglo-Indian family and, after studying with Phillipe Sandre in Calcutta and Melhi Mehta in Bombay, he won a scholarship to London's Royal Academy of Music in 1952, where he studied comparative music and religion in eastern and western cultures.
- Piers Lane
Piers Lane is an acclaimed Australian classical pianist. He has played concertos with great international orchestras such as the American Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra and has played in more than forty different countries. He is currently the Artistic Director of the Australian Festival of Chamber Music and is an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music. Piers also has an extensive discography of classical recordings with EMI and Hyperion.
- Harriet Cohen
Harriet Cohen (December 2, 1895 - November 13, 1967) was a British pianist. She was born in London and studied piano at the Royal Academy of Music under Tobias Matthay. She became particularly associated with contemporary British music, giving the world premiere of Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Piano Concerto" and recording Edward Elgar's "Piano Quintet" with the Stratton String Quartet under the composer's supervision.
- Joanna MacGregor
Joanna MacGregor (born July 16 1959) is an internationally renowned classical, jazz and contemporary pianist. She is also a promoter, an artistic director, an educator and runs her own record label SoundCircus.
- Philip Langridge
Philip Langridge, CBE is an English tenor considered to be among the foremost exponents of English opera and oratorio. Langridge was born December 16, 1939 in Hawkhurst, Kent, England, and studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Langridge is admired for his fine technique coupled with keen dramatic instincts. His repertoire is broad, ranging from the operas of Claudio Monteverdi and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to more modern works by Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky, …
- Tobias Matthay
Tobias Matthay (born February 19, 1858, London; died December 15, 1945, High Marley) was a pianist, teacher, and composer. Matthay studied at the Royal Academy of Music and also taught there from 1876 to 1925 as professor of advanced piano. He founded a piano school in 1900 and soon became known for his teaching that stressed proper piano touch and analysis of arm movements. He published several books of technique, which brought him international recognition.
- Owen Murray
Owen Murray GRAM, Dip RAM (Copenhagen), Hon RAM Born in the UK, studied with Mogens Ellegaard at The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, graduating with the Diploma in 1982. Many recitals both in the UK and overseas. Recordings include 'On the Wings of the Wind'. Head of Classical Accordion at London's Royal Academy of Music since 1986.
- Gwilym Simcock
Gwilym Simcock is a British jazz pianist and composer. Simcock has been rated as one of the most exciting musicians of his generation in the UK. At 26 years of age, Gwilym Simcock is one of the most gifted pianists and imaginative composers working on British scene. Able to move effortlessly between jazz and classical music, he can, at times, inhabit both worlds and has been described as being stylistically reminiscent of Keith Jarrett, …
- 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.
- Zakhar Bron
Zakhar Bron is a Russian violinist and violin teacher. His students have included Maxim Vengerov, Vadim Repin, Before he was well-known he taught privately in Novosibirsk; since then he has taught at the Royal Academy of Music in London, the Conservatory of Rotterdam, the Musikhochschule Lübeck and the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid. In 1997 he took up a position at the Cologne Musikhochschule.