- Jon Lord
Jon Douglas Lord (born Leicester 9 June, 1941) is an English composer, Hammond organ and piano player. Born in Leicester, he has been a member of Deep Purple; Whitesnake; Paice, Ashton & Lord; The Artwoods and Flower Pot Men. He is recognised for his unique Hammond organ blues-rock sound, compositional flair in both the rock and classical idioms and career principally with the heavy rock band, Deep Purple. In 1968, Lord co-founded Deep Purple with drummer Ian Paice. - 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, … - Larry Coryell
Larry Coryell is an American jazz guitarist. He was born in Galveston, Texas, in 1943. After graduating from Richland High School in eastern Washington, he moved to Seattle to attend the University of Washington. In 1965, Coryell moved to New York City where he became part of Chico Hamilton's quintet, replacing Gabor Szabo. In 1967 and 1968, he recorded with Gary Burton and Jim Pepper. His music during the late 1960s and early 1970s combined the influences of rock, … - John Birch
John Birch (born 1929) was educated at Trent College and left in July 1947 to study at the Royal College of Music, London. In 1953 he became Organist and Master of the Choristers at All Saint's Church, Margaret Street, London when it still maintained a small choir school with a boys choir singing the daily services. - Nana Mouskouri
Nana Mouskouri (born Ioanna Mouskouri on October 13, 1934, in Chania, Crete, Greece) is a singer of Greek origin. She was known as Nana to her friends and family as a child. She recorded many of her songs in many different languages, including Greek, French, English, Spanish, Italian, German, Latin, Portuguese and Japanese among others. She is noted for her trademark squarish black-rimmed eyeglasses and straight black hair parted in the middle, … - Philip Quast
Philip Quast is an Australian actor perhaps best known for his role as Inspector Javert in Les Misérables - The Dream Cast in Concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Indeed, as this remains the only televised version of the musical, his is the only performance with which many fans will be familiar. Accordingly, he is very popular in fan circles. He started off his career in Australia in Play School. - Mica Paris
Mica Paris (born Michelle Wallen on April 27 1969 in London, England) is an English singer. She began singing in church at an early age and then went on to become a session singer at the age of 15, for bands such as Hollywood Beyond and Shakatak. In 1988, she released her most successful single, "My One Temptation", which peaked at #7. In the continuing years she went on to release many more singles and albums. - Marti Pellow
Marti Pellow (born Mark McLachlan on 23 March, 1965 in Clydebank) is the lead singer of the Scottish pop group Wet Wet Wet. He has also achieved a successful solo career. Pellow enjoyed success with Wet Wet Wet throughout the late 1980s and 1990s. However, in 1997 drummer Tommy Cunningham left the band and its success waned immediately. Pellow was by this time suffering from an addiction to heroin. He famously quoted, on finally beating the drug, … - Michael Maguire
Michael L. Maguire is an American actor, best known for his role as Enjolras in the Broadway production of the musical "Les Misérables". This role won him a Tony Award in 1987. it also won him a Drama Desk Award and a Theatre World Award. In 1995 he got to reprise the role in the 10th Anniversary concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London. - Harvey Goldsmith
Harvey Goldsmith CBE (b. 4 March, 1946) was the co–organiser of The Live 8 concert in Hyde Park, London that took place on 2 July, 2005 together with Bob Geldof. Harvey Goldsmith is probably the United Kingdom's best known rock promoters and has been instrumental in developing the live touring industry in Europe. From acts as diverse as Pavarotti, Queen, Lord of the Dance, The Who, Van Morrison, Madonna, … - Terry Reid
Terry Reid (born 13 November 1949, Huntingdon, England) is a rock singer and guitarist noted for his soulful voice in the same vein as contemporaries Paul Rodgers and Rod Stewart. After leaving school at the age of 15, Reid joined Peter Jay's Jaywalkers after being spotted by the band's drummer, Peter Jay. At the time Reid was playing for a local band, The Redbeats. - Jenny Galloway
Jenny Galloway is a British actress, best known for her stage career. She played Madame Thénardier in the London cast of "Les Misérables" in 1993-1994, reprising her role in "Les Miserables - The Dream Cast in Concert" at the Royal Albert Hall in 1995, alongside Alun Armstrong. More recently she was in the cast of the Kern and Hammerstein musical "Show Boat" at the Royal Albert Hall. - Natasha Marsh
Natasha Marsh is an operatic soprano, from England who made her debut with Grange Park Opera in Fortunio by Messager and sang the roles of Governess in Britten's The Turn of the Screw and Donna Elvira on Mozart's Don Giovanni. She also created the title role in Michael Berkeley's opera Jane Eyre for Music Theatre Wales. She has also appeared in Opera Holland Park's La Boheme, … - Charles Hazlewood
Charles M. E. Hazlewood is a British conductor and broadcaster on music. After school at Christ's Hospital, Hazlewood gained an organ scholarship to Keble College, Oxford University in 1986. He was nominated by the BBC in 1995 as the UK's sole representative in the European Broadcasting Union conducting competition in Lisbon, where he won first prize, launching his conducting career. He conducted at Carnegie Hall for the first time in 2003. - 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. - Howard Goodall
Howard Goodall (b. May, 1958) is a British composer of musicals, choral music and music for television. He also presents music-based programming for the television. Goodall was born in Bromley, Kent and studied music at Christ Church, Oxford. - Michael Brook
Michael Brook (born 1951 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian guitarist, inventor, producer, and film music composer familiar with many disciplines including rock, minimalism and film scores. He is most famous perhaps for his sonic contribution to U2's multimillion-selling 1987 album "The Joshua Tree" in the form of his invention, the Infinite guitar, and Peter Murphy's 1995 album "Cascade". Michael is a specialist in timbre and texture. - Matthias Pintscher
Matthias Pintscher (b. January 29th, 1971, Marl) is a German composer and conductor. As a youth, he studied the violin and also conducted. Pintscher studied with Hans Werner Henze at Henze's summer school in Montepulciano, Italy. Later, he studied with Manfred Trojahn. Several of his orchestral and vocal works have been performed at such venues as the Carnegie Hall and Royal Albert Hall. - Anna Lee
Anna Lee, MBE (2 January 1913 – 14 May 2004), born Joan Boniface Winnifrith, was an English actress. - Adrian Mitchell
Adrian Mitchell (born 24 October 1932, Haywards Heath, West Sussex) is an English poet and dramatist. It has been said that his work demonstrates a powerful social conscience and he has been described as the "shadow poet laureate." Mitchell's voice is deceptively simple, but there is a subtlety in his apparent lack of showy technique. He has written large numbers of love poems and political poems, and frequently does public readings for Left wing causes. - Henry Willis
Henry Willis (born: 27 April 1821, London - died: 11 February 1901, London) was a British organist turned organ builder. He built thousands of organs, including for famous cathedrals and concert halls around Britain, such as St. Paul's Cathedral and The Royal Albert Hall. He also built an organ for Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle. His instruments can be found across the world, particularly in the former British Empire. - Francis Fowke
Francis Fowke (1823 - 1865) was a British engineer and architect, and a captain in the Royal Engineers. Most of his architectural work was executed in the Renaissance style, although he made use of relatively new technologies to create iron framed buildings, with large open galleries and spaces. Among his projects were the Royal Albert Hall and parts of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Royal Museum in Edinburgh, and the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin. - Rebecca Wheatley
Rebecca Wheatley (born 1965) is a British actress and musician. Wheatley grew up in Teddington, Middlesex, where she went to St Catherine's convent school, before gaining her BA in English literature from the University of Wales, Lampeter. She is best known as Amy Howard, the receptionist in the BBC's Casualty drama, a role which she played for four years until March 2001. Although Wheatley originally trained as a classical singer, … - Jonathan Cohen
Jonathan Cohen is an pianist, composer and musical director. He is particularly well known for his work on many BBC children's programmes from the 1960s to the 1980s, including "Play School", "Play Away", "Rentaghost" and "Jackanory". He had joined "Play School" in 1967 after graduating from the Royal Academy of Music. He would frequenly appear on some of these programmes, … - Paco Peña
Paco Peña is a Spanish flamenco guitarist. Born in Córdoba, Spain as Francisco Peña Pérez, he began learning to play the guitar at age 6 and made his first professional appearance at age 12. In the late 1960s he moved to London. Peña was soon touring the world both as a soloist and an accompanist with performances at Carnegie Hall in New York City, the Royal Albert Hall in London and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. - Chloe Hanslip
Chloë Elise Hanslip is a British violinist. Chloë was born in Guildford, Surrey and has been playing the violin since she was two. At the age of four Chloë performed solo at the Purcell Room. When she was five she performed for Yehudi Menuhin and subsequently, at his invitation, studied with Natasha Boyarskaya at the Yehudi Menuhin School. By ten she had played in major concert halls throughout Europe and North America, … - 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, … - Benjamin Zephaniah
Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah (born 15 April 1958, Cole's Hill, Birmingham, England) is a British Rastafarian writer and dub poet, and is well known in contemporary English literature. - Geoff Sewell
Geoff Sewell an accomplished New Zealand tenor and a member and founder of the band Amici Forever. Sewell began singing as a boy soprano, performing in his school choir at the age of 18. He was coached by renowned New Zealand opera singer Geoffrey de la Tour. In college, he obtained a Bachelor of Commerce degree and became qualified as a chartered accountant of New Zealand. - Anthony Inglis
Anthony Inglis is a British conductor. He has been the Music Supervisor in Her Majesty's Theatre, London, for the last 15 years. He has conducted orchestras all over the world, including the Royal Philharmonic, the Warsaw Philharmonic, and Israel Philharmonic orchestra. He conducts most Classical Spectacular events, the most recent held in England, between 22nd and 25th March 2007 at the Royal Albert Hall. http://www.anthonyinglis.com - Clara Butt
Dame Clara Ellen Butt DBE (1 February 1872-23 January 1936), sometimes called Clara Butt-Rumford after her marriage, was an English contralto. Clara Butt was born in Southwick, Sussex. Her father was a sea captain. In 1880 the family moved to Bristol and Clara was educated at South Bristol High School, where her singing talent was recognised and encouraged. - Michael Horovitz
Michael Horovitz (born 1935) is an English poet, artist and translator. Though initially associated with the British Poetry Revival, Horovitz is best known for his appearance at the International Poetry Incarnation at the Royal Albert Hall on June 11 1965, alongside Allen Ginsberg and Alexander Trocchi. In 1959 he founded the "New Departures" magazine while still a student, publishing William Burroughs and Samuel Beckett. - Steve Sidwell
Steve Sidwell is a conductor, composer, and instrumentalist specialising in swing music. He is also the trumpeter for the Michael Nyman Band. He conducted the band during Robbie Williams' performance in the Royal Albert Hall. This performance was later released as the DVD Robbie Williams Live at the Albert. Sidwell conducted the music for "The Chris Moyles Show" on BBC Radio One. - Olivia Trinidad Arias
Olivia Trinidad Arias (born 18 May 1948 in Mexico) is the widow of George Harrison, former member of The Beatles. They were married on 2 September 1978, following George's divorce from Pattie Boyd, and had one son together, Dhani Harrison, born August 1, 1978. Olivia is the daughter of dry-cleaner Zeke Arias, and his wife Mary Louise, who worked as a seamstress. She has brothers named Peter, Ron and Gilbert and sisters named Chris, Louise and Linda. - David Burt
David Burt is a British actor, known primarily for his many and wide-ranging West End performances. Burt recently starred as the flamboyant Count Fosco opposite Yvette Robinson in Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Woman in White" at the Palace Theatre and was featured as Captain Andy Hawks in "Show Boat" at the Royal Albert Hall. - Jane Parker-Smith
Jane Parker-Smith is one of the world’s leading concert organists, acclaimed by the critics and public alike for her musicianship, virtuosity and interpretative ability. Her studies at the Royal College of Music in London were crowned with a number of prizes and scholarships, including the Walford Davies Prize for organ performance. After a further period of work with the concert organist Nicolas Kynaston, … - Jaime Laredo
Jaime Laredo (born June 7, 1941 in Cochabamba, Bolivia) is a violinist and conductor. Currently the conductor and Music Director of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, he began his musical career when he was five years old. In 1948 he came to North America and took lessons from Antonio DeGrass. He also studied with Frank Houser before moving to Cleveland, Ohio, to study under Josef Gingold in 1953. - Emma Lee
Emma Lee (born in Litchfield, UK, is a Television Presenter) who started television career in a competition for Channel Four. Emma is most famous for her presting role as presenter for Disney Channel (UK), for the Disney Channel Live segnments which later became Studio Disney. As a yearly event, Emma was one of few presenters to host the Disney Channel Kids Awards which were held in London Area until 2003, then hosted at London's Royal Albert Hall in the years of 2004, … - Robert Thompson
Robert Thompson (born January 10, 1979) is an American violinist, who performs on a 1849 Erlich violin from Dresden, Germany. Thompson was born in Oakland, California and currently lives in China. After graduating from Berklee College of Music (BM, Performance, World Tour Scholarship recipient) Robert immediately began touring and recording with The Hot Club of San Francisco. - Mander Organs
Mander Organs is an English pipe organ maker and refurbisher based in London. Although well known for many years in the world of organ building, they achieved wider notability in 2004 with their refurbishment of the Royal Albert Hall's Father Willis organ, making the Royal Albert Hall Organ the largest in the UK. Mander have completed several famous organs, chief among which is probably the 68-stop four manual and pedal organ in the Church of St Ignatius Loyola, …
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