Notable Alumni of Royal College of Music [Sorted List]

1. Camilla Tilling

1971-. (aged 55)

opera singer

Camilla Viktoria Rydh, best known as Camilla Tilling, is a Swedish soprano in opera and concert.

2. Douglas Lilburn

1915-2001 (aged 86)

composer

Douglas Gordon Lilburn ONZ was a New Zealand composer.

3. Hamish MacCunn

1868-1916 (aged 48)

conductor pianist musicologist composer music educator

Hamish MacCunn, né James MacCunn was a Scottish composer, conductor and teacher.

4. Peggy Glanville-Hicks

1912-1990 (aged 78)

music critic composer journalist

Peggy Winsome Glanville-Hicks was an Australian composer and music critic.

5. Sydney Watson

1903-1991 (aged 88)

music educator

Sydney Watson OBE was an English church musician who was the organist of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford and conductor of the Oxford Bach Choir from 1955 to 1970.

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6. Richard Harvey

1953-. (aged 73)

composer film score composer

Richard Allen Harvey is an English composer and musician. Originally a member of the mediaevalist progressive rock group Gryphon, he is best known now for his film and television soundtracks. He is also known for his guitar concerto Concerto Antico, which was composed for the guitarist John Williams and the London Symphony Orchestra.

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7. Valerie Masterson

1937-. (aged 89)

opera singer

Margaret Valerie Masterson CBE is a retired English opera singer, a lecturer, and Vice-President of British Youth Opera. After studying in Italy, she began to sing opera in Europe. Returning to England, Masterson performed as principal soprano with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company from 1964 to 1969, becoming popular with audiences and participating in several of the company's recordings, as...

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8. Gervase Elwes

1866-1921 (aged 55)

opera singer

Gervase Henry Cary-Elwes, DL, better known as Gervase Elwes, was an English tenor of great distinction, who exercised a powerful influence over the development of English music from the early 1900s up until his death in 1921 due to a railroad accident in Boston at the height of his career.

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9. Martin Shaw

1875-1958 (aged 83)

composer

Martin Edward Fallas Shaw OBE FRCM was an English composer, conductor, and (in his early life) theatre producer. His over 300 published works include songs, hymns, carols, oratorios, several instrumental works, a congregational mass setting (the Anglican Folk Mass), and four operas including a ballad opera.

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10. Simon Halsey

1958-. (aged 68)

conductor university teacher choir director music director

Simon Halsey, CBE is an English choral conductor. He is artistic advisor and choral director of the Oslo Philharmonic, principal guest conductor and choral ambassador of the Orfeó Català, principal guest conductor of the WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, and the chorus director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus (CBSO Chorus), a position he has held since 1983. He is also...

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11. Colin Mawby

1936-2019 (aged 83)

composer conductor

Colin Mawby KSG was an English organist, choral conductor and composer. From 1961 he was Master of Music at Westminster Cathedral, then from 1981 he was the choral director at Radio Telefís Éireann. He composed masses dedicated to specific choirs, including in Germany. He was awarded Knighthood of the Order of St. Gregory in 2006.

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12. Ivor Bolton

1958-. (aged 68)

conductor harpsichordist

Ivor Bolton CBE is an English conductor and harpsichordist.

13. Lucy Winkett

1968-. (aged 58)

precentor Anglican priest

Lucy Clare Winkett is a British Anglican priest, who since 2010 has been the Rector of St James's Church, Piccadilly. Her early ordained ministry was spent at St Paul's Cathedral, London, where she was a minor canon and chaplain from 1997 to 2003, and the canon precentor from 2003 to 2010. She was the first female priest to join the...

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14. Nicholas McCarthy

1989-. (aged 37)

pianist

Nicholas McCarthy is a British classical pianist. He was born without a right hand and became the first left-hand-only pianist to graduate from the Royal College of Music in London in its 130-year history.

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15. Beatrice Harrison

1892-1965 (aged 73)

cellist

Beatrice Harrison was a British cellist active in the first half of the 20th century. She gave first performances of several important English works, especially those of Frederick Delius, and made the first or standard recordings of others, particularly the first recording of Edward Elgar's cello concerto in 1920, with the composer conducting.

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16. Walford Davies

1869-1941 (aged 72)

university teacher organist composer

Sir Henry Walford Davies KCVO OBE was an English composer, organist, and educator who held the title Master of the King's Music from 1934 until 1941. He served with the Royal Air Force during the First World War, during which he composed the Royal Air Force March Past, and was music adviser to the British Broadcasting Corporation, for whom he...

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17. Cherry Vann

1958-. (aged 68)

Anglican bishop Archbishop of Wales

Cherry Elizabeth Vann is a British Anglican bishop serving in the Church in Wales as Archbishop of Wales since 2025 and Bishop of Monmouth since 2020. She is the first woman to be elected as an Anglican archbishop in the United Kingdom and the first openly gay and partnered bishop to serve as a primate in the Anglican Communion. Before...

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18. Katharine Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl

1874-1960 (aged 86)

civil servant aristocrat politician

Katharine Marjory Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl, DBE, known as the Marchioness of Tullibardine from 1899 to 1917, was a Scottish noblewoman and Scottish Unionist Party politician. She was the first woman to be elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) in Scotland, despite having campaigned against women's suffrage before it was granted in 1918. She was the first woman to...

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19. Fanny Waterman

1920-2020 (aged 100)

music educator pianist

Dame Fanny Waterman DBE was a British pianist and academic piano teacher, who is particularly known as the founder, chair and artistic director of the Leeds International Piano Competition. She was also president of the Harrogate International Music Festival.

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20. Carlos Miranda

1945-2016 (aged 71)

pianist actor composer

Luis Carlos Miranda Cordal, also known as Carlos Miranda, is a Spanish composer, pianist, conductor and actor.

21. Elin Manahan Thomas

1977-. (aged 49)

opera singer

Elin Manahan Thomas is a Welsh soprano. A specialist in Baroque music, she sang at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in May 2018.

22. Elizabeth Maconchy

1907-1994 (aged 87)

composer

Dame Elizabeth Violet Maconchy LeFanu DBE was an English-Irish composer. She is considered to be one of the finest composers Great Britain and Ireland have produced.

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23. Tim Mead

1981-. (aged 45)

singer performing artist opera singer

Tim Mead is an English countertenor.

24. Alexander Romanovsky

1984-. (aged 42)

pianist

Alexander Alexandrovich Romanovsky is a Ukrainian-born classical pianist resident in Italy. Romanovsky self-identifies as Russian while performing in Russia, and in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories.

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25. Kathryn Stott

1958-. (aged 68)

music educator pianist

Kathryn Stott is an English classical pianist who performs as a concerto soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. Her specialities include the English and French classical repertoire, contemporary classical music and the tango. She is a professor at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester and has organised several music festivals and concert series.

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26. Charles Wood

1866-1926 (aged 60)

pedagogue teacher composer

Charles Wood was an Irish composer and teacher; his students included Ralph Vaughan Williams at Cambridge and Herbert Howells at the Royal College of Music. He is primarily remembered and performed as an Anglican church music composer, but he also wrote songs and chamber music, particularly for string quartet.

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27. Arthur Benjamin

1893-1960 (aged 67)

conductor pianist film score composer composer music educator

Arthur Leslie Benjamin was an Australian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher. He is best known as the composer of Jamaican Rumba (1938) and of the Storm Clouds Cantata, featured in both versions of the Alfred Hitchcock film The Man who Knew Too Much, in 1934 and 1956.

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28. Clara Butt

1872-1936 (aged 64)

opera singer

Dame Clara Ellen Butt DBE was an English dramatic contralto and one of the most popular singers from the 1890s through to the 1920s. She had an exceptionally fine contralto voice and an agile singing technique, and impressed contemporary composers such as Saint-Saëns and Elgar; the latter composed his Sea Pictures, Op. 37 with her voice in mind.

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29. Peter Oundjian

1955-. (aged 71)

music educator conductor

Peter Haig Oundjian is a Canadian violinist and conductor.

30. Caroline Lavelle

1969-. (aged 57)

composer singer-songwriter cellist singer

Caroline Lavelle is an English singer-songwriter and cellist who has created three solo albums and contributed vocals, music, and production help to many other artists and bands.

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31. Ernest John Moeran

1894-1950 (aged 56)

composer musicologist

Ernest John Smeed Moeran was an Anglo-Irish composer whose work was strongly influenced by English and Irish folk music of which he was an assiduous collector. His oeuvre includes orchestral pieces, concertos, chamber and keyboard works, and a number of choral and song cycles as well as individual songs.

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32. Elisabeth Lutyens

1906-1983 (aged 77)

composer film score composer

Agnes Elisabeth Lutyens, CBE was an English composer.

33. Edward Downes

1924-2009 (aged 85)

conductor oboist

Sir Edward Thomas "Ted" Downes, CBE was an English conductor, specialising in opera.

34. Arthur Bliss

1891-1975 (aged 84)

choreographer film score composer composer

Sir Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss was British composer and conductor.

35. Mark-Anthony Turnage

1960-. (aged 66)

musicologist music educator composer

Mark-Anthony Turnage is an English composer of contemporary classical music.

36. Constant Lambert

1905-1951 (aged 46)

conductor music director film score composer composer jazz musician

Leonard Constant Lambert was a British composer, conductor, and author. He was the founding music director of the Royal Ballet, and (alongside Dame Ninette de Valois and Sir Frederick Ashton) he was a major figure in the establishment of the English ballet as a significant artistic movement.

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37. Wayne Marshall

1961-. (aged 65)

pianist conductor organist

Wayne Ea Marshall OBE is a British pianist, organist, and conductor.

38. Lilli Paasikivi

1965-. (aged 61)

opera singer musician

Lilli Katriina Paasikivi-Ilves is a Finnish mezzo-soprano and cultural manager. She served as the Artistic Director of the Finnish National Opera from 2013 to 2023 and is currently the Intendant of the Bregenz Festival in Austria.

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39. Ephraim Amu

1899-1995 (aged 96)

musicologist teacher composer

Ephraim Kɔku Amu was a Ghanaian composer, musicologist and teacher. He was a mentor to the musicologist J. H. Kwabena Nketia.

40. Julius Drake

1959-. (aged 67)

pianist music educator musician

Julius Drake is an English pianist who works as a song recital accompanist and chamber musician.

41. Hugh McDowell

1953-2018 (aged 65)

musician

Hugh Alexander McDowell was an English cellist and member of the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) and related acts.

42. Steve Nieve

1958-. (aged 68)

composer

Steve Nieve is an English musician and composer. In a career spanning more than 40 years, Nieve has been a member of Elvis Costello's backing bands the Attractions and the Imposters, as well as Madness. He has also experienced success as a prolific session musician, featured on a wide array of other artists' recordings.

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43. Roger Norrington

1934-2025 (aged 91)

conductor musician

Sir Roger Arthur Carver Norrington was an English conductor, best known for historically informed performances of baroque, classical, and romantic music, which often entailed minimal use of vibrato and applying historically informed principles to modern orchestras.

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44. Philip Sparke

1951-. (aged 75)

composer conductor trumpeter musician

Philip Allen Sparke is an English composer and musician born in London, noted for his concert band and brass band music. His early major works include The Land of the Long White Cloud – "Aotearoa", written for the 1980 Centennial New Zealand Brass Band championship. He subsequently went on to win the EBU New Music for Band Competition three times,...

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45. Eugen d'Albert

1864-1932 (aged 68)

composer pianist

Eugen Francis Charles d'Albert (10 April 1864 – 3 March 1932) was a Scottish-born pianist and composer who immigrated to Germany.

46. Sarah Connolly

1963-. (aged 63)

opera singer

Dame Sarah Patricia Connolly DBE is an English mezzo-soprano. Although best known for her baroque and classical roles, Connolly has a wide-ranging repertoire which has included works by Wagner as well as various 20th-century composers. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours and a Dame Commander of the...

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47. Alina Ibragimova

1985-. (aged 41)

classical violinist violinist

Alina Rinatovna Ibragimova MBE is a Russian-British violinist.

48. George Butterworth

1885-1916 (aged 31)

composer musicologist

George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, MC was an English composer who was best known for the orchestral idyll The Banks of Green Willow and his song settings of A. E. Housman's poems from A Shropshire Lad. He was awarded the Military Cross for his gallantry during the fighting at the Battle of Pozières in the First World War, and died during...

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49. Trevor Pinnock

1946-. (aged 80)

conductor pianist choir director music educator harpsichordist

Trevor David Pinnock CBE is a British harpsichordist and conductor.

50. Imogen Holst

1907-1984 (aged 77)

conductor writer musicologist composer biographer

Imogen Clare Holst CBE was a British composer, arranger, conductor, teacher, musicologist and festival administrator. The only child of the composer Gustav Holst, she is particularly known for her educational work at Dartington Hall in the 1940s, and for her 20 years as joint artistic director of the Aldeburgh Festival. In addition to composing music, she wrote composer biographies, much...

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51. David Warburton

1965-2025 (aged 60)

musician politician music teacher composer truck driver

David John Warburton was a British Conservative politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Somerton and Frome from 2015 until 2023.

52. Frank Bridge

1879-1941 (aged 62)

composer violist conductor music educator

Frank Bridge was an English composer, violist and conductor.

53. John Ireland

1879-1962 (aged 83)

composer organist music educator film score composer

John Nicholson Ireland was an English composer and teacher of music. The majority of his output consists of piano miniatures and of songs with piano. His best-known works include the short instrumental or orchestral work "The Holy Boy", a setting of the poem "Sea-Fever" by John Masefield, a formerly much-played Piano Concerto, the hymn tune Love Unknown and the choral...

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54. Gwyneth Jones

1936-. (aged 90)

opera singer

Dame Gwyneth Jones DBE is a Welsh dramatic soprano, widely regarded as one of the greatest Wagnerian sopranos of the second half of the 20th century. The possessor of a large-scaled, powerful dramatic soprano voice, joined to a vivid stage presence and finely developed acting ability, Jones enjoyed an extensive international career that took her to all the world's major...

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55. Clemency Burton-Hill

1981-. (aged 45)

actor writer film actor broadcaster journalist

Clemency Margaret Greatrex Burton-Hill is an English broadcaster, author, novelist, journalist, and violinist. In her early career she also worked as an actress. In January 2020, she suffered a brain haemorrhage caused by a cerebral arteriovenous malformation and underwent emergency surgery in New York City. She continues to work on her recovery.

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56. Anna Fedorova

1990-. (aged 36)

classical pianist

Anna Borysivna Fedorova is a Ukrainian concert pianist. Fedorova performs as soloist, chamber musician and with symphony orchestras in the major concert halls of the Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy, the UK, Ukraine, Poland, the US, Mexico, Argentina, and parts of Asia. Fedorova is a David Young Piano Prize Holder supported by a Soiree d'Or Award and Keyboard Trust.

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57. Peter Pears

1910-1986 (aged 76)

singer composer opera singer

Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears CBE was an English tenor. His career was closely associated with the composer Benjamin Britten, his personal and professional partner for nearly forty years.

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58. Barbara Thompson

1944-2022 (aged 78)

composer saxophonist jazz musician flautist

Barbara Gracey Thompson MBE was an English jazz saxophonist, flautist and composer. She studied clarinet, flute, piano and classical composition at the Royal College of Music, but the music of Duke Ellington and John Coltrane made her shift her interests to jazz and saxophone. She was married to drummer Jon Hiseman of Colosseum from 1967 until his death in 2018.

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59. Colin Davis

1927-2013 (aged 86)

conductor university teacher engineer music educator music director

Sir Colin Rex Davis CH CBE was an English conductor, known for his association with the London Symphony Orchestra, having first conducted it in 1959. His repertoire was broad, but among the composers with whom he was particularly associated were Mozart, Berlioz, Elgar, Sibelius, Stravinsky and Tippett.

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60. Andrew Davis

1946-. (aged 80)

film producer screenwriter cinematographer director film screenwriter

Sir Andrew Frank Davis CBE was an English conductor. He was the long-time chief conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. He was music director at the Glyndebourne Festival from 1988 to 2000, and especially known for conducting the traditional Last Night of The Proms, including Last Night speeches. He was music...

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61. Laura Wright

1970-. (aged 56)

academic man of letters writer literary scholar university teacher

Laura Kathryn Wright is an English mezzo-soprano. She is a classical-popular crossover singer who performs classical and operatic music, popular songs, musical theatre, and folk songs.

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62. Malcolm Arnold

1921-2006 (aged 85)

conductor film score composer composer classical composer jazz musician

Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold CBE was an English composer and conductor. His works feature music in many genres, including a cycle of nine symphonies, numerous concertos, concert works, chamber music, choral music and music for brass band and wind band. His style is tonal and rejoices in lively rhythms, brilliant orchestration, and an unabashed tunefulness. He wrote extensively for the...

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63. Amanda Aldridge

1866-1956 (aged 90)

music educator composer opera singer

Amanda Christina Elizabeth Aldridge, also known as Amanda Ira Aldridge, was a British opera singer and teacher who composed love songs, suites, sambas, and light orchestral pieces under the pseudonym of Montague Ring.

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64. Neville Marriner

1924-2016 (aged 92)

composer conductor violinist musician

Sir Neville Marriner, CH, CBE was an English conductor and violinist. Described as "one of the world's greatest conductors", Gramophone lists Marriner as one of the 50 greatest conductors and another compilation ranks Marriner #14 of the 18 "Greatest and Most Famous Conductors of All Time". He founded the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, and his partnership with...

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65. Michalis Chatzigiannis

1978-. (aged 48)

singer record producer composer pianist songwriter

Michalis Hatzigiannis is a Greek Cypriot singer. He served as the Deputy Minister of Culture for Cyprus under President Christodoulides, from March 1, 2023 until July 11, 2023.

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66. Julian Lloyd Webber

1951-. (aged 75)

choreographer composer performing artist cellist musician

Julian Lloyd Webber is a British solo cellist, conductor and broadcaster, a former principal of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and the founder of the In Harmony music education programme.

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67. Christopher Tin

1976-. (aged 50)

film score composer conductor composer

Christopher Chiyan Tin is an American composer of art music, composing for film, television, and video game soundtracks. His work is primarily orchestral and choral, often with a world music influence. He is a two-time Grammy Award winner.

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68. Julian Bream

1933-2020 (aged 87)

music educator guitarist composer classical guitarist musician

Julian Alexander Bream CBE was an English classical guitarist and lutenist. Regarded as one of the most distinguished classical guitarists of the 20th century, he played a significant role in improving the public perception of the classical guitar as a respectable instrument. Over the course of a career that spanned more than half a century, Bream also helped revive interest...

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69. Leopold Stokowski

1882-1977 (aged 95)

conductor organist composer

Leopold Anthony Stokowski was a British conductor. One of the leading conductors of the early and mid-20th century, he is best known for his long association with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He was especially noted for his free-hand conducting style that spurned the traditional baton and for obtaining a characteristic sound from the orchestras he directed.

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70. John Williams

1932-. (aged 94)

composer pianist conductor film score composer

John Christopher Williams AO OBE is an Australian-born classical guitarist renowned for his ensemble playing as well as his interpretation and promotion of the modern classical guitar repertoire. In 1973, he shared a Grammy Award in the Best Chamber Music Performance category with fellow guitarist Julian Bream for Together (released in the US as Julian and John (Works by Lawes,...

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71. Joan Sutherland

1926-2010 (aged 84)

opera singer

Dame Joan Alston Sutherland was an Australian dramatic coloratura soprano known for her contribution to the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s to the 1980s.

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72. Claire van Kampen

1953-2025 (aged 72)

music director pianist theatrical director playwright composer

Claire Louise van Kampen, Lady Rylance was an English director, composer, and playwright. She was the founding director of music at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre from 1997 to 2015, first as assistant to her husband, actor and director Mark Rylance, then with his successor, Dominic Dromgoole, often creating "period" music for Shakespeare's plays. Van Kampen composed music for productions in both...

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73. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

1875-1912 (aged 37)

pianist conductor composer

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was a British composer and conductor. He was particularly known for his three cantatas on the epic 1855 poem The Song of Hiawatha by American Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Coleridge-Taylor premiered the first section in 1898, when he was 23. Of mixed-race descent, Coleridge-Taylor achieved such success that he was referred to by white musicians in New York City...

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74. James Galway

1939-. (aged 87)

conductor concert flutist classical flautist

Sir James Galway OBE is an Irish virtuoso flute player from Belfast, nicknamed "The Man with the Golden Flute". After several years working as an orchestral musician, he established an international career as a solo flute player. In 2005, he received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music at the Classic Brit Awards.

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75. Marion Stein

1926-2014 (aged 88)

pianist aristocrat musician

Maria Donata Nanetta Paulina Gustava Erwina Wilhelmine Stein, known as Marion Stein, was an Austrian-born British concert pianist. During her marriage to George Lascelles, Earl of Harewood, she was known as Marion Lascelles, Countess of Harewood and was a member of the extended British royal family. After her divorce and subsequent remarriage to British politician Jeremy Thorpe, leader of the...

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76. Rick Wakeman

1949-. (aged 77)

pianist television presenter composer keyboardist film score composer

Richard Christopher Wakeman is an English keyboardist and composer best known as a member of the progressive rock band Yes across five tenures between 1971 and 2004, and for his prolific solo career. AllMusic describes Wakeman as a "classically trained keyboardist extraordinaire who plied his trade with Yes and developed his own brand of live spectacular in a solo act."

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77. Pedro Pablo Kuczynski

1938-. (aged 88)

banker economist politician

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Godard, also known simply as PPK ( Spanish: [pepeˈka]), is a Peruvian economist, public administrator, and former politician who served as the president of Peru from 2016 to 2018. He served as prime minister of Peru and as minister of economy and finance during the presidency of Alejandro Toledo. Kuczynski resigned from the presidency on 23 March...

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78. Benjamin Britten

1913-1976 (aged 63)

conductor politician pianist composer choreographer

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten OM CH was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces. His best-known works include the opera Peter Grimes (1945), the War Requiem (1962) and the orchestral showpiece The Young Person's Guide to the...

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79. Vanessa-Mae

1978-. (aged 48)

violinist composer alpine skier

Vanessa-Mae, also called Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson, is a Singaporean-born British violinist and skier with Thai heritage from her father. Her album sales reached several million by 2006, making her the wealthiest entertainer aged under 30 in the United Kingdom at that time. She is known for fusing classical and popular genres, which she calls "violin techno-acoustic fusion". This crossover style...

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80. Ralph Vaughan Williams

1872-1958 (aged 86)

pedagogue composer classical composer conductor organist

Ralph Vaughan Williams OM was an English composer. His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over sixty years. Strongly influenced by Tudor music and English folk-song, his output marked a decisive break in British music from its German-dominated style of the 19th century.

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81. Alfie Boe

1973-. (aged 53)

stage actor recording artist opera singer

Alfred Giovanni Roncalli Boe is an English actor and singer who performs primarily in musical theatre.

82. James Horner

1953-2015 (aged 62)

composer conductor film score composer orchestrator

James Roy Horner was an American composer and conductor. He worked on more than 160 film and television productions between 1978 and 2015. He was known for the integration of choral and electronic elements alongside traditional orchestrations, and for his use of motifs associated with Celtic music.

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83. Lang Lang

1982-. (aged 44)

classical pianist

Lang Lang is a Chinese classical pianist. He has performed with major orchestras around the world and appeared at many leading concert halls. Active since the 1990s, he was the first Chinese pianist to be engaged by the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic and many of the top American orchestras. In 2000, a Chicago Tribune music critic called him "the...

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84. Mika

1983-. (aged 43)

singer polyglot singer-songwriter pianist songwriter

Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr., known professionally as Mika, is a singer-songwriter born in Beirut, Lebanon, and raised in Paris and London. Mika rose to prominence after the release of his first extended play, Dodgy Holiday. His debut single "Relax, Take It Easy", was released in October 2006, and topped the charts throughout Europe. His first full-length studio album, Life in...

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85. Sarah Brightman

1960-. (aged 66)

stage actor opera singer singer-songwriter actor film actor

Sarah Brightman is an English classical crossover soprano singer and actress.

86. Denise Orme

1885-1960 (aged 75)

singer musician opera singer

Jessie Smither, Duchess of Leinster, known by her stage name Denise Orme, was an English music hall singer, actress and musician who appeared regularly at the Alhambra and Gaiety Theatres in London in the early years of the 20th century. Married, successively, to an English baron, a Danish millionaire, and an Irish duke, she was the maternal grandmother of Aga...

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87. Rebecca Clarke

1886-1979 (aged 93)

composer violist musicologist musician

Rebecca Helferich Clarke was a British classical composer and violist. Internationally renowned as a viola virtuoso, she also became one of the first female professional orchestral players in London.

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88. Andrew Lloyd Webber

1948-. (aged 78)

politician theatrical director producer composer businessperson

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 21 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass.

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89. Gustav Holst

1874-1934 (aged 60)

librettist music teacher composer

Gustav Holst was an English composer, arranger and teacher. Best known for his orchestral suite The Planets, he composed many other works across a range of genres, although none achieved comparable success. His distinctive compositional style was the product of many influences, Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss being most crucial early in his development. The subsequent inspiration of the English...

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90. Anna Meredith

1978-. (aged 48)

composer musician

Anna Howard Meredith MBE is a Scottish composer and performer of electronic and acoustic music. She is a former composer-in-residence with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and former PRS/RPS Composer in the House with Sinfonia ViVA.

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91. Peter Jonas

1946-2020 (aged 74)

theatre manager intendant talent manager

Sir John Peter Jonas CBE FRCM FRSA was a British arts administrator and opera company director.

92. Edmund Rubbra

1901-1986 (aged 85)

pianist musicologist composer

Edmund Rubbra was a British composer. He composed both instrumental and vocal works for soloists, chamber groups and full choruses and orchestras. He was greatly esteemed by fellow musicians and was at the peak of his fame in the mid-20th century. The best known of his pieces are his eleven symphonies. Although he was active at a time when many...

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93. Gareth Malone

1975-. (aged 51)

conductor television presenter choir director musician

Gareth Edmund Malone OBE is an English choirmaster and broadcaster, self-described as an "animateur, presenter and populariser of choral singing". He is best known for his television appearances in programmes such as The Choir, which focus on singing and introducing choral music to new participants. Malone was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2012...

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94. Javier Álvarez

1956-2023 (aged 67)

composer academic musician

Javier Álvarez Fuentes was a Mexican composer known for compositions that combined a variety of international musical styles and traditions, and that often utilized unusual instruments and new music technologies. Many of his works combine music technology with diverse instruments and influences from around the world. He taught internationally, in the UK and Sweden, and back in Mexico later in...

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95. Sofi Jeannin

1976-. (aged 50)

choir director singer

Sofi Jeannin is a Swedish choral conductor and mezzo-soprano.

96. Ola Gjeilo

1978-. (aged 48)

pianist composer classical pianist

Ola Gjeilo is a Norwegian composer and pianist in the United States.

97. Eileen Joyce

1908-1991 (aged 83)

pianist harpsichordist

Eileen Alannah Joyce CMG was an Australian pianist whose career spanned more than 30 years. She lived in England in her adult years.

98. Alexander Shelley

1979-. (aged 47)

conductor

Alexander Gordon Shelley is an English conductor. He is the music director of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, principal associate conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Artistic and Music Director of Artis—Naples and the Naples Philharmonic and artistic and music director of the Pacific Symphony.

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99. Arnold Dolmetsch

1858-1940 (aged 82)

musical instrument maker musicologist luthier harpsichordist music theorist

Eugène Arnold Dolmetsch, was a French-born musician and instrument maker who spent much of his working life in England and established an instrument-making workshop in Haslemere, Surrey. With his family, he was a leading figure in the 20th-century revival of interest in early music.

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100. Richard Bonynge

1930-. (aged 96)

conductor pianist

Richard Alan Bonynge is an Australian conductor and pianist. He is the widower of Australian dramatic coloratura soprano Dame Joan Sutherland. Bonynge conducted virtually all of Sutherland's operatic performances from 1962 until her retirement in 1990.

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