query: who founded the royal academy of music answers

pos: Royal Academy of Music Royal Academy of Music The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is the oldest conservatoire in the UK, founded in 1822 by John Fane and Nicolas-Charles Bochsa. It received its Royal Charter in 1830 from King George IV with the support of the first Duke of Wellington. It is one of the leading conservatoires in the world, rated fourth in the "Complete University Guide" and third in the "Guardian University Guide" for 2018. Famous Academy alumni include Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Sir Elton John and Annie Lennox. The Academy provides undergraduate and postgraduate training across instrumental performance,

pos: Royal Academy of Music (Hon DMus). The Royal Academy of Music manages the Royal Academy of Music Bach Prize (sponsored by the Kohn Foundation), a music award to musicians or scholars who have made an important contribution to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.<ref name=" Royal Academy of Music / Kohn Foundation Bach Prize is awarded to John Butt "></ref> The Gilbert Betjemann Prize is a gold medal awarded by the Royal Academy of Music “for operatic singing”. Royal Academy of Music The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is the oldest conservatoire in the UK, founded in 1822 by John Fane and

pos: Royal Academy of Music leading performers. It is a constituent college of the University of London and a registered charity under English law. The Academy was founded by John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas Bochsa. The Academy was granted a Royal Charter by King George IV in 1830. The founding of the Academy was greatly supported by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. He was a keen violinist himself and was determined to make the Academy a success. The Academy faced closure in 1866; this was part of the reason

neg: Royal Irish Academy of Music Royal Irish Academy of Music The Royal Irish Academy of Music (RIAM) in Dublin, Ireland, is one of Europe's oldest music conservatoires, specialising in Classical Music and the Irish harp. It is located in a Georgian building on Westland Row in Dublin. An institution which offers tuition from age 4 up to doctorate level, the RIAM has taught music performers and composers who have gone on to acclaim on the world stage. It is an associate college of the University of Dublin, Trinity College. The RIAM was founded in 1848 by a group of music enthusiasts including John Stanford (father

neg: The Royal Conservatory of Music between 1918 and 1924 witnessed a series of mergers among music conservatories in Toronto. The Toronto College of Music was founded in 1888 by conductor F.H. Torrington, and became the first music conservatory affiliated with the University of Toronto. After Torrington's death in 1917, the school merged with the Canadian Academy of Music in 1918. The Academy itself had been founded in 1911 by Albert Gooderham, who financed the school out of his own personal fortune and served as the school's only president during its 13-year history. The Academy, in turn, merged into the Toronto Conservatory of Music in 1924.

neg: Women in Sweden and women were officially recognized: Eva Ekeblad was inducted in the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Ulrika Pasch in the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, and Elisabeth Olin in the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. Numerous schools for girls were founded in the 18th century: in 1786, "Societetsskolan", the first serious educational institution for females, was founded. An achievement to arouse attention was that of Aurora Liljenroth, who graduated from the gymnasium of Visingsö in 1788. In the first half of the 19th century, a population growth, in combination with changes in society caused by the economic crisis of the

neg: Royal Academy of Music (company) Royal Academy of Music (company) The Royal Academy of Music was a company founded in February 1719, during George Frideric Handel's residence at Cannons, by a group of aristocrats to secure themselves a constant supply of baroque opera or opera seria. It is not connected to the London conservatoire with the same name, which was founded in 1822. It commissioned large numbers of new operas from three of the leading composers in Europe: Handel, Attilio Ariosti and Giovanni Bononcini. The Academy took the legal form of a joint-stock corporation under letters patent issued by George I of Great Britain for

neg: Royal Academy of Music musicians who are not alumni (Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music, Hon RAM), alumni who have made a significant contribution to the music profession (Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, ARAM) and to people who are not alumni but have offered important services to the institution (Honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, Hon ARAM). Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Music (Hon FRAM) is awarded by the Governing Body of the Academy. As a full member of the University of London, the Academy can nominate people to the University of London Honorary Doctor degree

neg: Stockholm part of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1771, the Royal University College of Fine Arts, which has a similar historical association with the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts and a foundation date of 1735, and the Swedish National Academy of Mime and Acting, which is the continuation of the school of the Royal Dramatic Theatre, once attended by Greta Garbo. Other schools include the design school Konstfack, founded in 1844, the University College of Opera (founded in 1968, but with older roots), the University College of Dance, and the "Stockholms Musikpedagogiska Institut" (the University College of Music Education).

neg: Education in Stockholm History, and the botanical garden Bergianska trädgården. The Stockholm School of Economics, founded in 1909, is one of few private institutions of higher education in Sweden. In the fine arts, educational institutions include the Royal College of Music, which has a history going back to the conservatory founded as part of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1771, the Royal University College of Fine Arts, which has a similar historical association with the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts and a foundation date of 1735, and the Swedish National Academy of Mime and Acting, which is the continuation of the

neg: Royal Academy of Music (company) about the employment of new singers and squabbles on stage, but for all the Academy's problems, its success was enormous. Royal Academy of Music (company) The Royal Academy of Music was a company founded in February 1719, during George Frideric Handel's residence at Cannons, by a group of aristocrats to secure themselves a constant supply of baroque opera or opera seria. It is not connected to the London conservatoire with the same name, which was founded in 1822. It commissioned large numbers of new operas from three of the leading composers in Europe: Handel, Attilio Ariosti and Giovanni Bononcini. The

neg: Robert Ames (conductor) Robert Ames (conductor) Robert Ames (born 8 October 1985) is a British conductor and violist, who holds the positions of co-Artistic Director and co-Principal Conductor of the London Contemporary Orchestra Born in Kettering, Northamptonshire, he studied at the Royal Academy of Music. While at University, Robert met Hugh Brunt, who together founded the London Contemporary Orchestra in 2008. He was made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in 2016. In September 2016 he was announced as the co-principal conductor of the London Contemporary Orchestra where he conducts across an eclectic range of venues from Oval Space in East

neg: Royal Academy of Music Simon Rattle, Arthur Sullivan, Eva Turner, Henry Wood and Nicky Hopkins. The current principal of the Academy is Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, appointed in July 2008. The Patron is HM The Queen and the president is the Duchess of Gloucester. Diana, Princess of Wales was the president of the Academy from 1985 until 1996. The Royal Academy of Music publishes every year a list of persons who have been selected to be awarded one of the Royal Academy’s honorary awards. These awards are for alumni who have distinguished themselves within the music profession (Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, FRAM), distinguished

neg: Rachel Podger a professor of Baroque violin at both the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and also teaches regularly at the Hochschule für Künste, Bremen. On September 2008, she took up the newly founded Micaela Comberti Chair for Baroque violin at the Royal Academy of Music in London and then became professor of Baroque violin at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. When not touring with various orchestras and other classical players, Podger works with her partner in Brecon, South Wales, helping young musicians through the Mozart Music Fund, which

neg: University of Music and Performing Arts Munich part of the University. In 1846, a private institution called the Royal Conservatory of Music ("Königliches Conservatorium für Musik") was founded, and in 1867, at the suggestion of Richard Wagner, this was transformed by King Ludwig II into the Royal Bavarian Music School ("Königliche bayerische Musikschule"), financed privately by Ludwig II until gaining the status of a state institution in 1874. It has since been renamed several times: to the Royal Academy of the Art of Music ("Königliche Akademie der Tonkunst"), the State Academy of Music ("Staatliche Akademie der Tonkunst"), the University for Music ("Hochschule für Musik") and finally to

neg: Royal Academy of Performing Arts Royal Academy of Performing Arts The Royal Academy of Performing Arts (RAPA) is a Bhutanese government body within the Ministry of Home and Cultural Affairs, Department of Culture, that supports the preservation of traditional Bhutanese culture. It was founded in 1954 under the initiative of the Third Druk Gyalpo Jigme Dorji Wangchuck. In 1967, it was institutionalised as an academy and the Royal Dance troupe was its creation. The Academy is located in Thimphu, along Chhophel Lam. The Academy trains young dancers and musicians in both religious and secular folk music and dance. The Academy also documents and performs live

neg: Samfundet De Nio texts about Swedish literature. Editors have included Olle Holmberg, Algot Werin and Knut Ahnlund. Samfundet De Nio also published "Artes" (1975–2005) together with the Swedish Academy, Royal Swedish Academy of Music and the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts. Since 2003 they publish a literary calendar together with Norstedts Förlag. Samfundet De Nio Samfundet De Nio ("The Nine Society") is a Swedish literary society founded on 14 February 1913 in Stockholm by a testamentary donation from writer Lotten von Kraemer. The society has nine members who are elected for life. Its purpose is to promote Swedish literature, peace and women's issues.

neg: Utile Dulci members. Utile Dulci The Utile Dulci was a learned and musical Academy and Secret Society in Stockholm in Sweden. It was founded in memory of Olof von Dalin in 1766, and held its last session in 1795. The Utile Dulci was alongside the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities the predecessor of the Swedish Academy (1786) and the Royal Swedish Academy of Music (1771), and the Utile Dulci suffered hard competition when the latter was founded. It was an important part of the Swedish culture life and, among other things, hosted public concerts. During the 1780s, it had

neg: Utile Dulci Utile Dulci The Utile Dulci was a learned and musical Academy and Secret Society in Stockholm in Sweden. It was founded in memory of Olof von Dalin in 1766, and held its last session in 1795. The Utile Dulci was alongside the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities the predecessor of the Swedish Academy (1786) and the Royal Swedish Academy of Music (1771), and the Utile Dulci suffered hard competition when the latter was founded. It was an important part of the Swedish culture life and, among other things, hosted public concerts. During the 1780s, it had 540

neg: Badke Quartet Badke Quartet The Badke Quartet is a British string quartet. Founded in 2002 at London's Royal Academy of Music, it regularly performs at leading venues throughout the UK, Ireland and the rest of Europe. In 2014, the quartet was appointed quartet in residence at Royal Holloway University of London. From 2005 to 2009 the Quartet held the Senior Leverhulme Chamber Music Fellowship at the Royal Academy of Music. The members of the quartet are Charlotte Scott and Emma Parker, violins, Jon Thorne, viola, and Jonathan Byers, cello. The quartet has worked with some of the world’s greatest string quartets and

neg: Aarhus collaboration with Aarhus University. The latter is offered through the Centre for University studies in Journalism, granting degrees through the university. The Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus ("Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium") is a conservatoire, established under the auspices of the Danish Ministry of Culture in 1927. In 2010, it merged administratively with the Royal Academy of Music in Aalborg, which was founded in 1930. Under the patronage of His Royal Highness Crown Prince Frederik, it offers graduate level studies in areas such as music teaching, and solo and professional musicianship. VIA University College was established in January 2008 and is

neg: Milan Vitek Winther, as well as the Danish Chamber Orchestra. In 1970, he co-founded the Danish Chamber Orchestra. [2] In 1972, Vitek received an invitation to join the Czech String Quartet, resident at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, where he also became a professor of violin. He also played as concert master[?] in the Hamilton Symphony Orchestra. In 1974, he returned to Denmark as Professor of Violin at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, a position which held until 2001. During his tenure there, he founded and conducted the Royal Danish Academy of Music Chamber Orchestra (1974)[2], with which he toured to

neg: Tagore family took to painting in oils themselves. Shoutindramohan Tagore (1865–98) was one of the first Indians to have studied at the Royal Academy. Sir Sourindramohan Tagore (1840–1914), son of Harakumar Tagore, better known as Raja Sir Sourindro Mohun Tagore or simply S. M. Tagore, was a great musicologist who was awarded a Doctor of Music degree by the University of Pennsylvania in 1875 and a D. Litt (Honoris Causa) by Oxford University in 1896. He was proficient in both Indian and Western music. He founded the Banga Sangeet Vidyalaya in 1871 and the Bengal Academy of Music in 1881. He was

neg: Julia Goodman the Royal Academy and The Society of British Artists. One of her earliest original works was a portrait of Mr. Gilbert Abbott à Beckett. Other sitters included the Earl of Westmorland (who founded the Royal Academy of Music), Sir George A. MacFarren, Sir John Erichsen, Lady Martins, David Woolf Marks, Vere Lady Isham, the Hon. Mrs. Le Poer Tench, Countess Waldegrave, Sir Henry Taylor, Joaquin Cuadras (shown at the Exhibition of the Society of Female Artists in London in 1864), Colonel Thorpe of Guernsey, Colonel Thurburn, Charles Bertram, Miss Fanny Corbaux, Miss Beattie Kingston, Miss Kate Rorke, Dr. Van Oven,

neg: Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy has 40 full members, excepting those who have reached the age of 70, and 30 foreign members. The Gustavus Adolphus Academy publishes the periodicals "Saga och sed: Kungl. Gustav Adolfs akademiens årsbok", founded in 1934 and "Arv: Nordic yearbook of folklore", founded in 1946, and "Svenska landsmål och svenskt folkliv" (English title: "Swedish dialects and folk traditions"), published since 1904 by the Archives for Dialect and Folklore studies in Uppsala and taken over by the Academy in 1996. Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy The Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy (Swedish Kungliga Gustav Adolfs Akademien) in Uppsala is one of 18 Swedish royal

neg: Staffan Scheja in the US and performed in concerts at Carnegie Hall and at several head of state visits by Swedish dignitaries to the US. He is a professor of piano and also prorector at the Royal College of Music since 1997 and has held a chair at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music since 2001. He founded and was artistic director for the Gotland Chamber Music Festival, held annually at Gotland since the 1980s. He is also the director of the Gotland Baltic Music Academy. In 2010 Scheja performed at the Pianomusik på Konstakademien, a special session at the Konstakademien in

neg: Paul Silverthorne orchestras with conductors such as André Previn, Sir Colin Davis, Sir Simon Rattle, Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Kent Nagano. Paul Silverthorne is a specialist in contemporary music and has given many first performances both with the London Sinfonietta and in recitals. He has recorded for EMI, ASV, Chandos, Albany and Naxos. Paul Silverthorne is a professor of viola at the Royal Academy of Music (London), and plays a 1620 Amati viola loaned from the Royal Academy of Music. Since 2015, Silverthorne teaches at the newly founded school of music in Soochow University, in Suzhou, China. Paul Silverthorne Paul Silverthorne

neg: Franz Liszt Academy of Music it was relocated to its current location at the heart of Budapest). Between 1877-1879 the Academy moved into its present building, a masterpiece of art Neo-Renaissance architecture. The Academy was originally called the "Royal National Hungarian Academy of Music" and it was also called "College of Music" from 1919-1925. It was then named after its founder Franz Liszt in 1925. It was founded in Liszt's home, and relocated to a three-story Neo-Renaissance building designed by Adolf Láng and built on today's Andrássy Avenue between 1877 and 1879. That location is referred to as "the old Music Academy" and commemorated by

neg: Monica Huggett Monica Huggett Monica Huggett (born 16 May 1953 in London, England) is a British conductor and leading baroque violinist. At the age of 16, Huggett started studying at the Royal Academy of Music, London, with Manoug Parikian and Kato Havas, baroque violin with Sigiswald Kuijken. She co-founded and served as leader of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra under Ton Koopman from 1980 to 1987. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in 1994, and serves as professor of baroque violin at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen, Germany. Huggett has worked with Christopher Hogwood at the Academy of

neg: Adam Brown (music educator) Cebu Daily News and also his own book "Fundamentals of Reading Music", published under BAM Publishing. His articles for Cebu Daily News incorporate his travels with his wife Anna Fegi while performing with Royal Caribbean International and setting up their music school, Brown Academy of Music. The book "Fundamentals of Reading Music" is a textbook and workbook used as a part of the curriculum with Brown Academy of Music. In 2015, Brown and his wife Anna Fegi founded their own music school located in Cebu City, Philippines called Brown Academy of Music. The school teaches the fundamentals of music and

neg: Royal College of Music to Imperial College and among the museums and cultural centres of Albertopolis. The Royal College of Music was named the top institution for Performing Arts in the United Kingdom and Europe in the 2017 QS World University Rankings. It was also ranked second across all Performing Arts institutions worldwide. The prestigious league table places the Royal College of Music as the top institution for Performing Arts in the UK, followed by the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the Royal Academy of Music. The college was founded in 1883 to replace the short lived and unsuccessful National Training School for Music

neg: Sidney Griller Sidney Griller Sidney Griller (10 January 1911 – 20 November 1993) was an English violinist. He was leader of the Griller Quartet from 1928 to 1963, and a teacher of chamber music at the Royal Academy of Music. Griller was born in 1911; his parents were Jewish immigrants, with a shop in the East End of London. Aged 13, he won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music. In 1928 he founded the Griller Quartet, coached initially by the viola player Lionel Tertis. By 1931 the quartet established a reputation in Europe. In January 1931 they made a debut

neg: Freda Swain Freda Swain Freda Swain (19021985) was a British composer and music educator. Freda Swain was born at Portsmouth, England. She studied with Dora Matthay and at the Royal Academy of Music with Stanford and Arthur Alexander. She earned awards including the Sullivan Prize in 1921. In 1924 Swain began teaching at the Royal Academy, and in 1936 she founded the British Music Movement to help promote the efforts of young composers and artists. Swain married Arthur Alexander in 1921, and before World War II, the couple toured South Africa and Australia, lecturing, broadcasting and performing recitals. Swain composed a one-act

neg: Webber Academy running track. The school is situated on a 47-acre campus in southwest Calgary, currently home to 977 students (as of Oct 2016). Recently, an arts centre was built for the drama and music programmes, and its 500-seat theatre and dressing rooms can be rented out for public events. Webber Academy Webber Academy is a non-denominational, co-educational, university preparatory, private school located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Webber Academy offers academics spanning from junior kindergarten through grade 12. It was founded in 1997 by Dr. Neil Webber, a former teacher and professor at Mount Royal University, who also served as an Alberta

neg: French art salons and academies des sciences ("Royal Academy of Sciences") in 1666; the Académie d'Opéra ("Academy of Opera") in 1669 [renamed the Académie royale de musique ("Royal Academy of Music") in 1672 and the Académie de musique in 1791]; and the Académie royale d'architecture ("Royal Academy of Architecture") founded by Jean-Baptiste Colbert in 1671. In 1793 during the French Revolution the academies were suppressed, but in 1795 the Institut national des sciences et des arts (now the Institut de France) was established and consisted of three Classes: Sciences physiques et mathématiques ("Physical and Mathematical Sciences"); Sciences morales et politiques ("Moral and Political Sciences"); and

neg: Pear Garden Pear Garden The Pear Garden or Líyuán () was the first known royal acting and musical academy in China founded during the Tang dynasty by Emperor Xuanzong (712–755). It is an example of an historically early institutional academy of music. The 8th-century Chinese Emperor Xuanzong (also named Ming Huang) established schools in the palace city Chang'an (now Xi'an) for music, dancing, and acting. 300 musicians and performers were trained annually under the supervision of the emperor, who sometimes joined in the training as well as the performances. The Tang dynasty (June 18, 618–June 4, 907) is sometimes known as "The

neg: Kenneth Alwyn 1960s. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music and is married to the actress Mary Law. Alwyn was born in Croydon, England and attended the John Ruskin Boys’ Central School (now known as John Ruskin College). After wartime service with the Royal Air Force, Alwyn joined the Royal Academy of Music (1947-1951), where he studied singing, viola and organ (with C. H. Trevor) and won the Manns Memorial Prize for conducting in 1952. He was the Sub-Professor of Organ and opera coach and founded the RAM Madrigal Choir. After a period as a Colonial Officer working with

neg: Anne Marsden Thomas over the last 40 years are now professional musicians. She studied with Douglas Hawkridge, at the Royal Academy of Music and subsequently with Dame Gillian Weir. She initiated National Learn The Organ Year 1990 and participated in the follow-up campaign National Organ Teachers' Encouragement Scheme. Meanwhile, in 1992, she founded St. Giles International Organ School, which became The Royal College of Organists Academy Organ School in 2012. She was awarded the MBE for Services to Organ Music in the 2015 New Years Honours List. She was awarded the RCO Medal by the Royal College of Organists in March 2017, being

neg: Royal Academy of Engineering Royal Academy of Engineering The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) is the UK’s national academy of engineering. The Academy was founded in June 1976 as the Fellowship of Engineering with support from Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who became the first Senior Fellow and, , remains so. The Fellowship was incorporated and granted a Royal Charter on 17 May 1983 and became the Royal Academy of Engineering on 16 March 1992. It is governed according to the Charter and associated Statutes and Regulations (as amended from time to time). Conceived in the late 1960s, during the Apollo space programme and

neg: Royal Canadian Academy of Arts of the Parliament Buildings and the text "Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, 1880–1980", with the name "Thomas Fuller", a member of the Academy and the Dominion Architect of Canada who had designed the original building. The Academy is composed of members from across Canada representing over twenty visual arts disciplines. This list is not inclusive. See also . Academicians Associates Royal Canadian Academy of Arts The Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA) is a Canadian arts-related organization that was founded in 1880. The title of Royal Canadian Academy of Arts was received from Queen Victoria on 16 July 1880. The

neg: Asbjørn Schaathun Asbjørn Schaathun Asbjørn Schaathun (born 22 June 1961) is a Norwegian contemporary composer. Schaathun studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music and Royal College of Music in London and IRCAM in Paris. Schaathun founded the Norwegian Academy of Music’s Contemporary Music Ensemble and in 1986 he initiated the Oslo Sinfonietta. Schaathun also served as the director of the Norwegian Society of Composers from 2006 to 2012 and was appointed as professor in composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music in 2013. From 2010 to 2012, he served as the chairman of the Council of Nordic Composers. Schaathun is widely regarded

neg: Swathi Thirunal College of Music Swathi Thirunal College of Music Swathi Thirunal College of Music is a music college in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. It was founded in 1939. It was first named as "The Music Academy". The name was renamed as Swathi Thirunal College of Music in 1962. The founder of this institution was the last reigning King of Travancore, Sree Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma in 1939. The administration of the institution was under the control of the Travancore Royal Family earlier. Eminent musicians like Muthiah Bhagavathar who was the first Principal, Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer etc have served as the Principals of this college. The

neg: Andrejs Osokins his performance of a Mozart concerto. In September 2008 Osokins joined the Royal Academy of Music, studying under the guidance of Hamish Milne. He has won the Lillian Davies Prize and the Christian Carpenter Piano Recital Prize and graduated Master of Arts in Performance in July 2011. In March 2018 the Royal Academy of Music announced that Osokins had been elected Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM), an honor awarded to former students who have made a significant contribution to the music profession. Highlights from the most recent seasons include a return to the Berlin Philharmonic with Pyotr

neg: Answers in Genesis over 1 million visitors and 1.5 million total visitors for both the Ark and the Creation Museum. Creation science, which is promoted by AiG, is a pseudoscience that "lacks the central defining characteristic of all modern scientific theories". Scientific and scholarly organizations, including the National Academy of Sciences, Paleontological Society, Geological Society of America, Australian Academy of Science, and the Royal Society of Canada have issued statements against the teaching of creationism. The National Center for Science Education, a science advocacy group, criticize AiG's promotion of non-science. In direct response to AiG, No Answers in Genesis is a website maintained

neg: Royal Academy of Music Ustvolskaya, Arvo Pärt, György Kurtág and Mauricio Kagel. In February–March 2006, an Academy festival celebrated the violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini, who first visited London 175 years earlier in 1831. The festival included a recital by Academy professor Maxim Vengerov, who performed on "Il Cannone Guarnerius", Paganini's favourite violin. Academy instrumentalists and musical theatre students have also performed in a series of concerts with the Academy alumnus Sir Elton John. The students and ensembles of the Royal Academy of Music perform in other venues around London including Kings Place, St Marylebone Parish Church and the South Bank Centre. The Academy's public

neg: David Parry (conductor) works recorded with well-known British and European orchestras. Parry is also a member of the support staff of the Cardiff International Academy of Voice Parry was educated at Cambridge University and the Royal Academy of Music in London. He explains how he became a conductor by way of wanting to be a singer: "Audrey Langford, who was a very important singing teacher in the 1960s and '70s, ran a rather good choir which she conducted herself, and with Ande Anderson, who was resident producer at Covent Garden, she'd founded the Kentish Opera Group..One day she simply said, "I think you

neg: Patrik Ringborg Festival in 2010. As first conductor ever, Patrik Ringborg was awarded the Opera Prize, founded by renowned Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet for the Swedish productions of "Das Rheingold" and "Parsifal". Patrik Ringborg Patrik Ringborg (born 1 November 1965 in Stockholm) is a Swedish conductor, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. As a student Ringborg attended the Adolf Fredrik's Music School in Stockholm. After studies at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and with Kurt Bendix, Ringborg was a répétiteur at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm from 1989 to 1993, also assisting the Music Director and conducting

neg: Gilbert Betjemann Prize Gilbert Betjemann Prize The Gilbert Betjemann Prize (originally the Gilbert R. Betjemann Prize, also referred to as the Gilbert Betjemann Medal) is a gold medal awarded by the Royal Academy of Music (RA) "for operatic singing". The award was founded in 1897 by G.H. Betjemann HonRA, to commemorate his son Gilbert Richard Betjemann, who was an associate and former student of the Academy and who had died following the collapse of a snow bridge over which he was walking near Grindelwald in the Bernese Alps on 9 September 1896. In 1948 it was described as: In 2013, the great-nephew of

neg: Nash Ensemble premier performances of more than 200 works. Current Members Former Members Nash Ensemble The Nash Ensemble of London is an acclaimed English chamber ensemble. It was founded by Artistic Director Amelia Freedman in 1964, while she was a student at the Royal Academy of Music, and was named after the Nash Terraces around the Academy. The Ensemble has won awards from the Edinburgh Festival Critics and the Royal Philharmonic Society, as well as a 2002 Gramophone Award for contemporary music. In addition to their classical repertoire, the Ensemble performs works by numerous contemporary composers, including Richard Rodney Bennett, Harrison Birtwistle,

neg: Nash Ensemble Nash Ensemble The Nash Ensemble of London is an acclaimed English chamber ensemble. It was founded by Artistic Director Amelia Freedman in 1964, while she was a student at the Royal Academy of Music, and was named after the Nash Terraces around the Academy. The Ensemble has won awards from the Edinburgh Festival Critics and the Royal Philharmonic Society, as well as a 2002 Gramophone Award for contemporary music. In addition to their classical repertoire, the Ensemble performs works by numerous contemporary composers, including Richard Rodney Bennett, Harrison Birtwistle, Elliott Carter, Henri Dutilleux and Peter Maxwell Davies, and has given

neg: Charles Manners (bass) British provinces, North America and South Africa from 1898 to 1916. After his retirement, Manners continued to campaign for a national opera company, which was eventually founded forty years after his death. Manners was born Southcote Randal Bernard Campbell Mansergh in Hoddesdon, England, son of Colonel J. C. Mansergh, an Irishman. He was educated at Hoddesdon Grammar School and considered a career in the army. He tried engineering and stockbrokerage before deciding on music as a profession. He studied at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin, the Royal Academy of Music in London, and in Florence. In either 1881 or

neg: Swedish Academy previous permanent secretary of the academy was Sara Danius, who was preceded by Peter Englund. Danius stepped down in 2018 following a period of internal conflicts. The current members of the Swedish Academy listed by seat number: Swedish Academy The Swedish Academy (), founded in 1786 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies of Sweden. It has 18 members, who are elected for life. The academy makes the annual decision on who will be the laureate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded in memory of the donor Alfred Nobel. The Swedish Academy was founded in 1786

neg: Ethel Pedley her Vocal Academy. Pedley returned to Sydney in 1882, and began teaching singing and the violin. In 1896 Emmeline Woolley and Pedley visited London and persuaded the Associated Board of the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music to extend their examinations to the Australian colonies. Pedley was appointed the solo representative of the Royal Academy of Music for New South Wales. The first examiner visited in 1897. Pedley's most well-known book is "Dot and the Kangaroo", which featured a little girl named Dot who becomes lost in the Australian outback, and is helped to find her

neg: Gordon Siu He plays violin and had joined choir in school. He received a diploma from the Royal Academy of Music and joined the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra in 1964. He went on became the concertmaster of the Orchestra in 1966 and coach in 1968. In 1974, he co-founded the Music for Our Young Foundation with Dr. Ding Lik-kiu and others. He has been active in music-related works after his retirement. Besides he has also been non-executive director in many companies. In 1977, he was commissioned by Governor Murray MacLehose to establish the Music Office. He married Sarah Liao who was also senior

neg: Academy Drama School courses have gone on to work for esteemed theatre institutions such as the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre, or in successful plays and musicals in London's West End and on national/international tours. Others have appeared in films, or in television shows ranging from "Doctor Who" to "Little Britain" to "Band of Brothers". Academy Drama School The Academy Drama School (often referred to as the Academy) was a British drama school in London. It was founded in 1985 and closed in 2007. The Academy was founded by Tim Reynolds and his wife Judith in 1985 as the Evening

neg: Dan Fog Dan Fog Dan Fog (11 August 1919 – 31 August 2000) was a Danish music antiquarian and publisher who is remembered principally for his Danish music catalogues and biographies of Scandinavian composers. After matriculating from Ordrup School in 1937 where he specialized in modern languages, Fog trained as an antiquarian bookseller while studying musicology at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. He also took organ lessons with Søren Sørensen. In 1953, he acquired the publishing and antiquarian business which had been founded by Knud Larsen in 1906 (Knud Larsens Musikforlag og Musikantikvariat). He published comprehensive catalogues of the works of

neg: Sylvia Glickman studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London on a Fulbright scholarship. She married Harvey Glickman, a political science professor, in 1956. Glickman taught piano at the New England Conservatory of Music, Haverford College, Princeton University, and Franklin and Marshall College. According to her obituary in "The Philadelphia Inquirer", in 1988 she founded Hildegard Press, named for 12th-century composer Hildegard of Bingen, which is now separately owned and still operating. "Mrs. Glickman was on a mission to unearth female composers who had gone unnoticed in music history. She began churning out catalogs by the hundreds." "In 1991, she was

neg: Royal Galician Academy the AGL is not supported by any of the Galician parties, who along with the Royal Academy adhere to state ideology, represented in the Galician parliament. Royal Galician Academy The Royal Galician Academy () is an institution dedicated to the study of Galician culture and especially the Galician language; it promulgates norms of grammar, spelling, and vocabulary and works to promote the language. The Academy is based in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. The current president is Víctor Fernández Freixanes. In 1905 the Galician language was persecuted in Spain. To avoid persecution, the Sociedade Protectora da Academia Gallega was founded in

neg: Karel Mark Chichon Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music. Chichon and Elina Garanča have two daughters. Karel Mark Chichon Karel Mark Chichon OBE (born 1971, London) is a British-Gibraltarian orchestra conductor. Chichon studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna under Leopold Hager. Chichon and businessman Ian Angus co-founded the Gibraltar Philharmonic Society in 1998. Chichon continues to serve as the society's artistic director. Chichon was chief conductor of the Graz Symphony Orchestra from 2006 to 2009. He served as chief conductor and artistic director of the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra from 2009

neg: Fritz Crome Royal Danish Academy of Music. Cromer's musical output was relatively small and conservative. It included all the songs that were inspired by Hugo Wolf, notably. Fritz Crome Fritz Crome (6 May 1879 – 25 April 1948) was a Danish composer and music writer. Fritz Crome was the son of August Crome, who founded the store Crom & Goldschmidt in Copenhagen. He started an engineering course at the Danish Polytechnic (DTU), but soon switched to music. He trained as a pianist with Louis Glass and later studied in Paris and Berlin. He was then employed at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin,

neg: Dan Fog Danish composers, including Peter Heise, Carl Nielsen, Niels Gade, A.P. Berggreen, C.E.F. Weyse, J.P.E. Hartmann and H.C. Lumbye. Dan Fog Dan Fog (11 August 1919 – 31 August 2000) was a Danish music antiquarian and publisher who is remembered principally for his Danish music catalogues and biographies of Scandinavian composers. After matriculating from Ordrup School in 1937 where he specialized in modern languages, Fog trained as an antiquarian bookseller while studying musicology at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. He also took organ lessons with Søren Sørensen. In 1953, he acquired the publishing and antiquarian business which had been founded

neg: Thore Ehrling Thore Ehrling Thore Ehrling (December 29, 1912, Stockholm - October 21, 1994, Stockholm) was a Swedish trumpeter, composer, and bandleader, who led jazz and popular music ensembles. Ehrling played with Frank Vernon's ensemble from 1930 to 1934, and concomitantly studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. From 1935 to 1938 he played under Håkan von Eichwald and did arrangement and composition work on the side. He founded his own ensemble in 1938, which grew to big band size in the nineteen years it was active. This group played popular music and jazz, recorded frequently, and played often on Swedish

neg: Asbjørn Schaathun as a pioneer in computer-aided composition on the Norwegian contemporary music scene. Parallel to his compositional career, Schaathun has also penned a number of articles on other composers and their music. Asbjørn Schaathun Asbjørn Schaathun (born 22 June 1961) is a Norwegian contemporary composer. Schaathun studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music and Royal College of Music in London and IRCAM in Paris. Schaathun founded the Norwegian Academy of Music’s Contemporary Music Ensemble and in 1986 he initiated the Oslo Sinfonietta. Schaathun also served as the director of the Norwegian Society of Composers from 2006 to 2012 and was appointed

neg: ABRSM to support teachers and students: The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music was founded in 1889 when Alexander Mackenzie, then the Principal of the Royal Academy of Music, and George Grove, founding Director of the Royal College of Music, decided that both institutions should combine to form an associated examining board to run joint local exams. The first syllabi was published in 1890 for Piano, Organ, Violin, Cello and Harp, with Viola, Double Bass and woodwind instruments added the following year. Originally, the ABRSM had only two grades and were the equivalent of the current grades 6 and

neg: Colin Metters Colin Metters Colin Metters, is an English conductor, orchestral trainer and conducting pedagogue. He is Professor of Conducting at the Royal Academy of Music in London where he founded the Conductors' Course in 1983. In September 2013, he retired as Head of Studies after serving in the post for 30 years. He remains as Professor of Conducting at the Academy's Postgraduate Conductors' Course. Colin Metters was appointed Music Director of Ballet Rambert when he finished his studies at The Royal College of Music. Subsequently, he was appointed conductor with Sadlers Wells Royal Ballet and conducted for Sadlers Wells on tours

neg: Royal Irish Academy of Music the institution by assisting faculty or joining its outreach projects in Dublin city and beyond. The RIAM library holds a number of collections of historical interest, originally privately collected or belonging to orchestral and choral societies active in Dublin in the 18th and 19th centuries. Most notably, the include: Notable former students and alumni of the Royal Irish Academy of Music include: Notable teachers at the Royal Irish Academy of Music (past and present) include: Royal Irish Academy of Music The Royal Irish Academy of Music (RIAM) in Dublin, Ireland, is one of Europe's oldest music conservatoires, specialising in Classical

neg: Cyrus Forough Conservatory of Music, and the Toronto Royal Conservatory of Music's Glenn Gould program, among others. Cyrus Forough is the son of Mehdi Forough, an Iranian scholar, author, dramatist, writer who founded the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Tehran, and Fakhri Dowlatabadi, one of the Iranian women pioneers in playing and teaching of western classical music and the daughter of Haji Mirza Yahya Dowlatabadi, who was the son of Subh-i-Azal, and a prominent Constitutionalist of the 1906 Revolution and one of the founders of the modern school systems in Iran. Cyrus Forough Cyrus Forough is a concert violinist and professor. Forough

neg: Jesper Thilo clarinet at the Royal Danish Academy of Music While still a student at the Academy, Thilo joined Arnved Meyer's orchestra where he played from 1960 to 1964 and again from 1967 to 1974 and it was Arnved Meyer who convinced him to shift to saxophone. In Meyer's band he played with musicians such as Ben Webster, Benny Carter, Harry Edison, Roy Eldridge and Coleman Hawkins. During this part of his career his virile Swing style chiefly inspired by Webster and Hawkins. Besides his engagement in Meyer's orchestra, Thilo also played in his own band, a quintet which he had founded

neg: Royal Conservatoire of Scotland for the students. The Royal Conservatoire's extensive archive of historical papers and ephemera charts both its own institutional history and the wider performance history of Scotland. Royal Conservatoire of Scotland The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, (Scottish Gaelic: "Conservatoire Rìoghail na h-Alba") formerly the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, is a conservatoire of dance, drama, music, production and film in the centre of Glasgow, Scotland. It is one of the oldest and most prestigious performing arts schools in the United Kingdom, and ranked third in the world as of 2017. Founded in 1847, it has become the busiest performing

neg: Royal Academy of Music Museum Royal Academy of Music Museum The Royal Academy of Music Museum (previously known as the York Gate Collections) is a museum of musical instruments and artefacts and research centre of the Royal Academy of Music in London. The building was designed in 1822 as part of the main entrance to Regent’s Park, and was an important feature in John Nash’s architectural designs for Regency London. The interior of York Gate was largely destroyed by bomb damage in the 1940s, but the Nash exterior has Grade 1 listed building status. The Royal Academy of Music moved to Marylebone Road in 1911,

neg: Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music Brussels Academy of Performing Arts, Prague Univerzita Palackeho, Olomouc The Royal Music Conservatory, Aarhus The Royal Danish Academy of Music, Kopenhagen Rhythmic Music Conservatory-Kopenhagen Sibelius Academy - University of the Arts Helsinki Oulu University of Applied Sciences Conservatoire National, Rennes Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse, Lyon University of Macedonia, Department of Music Science and Art, Saloniki Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya, Barcelona Royal Conservatoire, Hague Hogeschool Zuyd, Maastricht Codarts University of Professional Arts Education, Rotterdam Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin Hochschule für Künste, Bremen Hochschule für Musik, Frankfurt am Main Hochschule für Musik, Hannover Musikhochschule, Hamburg

neg: Augusta Triumphans establishment of an academy of music “to prevent the expensive importation of foreign musicians & c.”. He points out that the then existing Italian opera, which is financed by upper class lovers of this art, is “improperly called academy” in that it just hires costly foreign musicians. It does not encourage the “propagation of science, by training up persons thereto from younger to riper years, under the instruction and inspection of proper artists”. When "Augusta Triumphans" was published, there existed a joint stock company whose denomination was Royal Academy of Music. Founded in 1719, it became operative in 1720. Thanks

neg: João Carlos de Bragança (Duke de Lafões) on mythology and music. In 1778, due to the death of D. José I and the output of the government of the Marquis of Pombal, he returned to Portugal, having been awarded the title of Duke of Lafões. In 1779, with the abbot Correia da Serra, he founded the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon, possibly in honour of his brother, who had proposed in 1721, at the time of creation of the Royal Academy of Portuguese History. In 1780 he was appointed to the Board of War, in 1791 was chosen for the position of governor of Arms of the

neg: Frederick Scotson Clark Hopkins before entering the Royal College of Music, where he under Sir William Sterndale Bennett and Sir John Goss. At the age of 18 he was teaching at the Royal Academy of Music. In 1865 he founded the London Organ School and College of Music a 3 Princes Street, London W1, before going up to Exeter College, Oxford, where he was an organ scholar, graduating as Bachelor of Music in 1867. He was appointed headmaster of St. Michael's Grammar School, Brighton. In 1868 he was ordained deacon and he became curate at St. Michael's Grammar School, Brighton. He married Catherine

neg: Fine Arts Quartet a 55 year residency, 1963-2018 (concluded in January 2018), as Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. In 1982, Leonard Sorkin founded the Chamber Music Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and became its first director and served in that capacity until his death in 1985. The Quartet members have also been guest professors at the national music conservatories of Paris and Lyon, the Royal Academy and Royal College of Music in London, the summer music schools of Yale University and Indiana University, and at music festivals world-wide. They have appeared as jury members of major competitions such as Evian, Shostakovich,

neg: Ernest van der Eyken Opera (Orchestra of the Royal Flemish Opera), Nieuwe Concerten and Orkest van de Dierentuinconcerten. Between 1942 and 1944, he was assistant conductor of the Koninklijke Vlaamse Opera (Royal Flemish Opera). From 1952 and 1970, he taught violin and chamber music at the Music Academy in Ekeren. He founded the Philharmonisch Kamerorkest (Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra) in Antwerp was also the conductor. In the 1960s he was music editor responsible for music programs of the Flemish Radio and Television Network. Furthermore, he conducted the Jeugd en muziek-orkest (Youth and Music Orchestra) of Antwerp from 1963 to 1976 and served as guest conductor

neg: Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Royal Conservatoire of Scotland The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, (Scottish Gaelic: "Conservatoire Rìoghail na h-Alba") formerly the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, is a conservatoire of dance, drama, music, production and film in the centre of Glasgow, Scotland. It is one of the oldest and most prestigious performing arts schools in the United Kingdom, and ranked third in the world as of 2017. Founded in 1847, it has become the busiest performing arts venue in Scotland with over 500 public performances each year. The current Principal is American pianist and composer Jeffrey Sharkey, the President is Sir Cameron

neg: Jonas Almén Jonas Almén Jonas Kristoffer Almén (born 19 November 1984 in Färjestaden) is a Swedish Gitarrist, Rocksinger and Songwriter. He is co-founder of the swedish rock-band Royal Republic. Jonas Almén studied Music at the Malmö Academy of Music. In 2007 he founded the band „Royal Republic“ along with three other students Adam Grahn (vocals, guitar), Hannes Irengård (guitar) and Per Andreasson (drums). The band recorded their first album, ’’We are the Royal’’ in 2010 in Malmö. In 2012 they released their second album titled ’’Save the Nation’’. The third album ’’Royal Republic and the Nosebreakers’’ with songs from the previous albums

neg: Per Andreasson Per Andreasson Per Rickard Henrik Andreasson (born 18 February 1981 in Mariefred) is a Swedish Drummer, Rocksinger and Songwriter. He is co-founder of the Swedish rock-band Royal Republic. Per Andreasson studied Music at the Malmö Academy of Music. In 2007 he founded the band "Royal Republic" along with three other students Adam Grahn (vocals, guitar), Jonas Almén (bass) and Hannes Irengård (guitar). The band recorded their first album, "We are the Royal" in 2010 in Malmö. In 2012 they released their second album titled "Save the Nation". The third album "Royal Republic and the Nosebreakers" with songs from the previous

neg: Hannes Irengård Hannes Irengård Hannes Viktor Hugo Irengård (born 12 February 1982 in Malmö) is a Swedish Guitarist, Rocksinger, and Songwriter. He is co-founder of the Swedish rock-band Royal Republic. Hannes Irengård studied Music at the Malmö Academy of Music. In 2007 he founded the band „Royal Republic“ along with three other students Adam Grahn (vocals, guitar), Jonas Almén (bass) and Per Andreasson (drums). The band recorded their first album, ’’We are the Royal’’ in 2010 in Malmö. In 2012 they released their second album titled ’’Save the Nation’’. The third album ’’Royal Republic and the Nosebreakers’’ with songs from the previous

neg: Swedish Academy Swedish Academy The Swedish Academy (), founded in 1786 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies of Sweden. It has 18 members, who are elected for life. The academy makes the annual decision on who will be the laureate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded in memory of the donor Alfred Nobel. The Swedish Academy was founded in 1786 by King Gustav III. Modelled after the Académie française, it has 18 members. The academy's motto is "Talent and Taste" (""Snille och Smak"" in Swedish). The academy's primary purpose is to further the "purity, strength, and sublimity

neg: Academy the Academy's existence were relatively informal, since no statutes had as yet been laid down for the institution. In contrast to Royal Society, the Academy was founded as an organ of government. In 1699, Louis XIV gave the Academy its first rules and named it Académie royale des sciences. Although Prussia was a member of Holy Roman Empire, in 1700 Prince-elector Frederick III of Brandenburg founded its own Prussian Academy of Sciences upon the advice of Gottfried Leibniz, who was appointed president. During the 18th century many European kings followed and founded their own academy of sciences: in 1714 the

neg: Royal Academy of Music Museum (1719). In 2005 the Academy acquired the famous "Viotti ex-Bruce" violin, made by Stradivarius in 1709, on behalf of the nation. Other collections include the Foyle Menuhin archive (letters, music, photographs, artworks and more collected by Yehudi Menuhin over his lifetime), Jenny Lind (1820–1887) Collection, David Munrow (1942–1976) Collection, the Priaulx Rainier (1903–1986) Collection and The McCann Collection. Royal Academy of Music Museum The Royal Academy of Music Museum (previously known as the York Gate Collections) is a museum of musical instruments and artefacts and research centre of the Royal Academy of Music in London. The building was designed in

neg: Christopher Finzi (1936–2010) attended Bedales School in Hampshire, an antidote to the harsh Victorian public school mentality, where they were exposed to a liberal education and intellectual freedom much in line with their parents' own progressive outlook on the world. Christopher Finzi attended the Royal Academy of Music and embarked on a career as a freelance cellist and became the conductor of the Newbury String Players after the death of his father who had founded the orchestra. He eventually turned his attention from music to farming, first establishing a poultry business at Ashmansworth. He and his wife operated a health food shop

neg: Kraków and "Misteria Paschalia". Meanwhile, Capella Cracoviensis runs the "Music in Old Krakow International Festival". Academy of Music in Kraków, founded in 1888, is known worldwide as the "alma mater" of the contemporary Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki and it is also the only one in Poland to have two winners of the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw among its alumni. The Academy organises concerts of its students and guests throughout the whole year. Music organisations and venues include: Kraków Philharmonic, "Sinfonietta Cracovia" (a.k.a. the Orchestra of the Royal City of Kraków), the Polish Radio Choir of Kraków, "Organum" Academic Choir, the

neg: Arditti Quartet Academy at the age of sixteen. Arditti won prizes for violin and composition,but decided he was a better violinist and stopped composing. The focus of the quartet on new music is due to Arditti's interest in it, which began with composing in his childhood and hearing music by Stockhausen, Ligeti and others of the avant garde of the 1960s. It was later that Ardittí became aware of the work of the LaSalle Quartet. In his last year at the Royal Academy of Music the Quartet was founded, and it continued during the time he was in the London Symphony Orchestra

neg: Frans Bak Ruth Rendell novel "Thirteen Steps Down". Frans Bak has also scored numerous commercials, short films and feature films including three Academy Award nominated shorts "Ernst & The Light", "Sweethearts?" and "Helmer & Son". The music for the original Danish version of "The Killing" is being released on CD from Mercury Classics. Frans Bak Frans Bak (born 7 February 1958) is a Danish composer, choral conductor, saxophonist, and pianist. He is a graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Music, and is known for his work as a jazz performer and composer of film music. In 1994, he founded a composer's

neg: Raymond Gubbay and future plans include a three-week season by Barry Humphries with Meow Meow at the Barbican Theatre in July and a Christmas Season of Circus 1903 at the Royal Festival Hall Raymond Gubbay is an Honorary Fellow of both the Royal Academy of Music and Trinity College of Music, London and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He was awarded a CBE in June 2001. He lives in London and France. Gubbay was born in London. He grew up in a comfortable middle-class Jewish household of a fairly prosperous accountant. . In 1966 he founded Raymond Gubbay Ltd

neg: Russian Centre for Science and Culture in Copenhagen Gummi & Guttapercha Kompagni. a company founded in 1859, was then headquartered in the building until 1932. Russian Centre for Science and Culture in Copenhagen The Russian Centre for Science and Culture in Copenhagen is located at Vester Voldgade 11 in central Copenhagen, Denmark. The building was originally constructed for the Royal Danish Academy of Music in 1886-1887 to design by C. L. Thuren (1846-1926). Musikforeningen was for many years based in the ground floor. The composer Niels W. Gade, one of the founders of the music academy, liced ivied on the second floor from 1887. The Toyal Academy of

neg: Derrick Goodwin Derrick Goodwin Derrick John Goodwin (born 6 July 1935) is an English theatre and television director, writer, and producer. Goodwin was born in London and educated at St. Mary's School, Hendon, and the Royal Academy of Music. He has a BA in music (Hons) and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Goodwin began his career in stage management. He was an assistant director at the Royal Court Theatre. Goodwin founded The Living Theatre company with Ken Loach, Jill Gascoine and Brian Grellis, converting an old school in Leicester into a 200-seat open stage theatre. After two years

neg: Nicolai Gedda while his song repertoire extended beyond Swedish composers and folksongs to Schubert, Schumann, a wide range of Russian romances from Glinka to Rachmaninoff, mélodies, Janáček's "The Diary of One Who Disappeared", and many Russian folksongs. In 1965 he became a Swedish Court Singer and in 1966 he was inducted into the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. In 1968 he was a recipient of the Swedish royal medal Litteris et Artibus. In 1976 he was awarded the Gold Medal for the Promotion of the Art of Music (Swedish: "För tonkonstens främjande") by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, and in 2007

neg: Andrew Foster-Williams Andrew Foster-Williams Andrew Foster-Williams (born in Wigan, Greater Manchester) is an English operatic bass-baritone, concert singer and recitalist. Andrew Foster-Williams read music at Royal Academy of Music in London, graduating with a first-class honours degree. He has since been made a Fellow of the Royal Academy. He won many prizes whilst at the Royal Academy; including, amongst others, The Opera Prize, The Flora Nielsen Recital Prize and The Elena Gerhardt Lieder Prize. The Daily Telegraph in London named him their "Newcomer of the Year" and said "Andrew Foster-Williams is an impressively intelligent artist who sang both Leporello in Don Giovanni

neg: Uffe Markussen Uffe Markussen Uffe Eskild Markussen (born September 19, 1952, Frederikshavn) is a Danish jazz reedist, who plays primarily tenor saxophone and bass clarinet. Markussen was a student at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and played in his early career with an ensemble called Tømmermændene. He co-founded groups with Jorgen Emborg, Jens Winther, and Marilyn Mazur in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and worked with other groups such as Blast, Instant Breakfast, and Santa Cruz. In 1985 he began playing in Niels Jorgen Steen's group A-Team, and founded the six-piece ensemble Orbit the following year. In 1989 he began

neg: Sarah Walker (mezzo-soprano) since toured Europe, the Americas, Australia and elsewhere. Walker is Prince Consort Professor of Singing at the Royal College of Music and runs the "Creative Voices" course at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. She is a Fellow of both colleges. She also is on the Vocal Faculty at the Royal Academy of Music. Walker is an advocate of lieder singing and the song repertoire, and is a patron of the London Song Festival, founded in 2007 to promote the song repertoire. In the 1980s, she collaborated with French & Saunders for their opera diva sketch singing their version

neg: Martin Gatt Academy for Performing Arts he founded the Department of Wind, Brass and Percussion. He taught at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama from 1967 to 1984, and is currently a professor of Bassoon at the Royal College of Music. Martin Gatt Martin Gatt (born 1936 or 1937 in Aberdeen) is a British classical bassoonist. He studied under Archie Camden at the Royal College of Music in London. He served as principal bassoonist of the London Philharmonic Orchestra from 1958 to 1966, after which he was appointed principal bassoonist of the English Chamber Orchestra from 1966 to 1976. He also

neg: French art salons and academies ("French Academy"), founded in 1634 by Cardinal Richelieu. It is concerned with the French language. In the fine arts, the Académie de peinture et de sculpture ("Academy of Painting and Sculpture") was founded by Cardinal Mazarin in 1648 and was soon followed by a number of other officially instituted academies: the Académie royale de danse ("Royal Academy of Dance") in 1661; the Académie royale des inscriptions et médailles ("Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Medals") in 1663 [renamed the Académie royale des inscriptions et belles-lettres ("Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Literature" or "Royal Academy of Humanities") in 1716]; the Académie royale

neg: Sunny Li Sunny Li Sunny Li (; born 4 September 1991) is a Chinese concert pianist. Based in London, Li studied at the Royal Academy of Music and Royal Northern College of Music prior to performing at venues around Europe. In 2011, Li released a piano solo album "昀韵" (""), which included works from composers such as Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt and Moritz Moszkowski. She performed the Steinway-Haus in Munich, Germany with fellow pianist Assel Abilseitova the same year. In September 2014, Li founded the Migjorn Quartet, which placed third in the Hirsh Prize Chamber Music Competition. In January 2017, Li played

neg: Gitta-Maria Sjöberg Gitta-Maria Sjöberg Gitta-Maria Sjöberg (born 1957) is a Swedish operatic soprano who celebrated her 25th anniversary as a soloist with the Royal Danish Theatre in 2013. She has frequently performed outside Denmark, especially in Germany and Sweden as well as in North and South America. Born on 25 July 1957 in Trollhättan, southwestern Sweden, Sjöberg first sang in public when she was just four years old. Inspired by her mother who had dreamt of being an actress, she studied at the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus/Aalborg and at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen where she graduated in

neg: Carmel Kaine professor at the Royal Academy of Music for twelve years and in 1983 was made a Fellow. She was invited by Yehudi Menuhin to read at his school in Cobham, Surrey. In 1990 Kaine took up the Senior Lecturer position at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University and for five years was Head of Department. In 1991, with her husband John Willison, she founded the Limpinwood Ensemble and many performances have been given for the ABC and at Tyalgum Classical Music Festival, which they also founded. She also founded the Queensland Conservatorium Soloists, which has raised over $30,000 for the Conservatorium’s

neg: Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala The Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala (Swedish "Kungliga Vetenskaps-Societeten i Uppsala"), is the oldest of the royal academies in Sweden. The society has, by royal decree of 1906, 50 Swedish fellows and 100 foreign. Early members included Emanuel Swedenborg and Anders Celsius. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences was founded in Stockholm 1739, and its founders (some of which were members in Uppsala) specifically wanted an academy which was different from the Uppsala academy. The Academy was founded 1710 in Uppsala on the initiative of the university librarian Erik Benzelius (jr) (later archbishop)