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Myra Hess. Myra Hess, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, in 1937. Dame Julia Myra Hess, DBE (25 February 1890 – 25 November 1965) was an English pianist best known for her performances of the works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, and Brahms. [1]
From 1961 to 1965 Richard and John studied in London with the English pianist, Dame Myra Hess, who prepared them for their professional debut in London's Wigmore Hall on October 27, 1962. Its success led to recitals on the Continent, especially in the Netherlands , where they received enthusiastic critical acclaim, and to a contract to tour in ...
In 1969 Lympany was diagnosed with breast cancer and her left breast was removed. Three months after the operation she performed Prokofiev 's Piano Concerto No. 4 for the Left Hand at the Royal Festival Hall, London. She later had a second mastectomy but continued working and gained renewed popularity. In 1979, fifty years after making her ...
Robert Orlando Morgan (16 March 1865 – 16 May 1956) was an English music teacher, composer and musicologist. He is best remembered as an influential teacher at the Guildhall School of Music in London, where he taught for 64 years, from 1887 to 1951, as Professor of Pianoforte and Composition. His pupils included the composer Benjamin Frankel ...
Harriet Cohen was born in London. Her younger sister was the singer Myra Verney (1905-1993) and she was a distant cousin of the pianist Irene Scharrer. [1][2] She studied piano at the Royal Academy of Music under Tobias Matthay, [3] having won the Ada Lewis scholarship at the age of 12 followed by the Sterndale Bennett Prize in 1913.
Kyla Greenbaum (1922–2017), British pianist who specialised in contemporary music; Margaret Kitchin (1914–2008), Swiss-born British pianist who specialised in contemporary music; Harriet Hague (1793–1816), pianist and composer; Myra Hess (1890–1965), classical pianist who maintained morale by playing during World War II
22 July 1953 (age 71) Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England. Occupation. Composer. Years active. 1979–present. Website. Myramusic.co.uk. Nigel John Hess (born 22 July 1953) [1] is a British composer, best known for his television, theatre and film soundtracks, including the theme tunes to Campion, Maigret, Wycliffe, Dangerfield, Hetty ...
Sarah Beth Briggs. Sarah Beth Briggs (born 2 June 1972, Newcastle upon Tyne, England) is a British classical pianist. Briggs was a finalist in the BBC Young Musician competition at the age of 11 in 1984 and one of the youngest recipients of a Dame Myra Hess Award at the same age. She was joint winner of the International Mozart Competition in ...