List of Royal Academy of Music people
This is a list of people associated with the Royal Academy of Music, London, including principals, alumni, and professors and teachers.
Principals
A complete list of principals.- William Crotch
- Cipriani Potter
- Charles Lucas
- Sir William Sterndale Bennett
- Sir George Macfarren
- Sir Alexander Mackenzie
- Sir John McEwen
- Sir Stanley Marchant
- Sir Reginald Thatcher
- Sir Thomas Armstrong
- Sir Anthony Lewis
- Sir David Lumsden
- Lynn Harrell
- Sir Curtis Price
- Jonathan Freeman-Attwood
Alumni
- Louis Demetrius Alvanis
- William Alwyn
- Simon Andrews
- Irvine Arditti
- Gary Arbuthnot
- Kit Armstrong
- Rosemary Ashe
- Stephen Ashfield
- Lena Ashwell
- Augusta Amherst Austen
- Bill Bailey
- Bryan Balkwill
- Christopher Ball
- Sir John Barbirolli
- Joseph Barnby
- Sandro Ivo Bartoli
- Louisa Bassano
- Chappell Batchelor
- Ani Batikian
- Sir Arnold Bax
- Richard Beaudoin
- Luke Bedford
- Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
- Michael Berkeley
- William Sterndale Bennett
- Vanraj Bhatia
- E. Power Biggs
- Sir Harrison Birtwistle
- Amy Black
- Henry Blagrove
- Julian Bliss
- Laci Boldemann
- Jessie Bond
- Nimrod Borenstein
- Denis Bouriakov
- York Bowen
- Christopher Bowers-Broadbent
- Kevin Bowyer
- Douglas Boyd
- Caryl Brahms
- Dennis Brain
- Nicholas Braithwaite
- Dudley Bright
- Adrian Brown
- Paul Buckmaster
- Susan Bullock
- Oliver Butterworth
- Alan Caddy
- Arturo Cardelus
- Roy Carter
- Doreen Carwithen
- Eason Chan
- Roger Chase
- Belle Chen
- Karel Mark Chichon
- Kristian Chong
- Nigel Clarke
- Rebecca Helferich Clarke
- Rodney Clarke
- Eric Coates
- Harriet Cohen
- Daniel Cohen
- William Cole
- Ray Cooper
- Garðar Thór Cortes
- Christine Croshaw
- Colin Currie
- Sir Clifford Curzon
- Benjamin Dale
- Sir John Dankworth
- Iestyn Davies
- Mark Eager
- Florence Easton
- Pip Eastop
- Carwyn Ellis
- Christopher Elton
- John Escreet
- Richard Farnes
- Brian Ferneyhough
- Andrew Foster-Williams
- Herbert Fryer
- Melvyn Gale
- Rumon Gamba
- Edward Gardner
- Lesley Garrett
- Mark Gasser
- Helen George
- Sir Edward German
- David Giménez Carreras
- Derek Gleeson
- Dame Evelyn Glennie
- Sylvia Glickman
- Ayşedeniz Gökçin
- Derrick Goodwin
- Rachel Gough
- Thomas Gould
- Edward Gregson
- Benjamin Grosvenor
- Alan Hacker
- Robin Haigh
- Iain Hamilton
- Richard Hand
- Caroline Hatchard
- Marjorie Hayward
- Michael Head
- Rachel Helleur
- Roy Henderson
- Dame Myra Hess
- Richard Hickox
- Christopher Hobbs
- Alfred Charles Hobday
- Derek Holman
- Sungji Hong
- Daniel Hope
- Philip Howard
- Monica Huggett
- Emanuel Hurwitz
- Clelia Iruzun
- Joe Jackson
- Ifor James
- Isabel Jay
- Sir Karl Jenkins
- Katherine Jenkins
- Dominic John
- Sir Elton John
- Guy Jonson
- Graham Johnson
- Aled Jones
- Daniel Jones
- Martin Jones
- Paul Carey Jones
- William Ifor Jones
- John Joubert
- Skaila Kanga
- Jozef Kapustka
- Miloš Karadaglić
- Peter Katin
- Alexander Kelly
- Jonathan Kelly
- Freddy Kempf
- John Kenny
- Myleene Klass
- Peter Knight
- Mina Kubota
- David Lale
- John Lanchbery
- John Landor
- Philip Langridge
- Simmon Latutin
- Lewis Henry Lavenu
- John Law
- Edwin Lemare
- Annie Lennox
- Frank Lloyd
- Sue Longhurst
- Dame Felicity Lott
- Nicola Loud
- David Lumsdaine
- Dame Moura Lympany
- Susanna Mälkki
- Daniel Clive McCallum
- Richard McMahon
- Sydney MacEwan
- Joanna MacGregor
- Gareth Malone
- John McLeod
- Charles Manners
- Jane Manning
- Philip Martin
- Cliff Masterson
- Tobias Matthay
- Denis Matthews
- Nicholas Maw
- Antoinette Miggiani
- Yurie Miura
- Deborah Mollison
- Walter Nugent Monck
- Gabriela Montero
- Ludovic Morlot
- Gareth Morris
- Geraldine Mucha
- Mary Nelson
- Máiréad Nesbitt
- Harry Norris
- Michael Nyman
- Denise Orme
- Martin Outram
- Dee Palmer
- Roxanna Panufnik
- Paul Patterson
- Jonathan Pitkin
- Steve Race
- Frederick Ranalow
- Sir Simon Rattle
- Augusta Read Thomas
- Hugo Rignold
- Henry Brinley Richards
- Alan Richardson
- David Robertson
- Rodolfo Saglimbeni
- Charlotte Sainton-Dolby
- David Sanger
- Dominic Seldis
- Mark Shanahan
- James Shearman
- Philip Sheppard
- Derek Simpson
- Gustave Slapoffski
- Ashley Solomon
- Dr Paul Steinitz
- Vikki Stone
- David Strange
- Marius Stravinsky
- Yevgeny Sudbin
- Luka Šulić
- Sir Arthur Sullivan
- William Sweeney
- Sir John Tavener
- Matthew Taylor
- Lionel Tertis
- Toby Thatcher
- Michael Thompson
- Julia Thornton
- Patsy Toh
- Ernest Torrence
- Dame Eva Turner
- Maxim Vengerov
- Jennifer Vyvyan
- Rick Wakeman
- Megan Walsh
- Christopher Warren-Green
- Silu Wang
- Ian "H" Watkins
- Christopher White
- Carol Williams
- Llyr Williams
- Nyle Wolfe
- Sir Henry Wood
- Henry Wylde
- Zi Lan Liao
Professors and teachers
- Thomas Adès
- Pierre-Laurent Aimard
- Kenneth Amis
- Sulamita Aronovsky
- Walter Bache
- Simon Bainbridge
- Evelyn Barbirolli
- Sir John Barbirolli
- Django Bates
- Joshua Bell
- Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
- William Bennett
- James Seymour Brett Film Composer
- Sir Harrison Birtwistle
- Nicolas Bochsa
- Barbara Bonney
- Thomas Brandis
- Ian Bousfield
- Bruce Boyce
- Zakhar Bron
- Aylmer Buesst
- Semyon Bychkov
- Colin Carr
- Philip Cashian
- Simon Carrington
- Carole Cerasi
- William Crotch
- William Hayman Cummings
- Laurence Cummings
- Maria Curcio
- Sir Colin Davis
- Julius Drake
- Christopher Elton
- Peter Erskine
- Jonathan Freeman-Attwood
- Herbert Fryer
- Jane Glover
- Rachel Gough
- Clio Gould
- Erich Gruenberg
- Alan Hacker
- Mary Hammond
- Lynn Harrell
- Maurice Hasson
- Joji Hattori
- Marjorie Hayward
- Christopher Hogwood
- Stephen Hough
- James Newton Howard
- Yuko Inoue
- Guy Jonson
- Frederick Keel
- Hu Kun
- Anthony Legge
- Tasmin Little
- Joanna MacGregor
- Duncan McTier
- Andrew Marriner
- Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
- Colin Metters
- Anne-Sophie Mutter
- Ann Murray
- Owen Murray
- Clarence Myerscough
- Pascal Nemirovski
- Charles Oberthür
- Dennis O'Neill
- Martin Outram
- Paul Patterson
- György Pauk
- Antony Pitts
- Gerard Presencer
- Curtis Price
- David Pyatt
- Priaulx Rainier, former professor of Composition
- Alan Richardson
- Martin Roscoe
- Patrick Russill
- Mark Shanahan
- Paul Silverthorne
- David Strange
- Yevgeny Sudbin
- Jeremy Summerly
- Robert Tear
- Michael Thompson
- Patsy Toh
- Eva Turner
- Maxim Vengerov
- Derek Watkins — Professor of Trumpet and commercial brass consultant
- Richard Watkins
- James Watson
- Mark Wildman
- John Williams
Honours
Past and present Honorary Members of the Royal Academy of Music (Hon RAM)
- The Honorary Membership of the Royal Academy of Music is awarded to up to 300 distinguished musicians who did not attend the Royal Academy of Music.
- Claudio Abbado
- Jenny Abramsky
- Salvatore Accardo
- John Adams
- Pierre-Laurent Aimard
- Sir Thomas Allen
- Géza Anda
- Maurice Andre
- Martha Argerich
- Richard Armstrong
- Vladimir Ashkenazy
- Milton Babbitt
- Norman Bailey
- Simon Bainbridge
- Daniel Barenboim
- Cecilia Bartoli
- Yuri Bashmet
- Django Bates
- Joshua Bell
- George Benjamin
- William Bennett
- Teresa Berganza
- Luciano Berio
- Mary Berry
- Neil Black
- Barbara Bonney
- Ian Bostridge
- Pierre Boulez
- Ian Bousfield
- Thomas Brandis
- Julian Bream
- Alfred Brendel
- Charles Brett
- Dudley Bright
- Iona Brown
- Frans Brüggen
- David Cairns
- Colin Carr
- José Carreras
- Elliott Carter
- John Carol Case
- Riccardo Chailly
- William Christie
- Kyung-wha Chung
- Nicholas Cleobury
- Van Cliburn
- Imogen Cooper
- John Copley
- Gordon Crosse
- Laurence Cummings
- Paul Daniel
- Sir Andrew Davis
- Sir Colin Davis
- Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
- Winton Dean
- Plácido Domingo
- Antal Doráti
- Laurence Dreyfus
- Gustavo Dudamel
- Henri Dutilleux
- Sir Mark Elder
- Margaret Eliot
- Paul Esswood
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
- Renée Fleming
- Peter Fletcher
- Jonathan Freeman-Attwood
- Louis Frémaux
- Peter Gabriel
- Sir James Galway
- Sir John Eliot Gardiner
- John Gardner
- Nicolai Gedda
- Valery Gergiev
- Kenneth Gilbert
- Emil Gilels
- John Gilhooly
- Carlo Maria Giulini
- Alexander Goehr
- Matthias Goerne
- Szymon Goldberg
- Clio Gould
- Erich Gruenberg
- Ida Haendel
- Emmanuelle Haïm
- Bernard Haitink
- Derek Hammond-Stroud
- Thomas Hampson
- Hakan Hardenberger
- George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt
- Heather Harper
- Lynn Harrell
- Simon Harris
- Jonathan Harvey
- Maurice Hasson
- Joji Hattori
- Thomas Hemsley
- Hans Werner Henze
- Raimund Herincx
- Adolph Herseth
- Christopher Hogwood
- Heinz Holliger
- Sir Anthony Hopkins
- Vladimir Horowitz
- Stephen Hough
- James Newton Howard
- Elgar Howarth
- Oliver Ingham
- Hu Kun
- Peter Hurford
- George Hurst
- John Ireland
- Steven Isserlis
- Gundula Janowitz
- Mariss Jansons
- Sir Elton John, attended as junior exhibitioner
- Dame Gwyneth Jones
- Simon Keenlyside
- Nicholas Kenyon
- Joseph Kerman
- Thea King
- Angelika Kirchschlager
- Dame Emma Kirkby
- Evgeny Kissin
- Otto Klemperer
- Oliver Knussen
- Ton Koopman
- Gidon Kremer
- Piers Lane
- Lang Lang
- Alicia de Larrocha
- Philip Ledger
- Anthony Legge
- Karl Leister
- Gustav Leonhardt
- Raymond Leppard
- György Ligeti
- John Lill
- Magnus Lindberg
- Robert Lloyd
- James Lockhart
- Christa Ludwig
- Sir David Lumsden
- Radu Lupu
- Benjamin Luxon
- William Lyne
- Yo-Yo Ma
- Julia Mackenzie
- Sir Charles Mackerras
- James MacMillan
- Andrew Marriner
- Sir Neville Marriner
- Wynton Marsalis
- Sir George Martin
- Malcolm Martineau
- Valerie Masterson
- Kurt Masur
- John McCabe
- Sir Paul McCartney
- Duncan McTier
- Colin Metters
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Rodney Milnes
- Yvonne Minton
- Donald Mitchell
- Ignaz Moscheles
- Maurice Murphy
- Ann Murray
- Owen Murray
- Thea Musgrave
- Riccardo Muti
- Anne-Sophie Mutter
- Kent Nagano
- Martin Neary
- James Newton-Howard
- Birgit Nilsson
- Jessye Norman
- Roger Norrington
- John Orford
- Robin Orr
- Antonio Pappano
- Győrgy Pauk
- Aleksandar Pavlovic
- Antony Pay
- Krzysztof Penderecki
- Murray Perahia
- Itzhak Perlman
- Trevor Pinnock
- Rachel Podger
- André Previn
- Curtis Price
- Dame Margaret Price
- Ruggiero Ricci
- H. C. Robbins Landon
- Winifred Roberts
- Christopher Robinson
- Mstislav Rostropovich
- Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
- Patrick Russill
- Esa-Pekka Salonen
- Kurt Sanderling
- András Schiff
- Peter Schreier
- Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
- John Scott
- John Shirley-Quirk
- Leonard Slatkin
- Philip Smith
- Nicholas Snowman
- Elisabeth Soderstrom
- Stephen Sondheim
- John Stainer
- Simon Standage
- Janos Starker
- Karlheinz Stockhausen
- Richard Stokes
- Jeremy Summerly
- Dame Joan Sutherland
- Henryk Szeryng
- Richard Taruskin
- Eric Taylor
- Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
- Robert Tear
- Bryn Terfel
- Yan Pascal Tortelier
- Stan Tracey
- Barry Tuckwell
- John Tusa
- Dame Mitsuko Uchida
- Richard van Allan
- Tamás Vásáry
- Josephine Veasey
- Jon Vickers
- Roger Vignoles
- Anne Sofie von Otter
- Gillian Weir
- Judith Weir
- Kenny Wheeler
- Jonathan Willcocks
- John Williams
- John Williams
- David Willcocks
- Arthur Wills
- Victoria Wood
- Denis Wright
- Pinchas Zukerman
Past and present Fellows of the Royal Academy of Music (FRAM)
- Irvine Arditti
- Stephen Ashfield
- Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
- Alan Bush
- Christopher Elton
- Rachel Gough
- Dame Evelyn Glennie
- Alan Ray Hacker
- Freddie Kempf
- Annie Lennox
- Dame Felicity Lott
- Susanna Mälkki
- Philip Martin
- Odaline de la Martinez
- Dee Palmer
- Frederick Ranalow
- Sir Simon Rattle
Honorary Doctorates (Hon DMus)
- Sir Thomas Allen
- Daniel Barenboim
- Pierre Boulez
- Sir Colin Davis
- Sir Mark Elder
- Sir Elton John
- Sir Ralph Kohn
- Sir Charles Mackerras
- Sir George Martin
- Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
- Sir Simon Rattle
- Gennady Rozhdestvensky
- Stephen Sondheim
Past and present Honorary Fellows of the Royal Academy of Music (Hon FRAM)
- The Duchess of Gloucester
- Robin Butler
- Sam Jackson
- Dame Emma Kirkby
- Dame Felicity Lott
- Timothy Parker
- Ian Ritchie
Honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (Hon ARAM)
- Celia Craig
- Peter Stark
- Margaret Steinitz
- Barbara Strudwick
- Denis Wright