Ian stoutzker obituary

Ian Stoutzker

British banker and musician (1929–2024)

Sir Ian Isaac StoutzkerCBE (21 January 1929 – 6 April 2024) was a British banker, musician and philanthropist.

Biography

Ian Isaac Stoutzker was born in London, England on 21 January 1929. His father was the cantor at the Central Synagogue in London and his mother, Dora Cohen, a piano teacher in Tredegar, Wales. He was educated at Berkhamsted School and at the London School of Economics.[when?]

Stouzker studied the violin with the English violinist Albert Sammons at the Royal College of Music.[when?] In 1968, he became a member of the Council of the Royal College and served for 31 years. On retirement in 1999, he was made a vice president of the college.

From 2008, Stoutzker and his wife were resident in Salzburg, Austria. He died on 6 April 2024, at the age of 95.[1]

Philharmonia Orchestra

Following the death of its principal conductor, Otto Klemperer, in 1973, the New Philharmonia Orchestra needed financial support and new musical leadership. The financial supp

Ian Pace is a pianist of long-established reputation, specialising in the farthest reaches of musical modernism and transcendental virtuosity, as well as a writer and musicologist focusing on issues of performance, music and society and the avant-garde. He was born in Hartlepool, England in 1968, and studied at Chetham’s School of Music, The Queen’s College, Oxford and, as a Fulbright Scholar, at the Juilliard School in New York. His main teacher, and a major influence upon his work, was the Hungarian pianist György Sándor, a student of Bartók.

Based in London since 1993, he has pursued an active international career, performing throughout Britain, Europe and the US. His absolutely vast repertoire of all periods focuses particularly upon music of the 20th and 21st Century, including a wide range of works by contemporary British, French, German and Italian and other composers as well as the ‘classics’ of modern music by composers such as Boulez, Stockhausen, Barraque, Xenakis, Ligeti, Nono, Kagel and Cage. He has given world premieres of over 100 pieces f

Ian Keith Harris

Ian Keith Harris (24 June 1936 – 3 April 2024) was an Australian composer of classical music, arranger, oboist, critic and music educator.

Life and career

Ian Keith Harris was born[1] in Melbourne, living there for the first 26 years of his life. He started the piano at the age of five, playing cornet in his school band, then violin for a couple of years at high school, and later was a school pianist. In 1952, he began his Bachelor of Music degree at Melbourne UniversityConservatorium of Music, taking piano as chief study and oboe as second. Later, he changed to oboe as his chief study and studied composition with Jiři Tancibudek and Arthur Nickson.

He was soon in demand as a freelance orchestral musician, arranger and copyist, working in a very eclectic mix of musical spheres from arrangement for television and various theatrical shows to playing in opera, ballet, chamber music and symphony orchestras. He was a founding member of the Glendenian Trio (flute, oboe, bassoon), which gave regular broadcasts over several years. The trio wa

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