# List of Royal College of Music people

This is a partial listing of alumni, teachers and Fellows of the Royal College of Music, London.

## Alumni and faculty

* Further former students can be found at Category:Alumni of the Royal College of Music.
* Further former and present teachers can be found at Category:Academics of the Royal College of Music.
* Richard Addinsell (1904–1977), composer
* Richard Adeney (1920–2010), flautist
* Sir Thomas Allen (born 1944), singer
* Julian Anderson (born 1967), composer
* Richard Arnell (1917–2009), composer
* Sir Malcolm Arnold (1921–2006), composer
* Alexander Baillie (born 1956), cellist
* Evelyn Barbirolli (1911–2008), oboist
* Peter Bassano (1945–2025), trombonist, conductor
* John S. Beckett (1927–2007), composer, performer and conductor
* Luke Bedford (born 1978), composer
* Adrian Beers (1923–2004), double bass player
* Derek Bell (1935–2002), composer, harpist, and pianist
* James Bernard (1925–2001), composer
* John Birch (1929-2012), organist
* Roger Birnstingl, (born 1932) bassoonist
* Robin Blaze (born 1970), countertenor
* Sir Arthur Bliss (1891–1975), composer
* Rutland Boughton (1878–1960), composer
* Julian Bream (1933–2020), guitarist and lutenist
* Frank Bridge (1879–1941), composer
* Benjamin Britten (1913–1976), composer
* Sheila Bromberg (1928-2021), harpist
* Rachel Brown (living), flautist
* Timothy Brown (living), hornist
* Aylmer Buesst (1883–1970), conductor
* Steve Burke (born 1974), video game composer and sound designer
* George Butterworth (1885–1916), composer
* Amice Calverley (1896–1959), composer, Egyptologist
* Clive Carey (1883–1968), baritone, opera producer, composer and folk-song collector
* Ronald Cavaye (born 1951), pianist and writer
* Otie Chew Becker (1880–1953), violinist
* Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912), composer
* Sarah Connolly (born 1963), mezzo-soprano
* David Cordier (born 1959), countertenor
* Charles Daniels (born 1962), tenor
* Thurston Dart (1921–1971), performer and musicologist
* Ray Davies (1927–2017), trumpeter and bandleader
* Sir Andrew Davis (born 1944), conductor
* Sir Colin Davis (1927–2013) conductor
* Alexandre Desplat (born 1961), film composer
* Margaret Douglas-Home (1906–1996), pianist
* Julius Drake (born 1959), pianist and accompanist
* Madeleine Dring (1923–1977), 1945 ARCM (Piano), composer
* George Dyson (1883–1964), composer
* Daniel Elms (born 1985), composer
* David Fanshawe (1942–2010), composer and ethnomusicologist
* Michael Finnissy (born 1946), composer
* Leonard N. Fowles (1870–1939), composer, organist and choirmaster
* Sarah Fox (born 1973), soprano
* Herbert Fryer (1877–1957), pianist
* Megumi Fujita of the Fujita Piano Trio
* Sir James Galway (born 1939), flautist
* Bernard Garfield (born 1924), bassoonist and composer
* Noel Gay (1898–1954), songwriter
* Helen Gilliland (1897-1942), actress and singer
* Jane Glover (born 1949), conductor
* Walter Glynne (1890-1945), operatic tenor
* Robert John Godfrey (born 1947), composer and pianist
* Malcolm Goldring oboist, conductor
* Sir Eugene Goossens (1893–1962), conductor
* Léon Goossens (1897–1988), oboist
* Sir Charles Groves (1915–1992), conductor
* Douglas Guest (1916–1996), organist and choirmaster
* Richard Harvey (born 1953), composer and multi-instrumentalist
* David Helfgott (born 1947), pianist
* Naftali Hershtik (born 1960), cantor
* Kenneth Hesketh (born 1968), composer
* Georgette Heyer (1902–1974), historical novelist
* Gustav Holst (1874–1934), composer
* Nicholas Hooper (born 1952), film-composer
* James Horner (1953–2015), film-composer
* Dani Howard (born 1993), composer
* Jeremy Dale Roberts (1934–2017), composer
* Josef Horovitz (born 1926), composer
* Herbert Howells (1892–1983), composer
* Owain Arwel Hughes (born 1942), conductor
* Walter Hyde (1875–1951), operatic tenor
* William Hurlstone (1876–1906), composer
* John Ireland (1879–1962), composer and pianist
* Gordon Jacob (1895–1984), composer
* Georges Jacobi (1840–1906), composer and conductor
* Olga Jegunova (born 1984), pianist
* Dame Gwyneth Jones (born 1936), Wagnerian soprano
* Bryan Kelly (born 1934), composer
* Hannah Kendall (born 1985), composer
* Dame Thea King (1925–2007), clarinetist
* Jason Kouchak (born 1969), composer and pianist
* Constant Lambert (1905–1951), composer and critic
* Gabrielle Lambrick (1913–1968), educator and historian
* George-Emmanuel Lazaridis (born 1978), pianist
* Rowland Lee (born 1960), composer, pianist and music arranger
* John Lill (born 1944), pianist
* Roger Lord (1924–2014), oboist with London Symphony Orchestra
* Natalia Luis-Bassa (born 1966), conductor
* David Lyn (1927–2012), actor
* Sir Neville Marriner (1924-2016), conductor
* Colin Mawby (1936–2019), organist, choral conductor and composer
* Sir William McKie (1901–1984), organist and choir director
* Andrew March (born 1973), composer
* Susan Milan (born 1940), flautist
* Carlos Miranda (born 1945), composer
* Johannes Möller (born 1981), guitarist and composer
* Luke Mombrea, composer
* Francis Monkman (born 1949), rock, classical and film-composer
* Philip Moore (born 1943), organist and composer
* Ludovic Morlot (born 1974), conductor
* David Moule-Evans (1905–1988), composer
* Tokio Myers (born 1984), pianist
* Stuart Nicholson (born 1975), organist
* Steve Nieve (born 1958), keyboardist
* Aydin Önaç (born c. 1950), pianist, teacher, headteacher
* Sir Hubert Parry (1848–1918), composer
* Ian Partridge (born 1938), tenor
* Alex Paxton (born 1990), composer, trombonist
* Peter Pears (1910–1986), singer
* Kevin Penkin (born 1992), anime, film and video game composer
* "Mika" Michael Penniman (born 1983), popular singer-songwriter
* Trevor Pinnock (born 1946), harpsichordist and conductor
* Clement Power (born 1980), conductor
* Julie Price (born 1963), bassoonist
* Surendran Reddy (1962–2010), composer and pianist
* Achille Rivarde (1865–1940), violinist and teacher
* Clara Rodríguez (born 1970), student and teaching professor.
* Bernard Rose (1916–1996), academic, Organist and Master of the Choristers, Magdalen College, Oxford
* Gilbert Rowland (born 1946), harpsichordist
* Isyana Sarasvati (born 1993), singer and songwriter
* Malcolm Sargent (1895–1967), conductor
* Paul Schwartz (born 1956), producer, composer, conductor and pianist
* Sasha Scott, composer
* Frederick Sharp (1911–1988), baritone
* Howard Shelley (born 1950), pianist
* Cyril Smith (1909–1974), pianist
* Laura Snowden (born 1989), guitarist and composer
* Philip Sparke (born 1951), composer and conductor
* Edna Stern (born 1977), pianist
* Maxim Vengerov (born 1974), Russian-born Israeli violinist, violist, and conductor
* Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924), composer
* Sophie Viney (born 1974), composer, arranger and pianist
* Albert Visetti (1846–1928), composer, conductor and teacher
* Leopold Stokowski (1882–1977), conductor
* Joan Sutherland (1926–2010), singer
* Christopher Tin (born 1976), composer
* Michael Tippett (1905–1998), composer
* Mark-Anthony Turnage (born 1960), composer
* Nick van Bloss (born 1967), pianist and author
* Vanessa-Mae (born 1978), violinist
* Rick Wakeman (born 1949), keyboardist
* Bernard Walton (1917–1972), clarinetist
* William Waterhouse (1931–2007), bassoonist and musicologist
* Fanny Waterman (1920–2020), founding director of the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition
* Darryl Way (born 1948), rock and classical musician
* Andrew Lloyd Webber (born 1948), composer
* Julian Lloyd Webber (born 1951), cellist
* William Lloyd Webber (1914–1982), organist and composer
* Gillian Weir (born 1941), organist
* Grace Williams (1906–1977), composer
* John Williams (born 1941), guitarist
* Nardus Williams, soprano singer
* Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), composer
* Laura Wright (born 1990), singer
* Martin Yates (born 1958), conductor