Guest Speakers
Among the guests who have spoken at meetings of Putney Music
(updated 12 August 2022)
Larry Adler | Jonathan Groves | Jennifer Partridge |
Dmitri Alexeev | Sally Groves | György Pauk |
John Alldis | Alexei Grynyuk | Anthony Payne |
Sir Thomas Allen | John Graham Hall | Nicholas Payne |
John Allison | Sir Peter Hall | Paco Peña |
John Amis | Louis Halsey | Murray Perahia |
Anda Anastasescu | Marc-André Hamelin | Ted Perry |
Julian Anderson | Derek Hammond-Stroud | Gervase de Peyer |
Katya Apekisheva | Thomas Hampson | Dr Robert Philip |
Benjamin Appl | Vernon Handley | David Pickard |
Felix Aprahamian | Chloë Hanslip | Trevor Pinnock |
Sheila Armstrong | Lord Harewood | William Pleeth |
Sir Malcolm Arnold | Heather Harper | Rosalind Plowright |
Cecil Aronowitz | Sheila Hayman | Anthony Pollard |
Peter Avis | Charles Haynes | Jean-Bernard Pommier |
Janet Baker DBE | Robert Hayward | Robert Ponsonby |
Bryan Balkwill | Thomas Hemsley | Lucia Popp |
Quintin Ballardie | Robert Henderson | Alberto Portugheis |
Lady Barbirolli | Julian Herbage | David Pountney |
Clive Barda | John Heley | Lawrence Power |
Cheryl Barker | Raimund Herincx | Simon Preston |
Jennifer Bate | Richard Hickox | André Previn |
John Bate | Christopher Hogwood | Dame Margaret Price |
Charles Beare | Robin Holloway | Sir John Pritchard |
Shirley Lady Beecham | Jascha Horenstein | Oleg Prokofiev |
David Bell | Stephen Hough | Joy Puritz |
Dr Eduardo Benarroch | Leslie Howard | David Pyatt |
Heather Betts | Margaret Howard | Steve Race |
Nicola Benedetti | Gwynne Howell | Samuel Ramey |
George Benjamin | Neil Howlett | Priaulx Rainier |
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett | Orwain Arwel Hughes | Alan Rawsthorne |
William Bennett | Stephanie Hughes | Franz Reizenstein |
Sir Lennox Berkeley | Sir Ian Hunter | Arthur Reynolds |
Michael Berkeley | John Huntley | James Rhodes |
Sir Harrison Birtwistle | Peter Hurford | Ben Rich |
Christopher Bishop | Emanuel Hurwitz | Jean Rigby |
Neil Black | Michael Hurwitz | Dame Janet Ritterman |
Sir Arthur Bliss | Gerhard Hüsch | Stephen Roberts |
Alan Blyth | Tom Hutchinson | Marisa Robles |
Barbara Bonney | Christopher Hyde-Smith | Joan Rodgers |
Ian Bostridge | Alina Ibragimova | Pascal Rogé |
Catherine Bott | Sir Jeremy Isaacs | Anthony Rolfe Johnson |
Pierre Boulez | Annette Isserlis | Michael Roll |
Thomas Bowes | Steven Isserlis | Amanda Roocroft |
James Bowman | Carl Jackson | Anthony Rooley |
Martyn Brabbins | Mariss Jansons | Carole Rosen |
Susan Bradshaw | Karl Jenkins | Charles Rosen |
Eric Bravington | Stephen Johns | Harold Rosenthal |
Julian Bream | Graham Johnson | Jack Rothstein |
Alfred Brendel | Geraint Jones | Simon Rowland-Jones |
Christine Brewer | Vladimir Jurowski | Roger Royle |
Bryony Brind | Gerald Kaufman MP | Patricia Rozario |
John Bridcut | Brian Kay | Gennadi Rozhdestvensky |
Jack Brymer | Andrew Keener | Vera Rozsa |
Julian Budden | Hans Keller | Mikhail Rudy |
Iain Burnside | Michael Kennedy | Sir Donald Runnicles |
Sandy Burnett | Nigel Kennedy | John Rutter |
Anthony Burton | Yvonne Kenny | Dr Stanley Sadie |
Humphrey Burton | Nicholas Kenyon | Dr Eric Sams |
Piers Burton-Page | Robert King | Tatiana Sarkissova |
Dr Geoffrey Bush | Emma Kirkby | Prunella Scales |
Teresa Cahill | Ralph Kirshbaum | András Schiff |
David Cairns | Oliver Knussen | Heinrich Schiff |
Dan Cairns | Pavel Kolesnikov | Andreas Schmidt |
Anthony Camden | Ralph Koltai | Christopher Seaman |
Jacqueline Caminer | Stephen Kovacevich | Humphrey Searle |
Hugh Canning | Sholto Kynoch | Mátyás Seiber |
Ray & Nick Carpenter | Katia & Marielle Labèque | Tom Service |
Stephen Carpenter | Piers Lane | John Sessions |
Peter Carter | Michael Langdon | Constance Shacklock |
Michael Chance | Philip Langridge | Joseph Shiner |
Andrew Charity | Norman Lebrecht | John Shirley-Quirk |
Levon Chilingirian | Sergei Leiferkus | Antoinette Sibley |
Sir George Christie | Raymond Leppard | Jeremy Siepmann |
Allan Clayton | François Le Roux | Malcolm Simpson |
Robert Cohen | Richard Lester | Robert Simpson |
Maggie Cole | John Lill | Oda Slobodskaya |
Michael Collins | Tasmin Little | Nicholas Snowman |
Peter Colman-Wright | Andrew Litton | Zeb Soanes |
Elizabeth Connell | Robert Lloyd | Oliver Soden |
Christopher Cook | David Lloyd-Jones | Elisabeth Söderström |
Imogen Cooper | Julian Lloyd-Webber | Naresh Sohal |
Joseph Cooper | Felicity Lott | Lady Solti |
Debra Craine | Martin Lovett | Peter Stadlen |
Clement Crisp | Elisabeth Lutyens | John Steane |
Paul Crossley | Benjamin Luxon | Crispian Steele-Perkins |
John Culshaw | William Lyne | Denis Stevens |
Laurence Cummings | Sue MacGregor | Ronald Stevenson |
Nicholas Danby | Sir Charles Mackerras | Richard Stokes |
Nicholas Daniel | Catherine Mackintosh | Kathryn Stott |
Paul Daniel | Judith Mackrell | Kathron Sturrock |
Iestyn Davies | Ian Maclay | John Summers |
Ryland Davies | James MacMillan | Roderick Swanston |
Carl Davis | Lady MacMillan | David Syrus |
Sir Colin Davis | Stephen Maddock | Dobrinka Tabakova |
Brett Dean | George Malcolm | Melvyn Tan |
Robert Dean | David Markham | Jeffrey Tate |
Winton Dean | Noah Max | Vilém Tausky |
Norman Del Mar | Alicia Markova | John Tavener |
Nikolai Demidenko | Andrew Marriner | André Tchaikowsky |
John Denison | Sir Neville Marriner | Dame Kiri Te Kanawa |
Emmanuel Despax | Wayne Marshall | Robert Tear |
Jane Clark Dodgson | Malcolm Martineau | Bryn Terfel |
Stephen Dodgson | Jean Martinon | Lillian Tertis |
Peter Donohoe | Anthony Marwood | Maggie Teyte |
Antál Doráti | Monica Mason | Adrian Thompson |
Nigel Douglas | Valerie Masterson | Sir Michael Tippett |
Sir Edward Downes | Colin Matthews | Martino Tirimo |
Patrick Doyle | David Matthews | Susan Tomes |
Julius Drake | Nicholas Maw | John Tomlinson |
Derek Drescher | Donald Maxwell | Sir John Tooley |
Danny Driver | Sir Peter Maxwell Davies | Yan Pascal Tortelier |
Sir John Drummond | Sir Robert Mayer | Matthew Trusler |
Jessica Duchen | John McCabe | Barry Tuckwell |
Thomas Edur | Nicholas McCarthy | Anthony Twiner |
Sian Edwards | Andrew McGregor | Mitsuko Uchida |
Terry Edwards | David McVicar | Dame Ninette de Valois |
Thomas Eisner | Dr Wilfred Mellers | Stephen Varcoe |
Sir Mark Elder | David Mellor | Tamás Vásáry |
Osian Ellis | June Mendoza | Ursula Vaughan Williams |
Sir Vernon Ellis | Jeremy Menuhin | Graham Vick |
Jacqueline Englert-Marchal | Mookie Lee-Menuhin | Roger Vignoles |
Dame Anne Evans | Vernon Midgley | Lars Vogt |
Sir Geraint Evans | Rebecca Miller | Michael Vyner |
Dr Eric Fenby | Hamish Milne | Kathryn Wade |
Christopher Fifield | Rodney Milnes | David Walker |
Simon Foster | "Yvonne Minton, " | Norman Walker |
Peter Frankl | Donald Mitchell | Sarah Walker |
Amelia Freedman | Gerald Moore | Timothy Walker |
Jonathan Freeman-Attwood | Jerrold Northrop Moore | Raphael Wallfisch |
Stewart French | Bryce Morrison | Stephen Walsh |
Peter Racine Fricker | Lord Moser | John Warrack |
Stephen Frost | Elijah Moshinsky | Ashley Wass |
Christopher Gable | Thea Musgrave | William Waterhouse |
Elizabeth Gale | The Navarra Quartet | Gillian Weir |
Sir John Eliot Gardiner | Martin Neary | Judith Weir |
Edward Gardner | Andrew Neill | Franz Welser-Möst |
John Gardner | Richard Nettle | Moray Welsh |
Lesley Garrett | Ivor Newton | Timothy West |
Barrie Gavin | Jessye Norman | Natalie Wheen |
Peter Gellhorn | Sir Roger Norrington | Paul Whelan |
John Georgiadis | Christopher Nourse | David Whelton |
Ulrich Gerhartz | Chi-Chi Nwanoku | Dr Jill White |
James Gibb | Ruth & Ross Nye | Douglas Whittaker |
John Gilhooly | Agnes Oakes | Mark Wigglesworth |
Dame Evelyn Glennie | James O’Donnell | Sir David Willcocks |
Sir William Glock | Noriko Ogawa | John Williams |
Jane Glover | Kevin O'Hare | Roderick Williams |
Alexander Goehr | Michael Oliver | Malcolm Williamson |
Walter Goehr | Cristina Ortiz | Elizabeth Wilson |
Rivka Golani | Anne Sofie von Otter | John Wilson |
Jill Gomez | Cécile Ousset | David Wilson-Johnson |
Noel Goodwin | Charles Owen | Hugh Wood |
Leon Goossens | David Owen Norris | William Wordsworth |
Marius Goring | Elaine Padmore | Brian Wright |
Stephen Goss | Mark Padmore | Roger Wright |
Michael Grade | Felicity Palmer | Trevor Wye |
Colin Graham | Tony Palmer | Catherine Wyn-Rogers |
Linda Esther Gray | Sir Andrzej Panufnik | Sophie Wyss |
Edward Greenfield | Jasper Parrott | Krystian Zimerman |
Dame Beryl Grey | Geoffrey Parsons | |
Sir Charles Groves | Ian Partridge |