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 |
