1928 in British music

This is a summary of 1928 in music in the United Kingdom.

Events
January – Edward German is knighted for services to music.
 * April – While studying under Frank Bridge, 15-year-old Benjamin Britten composes his String Quartet in F.
 * June – Herbert Sumsion leaves the United States for the UK to take up the post of organist at Gloucester Cathedral.
 * 9 August – Percy Grainger marries Swedish artist Ella Ström at the Hollywood Bowl.
 * September – Benjamin Britten goes as a boarder to Gresham's School, in Holt, Norfolk.
 * 10 October – Eric Fenby arrives in Grez to begin work as amanuensis for Frederick Delius.
 * date unknown
 * Malcolm Sargent becomes conductor of the Royal Choral Society.
 * Arnold Bax begins taking an annual working holiday in Morar, in the west Scottish Highlands.

Popular music

 * Noël Coward – "World Weary"

Classical music: new works

 * Kenneth J. Alford – Dunedin (march)
 * Granville Bantock – Pagan Symphony
 * Arthur Bliss – Pastoral 'Lie strewn the white flocks'
 * Hamilton Harty – Suite for Cello and Piano
 * Gustav Holst – A Moorside Suite
 * John Ireland – Two Songs, 1928
 * Cyril Rootham – "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity"
 * Ralph Vaughan Williams – Te Deum in G major
 * William Walton – Sinfonia Concertante

Opera

 * Stanley Bate – The Forest Enchanted
 * William Henry Bell – The Mouse Trap; libretto after The Sire de Maletroit's Door by Robert Louis Stevenson

Musical theatre

 * The Good Old Days of England, music by Percy Fletcher, libretto by Oscar Asche

Births

 * 17 January – Matt McGinn, folk singer (died 1977)
 * 8 February – Osian Ellis, harpist
 * 5 March – Diana Coupland, singer and actress (died 2006)
 * 6 March – Ronald Stevenson, composer and pianist (died 2015)
 * 13 March – Ronnie Hazlehurst, conductor and composer (died 2007)
 * 2 April – April Cantelo, soprano
 * 4 April
 * Jimmy Logan, entertainer (died 2001)
 * Monty Norman, singer and composer of the James Bond signature tune
 * 19 April – Alexis Korner, blues musician and historian (died 1984)
 * 27 May – Thea Musgrave, composer
 * 6 July – Peter Glossop, operatic baritone (died 2008)
 * 16 July – Bryden Thomson, orchestral conductor (died 1991)
 * 20 July – Peter Ind, jazz double-bassist and record producer
 * 26 August – Andrew Porter, music critic (died 2015)
 * 6 October – Flora MacNeil, singer in Scottish Gaelic (died 2015)
 * 20 December – Donald Adams, operatic bass-baritone (died 1996)

Deaths

 * 1 March – Sir Herbert Brewer, organist and composer (born 1865)
 * 27 March – Leslie Stuart, musical theatre composer (born 1863)
 * 13 May – David Thomas, composer (born 1881)
 * 21 June – Marie Novello, pianist (born 1898)
 * 12 September – Howard Talbot, conductor and composer (born 1865)
 * 30 October – Percy Anderson, D'Oyly Carte stage designer (born 1851)
 * 26 November – Herbert Sullivan, nephew and biographer of Sir Arthur Sullivan (born 1868)