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 (born 1945), 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 (born 1929), organist
 * Roger Birnstingl, 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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