Biography

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Effective period / Period of releases: 1946 - 2023
Members: Frank Ricotti, Louis Clark, Jack Brymer, Padraic Savage, Simon Fischer, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Jill Crowther, Helen Tunstall, Martin Owen, Richard Addison, Dave Lee (3), Nigel Black, Paul Gardham, Chris Cowie (2), Hugh Seenan, Roger Argente, Kate Musker, George Robertson, Jonathan Carney, Mark Nightingale, Hugh Webb, Gillian Cohen, Jim Buck Jr, Alan Civil, John Wilbraham, Maurice Murphy, James Galway, Peter Oxer, John Graham (2), Barry Wilde, Gary Kettel, Frank Lloyd, David Strange, Michael McMenemy, Philippa Davies, Nick Barr, Laura Melhuish, Alasdair Malloy, Carol Slater, Fiona Hibbert, Tim Good, Edward Vanderspar, Vicci Wardman, Jim Rattigan, Peter Maxwell Davies, Susan Evans, Jeff Wakefield, Charles Nolan, Kevin Duffy, James Watson (2), Sebastian Bell, John Anderson (4), Simon Chamberlain, Kerenza Peacock, Clive Dobbins, Mark Bennett, Colin Huber, Steve Henderson, Corin Long, Jonathan Snowden, Crispian Steele-Perkins, Paul Bateman, John Heley, Cecil James, Howard Ball, Clive Lander, Brendan O'Brien (2), Ursula Gough, Mia Cooper, Janice Graham, Michael Thompson (2), Tim English, Jennie Goldstein, Yehudi Menuhin, Stephen Wick, Michael Chapman (4), Yuri Temirkanov, Paul Pritchard, Jeff Bryant, Paul Cullington, Philip Heyman, Jonathan Strange, Helen Keen, Owen Slade, Richard Skinner (2), Sian McInally, Duncan Riddell, Richard Harwood, Andrew Clark (3), Jonathan Hill, Peter Collyer, Clio Gould, Thelma Owen, Helena Binney, Gillian Findlay, Rachel Roberts (2), Richard Taylor (2), Neville Taweel, Philip Jones, Valery Gergiev, Michael Baker (6), Michael Davis (5), Ray Simmons, Jeremy Metcalfe, Barry Castle, Liz Butler, Anthea Cox, Leslie Pearson, Barry Griffiths, Dean Foley, Roberto Sorrentino, Tamsy Kaner, Andrew Fuller, Michelle Bruil, Stephen Rowlinson, Robert Turner (2), Ian Rhodes, Nicole Wilson (2), Elisabeth Varlow, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Sir Charles Mackerras, William Bennett (3), Michael Winfield, Nicholas Ward, Roger Birnstingl, Raymond Cohen, Byron Fulcher, Peter Manning, Sir Thomas Beecham, Vernon Handley, Daniel Jemison, Katherine Hago, Jennifer Christie, Erich Gruenberg, John Wallace (4), John Ronayne, Leon King (2), Robin McGee, Dominic Morgan, Norman Del Mar, Dennis Clift, Harold Lester, Alan J. Peters, Stephen Bryant, Sharon Williams (2), Jonathan Vaughan, Patrick Harrild, Mary Bergin, Gerald Ruddock, David Archer, Kathryn Saunders, Ishani Bhoola, Ashley Arbuckle, Stephen Stewart (3), Nelson Cooke, Laurence Davies, Bridget Carey, Stephen Kear, Gil White (2), Edwin Hooson, Sarah Brooke, Anthony Protheroe, Kathleen Stevenson, Laurence Cromwell, Lindsay Shilling, Ken Lawrence (2), Andrew Sippings, Alain Petitclerc, Jack McCormack, Timothy Volkard, Gareth Wood (2), Charles Beldom, Julian Cummings, Robin Del Mar, Martin Fenn, Nick Reader, Pru Whittaker, Albert Dennis (2), William Heggart, Carolyn Franks, Stephen Shakeshaft, Geoffrey Palmer (2), David Chatterton, David Burrowes, James Warburton, Mary Samuel, Harry Jones, John Holt (2), Nigel Pinkett, Raymond Ovens, Peter Nutting, Guy Bebb, Kate Smith (4), Timothy Welch, David Herd, Don Thompson (4), Russell Gilbert, Nina Whitehurst, John Sibley, Julian Coward, Aline Brewer, Stewart McIlwham, Michael Dolan (2), Alan Hammond, Steve Merson, David Stowe, Martin Chivers, Andrew Klee, Peter Vel, Peter Hetherington, Roy Benson, David Richard Hirschman, Eldon Fox, Stephen Trier, Stephen Williams (3), Brian Thomas (4), Richard West (3), Graeme McKean, Derek James (2), Andrew Williams (10), Mats Lidström, John Bimson, Raphael Wallfisch, Denis Vaughan, Clive Howard, Claire Miles, Daniele Gatti, Sue Kinnersley, Barry Davis, Peter Sermon, Robert Winn, Christopher Lydon, Richard Layton, Gerald Kirby, David Newland, Marilyn Germains, Peter Chrippes, Martin Owens, Francois Rive, David Towse, Norman Taylor (2), Geoffrey Browne, Stephen Quigley, Cyril Newton, Paul Ringham, Leila Ward, Paul Wood (3), Terry Johns, Alice McVeigh, Keith Millar, Stanley Woods, Edward Barry, Roger Groves, David Willis (3), Christopher Mowat, Judith Tempplemann, Geoffrey Gilbert, James Bradshaw (2), David Broughton, Dominic Weir, Michael Angress, Graham Lee (5), Nick Rodwell, Keith Marjoram, Jaime Martín, Dennis Brain, Phil Brown (11), Katherine Jenkinson, William Houghton, Vernon Dean, Christine Palmer, Caroline Harrison, Martin Humbey, Walter Lear, Jean-Baptiste Toselli, Reginald Kell, Santiago Carvalho, Keith Bragg, Nicholas Davies, Joseph Atkins, Graham Pyatt, Myrna Edwards, Susan Croot, Sarah Gaye, Catherine McCracken, Marianne Hodge, Gill Cavanagh, Simon Hallett, Maurice Brett, Alison Beatty, John Hursey, Anne McAneney, Carol Irby, Jeremy Cornes, Leslie Child, Laurence Rogers, Joanne Boddington, Aileen Morrison, Nicholas Boothroyd, John Hatt, Adam Precious, Natasha Holmes, Gwilym Hooson, Gerri Drought, Maria Dumrese, Denise Marleyn, Eve Watson, Jacqueline Woods, Martin Turnland, Daniel Lyness, Timothy Amherst, Sian Davies, Karen Leach, Sydney Mann, Chris Westcott, Hilary Myerscough, Sandra Mack, Catherine Craig, Robert Quick, Christopher McShane, Alan Andrews, Diana Carrington, Susan Appel, Prue Sedgwick, Gwydion Brooke, Timothy Gill, Gordon Laing, Robert McIntosh, Heather Birks, Caroline O'Neill, Patrick Jones (3), Janet Crouch, Helen Simons, Ben Cunningham (4), Peter Hamilton (5), Matthew Lee (3), Clive Brown (3), Chris West (8), John Fisher (5), Chantal Webster, Kay Chappell, Clara Biss, Elizabeth Randall (2), Keith Pearson (2), Sylvia Mann (2), Alan Baker (2), Tim Barry (2), Andrew Mitchell (3), John McCutcheon (3), Lee Stephenson, Susan Smith (2), Phil Brown (17), Angela Moore (2), Paul Buckton (2), Mark Denman (2), Rachel Cohen (3), Peter Dale (4), Terence MacDonagh, Leonard Dommett, Andrew Storey, Gerald Gregory, Karen Stephenson, Christopher Irby, Triona Milne, Cormac Ó hAdodáin, Michael Meeks, Kevin Morgan (5), Paul Draper (3), Frederick Riddle, Sali-Wyn Ryan, Michael Whight, David Stone (17), Peter Graham (5), Katherine Lacy, Norman Nelson (3), Claude Hobday, Jackie Kendle, Chian Lim, Suzy Willison-Kawalec, Phil Woods (3), Emer McDonough, Audrey Douglas, Fred Harmer, Charles Woodhouse, Jian Liu, Emma Heathcote, Marie Macleod, Sophie Mather, David Whiston, Thomas Watmough, Niall Keatley, John Roberts (15), Celeste Rush, Sulki Yu, Albert Cayzer, Walter Mony, Matthew Gee (2), Esther Harling, Charlotte Ansbergs, Stephen Payne (2), Jonathan Ayling, Rosie Wainwright, Rachel van der Tang, Jonathan Hallett, Fraser Gordon, Tamás András, Katy Ayling, Erik Chapman (2), Imogen East, Ellen Blythe, Mat Heighway, Toby Street, Jason Evans (9), Richard Waters (5), Naoko Keatley, Alexander Edmundson, Clare Duckworth, James Casey (6), Alfred Hobday, Elaine Ackers, Huw Clement Evans, David Lyon (5), David Gordon (15), Matthew Williams (8), Philip White (8), Timothy Ridout, Andrew Fletcher (6), Robert Heard, Josh Cirtina, Shana Douglas (2), Samantha Norman, Ben Hulme, Jennifer Dear, Maria Oldak, James Fountain (3), Anna Stuart, Matthew Knight (6), Oscar Lampe, Aubrey Thonger, Charles Gregory (7), Sarah White (7), Robert Leighton (2), Roger Clark (5), Levis Garson, Manuel Porta, Ben Wolstenholme, Rosemary Wainwright, Esther Kim (3), Pamela Ferriman, Ugnė Tiskutė, Martin Lüdenbach, James W. Brown (2), Abigail Fenna, Ayse Osman, Richard Ion, Sonia Sielaff, Finlay Bain, Rupert Whitehead, Kenneth Essex (2), Patrick Flanaghan, Ian Davidson (12), Adriana Iacovache-Pana, Paul Lestre, Maria Ołdak, Maria Mealey, Rebecca Gibson Swift, Clare-Louise Appleby, John Woolf (4), Graeme Adams (2), Kevin Waterman, Zoë Tweed, Robert Issell, Laurence Holt, Michael Wright (28), David Broughton (3), Neil Watson (13), Peter Hodges (3), Jonathan Rooke, Christopher Cole (7), Georgina Payne, Joseph Cowie, Bernard O'Reilly (3)
For chorus credit use Royal Philharmonic Chorus.The R.P.O. was founded by Sir Thomas Beecham in 1946 and is based in London at Cadogan Hall with seasons at Royal Albert Hall. RPO tours regionally and has played in 30 countries. Notable conductors have included Antal Doráti and André Previn; Maestro Daniele Gatti has been Music Director since 1996. The orchestra reaches out through its Community and Education programme and records for major commercial record companies, as well as its own label. A sister artist is The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, formed in 1987 for light classical and pops, as well as traditional classical music.