Real name: Dame Thea King

Effective period / Period of releases: 1962 - 1997

Born: 26th December 1925 Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England
Died: 26th June 2007
British clarinetist. Having begun her career as a pianist, she returned to the piano in later years. Appointed a dame in 2001.
In January 1953, she married Frederick Thurston (her clarinet tutor at Royal College of Music, London), but he died from lung cancer in December of the same year. She never remarried.