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
- More former students can be found at Category:Alumni of the Royal College of Music
- More 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
- Peter Bradley-Fulgoni (born 1957), pianist
- Julian Bream (born 1933), guitarist and lutenist
- Frank Bridge (1879–1941), composer
- Benjamin Britten (1913–1976), composer
- Timothy Brown, (hornist)
- Aylmer Buesst (conductor)
- Steve Burke (born 1974), video game composer and sound designer
- George Butterworth (1885–1916), composer
- Clive Carey (1883–1968), baritone, opera producer, composer and folk-song collector
- Ronald Cavaye (born 1951), pianist and writer
- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912), composer
- Sarah Connolly (born 1963), mezzo-soprano
- Charles Daniels (born 1962), tenor
- Thurston Dart (1921–1971), performer and musicologist
- 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
- 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
- Sir James Galway (born 1939), flautist
- Bernard Garfield (born 1924), bassonist and composer
- Noel Gay (1898–1954), songwriter
- Jane Glover (born 1949), conductor
- Robert John Godfrey (born 1947), composer and pianist
- 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
- James Horner (1953–2015), composer
- Herbert Howells (1892–1983), composer
- Owain Arwel Hughes (born 1942), conductor
- William Hurlstone (1876–1906), composer
- John Ireland (1879–1962), composer and pianist
- Gordon Jacob (1895–1984), composer
- Dame Gwyneth Jones (born 1936), Wagnerian soprano
- Hannah Kendall (born 1985), composer
- Dame Thea King (1925–2007), clarinettist
- Constant Lambert (1905–1951), composer and critic
- George-Emmanuel Lazaridis (born 1978), pianist
- John Lill (born 1944), pianist
- Natalia Luis-Bassa (born 1966), conductor
- Neville Marriner (born 1924), conductor
- Colin Mawby (born 1936), organist, choral conductor and composer
- Sir William McKie (1901–1984), organist and choir director
- Susan Milan (born 1940), flautist
- Francis Monkman (born 1949), rock, classical and film score composer
- Steve Nieve (born 1958), keyboardist
- Ludovic Morlot (born 1974), conductor
- Sir Hubert Parry (1848–1918), composer
- Ian Partridge (born 1938), tenor
- Peter Pears (1910–1986), singer
- "Mika" Michael Penniman (born 1983), popular singer-songwriter
- Trevor Pinnock (born 1946), harpsichordist and conductor
- Clement Power (born 1980), conductor
- Julie Price, bassoonist
- Surendran Reddy (1962–2010), composer and pianist
- Achille Rivarde (1865–1940), violinist and teacher
- Bernard Rose (1916–1996), academic, Organist and Master of the Choristers, Magdalen College, Oxford
- Gilbert Rowland (born 1946), harpsichordist
- Isyana Sarasvati (born 1993), singer
- Malcolm Sargent (1895–1967), conductor
- Paul Schwartz (born 1956), producer, composer, conductor and pianist
- Howard Shelley (born 1950), pianist
- Cyril Smith (1909–1974), pianist
- Philip Sparke (born 1951) composer and conductor
- Edna Stern (born 1977), pianist
- Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924), composer
- Leopold Stokowski (1882–1977), conductor
- Joan Sutherland (1926–2010), singer
- Christopher Tin (1976–), composer
- Michael Tippett (1905–1998), composer
- Mark-Anthony Turnage (born 1960), composer
- Nick van Bloss (born 1967), pianist, 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 (born 1920), 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
- Laura Wright (born 1990), singer
- Gillian Weir (born 1941), organist
- John Williams (born 1941), guitarist
- Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), composer
- Martin Yates (born 1958), conductor