Patricia Carroll

Winifred Patricia Carroll (born May 6, 1932 in Sidcup , † June 11, 2017 in London ) was a British pianist .

Life

Carroll was born in 1932, the oldest of four children to two amateur musicians. She attended girls' schools in Newbury and Beckenham and learned piano and violin. As a teenager she began studying the violin with Arthur Alexander at the Royal College of Music (RCM) in London. There she won the Chappell Gold Medal for piano students. With the help of a French government scholarship, she studied with Marguerite Long in Paris. The British Council sponsored her as part of her studies abroad with Friedrich Gulda in Vienna. At the 1953 Kranichstein Music Prize on the occasion of the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt, she shared the second piano prize with Robert-Alexander Bohnke . In 1955 she received the International Music Association Concert Award together with Margaret Major (viola).

She kicked u. a. in the Wigmore Hall in London and in the Vienna Konzerthaus . As one of the first women ever, she gave a piano concerto at the Royal Festival Hall in London; In 1952 she played Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra . The pianist was invited three times to the BBC Proms summer concert series , including in 1962, where she performed Grieg's piano concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sir Malcolm Sargent . She also appeared as a juror at international music competitions.

From 1966 she taught at the Royal College of Music in London. In 1997 she became a fellow there . Her students included u. a. the mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly . In memory of them, Bernard Haitink , Martin James Bartlett and the RCM Symphony Orchestra gave a Mozart and Strauss concert on February 1, 2018 in the Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall.

She was married to the Austrian music journalist George Newman , with whom she had three children.

literature

• Patricia Carroll: Pianist who overcame prejudice and a series of accidents to become a popular soloist and teacher , in: The Daily Telegraph , June 22, 2017, p. 27.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Royal College of Music: Spring 2018 Events, London 2017, p. 8.