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Herbie Flowers
Brian Keith "Herbie" Flowers (born 1938) is an English musician specialising in electric bass, double bass and tuba. He is noted as a member of Blue Mink, T. Rex and Sky. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music where for a few years he ran a successful "Rock Shop" course for young musicians.
Herbie Flowers
Brian Keith "Herbie" Flowers (born 1938) is an English musician specialising in electric bass, double bass and tuba. He is noted as a member of the rock bands Blue Mink, T.Rex and Sky. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music where for a few years he ran a successful "Rock Shop" course for young musicians.
Herbie Flowers
Brian Keith "Herbie" Flowers (born 1938) is an English musician specialising in electric bass, double bass and tuba. He is noted as a member of Blue Mink, T. Rex and Sky. Photographed here with his tuba at Dartington Summer School of Music where for a few years he ran a successful "Rock Shop" course for young musicians.
Herbie Flowers
Brian Keith "Herbie" Flowers (born 1938) is an English musician specialising in electric bass, double bass and tuba. He is noted as a member of Blue Mink, T. Rex and Sky. Photographed here with his double bass at Dartington Summer School of Music where for a few years he ran a successful "Rock Shop" course for young musicians.
Alissa Firsova
Alissa Firsova (born 1986) is a Russian-British classical composer, pianist and conductor. Born in Moscow to the composers Elena Firsova and Dmitrit Smirnov, she moved to the UK in 1991. In 2001 she won the BBC/Guardian/Proms Young Composer Competition with her piano piece "Les Pavots". Photographed in the Great Hall, Dartington in rehearsal at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Joanna MacGregor
Joanna MacGregor (born 1959) is a pianist with an international reputation, widely regarded as one of Bach's leading interpreters. As a solo pianist she has appeared with all the world's leading orchestras and has premiered many landmark works. She performed and taught at Dartington Summer School from 2014-2019 where she was photographed here.
Joanna MacGregor
Joanna MacGregor (born 1959) is a pianist with an international reputation, widely regarded as one of Bach's leading interpreters. As a solo pianist she has appeared with all the world's leading orchestras and has premiered many landmark works. She performed and taught at Dartington Summer School of Music for several years and was the Artistic Director from 2014-2019 when she was photographed here.
Joanna MacGregor
Joanna MacGregor (born 1959) is a pianist with an international reputation, widely regarded as one of Bach's leading interpreters. As a solo pianist she has appeared with all the world's leading orchestras and has premiered many landmark works. She performed and taught at Dartington Summer School of Music for several years and was the Artistic Director from 2014-2019 when she was photographed here.
Joanna MacGregor
Joanna MacGregor (born 1959) is a pianist with an international reputation, widely regarded as one of Bach's leading interpreters. As a solo pianist she has appeared with all the world's leading orchestras and has premiered many landmark works. She performed and taught at Dartington Summer School of Music for several years and was the Artistic Director from 2014-2019 when she was photographed here.
Sarah Nicholls
Innovative pianist and composer Sarah Nicholls at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2021. She invented the 'Inside-out Piano', turning a piano on it's end to give her access to the strings as well as the keys which gives her the ability to explore a whole range of new sounds.
Sarah Nicholls
Innovative pianist and composer Sarah Nicholls at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2021. She invented the 'Inside-out Piano', turning a piano on it's end to give her access to the strings as well as the keys which gives her the ability to explore a whole range of new sounds.
Sarah Nicholls
Innovative pianist and composer Sarah Nicholls at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2021. She invented the 'Inside-out Piano', turning a piano on its end to give her access to the strings as well as the keys which gives her the ability to explore a whole range of new sounds.
Sarah Nicholls
Innovative pianist and composer Sarah Nicholls at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2021. She invented the 'Inside-out Piano', turning a piano on its end to give her access to the strings as well as the keys which gives her the ability to explore a whole range of new sounds.
Sarah Nicholls
Innovative pianist and composer Sarah Nicholls at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2021. She invented the 'Inside-out Piano', turning a piano on its end to give her access to the strings as well as the keys which gives her the ability to explore a whole range of new sounds.
Sarah Nicholls
Innovative pianist and composer Sarah Nicholls at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2021. She invented the 'Inside-out Piano', turning a piano on its end to give her access to the strings as well as the keys which gives her the ability to explore a whole range of new sounds.
Sarah Nicholls
Innovative pianist and composer Sarah Nicholls at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2021. She invented the 'Inside-out Piano', turning a piano on its end to give her access to the strings as well as the keys which gives her the ability to explore a whole range of new sounds.
Crystabel Riley
Crystabel Riley is a drummer, make-up artist and writer. She works on patterns on skin - human and drum. Photographed rehearsing at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2021.
Crystabel Riley
Crystabel Riley is a drummer, make-up artist and writer. She works on patterns on skin - human and drum. Photographed rehearsing at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2021.
Crystabel Riley
Crystabel Riley is a drummer, make-up artist and writer. She works on patterns on skin - human and drum. Photographed rehearsing in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2021.
Crystabel Riley
Crystabel Riley is a drummer, make-up artist and writer. She works on patterns on skin - human and drum. Photographed rehearsing in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2021.
Crystabel Riley
Crystabel Riley is a drummer, make-up artist and writer. She works on patterns on skin - human and drum. Photographed before her concert in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2021.
Crystabel Riley
Crystabel Riley is a drummer, make-up artist and writer. She work on patterns on skin - human and drum. Photographed before her concert in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2021.
Crystabel Riley
Chrystabel Riley is a drummer, make-up artist and writer. She works on patterns on skin - human and drum. Photographed rehearsing in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2021.
Crystabel Riley
Crystabel Riley is a drummer, make-up artist and writer. She works on patterns on skin - human and drum. Photographed rehearsing in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2021.
Crystabel Riley
Crystabel Riley is a drummer, make-up artist and writer. She works on patterns on skin - human and drum. Photographed before her concert in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2021.
Crystabel Riley
Crystabel Riley is a drummer, make-up artist and writer. She works on patterns on skin - human and drum. Photographed before her concert in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2021.
Crystabel Riley
Crystabel Riley is a drummer, make-up artist and writer. She works on patterns on skin - human and drum. Photographed before her concert in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2021.
Veronika Shoot
Born in Moscow, Veronika moved to the UK at the age of five when her father the late Vladislav Shoot became the composer-in-residence at Dartington Hall. By the age of seven years old she had performed her first piano recital at Dartington Summer School of Music festival. She now performs across the UK and worldwide, playing a wide-ranging repertoire of solo and chamber music.
Veronika Shoot and Alissa Firsova
Pianist Veronika Shoot (in the foreground) and Alissa Firsova, composer, pianist and conductor rehearsing at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Veronika Shoot
Russian pianist Veronika Shoot rehearsing at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Raphael Wallfisch
Raphael Wallfisch (born 1953) is a British cellist and professor of cello. He is one of the most recorded classical artists in the world, and his recording of the Dvorak Cello Concerto was named as the best in the world according to a BBC Survey. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music which he visited many times.
Raphael Wallfisch
Raphael Wallfisch (born 1953) is a British cellist and professor of cello. He is one of the most recorded classical artists in the world, and his recording of the Dvorak Cello Concerto was named as the best in the world according to a BBC Survey. His father is pianist and piano professor Peter Wallfisch, he mother cellist and Holocaust survivor Anita Lasker-Wallfisch (who was a member of the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz and later in London a co-founder of the English Chamber Orchestra).Photographed here at Dartington Summer Schol of Music which he visited many times.
Florian Mitrea
Romanian/British Pianist Florian Mitrea, photographed here at Dartington Music Summer School in 2022, was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1989.
African Kora player
Kora player teaching on a course at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Alphorn
Alphorn being played in the Dartington Hall Gardens at the Dartington Summer School of Music 2004. There was a course that year being run for alphorn players. .
Alphorns
A group of Alphorn players performing in the Dartington Hall Gardens at the Dartington Summer School of Music 2004.
Adrian Thompson
London-born Adrian Thompson, photographed in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music, is an artist with a wide-ranging opera, concert and recital repertoire of works from the renaissance to the present day. He has performed with all the major British orchestras and ensembles and he has also worked with orchestras in Europe and the world.
Piotr Anderszewski
Polish pianist and composer Piotr Anderszewski rehearsing in the Great Hall, Dartington at the Summer School of Music in 2010.
Piotr Anderszewski
Polish pianist and composer Piotr Anderszewski conducting in the Great Hall, Dartington at the Summer School of Music in 2010.
Piotr Anderszewski
Polish pianist and composer Piotr Anderszewski rehearsing in the Great Hall, Dartington at the Summer School of Music in 2010
Piotr Anderszewski
Polish pianist and composer Piotr Anderszewski rehearsing in the Great Hall, Dartington at the Summer School of Music in 2010.
Piotr Anderszewski
Polish pianist and composer Piotr Anderszewski rehearsing in the Great Hall, Dartington at the Summer School of Music in 2010.
Piotr Anderszewski
Polish pianist and composer Piotr Anderszewski rehearsing in the Great Hall, Dartington at the Summer School of Music in 2010.
Piotr Anderszewski and Diego Masson
Polish pianist and composer Piotr Anderszewski rehearsing with conductor Diego Masson, in the Great Hall, Dartington at the Summer School of Music in 2010.
Members of Hackney Youth Orchestra
Members of Hackney Youth Orchestra taking part in Apparitions, a two night music and visual performance which took place at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2008. Stephen Montague, composer, pianist and conductor worked with the Hackney students, costume designer Alex Julyan, lighting designer James Loudon and Sound artist Kathy Hinde to create a genuinely creepy and disturbing event. There was also a cast of 85 professional and amateur musicians and actors,and a huge scary horse ridden by a knight kept appearing in different locations.
Apparitions performance
Members of Hackney Youth Orchestra taking part in Apparitions, a two night music and visual performance which took place at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2008. Stephen Montague, composer, pianist and conductor worked with the Hackney students, costume designer Alex Julyan, lighting designer James Loudon and Sound artist Kathy Hinde to create a genuinely creepy and disturbing event. There was also a cast of 85 professional and amateur musicians and actors, and a huge scary horse ridden by a knight kept appearing in different locations.
Members of Hackney Youth Orchestra
Members of the Hackney Youth Orchestra taking part in Apparitions, a two night music and visual performance which took place at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2008. Stepehn Montague, composer, pianist and conductor worked with the Hackney students, costume designer Alex Julyan, lighting designer James Loudon and Sound artist Kathy Hinde to create a genuinely creepy and disturbing event. There was also a cast of 85 professional and amateur musicians and actors, and a huge scary horse ridden by a knight kept appearing in different locations.
Apparitions performance
Members of Hackney Youth Orchestra taking part in Apparitions, a two night music and visual performance which took place at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2008. Stephen Montague, composer, pianist and conductor worked with the Hackney students, costume designer Alex Julyan, lighting designer James Loudon and Sound artist Kathy Hinde to create a genuinely creepy and disturbing event. There was also a cast of 85 professional and amateur musicians and actors, and a huge scary horse ridden by a knight kept appearing in different locations.
Members of Hackney Youth Orchestra
Members of Hackney Youth Orchestra taking part in Apparitions, a two night music and visual performance which took place at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2008. Stephen Montague, composer, pianist and conductor worked with the Hackney students, costume designer Alex Julyan, lighting designer James Loudon and Sound artist Kathy Hinde to create a genuinely creepy and disturbing event. There was also a cast of 85 professional and amateur musicians and actors, and a hug scary horse ridden by a knight kept appearing in different locations.
Members of Hackney Youth Orchestra
Members of Hackney Youth Orchestra taking part in Apparitions, a two night music and visual performance which took place at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2008. Stephen Montague, composer, pianist and conductor worked with the Hackney students, costume designer Alex Julyan, lighting designer James Loudon and Sound artist Kathy Hinde to create a genuinely creepy and disturbing event. There was also a cast of 85 professional and amateur musicians and actors, and a huge scary horse ridden by a knight, kept appearing in different locations.
Matthew Barley
Matthew Barley (born 1965), is an English cellist seen here rehearsing in the Great Hall at Dartington during the Summer School of Music. He is best known for his performances of classical music, improvisation and contemporary music including electronics.
Matthew Barley
Matthew Barley (born 1965), is an English cellist seen here rehearsing in the Great Hall at Dartington during the Summer School of Music. He is best known for his performances of classical music, improvisation and contemporary music including electronics.
Matthew Barley
Matthew Barley (born 1965), is an English cellist seen here rehearsing in the Great Hall at Dartington during the Summer School of Music. He is best known for his performances of classical music, improvisation and contemporary music including electronics.
Viktoria Mullova and Matthew Barley
Violinist Viktoria Mullova and her husband cellist Matthew Barley teaching at Dartington Summer School of Music. A major project of Barley and Mullova's called The Peasant Girl has seen over 40 peformances worldwide.
Josephine Barstow
Josephine Barstow, born in 1940 is an English operatic soprano. Here seen teaching a Masterclass at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Josephine Barstow
Portrait of Josephine Barstow, English operatic soprano born in 1940, taken at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Josephine Barstow
Portrait of Josephine Barstow, English operatic soprano born in 1940, taken at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Josephine Barstow
Josephine Barstow, born in 1940 is an English operatic soprano. Here seen teaching a Masterclass at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Orchestral workshop
Nadine Benjamin
Nadine Benjamin MBE, is a lyric soprano who is in demand on the operatic stage and the concert platform. Seen here in the very early days of her career in rehearsal as a soloist with the Dartington Festival Orchestra at the Dartington Summer School of Music.
Nadine Benjamin
Nadine Benjamin MBE, is a lyric soprano who is in demand on the operatic stage and the concert platform. Seen here in the very early days of her career, in rehearsal as a soloist for her role in an opera at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Nadine Benjamin
Nadine Benjamin MBE, is a lyric soprano who is in demand on the operatic stage and the concert platform. Seen here in the very early days of her career in rehearsal as a soloist for her role in an opera at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Nadine Benjamin
Nadine Benjamin MBE, is a lyric soprano who is in demand on the operatic stage and the concert platform. Seen here in the very early days of her career, in rehearsal as a soloist for her role in an opera at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Nadine Benjamin
Nadine Benjamin MBE is a British lyric soprano photographed here rehearsing in the Great Hall at Dartington Music Summer School.
Nadine Benjamin
Nadine Benjamin MBE is a British lyric soprano photographed here rehearsing in the Great Hall at Dartington Music Summer School.
Nadine Benjamin
Nadine Benjamin MBE is a British lyric soprano photographed here rehearsing in the Great Hall at Dartington Music Summer School.
Nadine Benjamin
Nadine Benjamin MBE is a British lyric soprano photographed here rehearsing in the Great Hall at Dartington Music Summer School.
Nadine Benjamin
Nadine Benjamin MBE is a British lyric soprano photographed here rehearsing in the Great Hall at Dartington Music Summer School.
Nadine Benjamin
Nadine Benjamin MBE is a British lyric soprano photographed here rehearsing in the Great Hall at Dartington Music Summer School.
Nadine Benjamin
Nadine Benjamin MBE is a British lyric soprano photographed here rehearsing in the Great Hall at Dartington Music Summer School.
Nadine Benjamin
Nadine Benjamin MBE is a British lyric soprano photographed here rehearsing in the Great Hall at Dartington Music Summer School.
Nadine Benjamin
Nadine Benjamin MBE is a British lyric soprano photographed here rehearsing in the Great Hall at Dartington Music Summer School.
Nadine Benjamin
Nadine Benjamin MBE is a British lyric soprano photographed here rehearsing in the Great Hall at Dartington Music Summer School.
Colin Booth
Colin Booth has been a harpsichord-maker and player since 1971. He continues to build harpsichords from a workshop near Wells, England and playing the harpsichord as soloist and continuo-player in many countries. In 1991 he founded Soundboard Records which has established itself as a successful specialist label for early keyboard music.
Colin Booth
Colin Booth has been a harpsichord-maker and player since 1971. He continues to build harpsichords from a workshop near Wells, England and playing the harpsichord as soloist and continuo-player in many countries. In 1991 he founded Soundboard Records which has established itself as a successful specialist label for early keyboard music.
Brass workshop
Brass rehearsal at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Brass workshop
Brass rehearsal at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Brass workshop
Tuba player in rehearsal at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Brass workshop
Tuba being played at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Brass rehearsal
Tuba being played in rehearsal in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Brass workshop
Tuba being played in brass workshop.
Brass workshop
Close up of tuba being played in brass workshop.
Brass insturment
French Horn
Rehearsing in the Great Hall, Dartington.
Brass orchestra and choir
Rehearsal in the Great Hall, Dartington.
Brass orchestra and choir
Rehearsal in the Great Hall, Dartington.
Close-up of brass instrument
Menahem Breuer
Menahem Breuer photographed in 2005 at Dartington Summer School of Music rehearsing in the Great Hall. He was an origianal member of the Israel Piano Trio founded in 1972 by himself, pianist Alexander Volkov, and cellist Zvi Harell.
Brook Street Band
The Brook Street Band is an ensemble playing on baroque instruments which takes its name from the London street where composer George Frederic Handel lived from 1723-1759. The band was formed in 1996 by baroque cellist Tatty Theo to perform and record the chamber music of Handel and his contemporaries.
Brook Street Band
The Brook Street Band is an ensemble playing on baroque instruments which takes its name from the London street where composer George Frederic Handel lived from 1723-1759. The band was formed in 1996 by baroque cellist Tatty Theo to perform and record the chamber music of Handel and his contemporaries.
Orchestral rehearsal
Rehearsal in the Great Hall, Dartington.
Youth orchestra in rehearsal
Matthew Barley and Viktoria Mullova
Matthew Barley, English cellist and his wife, violinist Viktoria Mullova and their daughter, photographed at a masterclass at Dartington Summer School of Music.


Moira Smiley
Moira Smiley is an American singer, composer, lyricist and musician born in Vermont, USA. She is a mulit-instrumentalist on banjo, accordion, piano and body percussion. She has performed and collaborated with various artists from different musical genres.
Natalie Clein
Natalie Clein OBE, is a British classical cellist, regularly performing at major venues and with orchestras worldwide. She was awarded an OBE for her services to music.
Piano moving
Moving pianos from one space to another has been a common sight over the years at the Summer School of Music.
Steven Devine
Steven Devine combines a career as a conductor and director of orchestral, choral and opera repertoire with that of a solo harpsichordist and fortepianist. He is Conductor and Artistic Adviser of The English Haydn Festival, Music Director of New Chamber Oper, Oxford and Director of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment's "Bach the Universe & Everything" series.
Rehearsal in the Great Hall
Duke Quartet
Members of the Duke Quartet rehearsing in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Early music rehearsal in the Great Hall, Dartington
David Staff
David Staff Trumpet Player and Maker rehearsing in the Great Hall Dartington, at the Summer School of Music.
Ensemble Meridiana
Ensemble Meridiana rehearsing in the Great Hall, Dartington at the Summer School of Music.
Ensemble Meridiana
Ensemble Meridiana rehearsing in the Great Hall, Dartington at the Summer School of Music.
Ensemble Meridiana
Ensemble Meridiana rehearsing in the Great Hall, Dartington at the Summer School of Music.
Orchestral Rehearsal
Flautist in rehearsal at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Wind band rehearsal
Brass instruments
African Kora player
Kora player teaching on a course at Dartington Summer School of Music.
African Kora player
Kora player teaching on a course at Dartington Summer School of Music.

Youth orchestra in rehearsal
Youth orchestra in rehearsal
Young musicians rehearsing in the Great Hall, at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Raphael Wallfisch
Raphael Wallfisch is an English cellist born in London in 1953. With over 70 discs he is one of the most recorded artists in the world. He has been at the forefront of playing and commissioning new works by contemporary composers, working with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Kenneth Leighton, James MacMillan, Rodion Shedrin, John Tavener and many others.
Raphael Wallfisch
Raphael Wallfisch is an English cellist born in London in 1953. With over 70 discs he is one of the most recorded artists in the world. He has been at the forefront of playing and commissioning new works by contemporary composers, working with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Kenneth Leighton, James MacMillan, Rodion Shedrin, John Tavener and many others.
Raphael Wallfisch
Raphael Wallfisch is an English cellist born in London in 1953. With over 70 discs he is one of the most recorded artists in the world. He has been at the forefront of playing and commissioning new works by contemporary composers, working with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Kenneth Leighton, James MacMillan, Rodion Shedrin, John Tavener and many others.
Raphael Wallfisch
Raphael Wallfisch is an English cellist born in London in 1953. With over 70 discs he is one of the most recorded artists in the world. He has been at the forefront of playing and commissioning new works by contemporary composers, working with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Kenneth Leighton, James MacMillan, Rodion Shedrin, John Tavener and many others.
Raphael Wallfisch
Raphael Wallfisch is an English cellist born in London in 1953. With over 70 discs he is one of the most recorded artists in the world. He has been at the forefront of playing and commissioning new works by contemporary composers, working with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Kenneth Leighton, James MacMillan, Rodion Shedrin, John Tavener and many others.
Raphael Wallfisch
Raphael Wallfisch is an English cellist born in London in 1953. With over 70 discs he is one of the most recorded artists in the world. He has been at the forefront of playing and commissioning new works by contemporary composers, working with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Kenneth Leighton, James MacMillan, Rodion Shedrin, John Tavener and many others.
Raphael Wallfisch
Raphael Wallfisch (born 1953) is a British cellist and professor of cello. He is one of the most recorded classical artists in the world, and his recording of the Dvorak Cello Concerto was named as the best in the world according to a BBC Survey. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music which he visited many times.
Violin players
Summer school participants playing in the Summer School Orchestra.
Boy in orchestra
Brass workshop
Brass workshop
Brass workshop
Matthew Trusler
Matthew Trusler has developed a reputation as one of Britain's leading violinists, performing with many of the world's great orchestras. He has received particular acclaim for his performances of works from the twentieth century, including concertos by Walton, Berg, Britten and Lingberg. Photographed here giving a master class at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Matthew Trusler
Matthew Trusler has developed a reputation as one of Britain's leading violinists, performing with many of the world's great orchestras. He has received particular acclaim for his performances of works from the twentieth century, including concertos by Walton, Berg, Britten and Lingberg. Here seen rehearsing in the Great Hall with an orchestra.
Brass fanfare
Students on the Early Brass Course at Dartington Summer School of Music playing a fanfare in the courtyard at Dartington Hall.
Brass workshop
Brass workshop
Brass fanfare
Student on the Early Brass Curse at Dartington Summer School of Music playing a fanfare in the courtyard at Dartington Hall.
Trombone player in rehearsal
Orchestral rehearsal in the Great Hall at Dartington.
Trogs at Dartington
Trogs was the name given to the young - usually music students - who volunteered to do various tasks such as the lifting and carrying of chairs and instruments between concerts, printing out programmes, looking after the artistes' needs etc.
Trogs at Dartington
Trogs was the name given to the young - usually music students - who volunteered to do various tasks such as the lifting and carrying of chairs and instruments between concerts, printing out programmes, looking after the artistes' needs etc.
Keith Tippett
Keith Tippett (1947-2020) was a British jazz pianist and composer. His career spanned jazz-rock, progressive rock, improvised and contemporary music as well as modern jazz. He was known for his unique approach to improvisation. For many years he ran a very popular Jazz Course at Dartington Summer School of Music where his students were encouraged to improvise.
Keith Tippett
Keith Tippett (1947-2020) was a British jazz pianist and composer. His career spanned jazz-rock, progressive rock, improvised and contemporary music as well as modern jazz. He was known for his unique approach to improvisation. For many years he ran a very popular Jazz Course at Dartington Summer School of Music where his students were encouraged to improvise.
Keith Tippett
Keith Tippett (1947-2020) was a British jazz pianist and composer. His career spanned jazz-rock, progressive rock, improvised and contemporary music as well as modern jazz. He was known for his unique approach to improvisation. For many years he ran a very popular Jazz Course at Dartington Summer School of Music where his students were encouraged to improvise.
Adrian Thompson
English tenor Adrian Thompson is an artist with a wide-ranging opera, concert and recital repertoire of works from the renaissance to the present day. Photographed here in rehearsal in the Great Hall during Dartington Summer School of Music.
Adrian Thompson
English tenor Adrian Thompson is an artist with a wide-ranging opera, concert and recital repertoire of works from the renaissance to the present day. Photographed here in rehearsal in the Great Hall during Dartington Summer School of Music.
Adrian Thompson
English tenor Adrian Thompson is an artist with a wide-ranging opera, concert and recital repertoire of works from the renaissance to the present day. Photographed here in rehearsal in the Great Hall during Dartington Summer School of Music.
Adrian Thompson
English tenor Adrian Thompson is an artist with a wide-ranging opera, concert and recital repertoire of works from the renaissance to the present day. Photographed here in rehearsal in the Great Hall during Dartington Summer School of Music.
Pat Thomas
Pat Thomas, jazz pianist photographed at Dartington while taking part in the Black Atlantic/Sensing the Planet symposium held at Dartington in 2021. He has a unique style of playing, embracing improvisation, jazz and new music.
Pat Thomas
Pat Thomas, jazz pianist photographed at Dartington while taking part in the Black Atlantic/Sensing the Planet symposium held at Dartington in 2021. He has a unique style of playing, embracing improvisation, jazz and new music.
Tatty Theo
Tatty Theo is the founder in 1996, and director of Brook Street Band, named after the London street where the baroque composer George Frideric Handel lived and worked. The Brook Street Band is one of the UK's leading period ensembles.
Soloist in rehearsal
A soloist rehearsing with the orchestra in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Moira Smiley
Moira Smiley is an American singer, composer, lyricist and musician born in New Haven, Vermont.She is a multi-instrumentalist on banjo, accordion, piano and body percussion and her music has been influenced by folk-styles, shape-note singing, classical song and jazz. Photographed here at Dartington Music Summer School where she was running a singing course.
Moira Smiley
Moira Smiley is an American singer, composer, lyricist and musician born in New Haven, Vermont. She is a multi-instrumentalist on banjo, accordion, piano and body percussion and her music has been influenced by folk-styles, shape-note singing, classical song and jazz. Photographed here at Dartington Music Summer School where she was running a singing course.
Moira Smiley
Moira Smiley is an American singer, composer, lyricist and musician born in New Haven, Vermont. She is a multi-instrumentalist on banjo, accordion, piano and body percussion and her music has been influenced by folk-styles, shape-note singing, classical song and jazz. Photographed here at Dartington Music Summer School where she was running a singing course.
Moira Smiley
Moira Smiley is an American singer, composer, lyricist and musician born in New Haven, Vermont. She is a multi-instrumentalist on banjo, accordion, piano and body percussion and her music has been influenced by folk-styles, shape-note singing, classical song and jazz. Photographed here at Dartington Music Summer School where she was running a singing course.
Moira Smiley
Moira Smiley is an American singer, composer, lyricist and musician born in New Haven, Vermont. She is a multi-instrumentalist on banjo, accordion, piano and body percussion and her music has been influenced by folk-styles, shape-note singing, classical song and jazz. Photographed here rehearsing in the Great Hall at Dartington Music Summer School where she was running a singing course.
Moira Smiley
Moira Smiley is an American singer, composer, lyricist and musician born in New Haven, Vermont. She is a multi-instrumentalist on banjo, accordion, piano and body percussion and her music has been influenced by folk-styles, shape-note singing, classical song and jazz. Photographed here rehearsing in the Great Hall at Dartington Music Summer School where she was running a singing course.

Pat Thomas
Pat Thomas, jazz pianist at the end of his performance in the Great Hall, Dartington during the Black Atlantic/Sensing the Planet symposium held at Dartington in 2021.
Pat Thomas
Pat Thomas, jazz pianist performing in the Great Hall, Dartington at the Black Atlantic/Sensing the Planet symposium held at Dartington in 2021.
Anthony Rooley
Rooley, born 1944, is a British lutenist and in 1969 founded and directed the early music ensemble The Consort of Musicke, which continues to be one of the chief vehicles for his inspiration, among many other activities. He has recorded extensively and continues to perform sole and duo repertoire with sopranos Evelyn Tubb and Emma Kirkby.
Anthony Rooley, Emma Kirkby and Evelyn Tubb in rehearsal
Anthony Rooley, Emma Kirkby and Evelyn Tubb in rehearsal in the Great Hall for a concert of Early Music at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Piano tuning
Tuning the Steinway in the Great Hall, Dartington at the Summer School of Music.
Piano tuning
Tuning the Steinway in the Great Hall, Dartington at the Summer School of Music.
David Owen-Norris
David Owen-Norris (born 1953) is a British pianist, composer, academic and broadcaster. Shown here in rehearsal in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music.
David Owen-Norris
David Owen-Norris (born 1953) is a British pianist, composer, academic and broadcaster. Shown here in rehearsal in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Ian Forbes
Ian Forbes, a Scotsman, who was the Dartington Estate farmer at the time - rehearsing the bagpipe solo for Peter Maxwell Davies' An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise in the Great Hall at Dartington. The composer was present which made it all the more special.
Femi Oriogan-Williams
Femi Oriogun-Williams is a writer, musician and radio producer. His work has been broadcast on Radio 3 and Radio 4 and he has made podcasts and sound installations for various institutions such as Somerset House, Serpentine Gallery, Bergen Kunsthall and Rough Guides. Photographed here at Dartington at the Sensing the Planet - a Black Atlantic Symposium.
Femi Oriogan-Williams
Femi Oriogun-Williams is a writer, musician and radio producer. His work has been broadcast on Radio 3 and Radio 4 and he has made podcasts and sound installations for various institutions such as Somerset House, Serpentine Gallery, Bergen Kunsthall and Rough Guides. Photographed here at Dartington at the Sensing the Planet - a Black Atlantic Symposium.
Femi Oriogan-Williams
Femi Oriogun-Williams is a writer, musician and radio producer. His work has been broadcast on Radio 3 and Radio 4 and he has made podcasts and sound installations for various institutions such as Somerset House, Serpentine Gallery, Bergen Kunsthall and Rough Guides. Photographed here at Dartington at the Sensing the Planet - a Black Atlantic Symposium.
Ruggiero Ricci
Ruggiero Ricci (24 July 1918-5 August 2012, was an American violinist known for performances and recordings of the works of Paganini. Seen here in rehearsal in the Great Hall, Dartington at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Great Hall Wind rehearsal
Rehearsal at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Great Hall orchestral rehearsal
In rehearsal at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Ocarina workshop
Meredith Monk
Meredith Monk - American composer/vocalist/filmmaker and choreographer, in rehearsal with her ensemble and Dartington Summer School participants in 2010. She was collaborating with members of the Elysian Quartet and this photo shows Laura Moody their cellist playing the cello while walking around.
Meredith Monk
Meredith Monk - American composer/vocalist/filmmaker and choreographer, in rehearsal with her dance ensemble, the Elysian Quartet and Dartington Summer School participants in 2010.
Meredith Monk
Meredith Monk - American composer/vocalist/filmmaker and choreographer, in rehearsal with her dance ensemble, the Elysian Quartet and Dartington Summer School participants in 2010.
Meredith Monk
Meredith Monk - American composer/vocalist/filmmaker and choreographer, in rehearsal with her dance ensemble and Dartington Summer School participants in 2010. She was collaborating with members of the Elysian Quartet and this photo shows Laura Moody their cellist playing the cello while walking around.
Meredith Monk
Meredith Monk in rehearsal with her ensemble and Dartington Summer School participants in 2010. She was collaborating with members of the Elysian Quartet and this photo shows Laura Moody their cellist playing the cello while walking around.
Meredith Monk
Meredith Monk, American composer/vocalist/filmmaker and choreographer, in rehearsal at Dartington Summer School in 2010. The new work which she devised and premiered at Dartington was Songs of Ascension Monk is seen here in rehearsal with her ensemble and Dartington Summer School participants. She was collaborating with members of the Elysian Quartet and this photo shows Laura Moody their cellist playing the cello while walking around.
Meredith Monk
Meredith Monk, American composer/vocalist/filmmaker and choreographer, in rehearsal at Dartington Summer School in 2010. The new work which she devised and premiered at Dartington was Songs of Ascension.
Meredith Monk
Meredith Monk in rehearsal with her ensemble and Dartington Summer School participants in 2010. She was collaborating with members of the Elysian Quartet and this photo shows Laura Moody their cellist having to play the cello while walking around.
Meredith Monk
Meredith Monk, American composer/vocalist/filmmaker and choreographer, in rehearsal at Dartington Summer School in 2010. The new work which she devised and premiered at Dartington was Songs of Ascension.
Meredith Monk
One of Meredith Monk's dance company rehearsing the piece Songs of Ascension which was devised and premiered at Dartington Summer School in 2010.
Meredith Monk
Meredith Monk, American composer/vocalist/filmmaker and choreographer, in rehearsal at Dartington Summer School in 2010. The new work which she devised and premiered at Dartington was Songs of Ascension.
Meredith Monk
One of Meredith Monk's dance company rehearsing the piece Songs of Ascension at Dartington Summer School in 2010.
Meredith Monk
From left to right: Alex Julyan producer and designer, Stephen Montague, composer, Meredith Monk - American composer/vocalist/filmmaker and choreographer and Gavin Henderson, arts administrator, conductor and trumpeter who was the Artistic Director of Dartington Summer School of Music from 1985 to 2010.. All photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2010.
Meredith Monk
Member of Meredith Monk's dance company, in rehearsal with the Elysian Quartet at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2010.



Miriam Kramer and Diego Masson
Miriam Kramer, grew up in Connecticut, USA and began studying the violin at 4. By 7 she had given her first public performance. She has appeared as a soloist in concert halls around the world and praised by the Strad magazine as a 'violinist of superior natural talent, an exceptionally sensitive interpreter and a phrase maker of uncommon expressivity. Seen here before a rehearsal discussing the score with Diego Masson, French conductor, composer and percussionist.
Miriam Kramer and Diego Masson
Miriam Kramer, grew up in Connecticut, USA and began studying the violin at 4. By 7 she had given her first public performance. She has appeared as a soloist in concert halls around the world and praised by the Strad magazine as a 'violinist of superior natural talent, an exceptionally sensitive interpreter and a phrase maker of uncommon expressivity. Seen here in rehearsal in the Great Hall with Diego Masson, French conductor, composer and percussionist.
Mirian Kramer and Diego Masson
Miriam Kramer, grew up in Connecticut, USA and began studying the violin at 4. By 7 she had given her first public performance. She has appeared as a soloist in concert halls around the world and praised by the Strad magazine as a 'violinist of superior natural talent, an exceptionally sensitive interpreter and a phrase maker of uncommon expressivity. Seen here in rehearsal in the Great Hall with Diego Masson, French conductor, composer and percussionist.
Stephen Kovacevich
Stephen Kovacevich (born 1940) is an American classical pianist and conductor, particularly celebrated for his recording of works by Beethoven, Bartók and Schubert. Photographed here in rehearsal in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Emma Kirkby and Evelyn Tubb
Portrait of two renowned English early music singers taken at Dartington Summer School of Music. On the left is Dame Carolyn Emma Kirkby DBE, an English soprano and early music specialist. On the right is Evelyn Tubb, English soprano and a long-time member of The Consort of Musicke and
Emma Kirkby and Evelyn Tubb
Portrait of two renowned English early music singers taken at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Emma Kirkby and Evelyn Tubb.
Rehearsing in the Great Hall, Dartington with Anthony Rooley, lutenist, and Stephen Devine, music director and harpsichordist.
Miriam Kramer
Miriam Kramer, grew up in Connecticut, USA and began studying the violin at 4. By 7 she had given her first public performance. She has appeared as a soloist in concert halls around the world and praised by the Strad magazine as a 'violinist of superior natural talent, an exceptionally sensitive interpreter and a phrase maker of uncommon expressivity'.
Julian Joseph
Acclaimed British jazz pianist, bandleader, composer, arranger and broadcaster photographed here in rehearsal at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2010.
Julian Joseph
Acclaimed British jazz pianist, bandleader, composer, arranger and broadcaster photographed here in rehearsal at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2010.
Julian Joseph and Viktoria Mullova
Julian Joseph and Viktoria Mullova in rehearsal in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2010.
Julian Joseph
Acclaimed British jazz pianist, bandleader, composer, arranger and broadcaster photographed here in rehearsal at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2010.
Foxy Moron (Hannah Catherine Jones)
Foxy Moron performing in the invocation to mark the start of Sensing the Planet Symposium held at Dartington in 2021. She is a London based artist, musician, multi-instrumentalist, composer, radio presenter and conductor.
Della Jones
Welsh mezzo-soprano Della Jones known for her interpretations of works by Handel, Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti and Britten taking a masterclass at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Della Jones
Welsh mezzo-soprano Della Jones known for her interpretations of works by Handel, Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti and Britten taking a masterclass at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Della Jones
Welsh mezzo-soprano Della Jones known for her interpretations of works by Handel, Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti and Britten taking a masterclass at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Jazz course
The jazz course at Dartington Summer School for many years was run by Keith Tippett and his wife Julie, and a group of very talented jazz musicians. Participants didn't have to have any previous experience - it was open to all ages and abilities and was probably one of the best things that has happened at Dartington.
Jazz course
The jazz course at Dartington Summer School for many years was run by Keith Tippett and his wife Julie, and a group of very talented jazz musicians. Participants didn't have to have any previous experience - it was open to all ages and abilities and was probably one of the best things that has happened at Dartington.
Mirian Kramer
Miriam Kramer began studying the violin at age four, giving her first public performance at the age of seven. She was a protégé of Henryck Szeryng and Yehudi Menuhin. Photographed here in rehearsal at Dartington Summer School of Music 2010.
Japanese music course
Israel Piano Trio
The Israel Piano Trio is a classical piano trio founded in 1972 by the pianist Alexander Volkov, the violinist Menahem Breuer and the cellist Zvi Harell. This photo shows the current Israel Piano Trio at Dartington Summer School of Music. On the left is Roglit Ishay, pianist, original member Menahem Breuer and on the right, cellist Hillel Zori. Photographed on one of their many visits to Dartington Summer School of Music.
Israel Piano Trio
The Israel Piano Trio is a classical piano trio founded in 1972 by the pianist Alexander Volkov, the violinist Menahem Breuer and the cellist Zvi Harell. This photo shows the current Israel Piano Trio at Dartington Summer School of Music. On the left is Roglit Ishay, pianist, original member Menahem Breuer and on the right, cellist Hillel Zori. Photographed on one of their many visits to Dartington Summer School of Music.
Israel Piano Trio
The Israel Piano Trio is a classical piano trio founded in 1972 by the pianist Alexander Volkov, the violinist Menahem Breuer and the cellist Zvi Harell. This photo shows the current Israel Piano Trio at Dartington Summer School of Music. On the left is original member Menahem Breuer, in the centre pianist Roglit Ishay and on the right, cellist Hillel Zori. Photographed on one of their many visits to Dartington Summer School of Music.
Indian music
Indian music
Indian music
Indian musician
Dawn raga in the Tiltyard
Indian music
Indian music concert
Indian music concert
Natalie Clein
Natalie Clein OBE is a British classical cellist, seen here in rehearsal in the Great Hall, Dartington at the Dartington Summer School of Music.
I Fagiolini
I Fagiolini - founded by Robert Hollingworth at Oxford in 1986 - is a British vocal ensemble specialising in early and contemporary music and are renowned for their innovative productions. Photographed here in rehearsal in the Great Hall at Dartington during the Dartington Summer School of Music.
Linda Hirst
Linda Hirst - mezzo-soprano and soprano vocalist, in rehearsal in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music. She is Head of Vocal Studies at Trinity Laban Conservertoire of Music and Dance, and her singing career encompasses early music, being part of the Swingle Singers and co-founding Electric Phoenix in 1979.
Gavin Henderson
Gavin Henderson, former Director of Dartington Summer School of Music sitting in on a rehearsal in the Great Hall.
Harps in the Great Hall
Harpists in rehearsal with the orchestra in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Serafina Steer
Serafina Steer, born 1982, is an English harpist, pianist, singer and songwriter. She has collaborated with artists from a variety of music genres including Jarvis Cocker, Bat for Lashes, Tunng and many others. Seen here in rehearsal in the Great Hall, Dartington at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Serafina Steer
Harpist Serafina Steer wheeling her harp through the courtyard to the Great Hall at Dartington for a rehearsal. Serafina, born 1982, is an English harpist, pianist, singer and songwriter. She has collaborated with artists from a variety of music genres including Jarvis Cocker, Bat for Lashes, Tunng and many others. Seen here in rehearsal in the Great Hall, Dartington at Dartington Summer School of Music.
John Hancorn
John Hancorn is an operatic baritone and music director of the BREMF Singers, Baroque Collective Singers, East Sussex Bach Choir and Eastbourne Choral Society and co-director of The Baroque Collective. He leads vocal workshops and masterclasses specialising in baroque repertoire. Seen here rehearsing in the Great Hall, Dartington at the Dartington Summer School of Music.
Hackney Youth Orchestra
Members of Hackney Youth Orchestra in rehearsal at Dartington Summer School of Music. Hackney Youth Orchestras Trust is a registered charity and has been providing music tuition to children and young people in the London Borough of Hackney since 1992. The orchestra visited Dartington Summer School every year from 1992 and were led by Nicholas Ridout, a former Dartington College of Arts student.
Hackney Youth Orchestra
Members of Hackney Youth Orchestra in rehearsal at Dartington Summer School of Music. Hackney Youth Orchestras Trust is a registered charity and has been providing music tuition to children and young people in the London Borough of Hackney since 1992. The orchestra visited Dartington Summer School every year from 1992 and were led by Nicholas Ridout, a former Dartington College of Arts student.
Silhouette in Great Hall
Singing in the Great Hall
A musician singing at a rehearsal in the Great Hall, Dartington at the Dartington Summer School of Music.
The Ganesh brothers
Dartington has had strong associations with India over the years and this shows the Ganesh brothers performing in the Great Hall as part of a festival of Indian Music.
The Ganesh brothers
Dartington has had strong associations with India over the years and this shows the Ganesh brothers performing in the Great Hall as part of a festival of Indian Music.
Wind band rehearsal
Rehearsal of brass orchestra at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Wind band rehearsal
Brass instruments
Wind band rehearsal
A musician playing a French horn at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Wind band rehearsal
Brass instruments
Herbie Flowers
Brian Keith "Herbie" Flowers (born 19 May 1938) is an English musician specialising in electric bass, double bass and tuba. He was a member of Blue Mink, T. Rex and Sky. Photographed here on one of his many visits to Dartington Summer School where he ran a very successful Rock Club course.
Florian Mitrea
Romanian/British Pianist Florian Mitrea, photographed here at Dartington Music Summer School in 2022, was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1989.
Ruggiero Ricci
Ruggiero Ricci (24 July 1918-5 August 2012, was an American violinist known for performances and recordings of the works of Paganini. Seen here in rehearsal in the Great Hall, Dartington at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Martyna Kazmierczak
Polish fortepianist Martyna Kazmierczak photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2017.
Joanna McGregor
Joanna MacGregor CBE (born 16 July 1959) is a British concert pianist, conductor,composer and festival curator. She is Head of Piano at the Royal Academy of Music and a professor at the University of London. She was photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music where she was the artistic director from 2015-2019.
Norman Lebrecht
Norman Lebrecht is a British music journalist and author who specialises in classical music. He is best known as the owner of the classical music blog Slipped Disc, in which he frequently publishes articles. Described by Gilbert Kaplan as 'surely the most controversial and arguably the most influential journalist covering classical music."
Piotr Anderszewski
Piotr Anderszewski (born 1969) is a Polish pianist and composer seen here in rehearsal in the Great Hall at Dartngton Summer School of Music.
Joanna MacGregor
Portrait of pianist Joanna MacGregor taken at Dartington Summer School of Music.Joanna MacGregor CBE (born 16 July 1959) is a British concert pianist, conductor,composer and festival curator. She is Head of Piano at the Royal Academy of Music and a professor at the University of London. She was photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music where she was the artistic director from 2015-2019.

Larraine Nicholas
Larraine Nicholas is Emeritus Fellow in the Department of Dance, University of Roehampton, London. She is the author of Dancing in Utopia: Dartington Hall and its Dancer (2007).
Larraine Nicholas
Larraine Nicholas is Emeritus Fellow in the Department of Dance, University of Roehampton, London. She is the author of Dancing in Utopia: Dartington Hall and its Dancer (2007).
Emilyn Claid
Emilyn Claid - ballet dancer, co-founder of X6 Dance Space in London, artistic director of Extemporary Dance Theatre and in the 1990's worked as an independent dance artist. She has made choreographies for companies such as Phoenix Dance Company and CandoCo Dance Company. Photographed here in the Great Hall at Dartington.
Emilyn Claid
Emilyn Claid - ballet dancer, co-founder of X6 Dance Space in London, artistic director of Extemporary Dance Theatre and in the 1990's worked as an independent dance artist. She has made choreographies for companies such as Phoenix Dance Company and CandoCo Dance Company. Photographed here in the Great Hall at Dartington.
Laban conference
Valerie Preston-Dunlop
Valerie Preston-Dunlop is a consultant and Honorary Fellow at London's Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and a teacher, researcher and dance scholar. She has conducted extensive research into the life and work of Rudolf Laban and has written many books that have contributed to the field of dance. Photographed here at a conference on Rudolf Laban held at Dartington in 2008 attended by many eminent ex-pupils of Laban's, including Valerie Preston Dunlop, Warren Lamb and Marion North.
Valerie Preston-Dunlop
Valerie Preston-Dunlop is a consultant and Honorary Fellow at London's Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and a teacher, researcher and dance scholar. She has conducted extensive research into the life and work of Rudolf Laban and has written many books that have contributed to the field of dance. Photographed here at a conference on Rudolf Laban held at Dartington in 2008 attended by many eminent ex-pupils of Laban's, including Valerie Preston Dunlop, Warren Lamb and Marion North.
Laban Dance Festival
Students attending the conference on the work of Rudolf Laban, dancing on the steps up to the Tiltyard at Dartington Hall. This was a very impromptu response to them all meeting for the first time in a significant place in the history of dance.
Laban Dance Festival
Students attending the conference on the work of Rudolf Laban, dancing on the steps in the forecourt at Dartington Hall. This was a very impromptu response to them all meeting for the first time in a significant place in the history of dance.
Laban Dance Festival
Students attending the conference on the work of Rudolf Laban, dancing on the steps in the forecourt at Dartington Hall. This was a very impromptu response to them all meeting for the first time in a significant place in the history of dance.
Laban Conference
Laban Dance Conference
Students attending the conference on the work of Rudolf Laban, dancing on the steps in the forecourt at Dartington Hall. This was a very impromptu response to them all meeting for the first time in a significant place in the history of dance.
Laban Dance Conference
Students attending the Laban Dance Conference in the Great Hall at Dartington.
Laban Dance Conference
Someone found some Laban sweets.....
Warren Lamb
Warren Lamb (1923-2014) was a British management consultant and pioneer in the field of nonverbal behaviour. After studying with Rudolf Laban he developed Movement Pattern Analysis - a system for analysing and interpreting movement behaviour, which has been applied in numerous fields including management consulting, executive recruitment and therapy.
Laban Dance Conference
Laban Dance Conference
Laban Dance Conference
Laban Dance Conference
Laban Dance Conference
Laban Dance Conference
Laban Dance Conference
Laban Dance Conference
Warren Lamb
Warren Lamb (1923-2014), was a British management consultant and pioneer in the field of nonverbal behaviour. After studying with Rudolf Laban, he developed Movement Pattern Analysis - as system for analysing and interpreting movement behaviour, which has been applied to numerous field including management consulting, executive rercuitment and therapy. Photographed here at the Rudolf Laban conference held at Dartington in 2008.
Laban Dance Conference
Participants at the conference held on Rudolf Laban at Dartington in 2008 attended by many eminent ex-pupils of Laban and teachers of his approach to Dance.
Laban Dance Conference
Valerie Preston-Dunlop
Valerie Preston-Dunlop is a consultant and Honorary Fellow at London's Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and a teacher, researcher and dance scholar. She has conducted extensive research into the life and work of Rudolf Laban and has written many books that have contributed to the field of dance. Photographed here at a conference on Rudolf Laban held at Dartington in 2008 attended by many eminent ex-pupils of Laban's, including Valerie Preston Dunlop, Warren Lamb and Marion North.
Valerie Preston-Dunlop
Valerie Preston-Dunlop is a consultant and Honorary Fellow at London's Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and a teacher, researcher and dance scholar. She has conducted extensive research into the life and work of Rudolf Laban and has written many books that have contributed to the field of dance. Photographed here at a conference on Rudolf Laban held at Dartington in 2008 attended by many eminent ex-pupils of Laban's, including Valerie Preston Dunlop, Warren Lamb and Marion North.
Valerie Preston-Dunlop
Valerie Preston-Dunlop is a consultant and Honorary Fellow at London's Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and a teacher, researcher and dance scholar. She has conducted extensive research into the life and work of Rudolf Laban and has written many books that have contributed to the field of dance. Photographed here at a conference on Rudolf Laban held at Dartington in 2008 attended by many eminent ex-pupils of Laban's, including Valerie Preston Dunlop, Warren Lamb and Marion North.
Laban Conference
Laban Conference
Laban Conference
Valerie Preston-Dunlop
Valerie Preston-Dunlop is a consultant and Honorary Fellow at London's Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and a teacher, researcher and dance scholar. She has conducted extensive research into the life and work of Rudolf Laban and has written many books that have contributed to the field of dance. Photographed here at a conference on Rudolf Laban held at Dartington in 2008 attended by many eminent ex-pupils of Laban's, including Valerie Preston Dunlop, Warren Lamb and Marion North.
Valerie Preston-Dunlop
Valerie Preston-Dunlop is a consultant and Honorary Fellow at London's Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and a teacher, researcher and dance scholar. She has conducted extensive research into the life and work of Rudolf Laban and has written many books that have contributed to the field of dance. Photographed here at a conference on Rudolf Laban held at Dartington in 2008 attended by many eminent ex-pupils of Laban's including Valerie Preston Dunlop, Warren Lamb and Marion North.
Wayne McGregor
Wayne McGregor CBE - British choregrapher and director - in rehearsal with his company Random Dance at Dartington in 2011.
Random Dance
The choreographer and director Wayne McGregor's company Random Dance in rehearsal at Dartington in 2011.
Random Dance
The choreographer and director Wayne McGregor's company Random Dance in rehearsal at Dartington in 2011.
Random Dance
The choreographer and director Wayne McGregor's company Random Dance in rehearsal at Dartington in 2011.
Random Dance
The choreographer and director Wayne McGregor's company Random Dance in rehearsal at Dartington in 2011.
Random Dance
The choreographer and director Wayne McGregor's company Random Dance in rehearsal at Dartington in 2011.
Random Dance
The choreographer and director Wayne McGregor's company Random Dance in rehearsal at Dartington in 2011.
Random Dance
The choreographer and director Wayne McGregor's company Random Dance in rehearsal at Dartington in 2011.
Wayne McGregor
The choreographer and director Wayne McGregor and his company Random Dance in rehearsal at Dartington in 2011.
Wayne McGregor
The choreographer and director Wayne McGregor and his company Random Dance in rehearsal at Dartington in 2011.
Wayne McGregor
The choreographer and director Wayne McGregor and his company Random Dance in rehearsal at Dartington in 2011.
Wayne McGregor
The choreographer and director Wayne McGregor's company Random Dance in rehearsal at Dartington in 2011.
Wayne McGregor
The choreographer and director Wayne McGregor's company Random Dance in rehearsal at Dartington in 2011.
Wayne McGregor
The choreographer and director Wayne McGregor and his company Random Dance in rehearsal at Dartington in 2011.
Wayne McGregor
The choreographer and director Wayne McGregor and his company Random Dance in rehearsal at Dartington in 2011.
Wayne McGregor
The choreographer and director Wayne McGregor and his company Random Dance in rehearsal at Dartington in 2011.
Random Dance
The choreographer and director Wayne McGregor's company Random Dance in rehearsal at Dartington in 2011.
Random Dance
The choreographer and director Wayne McGregor's company Random Dance in rehearsal at Dartington in 2011.
France-Marie Uitti
France-Marie Uitti is an American cellist and composer known for her use of extended techniques and performance of contemporary classical music. Tom Service, music critic for the Guardian, has called her 'arguably the world's most influentially experimental cellist.
David Staff and Early Brass
David Staff is a virtuoso Trumpet and Cornetto player specialising in music from the Renaissance to Classical periods. He has performed and recorded with many of the world's leading ensembles and has been at the forefront of the revival of the baroque trumpet. He is principal trumpet with Frans Brüggen's Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and has been since its inception in 1981. In 2007 David became apprentice to mastercraftsman Frank Tomes and in 2009 he established his own workshop and began making and selling trumpets.
Piotr Anderszewski
Anderszewski (born 1969) is a Polish pianist and composer. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Piotr Anderszewski
Anderszewski (born 1969) is a Polish pianist and composer. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Koto
The koto is a Japanese plucked half-tube zither instrument and the national instrument of Japan.
Koto
The koto is a Japanese plucked half-tube zither instrument and the national instrument of Japan.
Koto
The koto is a Japanese plucked half-tube zither instrument and the national instrument of Japan.
Koto
The koto is a Japanese plucked half-tube zither instrument and the national instrument of Japan.
Koto
The koto is a Japanese plucked half-tube zither instrument and the national instrument of Japan.
Koto
The koto is a Japanese plucked half-tube zither instrument and the national instrument of Japan.
Koto
The koto is a Japanese plucked half-tube zither instrument and the national instrument of Japan. Seen here being tuned before a performance.
Koto
The koto is a Japanese plucked half-tube zither instrument and the national instrument of Japan. Here being tuned before a performance.
Indian Music
Tabla player in rehearsal with a group of Indian musicians directed by Ravi Shankar at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2004.
Indian Music
Two singers with a group of Indian musicians directed by Ravi Shankar rehearsing at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2004.
Indian Music
Musician playing the violin in rehearsal with a group of Indian musicians directed by Ravi Shankar rehearsing at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2004.
Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar KBE (1920-2012) was an eminent Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuoso, he became the world's best-known expert of North Indian classical music in the second half of the 20th century and influenced many musicians in India and throughout the world. In 2004, 70 years on from his first visit to Dartington with his brother's dance company, he composed a suite entitled Sanmelon to be performed at the Dartington Summer School of Music.
Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar KBE (1920-2012) was an eminent Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuoso, he became the world's best-known expert of North Indian classical music in the second half of the 20th century and influenced many musicians in India and throughout the world. In 2004, 70 years on from his first visit to Dartington with his brother's dance company, he composed a suite entitled Sanmelon to be performed at the Dartington Summer School of Music. The photo shows him rehearsing with the musicians at Dartington.
Indian Music
Musician in rehearsal with a group of Indian musicians directed by Ravi Shankar at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2004.
Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar KBE (1920-2012) was an eminent Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuose, he became the world's best-known expert of North Indian classical music in the second half of the 20th century and influenced many musicians in India and throughout the world. In 2004, 70 years on from his first visit to Dartington as a child with his brother's dance company, he composed a suit entitled Sanmelon to be performed at the Dartington Summer School of Music that year. The photo shows him rehearsing with the musicians at Dartington.
Indian Music
Musician in rehearsal with a group of Indian musicians directed by Ravi Shankar at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2004.
Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar KBE (1920-2012) was an eminent Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuose, he became the world's best-known expert of North Indian classical music in the second half of the 20th century and influenced many musicians in India and throughout the world. In 2004, 70 years on from his first visit to Dartington as a child with his brother's dance company, he composed a suit entitled Sanmelon to be performed at the Dartington Summer School of Music that year. The photo shows him rehearsing with the musicians at Dartington.
Indian Music
Musician in rehearsal with a group of Indian musicians directed by Ravi Shankar at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2004.
Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar KBE (1920-2012) was an eminent Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuose, he became the world's best-known expert of North Indian classical music in the second half of the 20th century and influenced many musicians in India and throughout the world. In 2004, 70 years on from his first visit to Dartington as a child with his brother's dance company, he composed a suit entitled Sanmelon to be performed at the Dartington Summer School of Music that year. The photo shows him rehearsing with the musicians at Dartington.
Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar KBE (1920-2012) was an eminent Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuose, he became the world's best-known expert of North Indian classical music in the second half of the 20th century and influenced many musicians in India and throughout the world. In 2004, 70 years on from his first visit to Dartington as a child with his brother's dance company, he composed a suit entitled Sanmelon to be performed at the Dartington Summer School of Music that year. The photo shows him rehearsing with the musicians at Dartington.
Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar KBE (1920-2012) was an eminent Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuose, he became the world's best-known expert of North Indian classical music in the second half of the 20th century and influenced many musicians in India and throughout the world. In 2004, 70 years on from his first visit to Dartington as a child with his brother's dance company, he composed a suit entitled Sanmelon to be performed at the Dartington Summer School of Music that year. The photo shows him rehearsing with the musicians at Dartington.
Indian Music
Musician in rehearsal with a group of Indian musicians directed by Ravi Shankar at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2004.
Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar KBE (1920-2012) was an eminent Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuose, he became the world's best-known expert of North Indian classical music in the second half of the 20th century and influenced many musicians in India and throughout the world. In 2004, 70 years on from his first visit to Dartington as a child with his brother's dance company, he composed a suit entitled Sanmelon to be performed at the Dartington Summer School of Music that year. The photo shows him rehearsing with the musicians at Dartington.
Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar KBE (1920-2012) was an eminent Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuose, he became the world's best-known expert of North Indian classical music in the second half of the 20th century and influenced many musicians in India and throughout the world. In 2004, 70 years on from his first visit to Dartington as a child with his brother's dance company, he composed a suit entitled Sanmelon to be performed at the Dartington Summer School of Music that year. The photo shows him rehearsing with the musicians at Dartington.
Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar KBE (1920-2012) was an eminent Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuose, he became the world's best-known expert of North Indian classical music in the second half of the 20th century and influenced many musicians in India and throughout the world. In 2004, 70 years on from his first visit to Dartington as a child with his brother's dance company, he composed a suit entitled Sanmelon to be performed at the Dartington Summer School of Music that year. The photo shows him with David Murphy, his assistant, rehearsing with the musicians at Dartington.
Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar KBE (1920-2012) was an eminent Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuose, he became the world's best-known expert of North Indian classical music in the second half of the 20th century and influenced many musicians in India and throughout the world. In 2004, 70 years on from his first visit to Dartington as a child with his brother's dance company, he composed a suit entitled Sanmelon to be performed at the Dartington Summer School of Music that year. The photo shows him rehearsing with the musicians at Dartington.
Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar KBE (1920-2012) was an eminent Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuose, he became the world's best-known expert of North Indian classical music in the second half of the 20th century and influenced many musicians in India and throughout the world. In 2004, 70 years on from his first visit to Dartington as a child with his brother's dance company, he composed a suit entitled Sanmelon to be performed at the Dartington Summer School of Music that year. The photo shows him with David Murphy, his assistant, rehearsing with the musicians at Dartington.
Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar KBE (1920-2012) was an eminent Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuose, he became the world's best-known expert of North Indian classical music in the second half of the 20th century and influenced many musicians in India and throughout the world. In 2004, 70 years on from his first visit to Dartington as a child with his brother's dance company, he composed a suit entitled Sanmelon to be performed at the Dartington Summer School of Music that year. The photo shows him with David Murphy, his assistant, rehearsing with the musicians at Dartington.
Rehearsal with Ravi Shankar
Musician in rehearsal with a group of Indian musicians directed by Ravi Shankar at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2004.
Indian Music
Musician in rehearsal with a group of Indian musicians directed by Ravi Shankar at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2004.
Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar KBE (1920-2012) was an eminent Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuoso, he became the world's best-known expert of North Indian classical music in the second half of the 20th century and influenced many musicians in India and throughout the world. In 2004, 70 years on from his first visit to Dartington as a child with his brother's dance company, he composed a suit entitled Sanmelon to be performed at the Dartington Summer School of Music that year. The photo shows him rehearsing with the musicians at Dartington.
Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar KBE (1920-2012) was an eminent Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuose, he became the world's best-known expert of North Indian classical music in the second half of the 20th century and influenced many musicians in India and throughout the world. In 2004, 70 years on from his first visit to Dartington as a child with his brother's dance company, he composed a suit entitled Sanmelon to be performed at the Dartington Summer School of Music that year. The photo shows him rehearsing with the musicians at Dartington.
Indian Music
Singers in rehearsal with a group of Indian musicians directed by Ravi Shankar at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2004.
Indian Music
Musician in rehearsal with a group of Indian musicians directed by Ravi Shankar at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2004.
Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar KBW (1920-2012) with his wife Sukanya Rajan in the Great Hall, Dartington at a rehearsal for a performance of his compositions at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2004. He had strong associations with Dartington having visited the place as a child with his brother Uday Shankar's dance company in the early 1930's.
Black Voices
Members of Black Voices seen here running a gospel singing course at Dartington Summer School of Music is the leading, all-female a cappella collective in Europe and celebrated for their unique form of singing in the Black oral tradition.
Black Voices
Members of Black Voices seen here running a gospel singing course at Dartington Summer School of Music is the leading, all-female a cappella collective in Europe and celebrated for their unique form of singing in the Black oral tradition.
Black Voices
Members of Black Voices seen here running a gospel singing course at Dartington Summer School of Music is the leading, all-female a cappella collective in Europe and celebrated for their unique form of singing in the Black oral tradition.
Black Voices
Members of Black Voices seen here running a gospel singing course at Dartington Summer School of Music is the leading, all-female a cappella collective in Europe and celebrated for their unique form of singing in the Black oral tradition.
Black Voices
Members of Black Voices seen here running a gospel singing course at Dartington Summer School of Music is the leading, all-female a cappella collective in Europe and celebrated for their unique form of singing in the Black oral tradition.
Orchestral Rehearsal
Flautist in rehearsal at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Flautist
Flautist in rehearsal at Dartington Summer School of Music
Serafina Steer
Harpist Serafina Steer wheeling her harp through the courtyard to the Great Hall at Dartington for a rehearsal. Serafina, born 1982, is an English harpist, pianist, singer and songwriter. She has collaborated with artists from a variety of music genres including Jarvis Cocker, Bat for Lashes, Tunng and many others. Seen here in rehearsal in the Great Hall, Dartington at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Harp
Harp in the Great Hall, Dartington at the Summer School of Music.
Ensemble Meridiana
Ensemble Meridiana rehearsing in the Great Hall, Dartington at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Singing in the Great Hall
A musician singing at a rehearsal in the Great Hall, Dartington at the Dartington Summer School of Music.
Wind band rehearsal
A musician playing a French horn at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Wind band rehearsal
Playing a French horn at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Wind band rehearsal
Rehearsal of brass orchestra at Dartington Summer School of Music.
John Hancorn
John Hancorn is an operatic baritone and music director of the BREMF Singers, Baroque Collective Singers, East Sussex Bach Choir and Eastbourne Choral Society and co-director of The Baroque Collective. He leads vocal workshops and masterclasses specialising in baroque repertoire. Seen here rehearsing in the Great Hall, Dartington at the Dartington Summer School of Music.
Serafina Steer
Serafina Steer, born 1982, is an English harpist, pianist, singer and songwriter. She has collaborated with artists from a variety of music genres including Jarvis Cocker, Bat for Lashes, Tunng and many others. Seen here in rehearsal in the Great Hall, Dartington at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Gary Pomeroy
Gary Pomeroy, viola player with the Heath Quartet in a master class for viola players at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Gary Pomeroy
Gary Pomeroy, viola player with the Heath Quartet in a master class for viola players at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Gary Pomeroy
Gary Pomeroy, viola player with the Heath Quartet in a master class for viola players at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Gary Pomeroy
Gary Pomeroy, viola player with the Heath Quartet in a master class for viola players at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Miriam Kramer
Miriam Kramer began studying the violin at age four, giving her first public performance at the age of seven. She was a protégé of Henryck Szeryng and Yehudi Menuhin. Photographed here in rehearsal at Dartington Summer School of Music 2010.
Miriam Kramer
Miriam Kramer began studying the violin at age four, giving her first public performance at the age of seven. She was a protégé of Henryck Szeryng and Yehudi Menuhin. Photographed here in rehearsal at Dartington Summer School of Music 2010.
Miriam Kramer
Miriam Kramer began studying the violin at age four, giving her first public performance at the age of seven. She was a protégé of Henryck Szeryng and Yehudi Menuhin. Photographed here in rehearsal at Dartington Summer School of Music 2010.
Miriam Kramer
Miriam Kramer began studying the violin at age four, giving her first public performance at the age of seven. She was a protégé of Henryck Szeryng and Yehudi Menuhin. Photographed here in rehearsal at Dartington Summer School of Music 2010.
Miriam Kramer
Miriam Kramer began studying the violin at age four, giving her first public performance at the age of seven. She was a protégé of Henryck Szeryng and Yehudi Menuhin. Photographed here in rehearsal at Dartington Summer School of Music 2010.
Mirian Kramer
Miriam Kramer began studying the violin at age four, giving her first public performance at the age of seven. She was a protégé of Henryck Szeryng and Yehudi Menuhin. Photographed here in rehearsal at Dartington Summer School of Music 2010.
Charlene Cloud Tan
Charlene Cloud Tan (born 2005), is a composer and multi-instrumentalist from Singapore. Photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music 2023 where she took part in the film and composition courses.
Charlene Cloud Tan
Charlene Cloud Tan (born 2005), is a composer and multi-instrumentalist from Singapore. Photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music 2023 where she took part in the film and composition courses.
Charlene Cloud Tan
Charlene Cloud Tan (born 2005), is a composer and multi-instrumentalist from Singapore. Photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music 2023 where she took part in the film and composition courses.
Charlene Cloud Tan
Charlene Cloud Tan (born 2005), is a composer and multi-instrumentalist from Singapore. Photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music 2023 where she took part in the film and composition courses.
Huw Warren
Huw Warren is a Welsh jazz pianist and composer whose work crosses several genres. He is known as co-leader and founder of the jazz quartet Perfect Houseplants. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School in 2022.
Huw Warren
Huw Warren is a Welsh jazz pianist and composer whose work crosses several genres. He is known as co-leader and founder of the jazz quartet Perfect Houseplants. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School in 2022.
David Miller
David Miller who died in 2025 at the age of 72 was a long established soloist and well known as an accompanist and continuo player on lute, theorb and early guitars. He also performed and recorded with all the principal English period instrument orchestras, ensembles and a number of opera companies. He wasprofessor of lute at the Guildhall School and tutor for the European Union Baroque Orchestra and the Royal Welsh College of Drama and Music. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music.
David Miller
David Miller who died in 2025 at the age of 72 was a long established soloist and well known as an accompanist and continuo player on lute, theorb and early guitars. He also performed and recorded with all the principal English period instrument orchestras, ensembles and a number of opera companies. He was professor of lute at the Guildhall School and tutor for the European Union Baroque Orchestra and the Royal Welsh College of Drama and Music. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music.
David Miller
David Miller who died in 2025 at the age of 72, was a long established soloist and well known as an accompanist and continuo player on lute, theorb and early guitars. He also performed and recorded with all the principal English period instrument orchestras, ensembles and a number of opera companies. He was professor of lute at the Guildhall School and tutor for the European Union Baroque Orchestra and the Royal Welsh College of Drama and Music. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Andrew Watts
Andrew Watts (born 1967) is a British classical countertenor. Photographed here in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2022.
Andrew Watts
Andrew Watts (born 1967) is a British classical countertenor. Photographed here in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2022.
Stevie Wishart
Stevie Wishart is a composer, improviser and perormer on the hurdy-gurdy. Mainly involved in contemporary music, she has also had a career in early music and has edited and recorded the complete works of Saint Hildegard of Bingen as well as performing music from the repertoire of medieval troubadours, trouvères, and the Cantigas de Santa Maria, with her ensemble Sinfonye.
Sarah Gabriel
Sarah Gabriel, singer, actor and writer photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Sarah Gabriel
Sarah Gabriel, singer, actor and writer photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Sarah Gabriel
Sarah Gabriel, singer, actor and writer photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Sarah Gabriel
Sarah Gabriel, singer, actor and writer photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Martyna Kazmierczak
Polish fortepianist Martyna Kazmierczak photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2017.
Martyna Kazmierczak
Polish fortepianist Martyna Kazmierczak photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2017.
Martyna Kazmierczak
Polish fortepianist Martyna Kazmierczak photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2017.
Martyna Kazmierczak
Polish fortepianist Martyna Kazmierczak photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2017.
Martyna Kazmierczak
Polish fortepianist Martyna Kazmierczak photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2017.
Martyna Kazmierczak
Polish fortepianist Martyna Kazmierczak photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2017.
Martyna Kazmierczak
Polish fortepianist Martyna Kazmierczak photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2017.
Molly Lopresti
Percussionist Molly Lopresti rehearsing in the Great Hall, Dartington at Dartington Summer School of Music. This photo was taken when she was young and she is now a professional percussionist working solo and also with a wide range of musicians and touring all over the world.
Molly Lopresti and Harriet Riley
Percussionists Molly Lopresti and Harriet Riley in a percussion workshop at Dartington Summer School of Music. They are now both professional percussionists touring all over the world.
Sara Mohr Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch, broadcaster/curator, presenter of BBC Radio 3's Night Tracks and up until 2023 the Artistic Director of Dartington Summer School of Music.
Florian Mitrea
Described by Martha Argerich as an 'outstanding young pianist', British/Romanian pianist Florian Mitrea was born in Bucharest but has been based in the UK sine 2008. An alumnus and professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, he is an award-winning soloist with an international performing and teaching career.
Huw Warren
Huw Warren is a Welsh jazz pianist and composer whose work crosses several genres. He is known as co-leader and founder of the jazz quartet Perfect Houseplants. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School in 2022.
Huw Warren
Huw Warren is a Welsh jazz pianist and composer whose work crosses several genres. He is known as co-leader and founder of the jazz quartet Perfect Houseplants. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School in 2022.
Merit Ariane Stephanos
Merit Ariane Stephanos, German-Egyptian singer, composer, music educator, community art project leader and researcher, whose influences run from the Egyptian Coptic church to her studies of Arabic chants in Lebanon. Photographed in the gardens at Dartington.
Merit Ariane Stephanos
Merit Ariane Stephanos, German-Egyptian singer, composer, music educator, community art project leader and researcher, whose influences run from the Egyptian Coptic church to her studies of Arabic chants in Lebanon. Photographed in the gardens at Dartington.
Merit Ariane Stephanos
Merit Ariane Stephanos, German-Egyptian singer, composer, music educator, community art project leader and researcher, whose influences run from the Egyptian Coptic church to her studies of Arabic chants in Lebanon. Photographed in the gardens at Dartington.
Merit Ariane Stephanos
Merit Ariane Stephanos, German-Egyptian singer, composer, music educator, community art project leader and researcher, whose influences run from the Egyptian Coptic church to her studies of Arabic chants in Lebanon. Photographed in the gardens at Dartington.
Veronika Shoot
Veronika Shoot, concert pianist, educator and yoga teacher photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music in the Dartington Hall gardens.
Veronika Shoot
Veronika Shoot, concert pianist, educator and yoga teacher photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music in the Dartington Hall gardens.
Siegmund Nissel
Siegmund Walter "Sigi" Nissel OBE (3 January 1022-21 May 2008) was an Munich-born British violinist who played second violin in the Amadeus Quartet and served as its administrator. In 1938 he was evacuated from Vienna to Great Britain and was interned as a 'friendly enemy alien' in Onchan Camp on the Isle of Man where he met the violinist Peter Schidlof and later the violinist Norbert Brainin. With the British cellist, Martin Lovett, they would form the Amadeus Quartet, which gave its first concert in London in 1948. The Quartet made some 200 recordings among them the complete quartets of Beethove, Brahms and Mozart and works by 20th-century composers such as Béla Bartók and Benjamin Britten.
Jane Chapman
Harpsichordist Jane Chapman in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Jane Chapman
Harpsichordist Jane Chapman with a participant at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Jane Chapman and Michael Oliva
Harpsichordist Jane Chapman rehearsing in the Great Hall with Michael Oliva, composer of contemporary classical music, working mainly in electroacoustics and opera.
Jane Chapman and Michael Oliva
Harpsichordist Jane Chapman rehearsing in the Great Hall with Michael Oliva, composer of contemporary classical music, working mainly in electroacoustics and opera.
Jane Chapman
Portrait of harpsichordist Jane Chapman in the Great Hall at Dartington.
Andy Cutting
Leveret is a folk group comprising Andy Cutting, Sam Sweeney and Rob Harbron, who play traditional English instrumental music, photographed here in rehearsal in the Great Hall at Dartington.
Andy Cutting
Leveret is a folk group comprising Andy Cutting, Sam Sweeney and Rob Harbron, who play traditional English instrumental music, photographed here in rehearsal in the Great Hall at Dartington.
Martin Carthy
Martin Carthy MBE (born 1941) is an English folk singer and guitarist who is one of the most influential figures in British traditional music. Photographed playing at a concert in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Martin Carthy
Martin Carthy MBE (born 1941) is an English folk singer and guitarist who is one of the most influential figures in British traditional music. Photographed playing at a concert in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Martin Carthy
Martin Carthy MBE (born 1941) is an English folk singer and guitarist who is one of the most influential figures in British traditional music. Photographed playing at a concert in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Jane Chapman
Harpsichordist Jane Chapman rehearsing in the Great Hall at Dartington.
Laurence Cummings
Laurence Alexander Cummings OBE is a British harpsichordist, organist and conductor. He is currently music director of the Academy of Ancient Music. Seen here conducting the orchestra and choir at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Laurence Cummings
Laurence Alexander Cummings OBE is a British harpsichordist, organist and conductor. He is currently music director of the Academy of Ancient Music. Seen here conducting the orchestra and choir at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Andy Cutting
Leveret is a folk group comprising Andy Cutting, Sam Sweeney and Rob Harbron, who play traditional English instrumental music, photographed here in rehearsal in the Great Hall at Dartington.
Andy Cutting
Leveret is a folk group comprising Andy Cutting, Sam Sweeney and Rob Harbron, who play traditional English instrumental music, photographed here in rehearsal in the Great Hall at Dartington.
Rob Harbron
Rob Harbron of Leveret. Leveret is a folk group comprising Andy Cutting, Sam Sweeney and Rob Harbron, who play traditional English instrumental music, photographed here in rehearsal in the Great Hall at Dartington.
Julian Joseph
Acclaimed British jazz pianist, bandleader, composer, arranger and broadcaster photographed here in rehearsal at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2010.
Sarah Mohr-Pietsch and Gavin Bryars
Sarah Mohr-Pietsch, former Artistic Director of Dartington Summer School of Music with composer Gavin Bryars at a rehearsal of his work in the Great Hall at Dartington.
Leveret
Leveret is a folk group comprising Andy Cutting, Sam Sweeney and Rob Harbron, who play traditional English instrumental music, photographed here in rehearsal in the Great Hall at Dartington.
Foxy Moron (Hannah Catherine Jones)
Foxy Moron performing in the invocation to mark the start of Sensing the Planet Symposium held at Dartington in 2021. She is a London based artist, musician, multi-instrumentalist, composer, radio presenter and conductor.
Molly Lopresti and Harriet Riley
Percussionists Molly Lopresti and Harriet Riley in a percussion workshop at Dartington Summer School of Music. They are now both professional percussionists touring all over the world.
Leveret
Leveret is a folk group comprising Andy Cutting, Sam Sweeney and Rob Harbron, who play traditional English instrumental music, photographed here in rehearsal in the Great Hall at Dartington.
Leveret
Leveret is a folk group comprising Andy Cutting, Sam Sweeney and Rob Harbron, who play traditional English instrumental music, photographed here in rehearsal in the Great Hall at Dartington.
Femi Oriogan-Williams
Femi Oriogun-Williams is a writer, musician and radio producer. His work has been broadcast on Radio 3 and Radio 4 and he has made podcasts and sound installations for various institutions such as Somerset House, Serpentine Gallery, Bergen Kunsthall and Rough Guides. Photographed here at Dartington at the Sensing the Planet - a Black Atlantic Symposium.
Femi Oriogan-Williams
Femi Oriogun-Williams is a writer, musician and radio producer. His work has been broadcast on Radio 3 and Radio 4 and he has made podcasts and sound installations for various institutions such as Somerset House, Serpentine Gallery, Bergen Kunsthall and Rough Guides. Photographed here at Dartington at the Sensing the Planet - a Black Atlantic Symposium.
Femi Oriogan-Williams
Femi Oriogun-Williams is a writer, musician and radio producer. His work has been broadcast on Radio 3 and Radio 4 and he has made podcasts and sound installations for various institutions such as Somerset House, Serpentine Gallery, Bergen Kunsthall and Rough Guides. Photographed here at Dartington at the Sensing the Planet - a Black Atlantic Symposium.
Femi Oriogan-Williams
Femi Oriogun-Williams is a writer, musician and radio producer. His work has been broadcast on Radio 3 and Radio 4 and he has made podcasts and sound installations for various institutions such as Somerset House, Serpentine Gallery, Bergen Kunsthall and Rough Guides. Photographed here at Dartington at the Sensing the Planet - a Black Atlantic Symposium.
Anthony Rooley, Emma Kirkby and Evelyn Tubb in rehearsal
Anthony Rooley, Emma Kirkby and Evelyn Tubb in rehearsal in the Great Hall for a concert of Early Music at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Michael Oliva and Jane Chapman
Ben See
Ben See, is a singer, composer and choir leader based in London and specialises in new vocal music and community singing. Photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2022.
Ben See
Ben See, is a singer, composer and choir leader based in London and specialises in new vocal music and community singing. Photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2022.
Ben See
Ben See, is a singer, composer and choir leader based in London and specialises in new vocal music and community singing. Photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2022.
Ben See
Ben See, is a singer, composer and choir leader based in London and specialises in new vocal music and community singing. Photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2022.
Sam Sweeney
Sam Sweeney, violinist and fiddle player with the folk trio Leveret - rehearsing in the Great Hall at Dartington.
Sam Sweeney
Sam Sweeney, violinist and fiddle player with the folk trio Leveret - rehearsing in the Great Hall at Dartington.
Sam Sweeney
Sam Sweeney, violinist and fiddle player with the folk trio Leveret - rehearsing in the Great Hall at Dartington.
Sam Sweeney
Sam Sweeney, violinist and fiddle player with the folk trio Leveret - rehearsing in the Great Hall at Dartington.
Max Baillie
A graduate of the Yehudi Menhuin School, Cambridge University and Berlin's UdK, British-German violinist Max Baillie photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2022.
Max Baillie
A graduate of the Yehudi Menhuin School, Cambridge University and Berlin's UdK, British-German violinist Max Baillie photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2022.
Max and Alexander Baillie
Father and son Max and Alexander Baillie. British-German violinist Max Baillie is a graduate of the Yehudi Menhuin School, Cambridge University and Berlin's UdK. Alexander Baillie is an English cellist, recognised internationally as one of the finest of his generation.
Max and Alexander Baillie
Father and son Max and Alexander Baillie. British-German violinist Max Baillie is a graduate of the Yehudi Menhuin School, Cambridge University and Berlin's UdK. Alexander Baillie is an English cellist, recognised internationally as one of the finest of his generation.
Max and Alexander Baillie
Father and son Max and Alexander Baillie. British-German violinist Max Baillie is a graduate of the Yehudi Menhuin School, Cambridge University and Berlin's UdK. Alexander Baillie is an English cellist, recognised internationally as one of the finest of his generation.
Mary Bevan
British soprano Mary Bevan in rehearsal at the Great Hall, Dartington at the Summer School of Music. She is internationally renowned in baroque, classical and contemporary repertoire, and appears regularly with leading conductors, orchestras and ensembles around the world.
Mary Bevan
British soprano Mary Bevan in rehearsal at the Great Hall, Dartington at the Summer School of Music. She is internationally renowned in baroque, classical and contemporary repertoire, and appears regularly with leading conductors, orchestras and ensembles around the world.
Mary Bevan
British soprano Mary Bevan in rehearsal at the Great Hall, Dartington at the Summer School of Music. She is internationally renowned in baroque, classical and contemporary repertoire, and appears regularly with leading conductors, orchestras and ensembles around the world.
Mary Bevan
British soprano Mary Bevan in rehearsal at the Great Hall, Dartington at the Summer School of Music. She is internationally renowned in baroque, classical and contemporary repertoire, and appears regularly with leading conductors, orchestras and ensembles around the world.
Mary Bevan and Joseph Middleton
British soprano Mary Bevan and British pianist Joseph Middleton running a masterclass in the Ship Studio at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Mary Bevan and Joseph Middleton
British soprano Mary Bevan and British pianist Joseph Middleton in rehearsal in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Florian Mitrea
British/Romanian pianist Florian Mitrea was born in Bucharest but has been based in the UK since 2008. An alumnus and professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, he is an award-winning soloist with an international performing and teaching career.
Florian Mitrea
British/Romanian pianist Florian Mitrea was born in Bucharest but has been based in the UK since 2008. An alumnus and professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, he is an award-winning soloist with an international performing and teaching career. Seen here rehearsing in the Great Hall, Dartington at the Dartington Summer School of Music.
Florian Mitrea
British/Romanian pianist Florian Mitrea was born in Bucharest but has been based in the UK since 2008. An alumnus and professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, he is an award-winning soloist with an international performing and teaching career. Seen here rehearsing in the Great Hall, Dartington at the Dartington Summer School of Music.
Florian Mitrea
British/Romanian pianist Florian Mitrea was born in Bucharest but has been based in the UK since 2008. An alumnus and professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, he is an award-winning soloist with an international performing and teaching career.
Florian Mitrea
British/Romanian pianist Florian Mitrea was born in Bucharest but has been based in the UK since 2008. An alumnus and professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, he is an award-winning soloist with an international performing and teaching career.
Florian Mitrea
British/Romanian pianist Florian Mitrea was born in Bucharest but has been based in the UK since 2008. An alumnus and professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, he is an award-winning soloist with an international performing and teaching career.
Florian Mitrea
British/Romanian pianist Florian Mitrea was born in Bucharest but has been based in the UK since 2008. An alumnus and professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, he is an award-winning soloist with an international performing and teaching career.



Stevie Wishart
Stevie Wishart is a composer, improviser and perormer on the hurdy-gurdy. Mainly involved in contemporary music, she has also had a career in early music and has edited and recorded the complete works of Saint Hildegard of Bingen as well as performing music from the repertoire of medieval troubadours, trouvères, and the Cantigas de Santa Maria, with her ensemble Sinfonye.
Stevie Wishart
Stevie Wishart is a composer, improviser and perormer on the hurdy-gurdy. Mainly involved in contemporary music, she has also had a career in early music and has edited and recorded the complete works of Saint Hildegard of Bingen as well as performing music from the repertoire of medieval troubadours, trouvères, and the Cantigas de Santa Maria, with her ensemble Sinfonye.
Stevie Wishart
Stevie Wishart is a composer, improviser and perormer on the hurdy-gurdy. Mainly involved in contemporary music, she has also had a career in early music and has edited and recorded the complete works of Saint Hildegard of Bingen as well as performing music from the repertoire of medieval troubadours, trouvères, and the Cantigas de Santa Maria, with her ensemble Sinfonye.
Stevie Wishart
Stevie Wishart is a composer, improviser and perormer on the hurdy-gurdy. Mainly involved in contemporary music, she has also had a career in early music and has edited and recorded the complete works of Saint Hildegard of Bingen as well as performing music from the repertoire of medieval troubadours, trouvères, and the Cantigas de Santa Maria, with her ensemble Sinfonye.

Random Dance
Wayne McGregor's company Random Dance, in rehearsal at Dartington in 2011.
Random Dance
Wayne McGregor's company Random Dance, in rehearsal at Dartington in 2011.
Steve Paxton
Steve Paxton, American experimental dancer and choreographer working with a participant at one of the Touchdown Dance events held at Dartington in the late 1980's. Touchdown Dance is a company founded at Dartington College of Arts in 1986 by Steve Paxton and Ann Kilcoyne, that creates performances and workshops for visually impaired and sighted people. It was taken over in 1994 by Katy Dymoke who was involved with Touchdown Dance in it's early days.
Eliza Carthy
Eliza Carthy, MBE (born 23 August 1975) is an English folk musician known for both singing and playing the fiddle. She is the daughter of eminent folk musicians Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Eliza Carthy
Eliza Carthy, MBE (born 23 August 1975) is an English folk musician known for both singing and playing the fiddle. She is the daughter of eminent folk musicians Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Eliza Carthy
Eliza Carthy, MBE (born 23 August 1975) is an English folk musician known for both singing and playing the fiddle. She is the daughter of eminent folk musicians Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Eliza Carthy
Eliza Carthy, MBE (born 23 August 1975) is an English folk musician known for both singing and playing the fiddle. She is the daughter of eminent folk musicians Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Eliza Carthy
Eliza Carthy, MBE (born 23 August 1975) is an English folk musician known for both singing and playing the fiddle. She is the daughter of eminent folk musicians Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music. Seen here running a folk workshop at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Eliza Carthy
Eliza Carthy, MBE (born 23 August 1975) is an English folk musician known for both singing and playing the fiddle. She is the daughter of eminent folk musicians Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Veronika Shoot
Veronika Shoot, concert pianist, educator and yoga teacher photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music in the Dartington Hall gardens.
Veronika Shoot
Veronika Shoot, concert pianist, educator and yoga teacher photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music in the Dartington Hall gardens.
Andrew Watts
British countertenor Andrew Watts (born 29 December 1967) is a British classical countertenor. Seen here in rehearsal in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Andrew Watts
British countertenor Andrew Watts (born 29 December 1967) is a British classical countertenor. Seen here in rehearsal in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Jill Kemp
Jill Kemp (born 24 November 1979, Yorkshire) is a professional classical recorder player, photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Jill Kemp
Jill Kemp (born 24 November 1979, Yorkshire) is a professional classical recorder player, photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Jill Kemp
Jill Kemp (born 24 November 1979, Yorkshire) is a professional classical recorder player, photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Jill Kemp
Jill Kemp (born 24 November 1979, Yorkshire) is a professional classical recorder player, photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Jill Kemp
Jill Kemp (born 24 November 1979, Yorkshire) is a professional classical recorder player, photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Jill Kemp
Jill Kemp (born 24 November 1979, Yorkshire) is a professional classical recorder player, photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Jill Kemp
Jill Kemp (born 24 November 1979, Yorkshire) is a professional classical recorder player, photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Jon Banks
John Banks is a specialist on the accordion and Middle Eastern string instruments. With a number of ensembles he has recorded, broadcast and toured throughout Europe, the Middle East and the Americas. Photographed here running an early music workshop at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Jon Banks
John Banks is a specialist on the accordion and Middle Eastern string instruments. With a number of ensembles he has recorded, broadcast and toured throughout Europe, the Middle East and the Americas.
Jon Banks
John Banks is a specialist on the accordion and Middle Eastern string instruments. With a number of ensembles he has recorded, broadcast and toured throughout Europe, the Middle East and the Americas.
Jon Banks
John Banks is a specialist on the accordion and Middle Eastern string instruments. With a number of ensembles he has recorded, broadcast and toured throughout Europe, the Middle East and the Americas.
Jon Banks
John Banks is a specialist on the accordion and Middle Eastern string instruments. With a number of ensembles he has recorded, broadcast and toured throughout Europe, the Middle East and the Americas.
African Kora player
Kora player teaching on a course at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch (born 17 July 1925) is a German-British cellist and a surviving member of the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz. She moved to Britain in 1946 and married the pianist Peter Wallfisch, and had two children, her son the cellist Raphael Wallfisch and her daughter May Jacobs-Wallfisch, a psychotherapist. Her grandson is the composer Benjamin Wallfisch. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch (born 17 July 1925) is a German-British cellist and a surviving member of the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz. She moved to Britain in 1946 and married the pianist Peter Wallfisch, and had two children, her son the cellist Raphael Wallfisch and her daughter May Jacobs-Wallfisch, a psychotherapist. Her grandson is the composer Benjamin Wallfisch. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Rivka Golani
Golani was born in Tel Aviv. Her father Yakov Gulnik was from Warsaw and had lost his family in the Holocaust and her mother was from Poish Galicia. Golani took up the violin at age 7 and became a pupil of the violinist Alexander Moskowsky at age 18. She married the Hungarian luthier Otto Erdesz, and in 1974 the family moved to Canada. Photographed here at a masterclass at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Rivka Golani
Golani was born in Tel Aviv. Her father Yakov Gulnik was from Warsaw and had lost his family in the Holocaust and her mother was from Poish Galicia. Golani took up the violin at age 7 and became a pupil of the violinist Alexander Moskowsky at age 18. She married the Hungarian luthier Otto Erdesz, and in 1974 the family moved to Canada. Photographed here at a masterclass at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Florian Mitrea
British/Romanian pianist Florian Mitrea was born in Bucharest but has been based in the UK since 2008. An alumnus and professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, he is an award-winning soloist with an international performing and teaching career.
Florian Mitrea
Described by Martha Argerich as an 'outstanding young pianist', British/Romanian pianist Florian Mitrea was born in Bucharest but has been based in the UK sine 2008. An alumnus and professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, he is an award-winning soloist with an international performing and teaching career.
Florian Mitrea
British/Romanian pianist Florian Mitrea was born in Bucharest but has been based in the UK since 2008. An alumnus and professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, he is an award-winning soloist with an international performing and teaching career. Seen here rehearsing in the Great Hall, Dartington at the Dartington Summer School of Music.
Florian Mitrea
British/Romanian pianist Florian Mitrea was born in Bucharest but has been based in the UK since 2008. An alumnus and professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, he is an award-winning soloist with an international performing and teaching career.
Florian Mitrea
British/Romanian pianist Florian Mitrea was born in Bucharest but has been based in the UK since 2008. An alumnus and professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, he is an award-winning soloist with an international performing and teaching career.
Florian Mitrea
British/Romanian pianist Florian Mitrea was born in Bucharest but has been based in the UK since 2008. An alumnus and professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, he is an award-winning soloist with an international performing and teaching career.
Florian Mitrea
British/Romanian pianist Florian Mitrea was born in Bucharest but has been based in the UK since 2008. An alumnus and professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, he is an award-winning soloist with an international performing and teaching career.
Florian Mitrea
British/Romanian pianist Florian Mitrea was born in Bucharest but has been based in the UK since 2008. An alumnus and professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, he is an award-winning soloist with an international performing and teaching career.
Diana Ambache
Diana Ambache is a pianist, broadcaster, writer and teacher. After inheriting a valuable violin, she founded the Ambache Charitable Trust in 2013, which is devoted to raising the profile of women composers and makes grants to projects which bring this music to the widest possible audience. Photographed here in rehearsal in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Diana Ambache
Diana Ambache is a pianist, broadcaster, writer and teacher. After inheriting a valuable violin, she founded the Ambache Charitable Trust in 2013, which is devoted to raising the profile of women composers and makes grants to projects which bring this music to the widest possible audience. Photographed here in rehearsal in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Close-up of a brass instrument
Close-up of brass instrument
Laura Moody
Laura Moody is a composer, cellist, vocalist,songwriter and theatre performer from the UK. Her work focuses on storytelling, ritual, the expressive potential of musicians' physicality and the transformation of spaces through sound, music and movement. She considers all of her work to be theatre of some kind. Photographed in rehearsal at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Laura Moody
Laura Moody is a composer, cellist, vocalist,songwriter and theatre performer from the UK. Her work focuses on storytelling, ritual, the expressive potential of musicians' physicality and the transformation of spaces through sound, music and movement. She considers all of her work to be theatre of some kind. Photographed in rehearsal at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Laura Moody
Laura Moody is a composer, cellist, vocalist,songwriter and theatre performer from the UK. Her work focuses on storytelling, ritual, the expressive potential of musicians' physicality and the transformation of spaces through sound, music and movement. She considers all of her work to be theatre of some kind. Photographed in rehearsal at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Michael Eavis
Sir Athelstan Joseph Michael Eavis CBE, (born 17 October 1935) is an English dairy farmer and the co-creator of the Glastonbury Festival, which takes place at his farm in Pilton. Seen here giving a talk about his life and work in the Great Hall at Dartington.
Michael Eavis
Sir Athelstan Joseph Michael Eavis CBE, (born 17 October 1935) is an English dairy farmer and the co-creator of the Glastonbury Festival, which takes place at his farm in Pilton. Seen here giving a talk about his life and work in the Great Hall at Dartington.
Katrina Waters
Australian Mezzo Soprano Katrina Waters photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music. She is based in Australia and has performed with leading opera companies and orchestras in venues in Australia and abroad.
Katrina Waters
Australian Mezzo Soprano Katrina Waters photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music. She is based in Australia and has performed with leading opera companies and orchestras in venues in Australia and abroad.
Katrina Waters
Australian Mezzo Soprano Katrina Waters photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music. She is based in Australia and has performed with leading opera companies and orchestras in venues in Australia and abroad.
Katrina Waters
Australian Mezzo Soprano Katrina Waters photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music. She is based in Australia and has performed with leading opera companies and orchestras in venues in Australia and abroad.
Black Voices
Black Voices was formed in 1987 by Director Carol Pemberton MBE, seen here on the left. Black Voices have performed in every continent, before royalty, presidents, sharing the stage with some of the key people in music - Nina Simone, Ray Charles, Hugh Masekela, Wynton Marsalis and Miriam Makeba among others. Photographed here on one of their many visits to Dartington Summer School of Music.
Dartington Gamelan
Dartington Gamelan
Chris Brannick
Chris Brannick
Max and Alexander Baillie
Father and son Max and Alexander Baillie. British-German violinist Max Baillie is a graduate of the Yehudi Menhuin School, Cambridge University and Berlin's UdK. Alexander Baillie is an English cellist, recognised internationally as one of the finest of his generation.
Max and Alexander Baillie
Father and son Max and Alexander Baillie. British-German violinist Max Baillie is a graduate of the Yehudi Menhuin School, Cambridge University and Berlin's UdK. Alexander Baillie is an English cellist, recognised internationally as one of the finest of his generation.
Max Baillie
A graduate of the Yehudi Menhuin School, Cambridge University and Berlin's UdK, British-German violinist Max Baillie photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2022.
Raphael Wallfisch
With a discography of over 70 discs Raphael Wallfisch is one of the most recorded classical artists in the world. A BBC survey named his recording of the Dvorak Cello Concerto the best recording of the work in the past 25 years. He has also been at the forefront of playing and commissioning new works by contemporary composers working with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, James MacMillan, John Tavener and many others. Seen her in rehearsal in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Raphael Wallfisch
With a discography of over 70 discs Raphael Wallfisch is one of the most recorded classical artists in the world. A BBC survey named his recording of the Dvorak Cello Concerto the best recording of the work in the past 25 years. He has also been at the forefront of playing and commissioning new works by contemporary composers working with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, James MacMillan, John Tavener and many others. Seen her in rehearsal in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Raphael Wallfisch
With a discography of over 70 discs Raphael Wallfisch is one of the most recorded classical artists in the world. A BBC survey named his recording of the Dvorak Cello Concerto the best recording of the work in the past 25 years. He has also been at the forefront of playing and commissioning new works by contemporary composers working with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, James MacMillan, John Tavener and many others. Seen her in rehearsal in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Karine Georgian
Armenian cellist Karine Georgian - daughter of Armenian cellist Armen Georgian and the Russian soprano Galina Sakharova - photographed on one of her many visits to Dartington Summer School of Music where she had taught and performed each year for ten years. Her repertoire encompasses more than forty concertos and a huge range of instrumental and chamber music. She left the Soviet Union in 1980 to settle in London, combining a worldwide performing schedule with a Cello Professorship in Detmold, Germany.
Karine Georgian
Armenian cellist Karine Georgian - daughter of Armenian cellist Armen Georgian and the Russian soprano Galina Sakharova - photographed on one of her many visits to Dartington Summer School of Music where she had taught and performed each year for ten years. Her repertoire encompasses more than forty concertos and a huge range of instrumental and chamber music. She left the Soviet Union in 1980 to settle in London, combining a worldwide performing schedule with a Cello Professorship in Detmold, Germany.
Karine Georgian
Armenian cellist Karine Georgian - daughter of Armenian cellist Armen Georgian and the Russian soprano Galina Sakharova - photographed on one of her many visits to Dartington Summer School of Music where she had taught and performed each year for ten years. Her repertoire encompasses more than forty concertos and a huge range of instrumental and chamber music. She left the Soviet Union in 1980 to settle in London, combining a worldwide performing schedule with a Cello Professorship in Detmold, Germany.
Karine Georgian
Armenian cellist Karine Georgian - daughter of Armenian cellist Armen Georgian and the Russian soprano Galina Sakharova - photographed on one of her many visits to Dartington Summer School of Music where she had taught and performed each year for ten years. Her repertoire encompasses more than forty concertos and a huge range of instrumental and chamber music. She left the Soviet Union in 1980 to settle in London, combining a worldwide performing schedule with a Cello Professorship in Detmold, Germany.
Karine Georgian
Armenian cellist Karine Georgian - daughter of Armenian cellist Armen Georgian and the Russian soprano Galina Sakharova - photographed on one of her many visits to Dartington Summer School of Music where she had taught and performed each year for ten years. Her repertoire encompasses more than forty concertos and a huge range of instrumental and chamber music. She left the Soviet Union in 1980 to settle in London, combining a worldwide performing schedule with a Cello Professorship in Detmold, Germany.
Karine Georgian
Armenian cellist Karine Georgian - daughter of Armenian cellist Armen Georgian and the Russian soprano Galina Sakharova - photographed on one of her many visits to Dartington Summer School of Music where she had taught and performed each year for ten years. Her repertoire encompasses more than forty concertos and a huge range of instrumental and chamber music. She left the Soviet Union in 1980 to settle in London, combining a worldwide performing schedule with a Cello Professorship in Detmold, Germany.
Karine Georgian
Armenian cellist Karine Georgian - daughter of Armenian cellist Armen Georgian and the Russian soprano Galina Sakharova - photographed on one of her many visits to Dartington Summer School of Music where she had taught and performed each year for ten years. Her repertoire encompasses more than forty concertos and a huge range of instrumental and chamber music. She left the Soviet Union in 1980 to settle in London, combining a worldwide performing schedule with a Cello Professorship in Detmold, Germany.
Karine Georgian
Armenian cellist Karine Georgian - daughter of Armenian cellist Armen Georgian and the Russian soprano Galina Sakharova - photographed on one of her many visits to Dartington Summer School of Music where she had taught and performed each year for ten years. Her repertoire encompasses more than forty concertos and a huge range of instrumental and chamber music. She left the Soviet Union in 1980 to settle in London, combining a worldwide performing schedule with a Cello Professorship in Detmold, Germany. Seen here in rehearsal in the Great Hall, Dartington with conductor André Masson.
Karine Georgian
Armenian cellist Karine Georgian - daughter of Armenian cellist Armen Georgian and the Russian soprano Galina Sakharova - photographed on one of her many visits to Dartington Summer School of Music where she had taught and performed each year for ten years. Her repertoire encompasses more than forty concertos and a huge range of instrumental and chamber music. She left the Soviet Union in 1980 to settle in London, combining a worldwide performing schedule with a Cello Professorship in Detmold, Germany. Seen here in rehearsal in the Great Hall, Dartington with conductor André Masson.
John Hancorn
John Hancorn is an operatic baritone and music director of the BREMF Singers, Baroque Collective Singers, East Sussex Bach Choir and Eastbourne Choral Society and co-director of The Baroque Collective. He leads vocal workshops and masterclasses specialising in baroque repertoire. Seen here rehearsing in the Great Hall, Dartington at the Dartington Summer School of Music.
John Hancorn
John Hancorn is an operatic baritone and music director of the BREMF Singers, Baroque Collective Singers, East Sussex Bach Choir and Eastbourne Choral Society and co-director of The Baroque Collective. He leads vocal workshops and masterclasses specialising in baroque repertoire. Seen here rehearsing in the Great Hall, Dartington at the Dartington Summer School of Music.
John Hancorn
John Hancorn is an operatic baritone and music director of the BREMF Singers, Baroque Collective Singers, East Sussex Bach Choir and Eastbourne Choral Society and co-director of The Baroque Collective. He leads vocal workshops and masterclasses specialising in baroque repertoire. Seen here rehearsing in the Great Hall, Dartington at the Dartington Summer School of Music.
Laura Moody
Laura Moody is a composer, cellist, vocalist,songwriter and theatre performer from the UK. Her work focuses on storytelling, ritual, the expressive potential of musicians' physicality and the transformation of spaces through sound, music and movement. She considers all of her work to be theatre of some kind. Photographed in rehearsal at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Laura Moody
Laura Moody is a composer, cellist, vocalist,songwriter and theatre performer from the UK. Her work focuses on storytelling, ritual, the expressive potential of musicians' physicality and the transformation of spaces through sound, music and movement. She considers all of her work to be theatre of some kind. Photographed in rehearsal at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Laura Moody
Laura Moody is a composer, cellist, vocalist,songwriter and theatre performer from the UK. Her work focuses on storytelling, ritual, the expressive potential of musicians' physicality and the transformation of spaces through sound, music and movement. She considers all of her work to be theatre of some kind. Photographed in rehearsal at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Laura Moody
Laura Moody is a composer, cellist, vocalist,songwriter and theatre performer from the UK. Her work focuses on storytelling, ritual, the expressive potential of musicians' physicality and the transformation of spaces through sound, music and movement. She considers all of her work to be theatre of some kind. Photographed in rehearsal at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Laura Moody
Laura Moody is a composer, cellist, vocalist,songwriter and theatre performer from the UK. Her work focuses on storytelling, ritual, the expressive potential of musicians' physicality and the transformation of spaces through sound, music and movement. She considers all of her work to be theatre of some kind. Photographed in rehearsal at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Viktoria Mullova
Viktoria Mullova (born 1959) is a Russian-born British violinist. She is best known for her performances and recordings of a number of violin concerti, compositions by J.S. Bach, and her innovative interpretations of popular and jazz compositions by Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, The Beatles and others. Seen here in rehearsal in the Great Hall, Dartington at the Summer School of Music.
Viktoria Mullova
Viktoria Mullova (born 1959) is a Russian-born British violinist. She is best known for her performances and recordings of a number of violin concerti, compositions by J.S. Bach, and her innovative interpretations of popular and jazz compositions by Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, The Beatles and others. Seen here in rehearsal in the Great Hall, Dartington at the Summer School of Music.
Viktoria Mullova
Viktoria Mullova (born 1959) is a Russian-born British violinist. She is best known for her performances and recordings of a number of violin concerti, compositions by J.S. Bach, and her innovative interpretations of popular and jazz compositions by Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, The Beatles and others. Photographed here in a masterclass at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Viktoria Mullova
Viktoria Mullova (born 1959) is a Russian-born British violinist. She is best known for her performances and recordings of a number of violin concerti, compositions by J.S. Bach, and her innovative interpretations of popular and jazz compositions by Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, The Beatles and others. Viktoria Mullova (born 1959) is a Russian-born British violinist. She is best known for her performances and recordings of a number of violin concerti, compositions by J.S. Bach, and her innovative interpretations of popular and jazz compositions by Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, The Beatles and others. Photographed here in a masterclass at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Viktoria Mullova
Viktoria Mullova (born 1959) is a Russian-born British violinist. She is best known for her performances and recordings of a number of violin concerti, compositions by J.S. Bach, and her innovative interpretations of popular and jazz compositions by Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, The Beatles and others. Photographed here in a masterclass at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Viktoria Mullova
Viktoria Mullova (born 1959) is a Russian-born British violinist. She is best known for her performances and recordings of a number of violin concerti, compositions by J.S. Bach, and her innovative interpretations of popular and jazz compositions by Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, The Beatles and others. Photographed here in a masterclass at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Viktoria Mullova
Viktoria Mullova (born 1959) is a Russian-born British violinist. She is best known for her performances and recordings of a number of violin concerti, compositions by J.S. Bach, and her innovative interpretations of popular and jazz compositions by Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, The Beatles and others. Photographed here in a masterclass at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Viktoria Mullova
Viktoria Mullova (born 1959) is a Russian-born British violinist. She is best known for her performances and recordings of a number of violin concerti, compositions by J.S. Bach, and her innovative interpretations of popular and jazz compositions by Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, The Beatles and others. Photographed here in a masterclass at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Viktoria Mullova
Viktoria Mullova (born 1959) is a Russian-born British violinist. She is best known for her performances and recordings of a number of violin concerti, compositions by J.S. Bach, and her innovative interpretations of popular and jazz compositions by Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, The Beatles and others. Seen here in rehearsal in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Viktoria Mullova
Viktoria Mullova (born 1959) is a Russian-born British violinist. She is best known for her performances and recordings of a number of violin concerti, compositions by J.S. Bach, and her innovative interpretations of popular and jazz compositions by Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, The Beatles and others. Seen here in rehearsal in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Music in Dartington courtyard
Music in Dartington courtyard
Dartington courtyard at the Summer School of Music
Indian musicians
Indian musicians
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Indian musicians
Indian musicians
Mehndi
Mehndi is a ceremonial art form common in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Afghanistan. Here, the hands are being painted with henna before a dance performance at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Mehndi
Mehndi is a ceremonial art form common in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Afghanistan. Here, the hands are being painted with henna before a dance performance at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Mehndi
Mehndi is a ceremonial art form common in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Afghanistan. Here, the hands are being painted with henna before a dance performance at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Indian music concert
Indian music concert
Dawn raga in the Tiltyard
Indian musicians
Nicholas Daniel
Nicholas Daniel OBE is and oboist with an international reputation. He has significantly enlarged the repertoire for his instrument with the commissioning of hundreds of new works. He has also developed a couducting career alongside his playing. Photographed here in rehearsal in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Julie Tippett
Julie Tippett Driscoll is an English singer and actress known for her work with Brian Auger and her husband - jazz pianist and composer Keith Tippett. Seen here at a jazz workshop at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Joanna MacGregor
Joanna MacGregor photographed in rehearsal before recording Harrison Birtwistle's composition, "Harrison's Clocks" in the Great Hall at Dartington in 1999.
Keith Tippett
Keith Tippetts (1947-2020), known professionally at Keith Tippett was a British jazz pianist and composer. His career spanned jazz-rock, progressive rock, improvised and contemporary music as well as modern jazz for more than half a century. He was particularly well known for his unique approach to improvisation. Photographed here leading one of his thrilling jazz improvisation sessions with musicians of all abilities at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Gamelan
A Dartington Summer School participant playing in the Dartington Gamelan at the Summer School of Music in 1999.