Leader, Aldo Spiero from the Hotel Victoria, London
The popular leader of the Hotel Victoria Orchestra comes of a musical family well known in Holland. His brother, Simon Spiero , is also a famous musician, known as the ' King of Marches
Aldo Spiero was born at The
Hague, and began his musical career at the age of nine at the Royal Conservatoire there. When he was seventeen he became a member of the celebrated Residence Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Viotta.
He stayed there for nine winter seasons, playing under a number of distinguished guest conductors.
Aldo Spiero has topped the bill with his Trio (Spiero, violin ; Orazio Fagotti , cellist ; and Edgar Lacey , pianist-these two are still with him in his Hotel Victoria Orchestra) at the Palace Theatre, Halifax, at the Palace, Blackpool, and in a broadcast from the New Winter Gardens, Morecambe.