Geoffrey Gilbert (flute)
John Wolfe (oboe)
Norman Franklin (piano)
Martin String Quartet
Adrian Cruft , who was born in 1921, held the Boult Conducting Scholarship at the Royal College of Music from 1938 to 1940. After five years in the Army he returned to the College, where he continued his studies with Gordon Jacob and Edmund Rubbra , and was awarded the Sullivan Composition Prize in 1947. Gordon Phillips , who is forty-two, taught himself the piano and organ, and at the age of sixteen became organist of village church near Nottingham. When he was twenty-two he entered Nottingham University and studied with Bernard Johnson He is now lecturer in music at the City Literary Institute in London.
A trumpet concerto, an orchestral suite, and a sextet are among the compositions of John Addison , who was born in 1920 and studied at the Royal College of Music with Gordon Jacob. Like Adrian Cruft , he won the Sullivan prize; he served for six years in the Army; and he has recently written music for several films.
Elisabeth Lutyens , who studied at the Royal College and in Paris, has a large number of works to her credit, including six chamber concertos and ' The Pit,' a dramatic cantata, performed at the I.S.C.M. Festival at Palermo last year. She has written music for radio plays and features, and for many documentary films.
Harold Rutland