Christina Joyance Boughton A.R.C.M. (known as Joy) (14 June 1913 – 9 March 1963) was an English oboist and the daughter of composer

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and artist Christina Walshe. She died in 1963 in tragic circumstances. She was taught

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Léon Goossens Léon Jean Goossens, CBE, FRCM (12 June 1897 – 13 February 1988) was an English oboist. Career Goossens was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, and studied at Liverpool College of Music and the Royal College of Music. His father was violinist an ...

and attended the

Royal College of Music The Royal College of Music (RCM) is a conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, UK. It offers training from the undergraduate to the doctoral level in all aspects of Western Music including pe ...

from 1929 to 1937 at which, for a short while before her death, she was a professor of Oboe. She helped establish

Benjamin Britten Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, o ...

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, being a member of its orchestra in the late 1940s and 1950s. In 1951 Britten dedicated his

Six Metamorphoses after Ovid ''Six Metamorphoses after Ovid'' (Op. 49) is a piece of programme music for solo oboe written by English composer Benjamin Britten in 1951. History The piece was inspired by Ovid's ''Metamorphoses''. It is dedicated to oboist Joy Boughton, da ...

to Joy, which she premiered at the

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on 14 June that year. Together with John Francis (flute) and Millicent Silver (piano) she became part of The Sylvan Trio. In 1937, Joy gave the first performance of the Oboe Concerto written specially for her by Rutland Boughton at a concert in Oxford with the Boyd Neel String Orchestra. She was married to the theatre impresario Christopher Ede and they had two children, Robin and Penny. A concert in her memory was held at the RCM in April 1963 in which the performers were: John Francis, Sarah Francis and Millicent Silver; Denis Matthews, Leon Goossens, Evelyn Rothwell and Edward Selwyn.

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