Lloyd Powell (22 August 188825 March 1975) was an English, later Canadian pianist and teacher.

Career

Lloyd Ioan Powell was born in

Ironbridge Ironbridge is a riverside village in the borough of Telford and Wrekin, Shropshire, England. Located on the bank of the River Severn, at the heart of the Ironbridge Gorge, it lies in the civil parish of The Gorge. Ironbridge developed beside, ...

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in 1888.''Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', 5th ed (1954), Vol. VI, p. 901 His parents were Welsh.''The Canadian Encyclopedia''
/ref> He studied at the

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(RCM) in

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from the age of 10. His teachers were Marmaduke Barton (piano; a student of

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), Sir

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(composition) and Sir

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(counterpoint).''The Spokesman-Review'', 18 March 1961
/ref> He won the Hopkinson Gold Medal for piano performance and the Dannreuther Prize for the best piano concerto performance. Further studies were undertaken with

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, and in

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. Powell toured in Paris, Berlin, England and Scotland, and spent many years as an Examiner for the

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, visiting places such as Australia,''The Sydney Morning Herald'', 13 September 1933
/ref> South Africa, Canada, New Zealand, Ceylon, the West Indies and Java. He became a Professor of Pianoforte at the RCM in 1919. His students at the RCM included the blind pianist

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; and

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, in whom Powell instilled the idea that to be a good pianist, one must also teach the piano. Goodman took over Powell's teaching duties there when the latter was examining in Canada, and later became a teacher at the

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for 50 years. Before 1922 Lloyd Powell had given one of the earliest performances of

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's Piano Sonata. In 1927,

Thomas Dunhill Thomas Frederick Dunhill (1 February 187713 March 1946) was a prolific English composer in many genres, though he is best known today for his light music and educational piano works. His compositions include much chamber music, a song cycle, '' ...

, a friend of Powell's, dedicated his ''4 Pieces for Piano'', Op. 69, to him. Having examined in Canada for many years, he moved to

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in 1951, and settled in

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in 1954. He appeared throughout the country in recitals, made broadcasts on the

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, taught privately, gave lectures, and adjudicated at music competitions. He played the complete piano works of

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and the 32 sonatas of

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in series of recitals at the

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. In 1961 he appeared on Canadian television in '' Directions in Music''. He performed for Jeunesses Musicales Canada in 1966–67.Jeunesses Musicales
Lloyd Powell died in Vancouver in 1975, aged 86.

References

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