British-Indian author of "The Seduction of Silence" and "There, Where the Pepper Grows"
Scientist
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009
The current President of the Royal Society
Writer, playwright, song writer and a radio journalist
Highly acclaimed & influential composer of the 20th century and a most generous supporter of other people
Actress (2 Oscars) and a politician (MP)
Architect
Best known for modern, functional, high-tech designs: the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Lloyd's building and Millennium Dome both in London, the Senedd in Cardiff & the European Court of Human Rights building in Strasbourg.
The most influential British photographer of the 20th century
Dancer (Ballet Rambert, London)
Businessman
Dancer (Ballet Rambert, London)
Lucy performed as a guest artist with Rudolf Nureyev in Paris & Madrid, dancing the role of Colombine to Nureyev's 'Pierrot'.
Chinese pianist of prestigious career throughout the world
Celebrated for his interpretations of the music of Frederic Chopin, especially Mazurkas.
Choreographer (Ballet Rambert, London and independent) - "Ghost Dances"
Dancer (Ballet Rambert, London)
Architect
Music producer
(The Beatles)
Composer of operas - "The Mask of Orpheus", "Yan Tan Tethera", "The Io Passion" .....
American writer
Published three novels including The Book of Kings
Dutch rock drummer, a member of the group Herman Brood & his Wild Romance
Close to a circle of trees, by the River Thames, not far from Twickenham Bridge in west London, near Eel Pie Recording Studios
Composer
"Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima", "Symphony No. 3", "St. Luke Passion", four operas and much more
Scientist
A Chair of Cancer Research UK
a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
Artist
Film director and a prominent film critic.
His 1968 film "If.." won the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival
Singer
Music promoter
(London Sinfonietta)
Composer and charity worker supporting children in war zones (the Balkans during the Bosnian War, Chechnya and in the current Syrian conflict) using Music Therapy techniques.
Prominent British sculptor
The President of the Royal Academy 1999-2004
Music impresario, acoustic and electric guitarist, songwriter, producer, author, broadcaster.
Theatre, film and opera director.
In 1960 founded the Royal Shakespeare Company
Editor
Publications related to Architecture:
"Intervention Architecture: Building for Change",
Max Bill "Architecture Words 5: Form, Function, Beauty = Gestalt" ......
British-Indian author
"The Seduction of Silence" and
"There, Where the Pepper Grows"
BBC journalist
In 1981 Shirley Williams was a co-funder of the Social Democratic Party (SDP)
The Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords from 2001 to 2004
Artist
Creator of Polish experimental theatre company "Cricot 2"
Cellist
Performed with the world's best orchestras, such as the National Philharmonic Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, London Philharmonic Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Scottish National Orchestra, ZDF Köln and all BBC orchestras
Lucy Burge was a principal dancer with Ballet Rambert between 1970 and 1985, where she danced and created major roles for choreographers including Anthony Tudor, Norman Morris, Glen Tetley, Sir Frederick Ashton, Lindsay Kemp, Robert North, Christopher Bruce and Richard Alston.
Marie Angel – a powerful soprano - is best known through contemporary classical composers including Michael Tippett, Harrison Birtwistle, Philip Glass, Nigel Osborne and John Cage.
Journalist (BBC) and MD of BBC World Service
Writer: “Art Matters”, “On Creativity” ……
Co-author with Ann Tusa: “The Nuremberg Trial” and “The Berlin Blockade”
Arts leader:
City of London's Barbican Arts Centre
&
The European Union Youth Orchestra
Designer and an editor of "Harper’s & Queen”
British writer, historian and mythographer
Polish playwright
(his most famous play about totalitarian regime, "Tango", was played all over the world)
Journalist - presented current affairs programmes including Panorama on BBC
Close friend of George Orwell.
Playwright ("Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead")
Screen-play writer including " Brazil" & "Shakespeare in Love" - Oscar 1999
Writer, playwright, song writer and a radio journalist
Polish composer, pianist and music scholar (Academy of Music in Kraków & Hochschule für Musik in Cologne).
His immense creative output ranges from operas & symphonies & vocal works to chamber & instrumental music.
Additionally Krzysztof Meyer has written biographies of Dmitri Shostakovich and Witold Lutosławski.
BBC radio DJ and a journalist
Consultant Haematologist at Kings College Hospital London. Prior to joining King’s in 2008, Dr Marcus was Consultant Haematologist in Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge for 20 years where he established the bone marrow transplant unit and saved my life.
Scottish painter, curator of exhibitions and creator of one of Edinburgh’s most successful art institutes, the iconic 369 Gallery
Entrepreneur
Polish poet
awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996
Polish writer of science fiction ("Solaris") & philosophy
Lem's books have been translated into 41 languages and have sold over 45 million copies
Poet and a publisher of literary magazine "Poetry London"
