About Alan Rowlands
Lived 1929 – 2012 (aged 82). Alan Rowlands was a British pianist and musician.
Alan Rowlands (1 March 1929 – 2 January 2012) was an English pianist (though born in Swansea, Wales) who made notable contributions to British musical life both as a teacher and as a performer.
He obtained a degree in chemistry at Jesus College, Oxford, before winning a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Music (RCM) under Angus Morrison.
A particular preoccupation of his was the oeuvre of John Ireland. He studied much of Ireland's piano output with the composer himself, who recommended him to undertake a recording of the complete Ireland piano music. Rowlands completed the manuscript of Ireland's Ballade of London Nights, a piano piece composed in 1930. Rowlands first performed it on 6 June 1965.
For much of his life Rowlands taught at the RCM, from which he retired in 1999.
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British musician
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Alan Rowlands was born on 1 March 1929 in Swansea.
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Alan Rowlands died on 2 January 2012.
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