About Joan Dickson
Lived 1921 – 1994 (aged 72). Joan Dickson was a British music educator and university teacher.
Katherine Joan Balfour Dickson (21 December 1921 – 9 October 1994) was a Scottish cellist and cello teacher.
Biography Dickson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on 21 December 1921 to Marjorie Balfour Lowe and Dr Douglas Dickson, a lawyer and Writer to the Signet.
She worked primarily in the United Kingdom, and was a professor at the Royal College of Music in London. She was also a notable performer, giving many duo recitals with her longtime partner Joyce Rathbone. Joan also collaborated regularly with her sister Hester, who was also a pianist, and a piano accompaniment lecturer at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland until 2014.
She studied with Enrico Mainardi in Paris.
Her students included Moray Welsh, Ian Hampton, Melissa Phelps, Alexander Baillie, Richard Harwood, Andrew Shulman, Ruth Beauchamp and Louisa Tuck.
She died in London on 9 October 1994.
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Joan Dickson was born on 21 December 1921 in Edinburgh.
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