Sir Simon was born in Liverpool and studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

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"The Royal Academy of Music in London got interested in hyperinstruments and particularly in stringed hyperinstruments, " Machover says.

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His older sister, Fanny, was at the Royal Academy of Music for piano.

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He studied composition, singing and piano at the Royal Academy of Music and won the Guinness Prize for Composition in 1977.

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Jenkins studied at the Royal Academy of Music, modelled and taught.

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After studying music to A-level, Lesley Garrett spent six years at the Royal Academy of Music, where singer Annie Lennox was a contemporary, studying to be a soprano.

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We cannot be comforted by any type of optimism and it is the music in particular that incites the sense of loss according to Mary Hammond, Sondheim Professor of Musical Theatre Vocal Studies at the Royal Academy of Music.

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She subsequently went on to train as an opera singer, graduating from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama with a BA in Music, a post graduate diploma in vocal studies and a further one in Opera studies.

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