Angus Morrison (pianist)

Stuart Angus Morrison CBE (28 May 1902 – 23 January 1989) was an English pianist and teacher who played a significant role in the revival of British music during the inter-war years.

His composition teachers there were Thomas Dunhill and Ralph Vaughan Williams, and his contemporaries included Constant Lambert, with whom he enjoyed a lifelong friendship.

[3] He was the dedicatee of Lambert's The Rio Grande, and played the solo piano part in the first broadcast performance on 27 February 1928 from the BBC's Savoy Hill Studios.

At the Royal College his pupils included Armand D'Angour, Ruth Dyson, Colin Horsley, John Lill, Alan Rowlands, Melvyn Tan, Katherine Storr and Julius Drake.

To mark his 80th birthday a concert was held at the Royal College of Music on 27 May 1982, with Morrison once again performing the solo part of The Rio Grande, soloist Mary Hart and the RCM chorus and orchestra conducted by Sir David Willcocks.