Anna Shuttleworth

Her pupils include Alexander Baillie, Martin Johnson, Natalie Clein, František Brikcius, and Kathy Hampson (née Jewell).

[3] After leaving the RCM her friend Joan Dickson organised for the cellist Enrico Mainardi to give lessons in London in which Shuttleworth took part.

This initiated a long friendship with the family of Gerald Finzi and their musical circle, including Ursula and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

This period also witnessed a richly varied freelance career, playing in a number of festival orchestras, as a chamber musician and soloist.

In 1953, at the recommendation of the composer Herbert Howells, Shuttleworth applied for the Boise scholarship and in 1954 was awarded a substantial sum to further her cello studies.

She became a cello professor at the RCM and taught many of today's well-known musicians, including Adrian Brendel, Alexander Baillie, Clare Finzi, Elizabeth Wilson and Jonathan del Mar.

Other cellists included Joan Dickson, Amanda Truelove, Sasha Boyarsky, Lowri Blake, Andreas Burzik, Melissa Phelps, Louise Hopkins, and Moray Welsh.

After the 1960s, Shuttleworth performed many successful piano and cello recitals with some of the leading pianists in Britain, including Bernard Roberts, Ian Brown, Martin Roscoe and John Thwaites.

In the early seventies, at Jacqueline du Pré's suggestion, the Swedish cellist Frans Helmerson stayed at Shuttleworth's house and they became friends.

Shuttleworth helped both of them, firstly by organising exhibitions of Toya's work in England and secondly by sponsoring Kia to study at Leeds University, where he is now on the staff.

In 1994, Shuttleworth's teaching became more widely known when her pupil, Natalie Clein, won both the UK and European Young Musician of the Year competitions.

She made her final cello and piano duo recitals in 2003 and played the Treble and Bass Viols and sang early music.