Barry Emmanuel Tuckwell, OBE, AC (5 March 1931 – 16 January 2020) was an Australian French horn player who spent most of his professional life in the UK and the United States.

She married the photographer Athol Shmith and later George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II.

After studying the piano, organ and violin as a chorister at St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney, Tuckwell was introduced to the French horn at age 13[3] and was playing professionally within six months.

[4] With characteristic humour, when recounting this at the British Horn Society's festival in 2005, he turned to the audience and said, "One note at a time, piece of cake!"

The chief conductors during this time were Josef Krips, Pierre Monteux, István Kertész and André Previn.

For the next thirty years, he carved out a career exclusively as soloist – one of the few horn virtuosos to have done so [citation needed], rather than combining occasional concert performances with an orchestral position or a teaching post.

He enjoyed a long association with the Northern Sinfonia and was appointed their Guest Conductor following an acclaimed fourteen-concert tour of North America.

Recordings as a conductor include three CDs with the London Symphony Orchestra of music by Dvořák, Elgar and Wagner.

His definitive manual Playing the Horn was published by Oxford University Press (now out of print) as was Fifty First Exercises.

[13] The Sir Bernard Heinze Memorial Award is given to a person who has made an outstanding contribution to music in Australia.

[16] In 2007, Tuckwell received the JC Williamson Award, the LPA's highest honour, for their life's work in live performance.