Ethel Mary Boyce

Ethel Mary Boyce (5 October 1863 – 3 March 1936) was an English composer, pianist and teacher.

[1] She studied piano at the Royal Academy of Music with Walter Cecil Macfarren and composition with Francis William Davenport.

In 1890 she was appointed associate of the Royal Academy, becoming a composition teacher in 1891, when she gave up public performances as a pianist.

[3] She played piano duets with Dora Bright, including a concert performance of Bright's Variations on an Original Theme of Sir G. A. Macfarren, named for George Alexander Macfarren, their teacher's brother.

She also wrote children's piano music, songs and choral works including several cantatas with medieval subjects: The Lay of the Brown Rosary (1890), setting Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Young Lochinvar (1891), setting Walter Scott, and The Sands of Corriemie for female voices (1895), with both libretto and music by the composer.