Gordon Green (pianist)

[5] He attended Wakefield Grammar school and was subsequently educated at the Royal Manchester College of Music (RMCM), where he studied with Franck Merrick.

[6] The first time Green's name is encountered in the college's archives, is in connection to an examination concert (8 July 1925) playing the first movement of Brahms' F minor Piano Sonata.

[7] His name is also mentioned soon after on March 9, 1926, when Green performed Bach's double piano concerto in C minor with composer and close friend Alan Rawsthorne.

He was also the performer of Rawsthorne's Piano Concerto: Green's own score is preserved in the RNCM Archives and contains some of his practice annotations and separate notes.

His hour-long interview with Alan Rawsthorne on BBC Radio 3 has been preserved as a non-digitised tape located in the British Library's Sound and Moving Image catalogue.

[16] Among the few direct sources salvaged however, there is Gordon Green's edition of selected Liszt pieces for Oxford University Press,[17] his letter to the editor printed in the Liverpool Daily Post (Music in Soviet Russia)[18] and an essay titled 'Alan Rawsthorne: The Pre-War Years'.

[19] In the summer of 1980, few months before Green's death, a Hope Street Festival concert was presented featuring Stephen Hough, Martino Tirimo and Christian Blackshaw performing concertos with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under Sir Charles Groves in his honour (see relevant mention in Stephen Hough's interview to the Liverpool Daily Post, 1983).

[24] Quite a few of his former pupils have been active in their efforts to commemorate or otherwise pay tribute to Green, including Stephen Hough (see references in his book Rough Ideas, but also in his interviews and posts on social media),[25] Philip Fowke, Martino Tirimo.

[27] Gordon Green was conferred a diamond jubilee year Fellowship from the Manchester College of Music (FRMCM Honorary Fellow) in 1953.