Ida Gertrude Carroll OBE (1 December 1905 – 9 September 1995) was a British music educator, university administrator, double bassist, and composer.
[1] He was her first music teacher, and the original manuscript for a 1912 composition written by him for her piano lessons entitled Tunes for Ida still survives.
She produced a significant body of work for the double bass, of which several pieces have become a part of that instrument's standard repertoire.
[1] She was also active with the Musicians' Benevolent Fund, the European String Teachers Association, the Graucob Travel Awards, and Live Music Now.
[1] While she never married, Carroll had a lasting friendship with Geoffrey Griffiths whom she met in her youth when he was a member of her father's choir.