Janet Helen Rosemary Craxton[1] (17 May 1929 – 18 July 1981) was an English oboe player and teacher.
She was the youngest of the six children and the only daughter of the pianist and teacher Harold Craxton.
Janet Craxton studied at the Royal Academy of Music from 1945 to 1948 and at the Paris Conservatoire from 1948 to 1949.
[2] She was much in demand as a soloist, and gave world premières of works by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Lennox Berkeley, Alan Rawsthorne, Elisabeth Lutyens, Elizabeth Maconchy, Richard Stoker and Priaulx Rainier.
[3] At a memorial concert at Aylesbury in 1978, she performed the first oboe concerto by Rutland Boughton.