John Dennis Barstow (21 May 1937–11 October 2024) was an English pianist who taught at the Royal College of Music for 40 years.
[1] Barstow was born in Morley, West Yorkshire and first studied piano at Leeds College of Music with Hans Solty, a pupil of Busoni.
From 1954 - including a break for National Service - he was at the Royal College of Music, studying piano with Cyril Smith and composition with Bernard Stevens.
[2] He made his Wigmore Hall debut in 1961 and for the next decade performed a wide range of repertoire, including Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto under Malcolm Arnold at the Proms in 1968.
His many pupils include Barry Douglas, Julian Jacobson, James Lisney, Karl Lutchmayer, Nicholas Unwin and Katherine Wolf.