Lorne Munroe

At age 14, he was sponsored by composer Arthur Benjamin to attend the Royal College of Music in London in 1937–39.

In his final year, he played with Benjamin a piece the composer wrote for Munroe.

He continued his studies in Philadelphia at the Curtis Institute of Music, where he was a student of cellist Gregor Piatigorsky and Orlando Cole.

In 1949, he was the sole winner of the Naumburg award and made his recital debut in New York in November of that year.

[1] One such occasion was during a Young People's Concert broadcast aired Christmas Day, 1968, in a performance of Richard Strauss' Don Quixote.