Rhondda Gillespie (4 August 1941 – 30 December 2010) was an Australian-born classical pianist who resided primarily in the United Kingdom and Barbados.
[2][3] At age 8 she played Manuel de Falla's Ritual Fire Dance[4] on Jack Davey's radio show Star Search.
Her formal studies were at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music under Alexander Sverjensky (where her fellow students included Malcolm Williamson, Richard Farrell and Roger Woodward)[1] and in Britain under Louis Kentner and Denis Matthews.
[4] In 1976, for Joseph Horovitz's 50th birthday, Gillespie played his Jazz Concerto at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.
With the actor Michael Gough she also gave the first complete performance in London of Liszt's dramatic recitations.