Owen Murray
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Owen Murray GRAM, Dip RAM (Copenhagen) Hon RAM, is British
accordionist
and professor.
, he studied with Mogens Ellegaard at The Royal Danish Academy of Music
in Copenhagen
, graduating with the Diploma in 1982. He played many recitals, both in the UK and overseas. His recordings included "On the Wings of the Wind". Owen is the son of Chrissie Leatham and the grandson of Peter Robertson Leatham. Chrissie Leatham was one of Scotland's greatest accordion players and teacher to many of Scotland's best known musicians including Kenny McGinty, Simon Thoumire, Phil Cunningham,Ian McPhail, Sandy Brechin and Jim Johnstone to name but a few. Owen Murray was also instrumental in their musical education. Peter Robertson Leatham was a highly acclaimed melodeon player in the nineteen twenties. He is featured on a CD called Melodion Greats.
Murray is the Head of Classical Accordion at London's Royal Academy of Music
since 1986.
British people
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accordionist
Accordion
The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
and professor.
Biography
Born in the UKUnited Kingdom
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, he studied with Mogens Ellegaard at The Royal Danish Academy of Music
The Royal Danish Academy of Music
The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen was founded in 1867 by the composer Niels Wilhelm Gade. It is the oldest professional institution of musical education in Denmark as well as the largest with approximately 400 students...
in Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
, graduating with the Diploma in 1982. He played many recitals, both in the UK and overseas. His recordings included "On the Wings of the Wind". Owen is the son of Chrissie Leatham and the grandson of Peter Robertson Leatham. Chrissie Leatham was one of Scotland's greatest accordion players and teacher to many of Scotland's best known musicians including Kenny McGinty, Simon Thoumire, Phil Cunningham,Ian McPhail, Sandy Brechin and Jim Johnstone to name but a few. Owen Murray was also instrumental in their musical education. Peter Robertson Leatham was a highly acclaimed melodeon player in the nineteen twenties. He is featured on a CD called Melodion Greats.
Murray is the Head of Classical Accordion at London's Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music
The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...
since 1986.