Thea King

Thea King

Infobox musical artist
Name = Dame Thea King


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Born = December 26, 1925
Hitchin,
Hertfordshire, England

Died = Death date and age|2007|6|26|1925|12|26
Origin = London, England
Instrument = Clarinet
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Genre = Classical
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Years_active = 1950s–2007
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Dame Thea King DBE FRCM FGSM OBE (26 December 1925 – 26 June 2007) was a British clarinettist.

Thea King was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. She was the daughter of Henry Walter Mayer King, the manager of a family engineering business, George. W. King Ltd., which was based in Hitchin then Stevenage, Hertfordshire, and his wife, Dorothea (nee Hass). [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/06/30/db3001.xml "Daily Telegraph" Obituary] , accessed 30 June 2007] She was educated at Bedford High School and won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music where she studied the piano with Arthur Alexander and the clarinet with Frederick Thurston.Pamela Weston/Robert Philip, 'King, Thea', "Grove Music Online", accessed 30 June 2007 [http://www.grovemusic.com/shared/views/article.html?section=music.15022] ] In January 1953 she married Frederick Thurston but he died from lung cancer in December of the same year. She did not remarry.

She worked as soloist, chamber musician and as a teacher but was probably associated most closely with the English Chamber Orchestra as principal clarinet from 1964 to 1999. She also worked with the London Mozart Players, succeeding Gervase de Peyer as principal clarinettist, the Sadler's Wells Opera Orchestra, the Melos Ensemble and the Allegri String Quartet. She was a founder member in 1953 of the Portia Wind Ensemble, an all female group. She was also a member of the Vesuvius and Robles Ensembles.Fact|date=July 2007

Thea King made a special study of lesser known works of the 18th and 19th centuries, especially those of Crusell. She commissioned Elizabeth Maconchy's "Fantasia" and Howard Blake's "Clarinet Concerto". Compositions dedicated to her by British composers include Benjamin Frankel's "Clarinet Quintet" and Gordon Jacob's "Mini Concerto".

From 1961-87, King was Professor of Clarinet at the Royal College of Music and she was a Professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama from 1988 until her death. She was a Fellow of both institutions.Fact|date=July 2007 Thea King was made an OBE in 1985 and was appointed a DBE in 2001.

References

Further reading

*Weston, P. "Clarinet Virtuosi of Today", London, 1989, pp 156–162

External links

* [http://www.weku.fm/carter_page_04.htm Michael Carter, "King of the Clarinet"]
* [http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/artist_page.asp?name=tking Hyperion Records]


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