| Biography | Jean Harvey was a Scottish violinst, pianist and music teacher.
Harvey grew up in Scotland where she soon excelled in both piano and violin studies, playing a violin concerto with the Scottish National Orchestra at the age of seven. Lessons in London and at the Matthay School in Surrey followed together with a scholarship to study both instruments at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM). Early highlights of her career include performances of the Brahms Second Piano Concerto and Walton Violin Concerto in one RAM concert, and performances in a 1953 Prom concert of both Tchaikovskys Violin Concerto and Griegs Piano Concerto.
Teaching was to form a central part of her life and in 1964 she joined the RAM teaching staff. |