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Gervase de Peyer

British clarinettist, conductor, and clarinet teacher. Born 11 April 1926, London, England, UK - Died 4 February 2017. Towards the end of World War II, he joined [a=The Band Of HM Royal Marines]. He studied at the [l290263]. In 1950, he was a founding member of the [a894398] for which he continued to play until 1974. He served as principal clarinetist of [a=London Symphony Orchestra] from 1956 to 1973. He was a founding member of [a=The Chamber Music Society Of Lincoln Center] in 1969, and played with them for twenty years. In 1992, he founded the [b]Melos Sinfonia of Washington[/b]. In 1999-2000, he was a principal artist at Paxton Hall's Chamber Music Festival in Scotland. For over thirty years, he toured and recorded with the classical pianist [a=Gwenneth Pryor]. In 1959, he began teaching at the [l527847]. In 1950, he married the cellist Sylvia Southcomb with whom they had a son, [a=Merv de Peyer] and two daughters, [a7820285] & Janine de Peyer. They divorced in 1971, and later that year he married the mezzo-soprano [a=Susan Daniel]. They divorced in 1979.

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