Joy Boughton
English oboist
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Joy Boughton's Degrees
- Bachelors Oboe Performance Royal Academy of Music
- Masters Oboe Performance Juilliard School
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Christina Joyance Boughton was an English oboist and the daughter of composer Rutland Boughton and artist Christina Walshe. She died in 1963 in tragic circumstances.. She was taught oboe by Léon Goossens and attended the Royal College of Music from 1929 to 1937 at which, for a short while before her death, she was a professor of Oboe. She helped establish Benjamin Britten's English Opera Group, being a member of its orchestra in the late 1940s and 1950s. In 1951 Britten dedicated his Six Metamorphoses after Ovid to Joy, which she premiered at the Aldeburgh Festival on 14 June that year. Together with John Francis and Millicent Silver she became part of The Sylvan Trio.
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