Guy Jonson

Stanley Guy Jonson (born 5 November 1913 in Finchley, † 10 March 2009) was an English pianist and music teacher.

Jonson had as a child piano lessons with Betty Humby, the second wife of the conductor Thomas Beecham. At the age of 14, he continued his education at the piano by Tobias Matthay School. In 1930 he won an Ada Lewis scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, but sat next to his training with Matthay continued.

In 1936 he made ​​his debut as a pianist at the Wigmore Hall, at the same time he played live concerts for the overseas programs of the BBC. In 1939, he became the youngest professor at the Royal Academy, but was soon drafted into military service. Because of a rheumatic heart condition, he was transferred to the Army Educational Corps, where he had the opportunity to conduct concerts with the Southern Symphony Orchestra, Southampton.

In 1946 he returned to the Royal Academy. Among his pupils were, inter alia, the pianist Dimitris Sgouros, matrine Jones and Philip Smith and the composer Iain Hamilton and Sir John Tavener. As a concert pianist Jonson has performed throughout Europe, South Africa, South and Central America. 1954, 1960 and 1963, he enterprising ten- week concert tours throughout Canada. In 1995 he gave at the Wigmore Hall his farewell concert. In 1998, he played an album Echoes from a Golden Era of works by Joseph Haydn, Frédéric Chopin, Claude Debussy, Isaac Albeniz and others.