Past and Present Teachers
Many talented performers, musicians, and pedagogues from around the world have taught and trained students at The Royal Conservatory since 1886. Some famous past and present teachers include:
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| James Anagnoson | Current Dean of The Glenn Gould School. A highly regarded performer who began performing in 1976 with Canadian pianist Leslie Kinton. |
| Boris Berlin | Born in Kharkovv, Russia, taught at The Conservatory from 1928 and wrote over 200 music publications. |
| Marc Durand | One of Canada's most sought-after performers and pedagogues. |
| Lorand Fenyves | Outstanding Budapest-born violinist who taught at The Glenn Gould School. |
| Leon Fleisher | American pianist and conductor. |
| Nicholas Goldschmidt | Served as the first music director of The Royal Conservatory's Opera School from 1946 to 1957. |
| Alberto Guerrero | Born in Chile and taught at The Royal Conservatory from 1922 to 1959. |
| Paul Kantor | One of the leading violin pedagogues in North America and currently teaches at The Glenn Gould School. |
| Sir Ernest MacMillan | Conductor, organist, pianist, and composer appointed principal in 1926. |
| Boyd Neel | Dean of The Conservatory from 1953 to 1971. |
| John Perry | Pianist and current visiting artist teacher. |
| Healey Willan | Appointed head of the theory department in 1913 and was vice-principal from 1920 until 1936. |
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“It is the dissenter, the theorist, the aspirant, who is quitting this ancient domain to embark on seas of adventure, who engages our interest. Omitting then for the present all notice of the stationary class, we shall find that the movement party divides itself into two classes, the actors, and the students.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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Exaggerators of the sun and moon,
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Of the only truth-tellers, now left to God,—
The only speakers of essential truth,
Opposed to relative, comparative,
And temporal truths;...
The only teachers who instruct mankind,
From just a shadow on a charnel-wall.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)