Alfred Quaife

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 17, 4 November 1932, Page 6

Alfred Quaife

English Pianist from 2VA TPHE Broadcasting Board announces another special attraction on Friday, November 4, when Alfred. Quaife, the brilliant English pianist, will broadeast from 2YA a short recital at 8.30 p.m. * Mr. Alfred Quaife: is. a native of the Thames-side township of Chiswick, in Middlesex, and almost within the boundary: of the County of London. He received his early musical education at. the Brighton School of Music, and in 1905 entered as a student at the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied pianoforte playing successively. with Cydney Blakeston and Frederick Moore, and "also privately with Tobais .Matthay. Frederick. Corder directed his training in harmony, and he received lessons in the art of singing from Frederic King, he studied the French horn with M. Borsedorff, and for some years played the tympyni in the Senior Orchestra. At the termination of his ftill and varied musical experience at the Royal Academy, he made his debut at the Queen’s Hall Promenade Concert conducted by Sir Henry Wood, when he was responsible for the first performance in England of the Glazounoy *Pianoforte Concerto in F Minor. In collaboration with his brother Edwin he established the Kensington School of Music, which last year commemorated the twenty-first anniversar y of its foundation. , War service curtailed Mr. Quaife’s musical activities for a period, and in 1918 when -he resumed his profession he was appointed examiner to the Associated .Board of the R.A.M. and R.C.M., and later accepted a professorship at the Tobais Matthay Pianoforte School. In 1920 and 1922 he toured Canada, Australia, and New Zealand as examiner for the Associated Board. Mr. Quaife is primarily a specialist in pianoforte teaching, and has |. frequently adjudicated pianoforte playing at the leading competitive musical festivals, In addition he has found time for recitals and other public performances at Queen’s Hall, Wigmore Hiall,.and ‘the Bournemouth Pavilion, where he played for the British Broadeasting Company.

A farewell recital previous to his present tour was given on February 23 at the Kensington Town Hall in London, when an appreciative audience listened to an exacting programme characteristic of his highly develaped artistic temperament, and marked’ by refinement.of style and delicacy ofiexecutive skill. During Mr. Quaife’s present tours he has given recitals and lectures in Trinidad, Babados, Montreal, Vancouver, ete:, and-has broadcast for various corporations in Canada.’