Bernard Haitink is 79 today. Peter Skellern is 61 today.
I meant to post earlier that Thomas Ades was 37 last Saturday

Me and Chuck Berry have the same Birthday - 18th Oct

Conductor Richard Hickox is 60 today. Elaine Paige is also 60 today. Barry Tuckwell, horn player is 77 today.

Darn it! I missed Vivaldi's birthday, which was yesterday (4th March). He would have been 330 years old

Mind you, does he count as a celebrity musician?

Well when I started this thread I was thinking of current living musicians, but we could extend it to dead ones as well. I suppose we would have to allow Vivaldi, but I can say Im too much of a fan of his , compared with his contemporaries !

No, living people is fine (probably keeps the lists short).
I'll add, then, that today (5th) is the 46th birthday of Craig and Charlie Reid, better known as The Proclaimers

Today is the magnificent pairing of Kiri Te Kanawa & Dave Gilmour (of Pink Floyd)

Indeed Dame Kiri is 64 today. Conductor Lorin Maazel is 78 today

And pianist Marielle Labèque is 56 today...

Counter Tenor Michael Chance is 53 today

Tenor Robert Tear was 69 on Saturday. What a great 'Gerontius' he was.

Today we can have a quartet from our birthdays...

Liza Minelli, James Taylor, Steve Harris (bass player, Iron Maiden) and Pete Doherty.

Quincy Jones today.
And although he's dead and so doesn't really count as having a birthday, I'm still going to mention Georg Philip Telemann.

This thread has got me sadly addicted to the 'on this day' page at Wikipedia

Roger Norrington was 64 on Sunday.

I have seen a reference to a 60th birthday party for Lord Andrew Lloyd-Webber. Anyone know when it is /was ??

It was 22nd March (he was born in 1948).

Courtney Pine is 44 today - and Rimsky-Korsakov was born this day 164 years ago today!

Rossini would have been 308 today

today is Dana Elaine Owens ( aka Queen Latifah) birthday! she is.. 38
Also Vanessa Williams birthday!!!

Vera Lynn is 91 today (if you can call her a musician!)

Andrew Lloyd Webber was 60 on Saturday. Fanny Waterman, founder of the Leeds Int. Piano Competition was 88 also.

Elton John is 61 today (hadnt realised he was just a couple of weeks younger than me !)

Aretha Franklin is 66 today

Toscanini was born this day in 1867 and Béla Bartók the same day in 1881...

Mariah Carey is 38 today.

I forgot to post Pierre Boulez was 83 yesterday, and Diana Ross was 64 yesterday.

The late Mstislav Rostropovich would have been 81 today.

A few birthdays today.

Sabine Meyer (a wonderful clarinet player) is 49 today, Celine Dion is 40.

Ted Heath (the bandleader rather than the politician!) was born this day in 1902.

Just a couple more - Vangelis was 65 today, Eric Clapton was 63 yesterday.

Herb Alpert is 73 today.


Joseph Haydn would have been 276

Yes - they played 'Achieved is the Glorious Work' on radio 3 this morning as a tribute - good choice !

Musical Director Laurie Holloway is 70 today

Michelangeli, Brendel & Pollini were all born on 5 January, which I've always thought was a funny coincidence.

Veteran broadcaster/pianist/quizmaster Steve Race is 87 today, anyone old enough to remember him ??

...he wrote one of the pieces I used in my Rotherhithe recital (which I will be partially reprising at the NI forum gig)

Sergei Rachmaninov was born today in 1873.

Andre Previn was 79 at the wekend. Also singer Felicity Palmer was 64

Ravi Shankar is 88 today .

Monty Sunshine, a jazz clarinettist, is eighty today.

At last year's Leeds forum concert, the swing group played 'Petite Fleur' - Monty Sunshine was well known for performing this piece.

Lesley Garrett is 53 today.

Just seen this. Can I give a I'll make do with just the one

Some 'senior' musicians birthdays over the weekend;-

Gervase de Payer (clarinettist extraordinaire) was 82
Dame Margaret Price was 67
Montserrat Caballe was 75

Today Julian Lloyd Webber is 57.

Who remembers singer Vince Hill ? 71 today

Selina is 27 today.

Dusty Springfield would have been 69, and Henry Mancini would have been 84

Henry Mancini I love his music!

*hums 'Baby Elephant Walk' to himself*

Super pianist Murray Perahia was 61 at the weekend.
Today, the composer of a well known 'silent' work John McCabe is 69.

John Eliot Gardner was 65 yesterday...

Iggy Pop is 41 today !

In case I forget, Yehudi Menhuin would have been 102 tomorrow.

Iggy Pop will be very pleased with you. You knocked 20 years off his real age!

Oops !!

Roy Orbison would have been 72 today

Pianist Barry Douglas is 48 today

Guitar legend John Williams is 67 today, and Barbara Streisand is 66 today

David Oistrakh was 77 at the weekend. Darcy Bussell was 39.

Conductor Jeffrey Tate is 65 today

Conductor Zubin Mehta is 72 today