Celia Rowley obituary

My grandmother Celia Rowley, who has died aged 94, was a piano soloist and accompanist from the age of 16. She worked with many notable performers, including Noël Coward, Vera Lynn and Julie Andrews, and continued to give concerts and recitals well into her 90s.Celia, granddaughter of the child prodigy pianist Cecilia Summerhayes and daughter of violin soloist Gertrude Summerhayes, trained at Trinity College London and at the Paris Conservatoire. She gave her first series of solo recitals of Br...

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