Frederick May

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Sat 26 May: The Hambleden Concerts 2012 - Music from around the World The Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin Hambleden Hambleden, RG9 6RT
Tue 29 May: Composers Voice Jan Hus Church, 351 East 74th Street, New York
Sat 2 Jun: Music for a Royal Occasion Middleton Parish Church, New Lane, Middleton Manchester M24
Fri 8 Jun: Vienna Here and Now St Lawrence Hall, 157 King E, Toronto
Fri 8 Jun: Shakuhachi Concert Raixa, Bunyola, Spain
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Born: 9 June 1911 — Dublin — Ireland
Died: 8 September 1985 — Portraine — Ireland
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Frederick May was a student at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, where he was awarded 7 scholarships, and also studied at the Royal Academy of music under Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gordon Jacob. He achieved his Batchelor of Music degree at Trinity College, Dublin and then studied in Vienna until 1936.

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