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Ida Carroll
West Didsbury, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Died9 September 1995(1995-09-09) (aged 89)
Manchester, England, UK
EducationHilda Collen's Matthay School of Music
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Ida Gertrude Carroll

OBE.[1][2]

Life and career

Born in

West Didsbury in 1905, Ida Caroll's father was the composer Walter Carroll.[1] He was her first music teacher, and the original manuscript for a 1912 composition written by him for her piano lessons entitled Tunes for Ida still survives.[1] In 1913 she moved with her family into Glenluce, a large semi-detached house in Manchester where she lived for the rest of her life. She attended Ashfield School and the Manchester High School for Girls. Beginning at the age of 16, she studied the piano at Hilda Collen's Matthay School of Music which became the Northern School of Music (NSM).[1] She soon after took up the double bass when the school's orchestra desperately needed a player; an instrument with which she connected to later as a composer.[1] In the mid 1950s she conducted the string orchestra at the NSM.[3]

After completing her schooling, Carroll was hired by Collens as the NSM's secretary, and Carroll remained in that role until 1956 when she succeeded Collens as Principal of the school after Collens's death.[1] She remained in that capacity through 1972, and played an instrumental role in negotiating the merger of the Northern School of Music and the Royal Manchester College of Music to found the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) in the late 1960s and early 1970s.[4][5][1][6] When the RNCM opened in 1973, Carroll was the college's first Dean of Management; a role which she held until her retirement in 1976.[1] During her tenure she established the Ida Carroll Double Bass Award Trust and the Carroll Research Fellowship.[1]

After retiring, Carroll dedicated herself to composing and lecturing throughout Britain on her father's music. She produced a significant body of work for the double bass, of which several pieces have become a part of that instrument's standard repertoire.

Abbeyfield Society.[1]

While she never married, Carroll had a lasting friendship with Geoffrey Griffiths whom she met in her youth when he was a member of her father's choir.[1] Griffiths was a bursar at the NSM, and later in life he developed Parkinson's disease. Carroll took care of Griffiths as his health deteriorated; nursing him until his death in 1993.[1]

Carroll died on 9 September 1995 in Manchester.[1] Her papers, speeches, correspondence, diaries, and other artifacts are housed in 'The Ida Carroll Papers' collection at the Royal Northern College of Music Archives.[7]

Partial list of compositions

  • Five simple pieces for double bass and piano, 1951, Augener & Co.[8]
  • Three pieces for double bass and piano, 1960, Forsyth[8]
  • Five national dances for double bass and piano, 1987, Stainer & Bell[8]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Turner, John (3 October 1995). "Lasting strength of Ida 's tunes". The Guardian. p. 16.
  2. ^ "Knighthoods for Manchester town clerk and former Lord Mayor". The Guardian. 1 January 1964. p. 5.
  3. The Manchester Guardian
    . 2 April 1955. p. 3.
  4. ^ "Principals to lay foundation". The Guardian. 1 October 1970. p. 27.
  5. ^ Morris, Michael (25 July 1969). "Music college for North at last". The Guardian. p. 20.
  6. ^ Morris, Michael (1 August 1972). "Music courses reduced". The Guardian. p. 6.
  7. ^ "The Carroll Papers: Walter, Elsa and Ida Carroll". archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk. Royal Northern College of Music Archives. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
  8. ^ a b c Tavares Furtado, Rebeca (2019). An Annotated Catalog of Works by Women Composers for the Double Bass (PhD). University of Iowa.
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