Jack Phipps
John Richard Noel "Jack" Phipps CBE (24 December 1925 – 6 August 2010) was a British arts administrator.
Origins and education
Phipps was born at Chipata (then "Fort Jameson") in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), the son of John Nigel Phipps, a tea planter.[1] The Phipps family originated in Wiltshire, John Nigel Phipps being the great-grandson of the coffee merchant John Lewis Phipps.[2]
Phipps was educated at
Career
After a four-year spell as a management trainee at the Daily Mail, Phipps went to work for Ian Hunter at the Harold Holt music management agency in 1954,[3] before he and his wife set up their own management agency in 1965. Their clients included Benjamin Britten (who was also godfather to Phipps’s son Martin[4]), Pilar Lorengar, Jessye Norman and Jill Gomez. During his career Phipps forged close links with many musicians, including Colin Davis, Daniel Barenboim, Bernard Haitink and Yehudi Menuhin. [1][5] In 1969, Phipps acted as co-director of the
Personal life
Phipps was married twice: firstly to Anne Nichol Smith, in 1950, with whom he had two children, Polly and Simon;[3] and secondly to Sue Pears (the niece of Sir Peter Pears) with whom he had a son, the composer Martin Phipps.[1][5]
References
- ^ a b c d e The Daily Telegraph, Jack Phipps (obituary; 15 September 2010)
- ^ a b Burke’s Landed Gentry, Phipps of Chalcot
- ^ a b c Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900-1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. pp. 358–359.
- ^ Martin Phipps's curriculum vitae Archived 2009-09-20 at the Wayback Machine at the web-site of his agents, Cool Music Ltd
- ^ a b c The Guardian, Jack Phipps obituary, 9 September 2010
- ^ The Stage, Jack Phipps (obituary, 23 August 2010)
