Joan Ingpen

Joan Mary Eileen Ingpen (née Williams;

Biography

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Ingpen was born in London in 1916.[3] She enrolled at the Royal Academy of Music and studied piano. However, she initially decided to pursue a career as an insurance agent.^[3] She became acquainted with the classical music industry by attending a large number of concerts. Through her concert contacts, Ingpen was offered a job with the Entertainments National Service Association, a United Kingdom World War II era agency that provided entertainment to British military servicemen.^[3]

Following the end of World War II, Ingpen established her own classical music talent management agency, Ingpen & Williams in 1946.^[3] The Ingpen & Williams agency was named for herself and her pet dachshund, Williams, whom she considered to be co-founders of the agency^[3] Her early clients during the 1950s included conductors Sir Georg Solti, Geraint Evans and Rudolf Kempe, as well as Joan Sutherland.^[3] She was keen to cast British singers, including David Ward, William McCue and William McAlpine.

Ingpen sold Ingpen & Williams in 1961 to become the

Ingpen retired from the industry in 1984 and returned to her home near Brighton, England.^[4] However, she continued to work, this time with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City as a vocal consultant, until her retirement from that institution in 1987.^[5]

Death

Joan Ingpen died at her hometown of

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