Benbow, Charles Edwin 11.oct.1904-9.feb.1967 England, St Leonards on Sea - London Marylebone
pianist, ARCM, educated at St Paul's school in London Kensington, studied piano with Horace Kesteven and composition with Gustav Holst at the Royal College of Music London, studied piano with Harold Samuel, studied with Armstrong Gibbs and Reginald Owen Morris, 1922-1926 open piano scholar at the Royal College of Music, 1923 won the Danreuter prize, 1925 Hopkinson gold medal and Ernest Farrar prize, 1926 Chappell gold medal, 1925-1930 piano teacher at Winchester College, 1930-1939 and 1944 professor of piano and examinator at the Royal College of Music, 1933-1935 pianist and choirmaster BBC Radio, by 1935 had played 3 times at the London Proms, 1953-1959 editor RCM Magazine, 1934-1961 residing at 33 Heathfield Gardens in London Golders Green ; 1928 in Marylebone he married Janet Irene Powell

Title	Parts

[] The dance of the pebbles. Piano pub J. B. Cramer & Co., London 1925
[] Heraclitus. Song words William Johnson Cory pub Oxford University Press, London 1926
[] Suite Mignonne. Five easy pieces. Piano pub J. B. Cramer & Co., London 1927
[] A sea song. Song. b1935
[] A dripping tap. Piano. b1935
[] Scherzo. Piano. b1935
[] A band of revellers. Piano. b1935
[] In youth is pleasure. Song pub J. B. Cramer & Co., London 1935
[] Prelude in c. Piano pub J. B. Cramer & Co., London 1937
[] Elegy (1939-1945). Piano. 1946 pub J. B. Cramer & Co., London 1947
[] Vale Close. Piano pub J. B. Cramer & Co., London 1947
[] Cockney promenade. Piano pub J. Curwen & Sons, London 1960
[] Undulations. Piano pub J. B. Cramer & Co., London 1964
[] String quartet
[] Piano trio

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