Gipps, Ruth (1921-1999)

English composer, pianist, and oboist. In 1944-45 she played second oboe and English horn in the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. She conducted the London Repertoire Orchestra 1955-86, and was a professor at the Royal College of Music, London, from 1967.

She studied under her mother at the Bexhill School of Music and later under Ralph Vaughan Williams at the Royal College of Music. MBE 1981.

Works Ballet Sea Nymph; five symphonies (1942-80), other orchestral music, including six concertos, and chamber works.