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Colin Davis
Sir Colin Rex Davis, CH, CBE (25 September 1927 – 14 April 2013) was an English conductor. He was particularly noted for his advocacy of the music of Hector Berlioz and of Michael Tippett.
==Early years==
Davis was born in Weybridge, Surrey, the youngest of three sons among seven siblings, to Reginald George and Lillian Davis.〔Blyth, p. 4〕〔("Davis, Sir Colin (Rex)" ), ''Who's Who, 2010'', A & C Black, 2010; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2009, accessed 9 January 2010〕 The family was musical, and he was exposed to music from an early age. He recalled:
"I can still see Sargent conducting the first concert I ever attended. I can still hear Melchior in the final scene of ''Siegfried'' – an old 78 playing on my father's gramophone. … I can also remember the moment I decided to make music my life. I was 13 or 14 at the time and the performance was of Beethoven's Eighth. Doors were suddenly opened. I became totally involved, even obsessed by music, although I was frightfully enclosed by my likes and dislikes. Today I'm game for anything."〔''Gramophone'', December 1967, p. 39〕
With financial assistance from his great-uncle, Davis was educated at Christ's Hospital in Sussex and then won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music in London, where he studied the clarinet with Frederick Thurston.〔Blyth, pp. 6–8〕 His fellow-students included Gervase de Peyer, but Davis developed a greater interest in conducting. He was, however, not eligible for the conducting class at the college, because he could not play the piano.〔Blyth, p. 8〕
Following compulsory military service and completing his studies at college, Davis served as a clarinettist in the band of the Life Guards. Stationed at Windsor, he had continual opportunities to attend concerts in London under conductors including Sir Thomas Beecham and Bruno Walter. In 1949, he began his career as a freelance musician (the "freelance wilderness", in his own phrase) where he remained until 1957.〔 His first conducting work was with the Kalmar Orchestra, which he co-founded with other former students of the Royal College. He was subsequently invited to conduct the recently founded Chelsea Opera Group in ''Don Giovanni''. In the early years of his career, he also took some engagements as an orchestral clarinettist.〔Blyth, pp. 9–10〕 What seemed at first to be a full-time conducting appointment, for the Original Ballet Russe in 1952, ended abruptly after three months, when the company collapsed. In between sparse conducting engagements, Davis worked as a coach and lecturer, including spells at the Cambridge University Musical Society and the Bryanston Summer School, where a performance of ''L'enfance du Christ'' awakened his love of Berlioz's music.〔Blyth, p. 10〕
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