Iris Loveridge

Iris Gwendolyne M. Loveridge (10 April 1917 – 6 November 2000) was an English classical pianist. Born in West Ham, Essex, she attended the Royal College of Music, and later the Royal Academy. She specialised in British contemporary music, including piano sonatas by Arnold Bax, Gordon Jacob (of which she was the dedicatee), E. J. Moeran, Kenneth Leighton and Edmund Rubbra. In 1947 she gave the UK premiere of William Schuman's Piano Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Basil Cameron, and of Charles Proctor's Piano Concerto in F minor at the Royal Albert Hall.