He later went to England to perfect his training where he would meet notable contemporaries Benjamin Britten and Michael Tippett.
In 2008 archives for Edgar Hunt, Sir Michael Tippett, a combined archive for Frank Merrick and Evelyn Hope Squire, and one for John Raynor were all acquired by the university.
While at the Royal Opera, Coates notably sang in several world premieres, including Madame Bardeau in Arthur Bliss's The Olympians (1949), the Housewife in Britten's Gloriana (1953), and the She-Ancient in Michael Tippett's The Midsummer Marriage (1955).
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In modern works he has played Doeg in the British premiere of Philip Glass's The Making of the Representative for Planet 8, Tippett's King Priam and Šiškov in From the House of the Dead.
He disbanded this quartet in 1939 and he played modern works of Michael Berkeley, Edmund Rubbra, and Michael Tippett He was also the leader of the Pro Arte Quartet in the US.
In 1952, after Edmund Rubbra pulled out of the project, Oldham provided a variation for Variations on an Elizabethan Theme, a collaborative work with other contributions by Lennox Berkeley, Britten, Imogen Holst, Humphrey Searle, Michael Tippett and William Walton.
The conductor is respected for his work on new operas: he led the world premières of Leonard Bernstein's A Quiet Place (1983), John Adams's Nixon in China (1987), and Michael Tippett's New Year (1989).
After the war, she performed work by a number of contemporary British composers including Michael Tippett, Richard Rodney Bennett and Peter Racine Fricker, as well as working with Benjamin Britten and performing with the London String Trio.
She sings both operas in the standard repertoire as well as contemporary operas by such composers as Mauricio Kagel, Bruno Maderna, Michael Tippett, Harrison Birtwistle, Philip Glass, Louis Andriessen, Michael Nyman, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, and John Cage.
With the orchestra, as Principal Music Advisor for Leicestershire, he embarked upon a series of tours throughout Europe, and as a group they became known for the quality of their performances of Gustav Mahler, Dmitri Shostakovich, Messaien, Charles Ives, Michael Tippett, Elliott Carter, Douglas Young, Iannis Xenakis and other 20th-century composers.
Raymond Warren was born in 1928 and studied at Cambridge University (1949–52) reading mathematics at first and then changing to music under Boris Ord and Robin Orr: later he studied privately with Michael Tippett (1952–60) and Lennox Berkeley (1958).