Vivienne Lola Price (9 January 1931 – 6 November 2014) was a British music teacher and the founder of the

National Children's Orchestra The National Children's Orchestras of Great Britain, more commonly known as NCO, is a registered charity which provides orchestral training for children aged 7 to 14. The organisation comprises five age-banded orchestras and six regional orchest ...

in 1978. In 1959, she and her husband Tony Carter bought

Fitznells Manor Fitznells Manor is the last surviving manor house in the borough of Epsom and Ewell in Surrey, England. It is a Grade II listed building. Development The property is named after Sir Robert Fitz-Neil whose family held the estate until 1386, but ...

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, Surrey, and formed the Fitznells School of Music, running it on the ground floor while living upstairs. When the house was sold in 1988 the music school was moved to

Ewell Castle School Ewell Castle School is a 3–18 mixed, independent day school and sixth form in Ewell, Epsom, Surrey, England. It was founded in 1926 by Herbert Budgell as a boarding school and became fully mixed in September 2015. It consists of the Main Hous ...

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1931 births 2014 deaths British music educators Members of the Order of the British Empire {{UK-music-bio-stub