Rowena Ferguson

  Rowena Ferguson was born in Manchester in 1939. She began her musical training as a school girl, and at the age of 16 received a Council Open Scholarship to study piano at the Royal Manchester College of Music, where she subsequently received the ARMCM Performers Diploma with distinction. For the next decade or so, Rowena pursued her career as a concert pianist, performing in numerous provincial towns, in both soloist and concerto settings; her repertoire consisting mainly of works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Liszt, Mozart, and Schumann. In 1976 she moved to Edinburgh, where 5 years later, following an illness, she died at the age of 42.
Rowena Ferguson (1939-81)