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British harpsichordist and organist Alan Cuckston was born in Horsforth on July 2, 1940. He studied at King's College Cambridge with Fanny Waterman and Lamar Crowson, then with Thurston Dart from 1959 to 1963. Initially a lecturer at Birmingham University between 1965 and 1969, he collaborated with the BBC, accompanying John Eliot Gardiner and The English Chamber Orchestra at the 1968 BBC Proms in Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine, before touring regularly with The Academy of Saint-Martin-in-the-Fields and the ensemble Pro Cantione Antiqua. After his first solo recital at London's Wigmore Hall in 1965, he gave concerts and recorded several volumes for Naxos, including harpsichord works by François Couperin, Rameau, Handel, Purcell, Matthew Locke, John Blow and William Croft, as well as fortepiano and piano works by John Field and his friend Alan Rawsthorne, for Swinsty Records. Also leader of a trio, Alan Cuckston commissioned works for harpsichord from composers Elizabeth Maconchy, Philip Ramey and David Wooldridge. He died on March 22, 2025 at the age of 84.
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