Vivienne Price

Vivienne Lola Price was a British music teacher and the founder of the National Children's Orchestra in 1978. In 1959, she and her husband Tony Carter bought Fitznells Manor in Ewell, 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. Vivienne was presented with a lifetime achievement award at the Music Teacher awards for excellence 2014. She was made MBE in 1997.