NONA LIDDELL The violinist
Nona Liddell has had a long and varied career as a soloist, chamber music
player, orchestral leader and teacher. As a soloist she made her
debut at the age of 20 at the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts with the BBC
Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Sir Adrian Boult, and has appeared
with most of the leading British orchestras. She was for many years
the leader of the English String Quartet (which, now in a new formation
led by Diana Cummings, is "in residence" at this Festival) and of the Richards
Piano Quartet, and is now a member of the London Piano Quartet. From
1970 to 1994 she was leader of the internationally renowned London Sinfonietta,
with which she often appeared as soloist both in this country and abroad.
She also led the Monteverdi and London Bach Orchestras and has appeared
as guest leader of, among others, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique and,
in Spain, the City of Granada Orchestra. A regular broadcaster on
radio and TV, Nona has made many records for Deutsche Grammophon, Decca,
L'Oiseau Lyre and Lyrita. After teaching for many years at the Royal
Academy of Music, she is now Professor of Violin and Chamber Music at Trinity
College of Music. In 1992 she was made an M.B.E. and in 1994 she
was awarded the Worshipful Company of Musicians' Cobbett Medal for services
to chamber music.
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