A Short History of the Nash Ensemble
The Nash was founded in 1964 by Amelia Freedman, who was then a student at the Royal Academy of Music, the group taking its name from the beautiful Nash terraces that surround the Academy. |
“For imaginative programming and captivating performances, the Nash Ensemble has no rival. I very much value my long association with them and heartily wish them unending successes”.
The Nash Ensemble has won many awards in recent years, including, on two occasions, Royal Philharmonic Society annual awards for chamber ensembles.
Amelia Freedman is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music. For her services to music, she has been awarded a CBE, an Honorary Doctorate of Bath University, the Cobbett Gold Award by the Worshipful Company of Musicians, the Leslie Boosey Award by the Performing Right Society and the Royal Philharmonic Society, and has been appointed Chevalier dans l’Ordre National du Mérite by the President of France. Amelia has been Artistic Director of the Bath Mozartfest since 1995. She resigned after ten outstanding years as Head of Classical Music at the South Bank Centre in June last year.
The current Nash performing schedule includes tours to the Netherlands, the USA, Sweden, Germany and Norway. In the UK, its schedule will include further series at the Wigmore Hall, appearances at the South Bank, the Barbican and the Proms and regional programmes and concerts in the City of London Festival, the Cheltenham Festival, the Bath Mozartfest, and many others.
“The wonder is that the Nash spirit has remained so consistently fresh. What matters to us is the joy of music making in a team, married to the thrill of new discoveries”.
The musicians of the Ensemble who will be playing for us in Malvern are Ian Brown piano, Marianne Thorsen and Malin Broman violins, Lawrence Power viola and Tim Hugh cello.
