Nash Ensemble of London

The Nash Ensemble of London, often known as just Nash Ensemble and named after the Nash Terraces around the Royal Academy of Music, is a chamber ensemble founded in 1964 by the double bass player Rodney Slatford and the Artistic Director Amelia Freedman who were students at the Royal Academy of Music at the time.

The ensemble comprises 13 musicians and performs both classical and contemporary works. It has performed the premier of in excess of 300 works by 225 different composers and commissioned more than 215 new works. In recognition for it’s work it has won the 2002 Gramophone Award for Contemporary Music as well as awards from the Royal Philharmonic Society and the Edinburgh Festival.

Nash Ensemble has embarked on many national and international tours and been heard on several radio and television broadcasts, including the BBC Proms. They became the resident chamber ensemble in Wigmore Hall in London in 2010.

Very active in the recording studio the ensemble can be heard on more than 270 albums with just a select few being their own Johann Nepomuk Hummel/Franz Berwald – Septet in D Minor Op.14/Grand Septet in B Flat, Louis Spohr: Nonet in F Major Op.31/Octet in E Major Op.32, Gabriel Faure: La Bonne Chanson Op. 61/Trio in D Minor Op.120, Faure: The Two Quartets for Piano & Strings, Sir Lennox Berkeley: An 80th Birthday Tribute, Antonin Dvorak/Franz Krommer: Serenade in D Mino Op.44/Octet-Partita (Nonet)Op. 79, The Chamber Music of Malcolm Arnold, Clifford’s Tower (The Music of Malsolm Lipkin), Oliver Knussen: Symphonies 2 & 3 etc, Schubert: Octet in F Major, Beethoven: Septet Op. 20/Clarinet Trio Op.11, Brahms: Piano Quintet & Horn Trio, Mozart/Beethoven Quintets, Camille Saint-Saens: Chamber Music, Turrage: This Silence Chamber Works, Sanuel Coleridge-Taylor i Piano Qintet/Clarinet Quintet, Mozart: String Quintets, Schumann: Chamber Music as well as Sir John Betjeman’s Varsity Rag by Sir John Betjeman, In Concert by Eartha Kitt, Sings Pierrot Lunaire by Cleo Laine, Felicity Palmer Sings Ravel by Felicity Palmer along with numerous others.

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