Julian String Quartet - Poetry & Music

The program includes: 

-T.S. Eliot Little Gidding & Beethoven Quartet Op.135

-John Donne Poems & Purcell Fantazias

Mary Nash (Reader) trained at The Central School of Speech and Drama where she was awarded the Sylvia Strutt Memorial Prize for verse speaking and literary appreciation. She taught Drama for many years and had a longstanding association with two charities which provide audiobooks for those who find it difficult to read print: The Listening Library who invited her to compile their first children's section, and Calibre for whom she was a popular reader for over two decades.

Julian String Quartet:

Jean Paterson (Violin) performs all over the world with English Baroque Soloists, The Sixteen, English Touring Opera, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Oxford Bach Soloists and Instruments of Time and Truth.

Lucy Hewson (Violin) Hewson is currently violinist with the Bath Pump Room Trio, Europe’s longest running resident ensemble. She is much in demand as a free-lance orchestral and chamber musician.

Nichola Blakey (Viola) gives concerts and recitals across the UK and abroad with ensembles and orchestras as diverse as Ex Cathedra, Collegium Musicum 90, The Brook Street Band, Solomon's Knot, The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.

Cressida Nash (Cello) has a joint background in Music Therapy and Performance. She has given solo recitals in many parts of the world and has enjoyed performing and recording chamber repertoire with Trio de L'Aer, Ensemble Burletta and The Kertész Quartet.