Group

Nash Ensemble

From: United Kingdom
Since: 1964–present
Releases: 82

classical

About

The Nash Ensemble of London is an English chamber ensemble. It was founded by Artistic Director Amelia Freedman and Rodney Slatford in 1964, while they were students at the Royal Academy of Music, and was named after the Nash Terraces around the academy. The Ensemble has won awards from the Edinburgh Festival Critics and the Royal Philharmonic Society, as well as a 2002 Gramophone Award for contemporary music.

In addition to their classical repertoire, the Ensemble performs works by numerous contemporary composers, including Richard Rodney Bennett, Harrison Birtwistle, Elliott Carter, Henri Dutilleux, Mark-Anthony Turnage, and Peter Maxwell Davies, and has given premiere performances of more than 200 works. It has issued many recordings, first with Graham Pauncefort’s CRD label, then a series of British music with Ted Perry's Hyperion with works by Bax, Bliss, Bridge, Britten, Lambert, Vaughan Williams, Walton and others. There are further issued by Virgin Classics, NMC, Black Box and Signum. The Nash has been the resident chamber ensemble at the Wigmore Hall in London from 2010.
Freedman died in July 2025. Simon Crawford-Phillips and Adrian Brendel are the current joint artistic directors.

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