Nona Liddell

Nona Patricia Liddell (9 June 1927 – 13 April 2017) was a British violinist. She was a soloist, leader of chamber music ensembles, and a teacher. For many years she was leader of the London Sinfonietta. Her mother had studied at the Royal College of Music. She started playing the violin aged five, and studied with Jessie Grimson, a well-known violinist in the 1890s. and was a student at the Royal Academy of Music, studying with Rowsby Woof; she performed concertos by Sibelius and Brahms with the Academy orchestra.

Career Nona Liddell's first solo appearance was in 1947 at the Proms, playing Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Adrian Boult. It was the first of six appearances at the Proms; in 1983 she gave the Proms premiere of Kurt Weill's Violin Concerto, with the London Sinfonietta, a work which they also recorded.

She was a teacher at the Royal Academy of Music from 1978 to 1994, then at the Trinity College of Music, retiring in 2006. In 1993 she was appointed MBE, and in 1994 she was awarded the Cobbett Medal for services to chamber music.