Biography
Nicholas Turner (Viola) started playing the violin at the age of 8 before transferring to the Viola at the age of 16. Whilst reading Law at University College London he was Principal Viola in the Nottinghamshire County Youth Orchestra and University of London Orchestra.
He has been Principal Viola of the Forest Philharmonic Orchestra, St Albans’ Amadeus Chamber Orchestra, and has recently appeared as a guest viola player with the Devenport and St Matthews Chamber Orchestras in Auckland New Zealand. He is viola player with the Icknield Ensemble, which has given recitals at this lunch time series, at the Trunch Music Festival in Norfolk, Benslow Music, St Albans and Wheathampstead. He has played at many of the major London halls and has given chamber music recitals throughout London, the home counties and farther afield. He also plays with the St Albans Chamber Opera Group.
On separate occasions he has given chamber music recitals at private functions before H.M. Queen Elizabeth, the Prime Minister and the Archbishop of Canterbury. He plays on a viola made to the Guarneri model in 1999 by the contemporary maker Paul Harrild, of Newark.
