NICOLA started playing the violin at the age of 5 on her tiny ¼ size violin with its beautiful red  strings ( the things you remember!) Music scholarships at middle and senior schools led to receiving the F.H. Sawyer Prize for Music at St Andrews University in Scotland in 1994, studying with Gaby Lester.  Later she also studied with Edouard Jacquotet in Lausanne (Switzerland) and Anne-Marie Morin in Paris.

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The call of international adventure was too strong to ignore and since 1996 Nicola has lived and worked in Paris as a violinist, freelancing with orchestras such as the Orchestre National de Lille, the Colonne Orchestra and the Musidrama Orchestra (travelling in far too many buses!).

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She has been Head of Violin and Viola at the British School of Paris since 2000 and currently lives in central Paris combining professional playing commitments, three children aged seven to early teens and, when lockdown bites, home schooling and on-line teaching.

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Nicola works closely with her coaching clients. Sometimes this is face-to-face in Paris. Sometimes it is on-line via Skype, Whatsapp or Facetime with clients throughout France or the rest of the world.