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The Nash Ensemble of London is an England 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 music 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 Records label, then a series of British music with Ted Perry's Hyperion Records with works by Arnold Bax, Arthur Bliss, Frank Bridge, Benjamin Britten, Constant Lambert, Vaughan Williams, William Walton and others. There are further issued by Virgin Classics, NMC Recordings, Black Box and Signum.James Jolly. ' Nash Ensemble: celebrating 60 years', Gramophone, 28 July, 2025 The Nash has been the resident chamber ensemble at the Wigmore Hall in London from 2010. Amelia Freedman tribute, The Wigmore Hall
Freedman died in July 2025. Simon Crawford-Phillips and Adrian Brendel are the current joint artistic directors. 'London ensemble founder, RIP', Slipped Disc, 28 July, 2025
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