Peggy Nolan
We are thrilled that Peggy Nolan will be our cellist for the September 2025 Tour.
Peggy enjoys a varied performance career playing with ensembles of all shapes and sizes. As cellist of the Eblana String Trio she has performed in widely since 2006 across the UK, Ireland and further afield. In 2021 the trio released their album, ‘The King’s Alchemist’ to critical acclaim. The album was selected as chamber CD of month in a 5-star review in BBC music magazine and praised for its “splendidly stylish and affectionate performance” (Gramophone). Their second album of string trios by William Alwyn, JB McEwen and Gordon Jacob will be released in 2025.
Peggy is a member of the Irish Chamber Orchestra, and frequently performs with other ensembles including Manchester Collective and Royal Northern Sinfonia. She can frequently be heard in collaboration with a diverse array of musicians, including recent performances at the Edinburgh International, Cheltenham, Órtús and Killaloe Chamber Music and Celtic Connections Festivals. Peggy is also the cellist of Amika, a string quartet who fuse the craft of chamber music with contemporary techniques and approaches. Amika have collaborated with Jordan Rakei, Rob Luft, Alice Zawadzki, Natalie Williams and Tom Walker, with live performances bringing them to the Manchester, London, and Cambridge Jazz festivals, as well as broadcasts from BBC Maida Vale, Abbey Road and Metropolis Studios and a full-length album Recurring (Live at Kings Place) with Alfa Mist.
Teaching is an important strand of Peggy’s work, and she holds cello tutor positions at both the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and Royal Irish Academy of Music. In addition, she teaches for Arco, a distance-learning project in collaboration which provides string teaching to students in South Africa and India. Peggy is the Course Director of ConCorda Chamber music course, and is studying for a PhD in Performance at the Royal Northern College of Music, researching Boccherinian performance practice and creating new recordings and editions of Boccherini’s little- known op.24 and 44 string quartets.
