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             History

The National Chamber Music Course was the inspiration of Elisabeth Waterhouse and grew out of her lifelong passion for chamber music.

In 1976 Elisabeth, pianist ,violist, teacher of Alexander Technique and a leading teacher of Suzuki violin, with her husband the bassoonist William Waterhouse started a small music camp.

Within a few years this had developed into the present course for up to 64 young musicians of grade 5 standard and above.

Elisabeth continues to take a guiding interest in the running of NCMC and her son Graham remains actively involved.

Previous NCMC tutors have included:

Frances Angell

Sophie Langdon

Gordon Back

Felicity Lipman

Tim Boulton

Rhuna Martin

Ruth Butler

Richard May

Filomena Campus

Celia Milner

Ron Colyer         

Margaret Moncrieff

Dona Lee Croft

Marianne Olyver

Paul Cox

Simon Over

Carolyn Davies

Isidor Saslav

Sue Dorey

Jan Schmolck

Simon Fischer

Francis Shaw

Ruth Funnel

Richard Shaw

Leonie Gershon

Susanne Stanzeleit

Nancy Green

Amanda Stirling

Sue Harris

Elizabeth Stone

Hella Hartung

Jonathan Stone

Colin Howard

Graham Waterhouse

Yasuo Ichinose

Lucy Waterhouse

Steven Isserlis

William Waterhouse

Erika Klemperer

David Waterman