Sheila Nelson

Nelson studied at the Royal College of Music and had a B.Mus degree from London University. She also studied at the University of Birmingham and in Denmark. In 1976 she went to the United States on a Churchill Fellowship to study with the eminent string pedagogue Paul Rolland, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The Tower Hamlets Project taught strings and piano to whole school classes in a deprived area of London, and was featured in a six-part TV documentary series, Beginners Please. She was an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music (Hon RAM), a distinction limited to 300 musicians. Nelson died aged 84 on 16 November 2020 having lived with Alzheimer's disease in her final years. ==Publications==

Nelson was a prolific writer and composer. Selected works include: • Christmas Tunes for strings • Technitunes for individual strings or ensemble • Octotunes for individual strings or ensemble • Quartet Club for string quartet • Stringsongs for violin/viola and piano • The Violin and Viola: History, Structure, Techniques. 1972 book republished 2003 ==References==