She was a conductor and violinist born to a musical
family in Salisbury, England,
where her father was an organist and music teacher, her mother a violinist,
her brother Ian is a pianist, her brother Timothy is a principal horn with
the BBC Symphony Orchestra and her sister, Sally, is a violist with the
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.She studied in London, Rome,
Paris and Nice and began
her career as a violinist with the Philharmonia
Orchestra
in 1963. In 1964 she became a member of the
Academy
of
St. Martin in the
Fields Orchestra
, where should become a soloist and conductor/director.She was a director of the
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and
the
City of Birmingham
Symphony Orchestra and in her final years she was the
Chief Conductor of the South Jutland Symphony
Orchestra in Denmark.She died of cancer when she was 63
in 2004.
