Nancy is the Artistic Director of the Lewes Festival of Song (www.lewesfestivalofsong.co.uk), founded in 2015. She studied piano with Joseph Weingarten and Maria Donska and as a classical music performer has specialised in the song and chamber music repertoire.

She played for singers’ masterclasses at the Britten-Pears School for many years, and for ten years was part of the music staff at Glyndebourne. More recently she coached singers at the Royal College of Music. She has an ongoing commitment as co-leader for Raise Your Voice, a Lewes music-based charity for those living with dementia and their carers.

Nancy loved collaborating with children and the community to put on and perform Britten’s Noye’s Fludde, also leading a choir and devising imaginative music workshops for seven to nine year old children called The Enchanted Lark”. Another exciting creative project was the re-opening of the iconic De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill for which she coached and played for performances of Sea Tongue, a site-specific piece for professional and amateur choirs by Orlando Gough and Richard Chew.

Nancy coached and directed Dame Peggy Ashcroft and Jeremy Irons in a Decca recording of Walton’s Façade. More recently, funded by Help Musicians, she collaborated with story-teller Ashley Ramsden, taking an highly imaginative Eleanor Farjeon tale around Sussex primary schools, with original music she devised for the children to perform.