235: Pianist Beatrice Nicholas

Beatrice Nicholas is a British concert pianist and composer. She performs the traditional classical canon, and she composes and arranges, fusing classical and jazz together. She's also a member of the Chineke! Chamber Ensemble, drawn from principal players of the Chineke! Orchestra.

On the seventeenth of August, she makes her debut Upstairs at Ronnie Scott's — a set that runs from a straight Beethoven sonata through to jazz-trio reworkings of Chopin and Liszt, alongside Hazel Scott, Lil Hardin Armstrong, Florence Price and Margaret Bonds.