Quaker composer new Leaveners’ patron

Sally Beamish has become a patron of the Leaveners

Sally Beamish has joined Judi Dench, Ben Kingsley, Sheila Hancock and John Whitney as a patron of the Leaveners, the Quaker arts organisation.

Sally is a composer and viola player. Among her works is Equal Voices, a joint commission with poet Andrew Motion, created to mark the centenary of the start of the first world war (see ‘The futility of war’, 1 August 2014).

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