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St Bride's Church, EC4Y 8AU , [Venue Details]Coulsdon and Purley Festival Finalists
Nirvana Che-Lai – violin
Verity Burcombe – bassoon
Nirvana Che-Lai, 14, is a music scholar at Eltham College and studies at the Royal College of Music Junior Department. Learning the violin since the age of six, she has garnered numerous music festival accolades, including the Fritz Kreisler Cup (2021,2022,2023,2025) and the Founder’s cup (2023), leading to solo recitals.
In 2025 Nirvana won the Sevenoaks Young Musician of the Year, securing a concerto performance with the Lydian Orchestra. The youngest winner of Eltham College’s Concerto competition (2024), she performed Vaughan Williams’ ‘The Lark Ascending’ at Blackheath Halls and the Royal Albert Hall. She plays an 18th C. Klotz Violin and Peccatte bow, on loan from the Cherubim Music Trust.
Verity Burcombe is a freelance bassoonist from Croydon and a recent postgraduate of the Royal Academy of Music, where she trained with Jonathan Davies, Angharad Thomas and Robin O’Neill.
A 2023 graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, she has performed with esteemed ensembles including the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Jersey Chamber Orchestra and Waterperry Opera Festival.
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Coulsdon and Purley Festival Finalists
Nirvana Che-Lai – violin
Verity Burcombe – bassoon
Nirvana Che-Lai, 14, is a music scholar at Eltham College and studies at the Royal College of Music Junior Department. Learning the violin since the age of six, she has garnered numerous music festival accolades, including the Fritz Kreisler Cup (2021,2022,2023,2025) and the Founder’s cup (2023), leading to solo recitals.
In 2025 Nirvana won the Sevenoaks Young Musician of the Year, securing a concerto performance with the Lydian Orchestra. The youngest winner of Eltham College’s Concerto competition (2024), she performed Vaughan Williams’ ‘The Lark Ascending’ at Blackheath Halls and the Royal Albert Hall. She plays an 18th C. Klotz Violin and Peccatte bow, on loan from the Cherubim Music Trust.
Verity Burcombe is a freelance bassoonist from Croydon and a recent postgraduate of the Royal Academy of Music, where she trained with Jonathan Davies, Angharad Thomas and Robin O’Neill.
A 2023 graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, she has performed with esteemed ensembles including the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Jersey Chamber Orchestra and Waterperry Opera Festival.
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Performer name: Nirvana Che-Lai – violin, Verity Burcombe – bassoon
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