BRATZA (violin)
JOHN WILLS (pianoforte)
Bratza, a Serbian violinist, was born in 1904. He studied under the celebrated Professor Sevcik at Vienna, and at the age of fourteen was a finished violinist, having gained the State Diploma of the Vienna Meisterschule. Bratza became a naturalised British subject in 1929. John Wills studied under Egon Petri at the Royal Manchester College of Music, and later came to London to work with Frank Merrick. Before joining the BBC staff in 1935, Mr. Wills was well known in the provinces as an accompanist.