The Nancy Phillips String
Quartet:
Nancy Phillips (violin)
Jean Ie Fevre (violin)
Eileen Grainger (viola)
Lilly Phillips (violoncello)
The Nancy Phillips String Quartet has been broadcasting regularly since Savoy Hill days. Nancy Phillips is leader, and also broadcasts violin solos. Both she and Jean I e Fevre were students at the Royal College of Music, and Eileen Grainger and Lilly Phillips were students at the Royal Academy.
Every member of the quartet is married to a well-known broadcaster, or very nearly related by marriage. Lilly Phillips is the wife of Douglas Cameron ; Jean Ie Fevre the wife of Bernard Crook ; Eileen Grainger is married to Wilfrid Parry ; and Nancy Phillips 's husband is the brother of Kathleen Long.