Beatrice Harrison

Beatrice Harrison ( born December 9, 1892 in Roorkee / India, † March 10, 1965 in Small Field) was an English cellist.

Harrison came as a child to England. She studied from 1903 at the Royal College of Music in London with William White House. In 1907 she appeared for the first time under the baton of Henry Wood as a soloist. In Berlin, she studied at the Academy of Music in Hugo Becker and won the Mendelssohn Prize. 1910, she began her first European tour in 1913 and 1932 she performed in the United States. Frederick Delius wrote his Double Concerto for she and her sister May. She also starred in 1919 the premiere of his Cello Sonata and Eugene Goossens, the British premiere of his Cello Concerto. Furthermore, she played the English premiere of Maurice Ravel's Sonata for Violin and Cello, Zoltán Kodály's Solo from Sonata for Cello and the first radio performance of Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto under the composer.

The siblings Harrison were among the leading figures of the British music scene in the first half of the 20th century: Beatrice's sisters May and Margaret were violinists, singer Monica.

• British Musician
• English
• Born in 1892
• Died in 1965
• Woman