Clea Friend

Musician, Teacher, Aid Worker

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"Clea has been a pioneer of a new kind of musical life, where she combines performing as a professional cellist as soloist, chamber musician and orchestral musician with work in communities in the UK and around the world. Her work embraces community development, trauma-informed art, creativity, education, therapy and rehabilitation.

 

Clea's work is an important part of a relocation of the arts in our society, where art is becoming increasingly prosocial, and gaining a new sense of value through what it can achieve rather than how much it is admired."

 

Emeritus Professor Nigel Osborne, MBE