One of the more interesting CD liner notes around...

   Dame Avril Piston was born to a white titled English family
   living in Bulawayo, Rhodesia in 1920.  She came to London in
   1938 to study viola with Bernard Shore, John Dyer, Winifred
   Copperwheat and Lionel Tertis himself.  Concertising in London
   in the 1940s, she returned home to Rhodesia in 1946 to teach and
   play.  She spent 5 years teaching in India, returning to Rhodesia
   in 1961.  However, with the declaration of Independence she came
   to Britain for a difficult gender changing operation before
   emigrating to Peru.  She retired to Faccombe, Hampshire in 1996
   where she lives with her large collection of artefacts and English
   viola music.  This is her first solo CD.

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