Daphne Godson, LRAM (16 March 1932 - 15 August 2022) was an international award winning violinist[1] and co-founder of the Scottish Baroque Ensemble.
[1] At the age of 24, she won the 1957 first prize as an international violinist at the Contemporary Music Festival at Darmstadt, Germany,[2] and an award at the Third Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition.
[1] She performed on the BBC Home Service with pianist Kenneth Leighton in 1961,[5] and was praised for her 'technical mastery, beauty of tone, and maturity of interpretation' of Hans Gál's concertino in Gateshead (1963).
Each couples a great sense of artistry with admirable technical accomplishment; each has an ardent musical personality that communicates enthusiasm and enjoyment to the listener’.
"[10][1] She performed on the 1979 award winning tourist film 'Castle and Capital', now in the National Library of Scotland Moving Image archive.