| Peers Coetmore | |
| Birth Name: | Kathleen Peers Coetmore Jones |
| Death Place: | Melbourne, Australia |
| Nationality: | British |
| Alma Mater: | Royal Academy of Music |
| Occupation: | Cellist |
Peers Coetmore (born Kathleen Peers Coetmore Jones; October 1905 - July 1976) was an English cellist. She spent her early years in Spilsby in Lincolnshire.
Peers was born Kathleen Peers Coetmore Jones. She won the Royal Academy of Music's Piatti Prize for cellists in 1924.
She married the composer E.J. Moeran in 1945 and was the dedicatee of his Cello Concerto and his Cello Sonata. She gave the premiere performance of both these works (the Sonata with the pianist Charles Lynch). Her recordings of both works are available on CD on the Lyrita imprint [UK].
Among her students was Doreen Carwithen.[1]
After Moeran's death in 1950, she married (Maurice) Walter Knott (1922–2003) and lived in Melbourne, Australia, where she taught at the Victorian College of the Arts. She died in July 1976. In her will, she made a bequest of $20,000 to the College:
The first recipient of this Scholarship was Jacqueline Johnson.
She also bequeathed to the College her 1723 Goffriller cello and some of Moeran's unpublished musical scores, including his unfinished Second Symphony in E-flat.[2] [3]
After her death, Walter Knott arranged for Wesley College, Melbourne to name its orchestra the Coetmore Orchestra in her honour. Walter Knott was particularly associated with the college and bequeathed his own estate to it.