Wednesday 8 February, 2012  8 pm

Methodist Church, Station Road, Barnes

 

Fidelio Trio

 

President: Steven Isserlis

 

 

** LATEST NEWS **

 

** Please note that, due to illness, we have had  at short notice to change the artistes for our scheduled 8 February concert.  We are therefore delighted to welcome the Fidelio Trio; full details opposite.

 

 

** An exciting new concert not listed in our brochure featuring Victoria Sayles

and Martin Cousin has been scheduled for

26 April 2012. Check the 'Further Concerts' link below for more details.

 

 

Barnes Music Society is proud to have as its President the world-famous cellist Steven Isserlis.  Born in Barnes, he comes from a very musical family.  His two sisters are professional violinists, and his grandfather Julian Isserlis was a composer.

 

 The Society in its current form was created through a merger in 1985 of Castelnau Concerts with the Barnes Music Club, although its roots go back to the 1950's.  Our outgoing President, Stephen Dodgson, had been Chairman of Castlenau Concerts, whilst the new President's father, George Isserlis, had been Chairman of the Barnes Music Club.  Both have played a major role in maintaining the Society's high standards.

 

Barnes Music Society aims to foster appreciation of music, promoting first-class concerts, and encouraging other musical activities especially involving young musicians.  These last are achieved by the Saturday family concerts for children and by the annual concert given by young musicians.

 

 

Please email all enquiries about the Society and Membership to barnesmusicsoc@aol.com

 

 

 

Read Review of Divertimenti String Quintet's Concert on 5 December 2009:

 

"There is no reason to assume that outstanding chamber music performances in the London area should be confined to Wigmore Hall, Kings Place or the Purcell Room..."

 

 

 

Great Value Season Ticket

only £50 (for Admission to

ALL Concerts)

 

Tickets for Individual

Concerts Available at the

Door: £12

Concessions: £10

 

 

Next Concert this Season

Further Concerts this Season

Children's Concerts this Season

Location of Concerts (Map)

 

 

Links:

Barnes Community Association

Barnes Online

Barnes Workhouse Fund

John Lewis Partnership

Making Music (NFMS)

Marsh Christian Trust

Mortlake Online

Oso Arts Centre

Richmond Parish Lands Charity

Thames Community Foundation

 

 

Barnes Music Society gratefully acknowledges financial assistance during the past year from the Barnes Workhouse Fund, the Marsh Christian Trust and the John Lewis Partnership plc

 

 


 

Darragh Morgan  violin

Robin Michael  cello

Mary Dullea  piano

 

 

 

Schumann    Piano Trio No.1 in D minor

Alasdair Nicolson    Piano Trio (Half-Told Tales)

Schumann    Piano Trio No.2 in F major

 

 

 

The 'virtuosic Fidelio Trio' (as described in the Sunday Times) perform extremely diverse repertoire internationally and features London-based Irish musicians Darragh Morgan (violin) and Mary Dullea (piano) and Scottish cellist Robin Michael. Broadcasts include regular appearances on RTÉ Lyric FM, BBC Radio 3, WNYC, Radio New Zealand and in 2010 they were featured in a Sky Arts documentary First Love, with broadcaster Katie Derham.

 

Since their South Bank debut they have appeared at Wigmore Hall, Kings Place, Purcell Room and Royal Opera House, London, festivals including Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Brighton, Petworth and Fuse Leeds, West Cork Music, Belfast Festival at Queens and National Concert Hall, Dublin, Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre, Casa da Musica (Porto), Centre Culturel Irlandais (Paris), Contemporaneamente Festival, Lodi and Palazzo Albrizzi, Venice (Italy). They are regularly invited to appear at the UK's leading venues; Blackheath Halls, London Chamber Music Society, City Music Society, Bromsgrove Concerts and Sound Scotland. Last year they undertook tours of the USA (Symphony Space, New York City, MIT Boston, Davenport Artists in Residence at SUNY - State University of New York, University of Illinois), South Africa, Scotland and a Moving on Music tour of Northern Ireland broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

 

The Fidelio Trio’s discography is rapidly increasing and represents important additions to the piano trio repertoire as well as works by Irish composers. CD releases include Bulb (Kevin Volans, Donnacha Dennehy, Deirdre Gribbin and Ed Bennett), My Broken Machines (Ed Bennett) and Bartlebooth (Joe Cutler) all on NMC, Metamorphoses (Haflidi Hallgrimsson) and The Piano Tuner (Sally Beamish, Nigel Osborne and Judith Weir) for Delphian Records and Rob Keeley Chamber Music on Convivium. Forthcoming are the first instalment of From Vienna (Korngold and Schoenberg) for Naxos, the complete Michael Nyman Piano Trios for MN Records and portrait discs of Piers Hellawell for Delphian Records, Gerald Barry and Philip Hammond.

 

They are constantly commissioning new works and the range of leading international composers that The Fidelio Trio are closely associated with includes Toshio Hosokawa, Charles Wuorinen, Johannes Maria Staud and Michael Nyman. The trio have premiered music by many of Ireland's leading composers: Gerald Barry, Donnacha Dennehy, Raymond Deane, Deirdre Gribbin, Stephen Gardner, Micheál Ó Suilleabháin and Ian Wilson. They have performed these composers throughout Europe, the USA, South Africa and China. They have given masterclasses at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Birmingham Conservatoire, Stellenbosch Conservatorium, WITS Johannesburg and been in residence at the AIC Composition Summer School.

 

Outstanding artists the trio have collaborated with include Patricia Rozario (soprano), Alexander McCall Smith (writer), Lore Lixenberg (mezzo-soprano), Matthew Jones (viola) and Roger Heaton (clarinet). They are supported by PRS for Music Foundation, Culture Ireland and the Arts Council of Ireland.

 

Forthcoming in 2012/13 include their Schumann + series at The Forge, Camden Town, London, concerts at St. John's Smith Square, London, the premiere of Philip Hammond's new work in memoriam of the 100th Anniversary of the Sinking of the Titanic at St Anne's Cathedral Belfast, a Music Network tour of Ireland with Carol McGonnell (clarinet), a further tour of South Africa featuring prestigious appearances including Johannesburg Music Society, return invitations to USA, a multimedia performance at The City of London Festival and further CD recordings for Naxos.

 

For more information about the Fidelio Trio, please follow this link.

 


 
 

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