Schumann, Ravel and More on Offer in Special Chamber Music Concert

Flowerfield welcomes the Fidelio Trio

ONE OF Ireland's most revered trios makes a rare visit to the North Coast on Tuesday October 27, as The Fidelio Trio plays a concert at Flowerfield Arts Centre, supported by Coleraine Borough Arts Committee.

The trio (Darragh Morgan, violin, Robin Michael, cello and Mary Dullea, piano) perform their extremely diverse repertoire throughout Europe, Asia and South Africa and frequently broadcast for BBC Radio 3.

Their programme for Portstewart offers some wonderful selections for music lovers: Schumann's mature Trio No 2 in F Major Op 80 stands beside one of the great warhorses of the repertoire - Ravel's Piano Trio.

Also featured will be Queens University Professor Piers Hellawell's Etruscan Games and a clever arrangement of Weather Report's Birdland by University of Ulster lecturer Frank Lyons concludes events.

CD releases by the trio include Bulb on NMC featuring trios by Kevin Volans, Donnacha Dennehy, Deirdre Gribbin and Ed Bennett, Metamorphoses, the chamber music of Icelandic composer Haflidi Hallgrimsson, on Delphian Records, and Bartlebooth, the music of Joe Cutler, on NMC.

A further CD for Delphian Records of premiere recordings of Scottish trios by Judith Weir, Nigel Osborne and Sally Beamish will be released in early 2010 and they will feature on a chamber music CD of Rolf Hind's music performing his piano trio, the thing is, commissioned by the Fidelio Trio, for Neos Musik.

The Fidelio Trio has worked closely with many leading composers including Michael Nyman, Toshio Hosokawa and Howard Skempton and have premiered music by Salvatore Sciarrino, Edison Denisov, Beat Furrer and Toru Takemitsu. They are Music Network artists and supported by PRS Foundation, Culture Ireland and the Arts Council of Ireland.

They have given masterclasses at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Birmingham Conservatoire, Royal Holloway University of London and Cork School of Music.

2009 has already seen a concert tour of China including an appearance at Shanghai's prestigious Oriental Arts Centre and a performance at London's most exciting new venue, King's Place.  The trio will make their Wigmore Hall debut this December.  In their native Ireland, they undertake a mini-residency at the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, with their innovative new "Schumann+" series and perform at the National Concert Hall as part of Music 21's series.

Tickets for the Flowerfield performance are priced at £10, with an £8 concession, which includes complimentary interval refreshments. They are available from reception at Flowerfield Arts Centre, and you can also make a booking by telephone on (028) 7083 1400.