Fidelio Trio & Pre-Concert Talk with Robert Hugill at Conway Hall, London on Sunday 23rd April 2023

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Fidelio Trio & Pre-Concert Talk with Robert Hugill

Part of the Conway Hall Sunday Concerts, Summer 2023 Cycle

Add to my Calendar 23-04-2023 17:30 23-04-2023 19:30 36 Fidelio Trio & Pre-Concert Talk with Robert Hugill 5.30pm Pre-concert talk with Robert Hugill Robert Hugill introduces the story of musical autodidact Amy Beach. Trained as a concert pianist, marriage and societal pressure stopped her performing and she reinvented herself as a composer, becoming the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music and one of the first American composers to succeed without the benefit of European training. 6.30pm Fidelio Trio Since their debut at London’s Southbank Centre, the Fidelio Trio have regularly appeared at the Wigmore Hall and Kings Place, at festivals including Spitalfields, Cheltenham, St. Magnus and Huddersfield. Their extensive discography includes most recently a Gramophone Magazine Editor’s Choice of Chamber Music by E J Moeran, a composer with whom they are closely associated and the release of premiere recordings on Mode Records of music by Gerald Barry.The trio will return to Conway Hall on 5 November 2023, to perform the works chosen for the final round of our Clements Prize for composers - a date for your diaries!“The performances are absolutely wonderful...stylish virtuosity...instinctive brilliance…” BBC Radio 3 Record Review   About the Sunday Concerts Founded in the 1880s, our chamber music concert series is the longest-running of its kind in Europe. Conway Hall was purpose-built in 1929 to host concerts and lectures, and they have continued here until the present day. The ethos of “affordable classical music for all” still remains. Conway Hall, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Conway Hall
25 Red Lion Square
Camden
London
WC1R 4RL
England

Sunday 23rd April 2023
5:30 PM

Programme

Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Trio no.5 in D major 'Ghost', Op.70 no.1
Amy Beach – Piano Trio, Op.150
Maurice Ravel – Piano Trio in A minor

Performers

Fidelio Trio

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Programme Note

5.30pm Pre-concert talk with Robert Hugill

Robert Hugill introduces the story of musical autodidact Amy Beach. Trained as a concert pianist, marriage and societal pressure stopped her performing and she reinvented herself as a composer, becoming the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music and one of the first American composers to succeed without the benefit of European training.

6.30pm Fidelio Trio

Since their debut at London’s Southbank Centre, the Fidelio Trio have regularly appeared at the Wigmore Hall and Kings Place, at festivals including Spitalfields, Cheltenham, St. Magnus and Huddersfield. Their extensive discography includes most recently a Gramophone Magazine Editor’s Choice of Chamber Music by E J Moeran, a composer with whom they are closely associated and the release of premiere recordings on Mode Records of music by Gerald Barry.

The trio will return to Conway Hall on 5 November 2023, to perform the works chosen for the final round of our Clements Prize for composers - a date for your diaries!

“The performances are absolutely wonderful...stylish virtuosity...instinctive brilliance…” BBC Radio 3 Record Review

About the Sunday Concerts

Founded in the 1880s, our chamber music concert series is the longest-running of its kind in Europe. Conway Hall was purpose-built in 1929 to host concerts and lectures, and they have continued here until the present day. The ethos of “affordable classical music for all” still remains.

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