Fournier Piano Trio
Wednesday 22nd February 2012
"…but only as the work unfolded
did it become clear that indeed this was going to prove
some of the very best chamber music with piano heard in the
city for a very long time.""
The Herald, Plymouth
Programme Piano Trio in E, K 542 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
Piano Trio in D minor, Opus 120 Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924)
Piano Trio No. 1 in B flat, D 898 Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
The Fournier Piano Trio
Fournier Piano Trio Formed in 2009, the Fournier Piano Trio currently holds a Leverhulme Chamber Music Fellowship at the Royal Academy of Music. The trio is mentored by renowned pedagogues David Takeno and Christopher Elton and works extensively with Thomas Brandis and Michael Dussek at the Academy.
They recently made their critically acclaimed Purcell Room debut as part of the 2011 PLG New Year Series and are winners of a Philharmonia Orchestra MMSF Recital Award and a Tunnell Trust Award. Performances this season include recitals at the Purcell Room, St James Piccadilly, Kings Place, Holywell Music Room Oxford and at the Trondheim International Chamber Music Academy and Festival, performing Faure's Piano Quartet No.2 with Lawrence Power.
In 2011/12, the trio looks forward to two visits to the Wigmore Hall. For their debut in October, under the auspices of the Kirckman Concert Society, they will perform the world premiere of a new work by acclaimed British composer Gary Carpenter and will return later in 2012 for the Park Lane Group Monday Platform Series. Future engagements also include an extensive tour of Scotland as part of their Tunnell Trust Award, and their debut recording of British contemporary trios including Timothy Salter’s Piano Trio for USK Recordings. They have played in masterclasses for Ralph Kirshbaum, Martin Lovett, Gabor Takacs-Nagy, Leif Ove Andsnes, Daniel Hope, Susan Tomes, and Menahem Pressler. Sulki plays on an 1833 GF Pressenda violin kindly on loan from the Royal Academy of Music and Pei-Jee plays on an 1844 JB Vuillaume cello.
Sulki Yu, violin
Pei-Jee Ng, cello
Chiao-Ying Chang, piano
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