New Music: Leonore Piano Trio
27 March 2025, 8pm (doors open at 7.30pm)
Join us for a performance by the Leonore Piano Trio in the Kettle’s Yard house as part of this year’s New Music Concert Series, programmed by our New Music Curator Tom McKinney.
The Leonore Trio comprises three of this country’s most acclaimed chamber musicians: Benjamin Nabarro (violin), Gemma Rosefield (cello) and Tim Horton (piano). And here’s a rare chance to hear Harrison Birtwistle’s Trio, which may come as a surprise if you know the violence of his earlier music. In this late work he indulged in beautiful, lavish duets between violin and cello, but the pianist’s role is to regularly hit you with reminders that Birtwistle was once the ‘bad boy’ of British music! Helen Grime’s trio reworks Highland bagpipe music from hundreds of years ago, in which simple ideas are transformed into a dazzling array of musical characters. Natalie Klouda took the love triangle between Johannes Brahms and Clara & Robert Schumann as the starting point for her Fantasy Triptych. And the concert will be bookended with the two masterful piano trios by Huw Watkins.
Programme
Huw Watkins – Piano Trio No.1
Harrison Birtwistle – Trio for violin, cello and piano
Helen Grime – The Brook Sings Loud
Natalie Klouda – Fantasy Triptych
Huw Watkins – Piano Trio No.2
About the Leonore Piano Trio
Formed in 2012, the Leonore Trio brings together three internationally acclaimed artists whose piano trio performances as part of Ensemble 360 were met with such enthusiastic responses that they decided to form a piano trio in its own right.
The Trio has since given concerts throughout the UK, Italy, Turkey, Norway (Bergen International Festival and Oslo Concert Hall), Denmark and in New Zealand.
Recent highlights include a performance of the complete Beethoven Piano Trios at Kings Place, and an even broader long-term project, including all the works by Beethoven for piano trio, piano and violin, and piano and cello for Music in the Round in Sheffield, and the Triple Concerto with the Hallam Sinfonia. In the current season, they perform at Wigmore Hall, Dartington Trust, and Music in the Round, and continue to record for Hyperion.
Introduction from New Music Curator, Tom McKinney
This is my fifth season as the New Music Curator at Kettle’s Yard, and it’s a real pleasure to see just how keen musicians are to come and play in this uniquely special place. We started the year with the fantastic Ligeti Quartet returning to us for the first time since 2018. Their concert set up something of a theme for this series, with great composers from the end of the last century sitting alongside music composed in recent years. Although each concert will be completely different, like the Ligeti Quartet, the Leonore Trio, Marie Schreer, Joseph Havlat and Deni Teo are all mesmerising performers. They can communicate directly with an audience, as they take us through fascinating, beautiful, wild, gentle and engrossing evenings of music.
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