The Whitchurch Trio
3:30pm – 4:30pm
Details
Steven Mingay - clarinet
James Olsen - cello
Nicholas Brown - piano
Programme:
Pizzicato Polka Johann Strauss (1825-99) and Josef Struass (1827-70)
Trio in E flat, Op.44 Louise Farrenc (1804-75)
Andante - Allegro moderato Adagio Minuetto: Allegro Finale: Allegro Polovtsian Dance (from “Prince Igor”) Alexander Borodin (1833-87)
Trio Pathetique in D minor Michail Glinka (1804-57)
Allegro moderato Scherzo: Vivacissimo Largo Allegro con spirito
Hungarian Dance no.5 Johannes Brahms (1833-97)
The Whitchurch Trio
Although Steven and Nicholas first worked together in the early ‘80s, the Trio was founded in 2017, mainly just to enjoy playing together and exploring the repertoire for this combination, and the name comes from rehearsing mostly in Whitchurch Canonicorum, benefitting from a fine Bosendorfer piano. We have given a number of concerts in Bournemouth, Axminster and Whitchurch Canonicorum and have also joined forces with the viola player Paul Colman. Last Monday we presented a lunchtime concert in the St Stephen’s May Music Festival in Bournemouth and we have concerts in Axminster, Bournemouth, Parkstone, Charmouth and Colyton in the diary. There are many fine trios by lesser-known composers such as Eberl, Hartmann and Fruhling which we will be featuring in future concerts. Steven Mingay Steven studied clarinet with Keith Puddy on the performers course at Trinity College of Music, London, where he was awarded both the Licentiate and Fellowship diplomas. Following postgraduate studies at Mddlesex University, Steven has subsequently held peripatetic teaching posts with the Somerset and Dorset Music Services. Steven has played with many ensembles and as soloist has performed the Finzi, Mozart and Weber clarinet concertos with orchestras in Devon, Dorset and Essex. Steven is delighted to pursue his passion and enthusiasm for performing chamber music with the Whitchurch Ensemble, which includes in its diversity the piano quintets of Mozart and Beethoven, and with the wind quartet “No Strings Attached.” James Olsen James studied the ‘cello in Bournemouth with Angela Child and then with Penny Driver at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. James has twice been soloist in Bruch’s Kol Nidrei, first with the Bournemouth Philharmonic Society and then with Poole Light Orchestra. Also under the baton of Sam Newgarth he plays regularly with the Newgarth Light Orchestra. James was a member of the Bournemouth Piano Trio with violinist Gilliam Tolliday and pianists David East and Christine Taylor and their repertoire included the works of Haydn, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Smetana, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak and Debussy. Nicholas Brown Nicholas was a Junior Scholar at the Royal Academy of Music and then took the Joint Course at Manchester University and the Royal Northern College of Music. He moved to Whitchurch Canonicorum in 1980 and was for many years Musical Director of Axminster Operatic Society and Organist and Choirmaster at Uplyme Parish Church. Since 1990 he has been teaching piano and flute in the West Dorset/East Devon area and was in that year appointed Director of Music at Colyton Parish Church, which position he still holds. He was for 6 years chairman of the Devon Area of Royal School of Church Music and is an examiner for chorister awards for that body. He has a busy schedule as accompanist and chamber musician and also as a composer, his dramatic (and lightly jazzy) cantata “Go, Goliath!” being scheduled for its first performance on 29th June in Lyme Regis Parish Church. He is scheduled to play Beethoven’s 3rd Piano Concerto with the Axe Vale Orchestra in Colyton on 13th October.
Entry is Free ~ with a retiring collection in aid of the Music Room Restoration Fund
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